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Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 145 · 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
Function
The one idea it tests
When an author quotes two sources side by side, ask what the pair shows together, not what each says alone.
The basic logic
Look at the job the quotes do in the paragraph's story. Here one is set up as too weak and the other as a stronger fix.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “felt”
  • “not strong enough”
  • “instead”
  • “would have”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, the handbook's 'try to promote' and the fourth graders' 'must step in' sit next to each other so we can feel the difference in strength: one is soft, one gives orders.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Recess Pledge →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Why does the author put the handbook's wording right next to the fourth graders' proposed rule?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 145, 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.

Locate both quoted bits. Ask what the paragraph says about each: which one did the group call weak, and what did the other one try to add? The job of the pair is the contrast between them. Choose the answer that names that contrast in the same terms the paragraph cares about, and drop answers about details the author never weighs.