Reading Comprehension · Detail

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 16

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Detail

The one idea it tests

A Detail question asks what a view says, and the answer sits in the lines that describe that view.

The basic logic

Go back to where the popular model is first described. It gives two versions of the same practical use. The right answer matches what both versions share, not anything from the author's rival story.

Tiny words that decide it

“whether”
“or”
“according to”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, the game view says kids used the spots for games, whether they scraped them on purpose or just played where grass was thin.

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

According to the game view in the passage, what did kids do with the bald spots?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 16 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 16 in your official copy and answer it first.

Use the Voice Tracker. Locate the lines that state the popular model, not the author's alternative. Note what activity those lines say people did in the open spaces. Choose the answer that restates that activity. Cross out any choice that borrows a detail from the author's own hypothesis.