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Reading Comprehension · Main Point

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 15

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Main Point
The one idea it tests
The main point is the author's big move: a popular view rests on thin evidence, and a rival view deserves an equal seat.
The basic logic
Find the Boss sentence of the whole passage. Here the author spends one paragraph shrinking the popular view's evidence down to size and the rest building a rival story. A good answer holds both halves: the widely held view is popular, and the rival has comparable footing.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “though”
  • “however”
  • “alternative”
  • “may”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, the big point is that the game idea is popular but the proof is shaky, and a no-purpose trail story fits the evidence just as well.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 15–22). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Bald Spots on the Big Field →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which one best states the central point of the bald-spots passage?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 15 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 15 in your official copy and answer it first.

Map each paragraph's job first. Notice where the author's own voice turns from doubting to proposing. Pick the choice that captures both the doubt about the popular view and the offer of a rival view with similar support. Reject choices that only cover one paragraph, that crown either view as proven, or that drift to a side detail.