Reading Comprehension · Comparative (shared question)

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 1

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Comparative (shared question)

The one idea it tests

Find the one question that BOTH passages are trying to answer.

The basic logic

Name each passage's big question in your own words first. The right answer is the question they share, not a side question that only one of them raises.

Tiny words that decide it

“both”
“why”
“each”

Playground logic

Grandpa and Priya both ask why a bed that grew a crop before grows the next one faster. Grandpa offers two guesses; Priya reports a test. Same question, different roads.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Second-Crop Riddle →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which question do both Piece A and Piece B try to answer?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 1 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 1 in your official copy and answer it first.

Before reading the choices, write one line per passage: what is it trying to explain? Circle the overlap. Then test each choice: does passage A care about it? Does passage B? If only one passage raises it, it is a One-Passage Answer. Pick the question both are chasing.