Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 24

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference

The one idea it tests

The author's reasons against forcing a service imply that forcing it often would not work well.

The basic logic

Find the author's reasons against ordering performance of a job promise: coercion breeds friction and dissatisfaction. From that, infer what the author would say about how well such orders turn out. Avoid answers that flip the author's preference or invent cost claims.

Tiny words that decide it

“often”
“even if”
“at the very least”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, forcing Marcus to help Kevin would make both grumpier and the project shakier, so the Do-It Rule would often not work out well.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 23–27). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Ms. Rivera's Promise Court →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author of the kid passage would most likely agree that, in helper-promise cases, the Do-It Rule

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 24 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 24 in your official copy and answer it first.

Locate the paragraph about service promises and list the author's stated problems with forcing performance. Ask what those problems imply about the outcome. Choose the answer that follows from them with a modest hedge. Reject answers that reverse which remedy avoids trouble, add claims about cost, or create a new rule the passage never states.