Reading Comprehension · Inference (Application)

PrepTest 142 · Section 3 · Question 2

Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference (Application)

The one idea it tests

Apply the author's values to a new situation: what would the author approve of, given what the author objects to?

The basic logic

Find what the author complains about and why. The approved case is the one that fixes or reverses the complaint, not one that repeats its motive.

Tiny words that decide it

“justified”
“only if”
“original”

Playground logic

Priya is upset that the company secretly cheapens the Red Sparrow. So the only change she would cheer is one that undoes the damage and brings back Grandpa's design.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–8). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Why Don't Kites Get a Ribbon? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Priya would most likely approve of a change to the Red Sparrow kit if the change

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 142, Section 3, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 2 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the paragraph where the author objects to something, and name the objection in plain words. Then ask what change would undo that objection. Eliminate choices that share the motive the author criticizes, and choices the author never discusses. The right answer reverses the harm the author describes.