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Reading Comprehension · Strengthen

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 27

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type
Strengthen
The one idea it tests
Strengthen a recommendation by showing the recommended fix is actually available in the cases at issue.
The basic logic
The author's position: in job-promise cases, award money instead of forcing performance. That plan only works if the breaching side can pay. A fact showing most of them can pay supports it; facts that make money hard to collect, or that blur the special nature of these cases, hurt it.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “where possible”
  • “instead”
  • “most”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, Lulu wants Kevin paid in stars instead of forcing Marcus to help. That plan works best if kids like Marcus usually have enough stars to pay.

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

Which would most strengthen the kid passage's view about helper promises?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 27 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 27 in your official copy and answer it first.

State the author's recommendation for the special case and what it needs to work. Look for the fact that makes the recommended remedy realistic for most such cases. Reject facts that make that remedy harder to use, that erase the difference between this case type and others, or that are off point.