Reading Comprehension · Comparative (detail)

PrepTest 147 · Section 2 · Question 3

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Comparative (detail)

The one idea it tests

Find the cause that only the second passage offers.

The basic logic

Each passage proposes causes. Track whose cause is whose with the Voice Tracker. The right answer is B's cause, stated the way B states it.

Tiny words that decide it

“unlike”
“might”
“due to”

Playground logic

Grandpa blames root tunnels or bold watering. Priya points to threads that grew by joining sleeping spores and then stuck around. That last cause is hers 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, unlike Piece A, suggests that faster second crops might come from

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 2, Question 3 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 3 in your official copy and answer it first.

Underline the cause each passage offers. Passage A may offer more than one. Then read the choices and sort them: A's cause, B's cause, background that B rejects, or nothing at all. Pick the one that is B's own proposed cause, not the old belief B overturns and not A's guesses.