Reading Comprehension · Comparative (method)

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · 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

Comparative (method)

The one idea it tests

Spot a move that only the second passage makes.

The basic logic

List each passage's tools: guessing, talking to the reader, citing a study, doubting the puzzle. Keep only the tool that B uses and A does not.

Tiny words that decide it

“but not”
“unlike”
“recent”

Playground logic

Grandpa only guesses and talks to 'you.' Priya leans on a lab test with trays and thread counts. That test is her tool alone.

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

Piece B, but not Piece A, makes its case by

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, 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.

Make a two-column list of methods: A's column and B's column. Note things like guesses, a second-person voice, background research, experiments. For each choice, check B's column first, then make sure it is NOT in A's column. A choice that both share, or that only A does, is out.