Reading Comprehension · Function
PrepTest 147 · Section 3 · Question 4
Phase 1 (your first ~400 questions): read the guidance, then answer. No clock.
Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first
- “since”
- “only”
- “therefore”
Playground logic
In the closet passage, the three things (size, presents, junk) are listed to show that only the junk can be controlled, which supports aiming the plan at the junk.
Step 2 · The kid passage
This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Great Closet Crash →
Step 3 · Try the model question
The author mentions closet size, presents and junk mainly in order to
Step 5 · Work the real question
Open PrepTest 147, Section 3, Question 4 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.
Your answer
How to apply it
Open Question 4 in your official copy and answer it first.
Locate the cited piece and read the sentences right around it. Use the Job Board: is this piece a Helper, Background, or a Rival? Find the claim it serves, often flagged by 'so' or 'therefore'. Choose the answer naming that job and that claim. Cut answers that give the piece a job somewhere else in the passage or that turn the author's point upside down.