Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 147 · Section 3 · Question 5

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

An inference is something the passage proves without saying it out loud.

The basic logic

Collect the facts the passage gives about the thing asked. Combine them. The right answer must pass the Lunchbox Rule: everything in it comes from the passage.

Tiny words that decide it

“before”
“after”
“now”

Playground logic

The closet passage says giveaways kept the closet roomy and that junk piled up once they stopped, so the old closet held less stuff than it does now.

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

What does the closet passage give good reason to believe about the closet back in the giveaway days?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 3, Question 5 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 5 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find every sentence about the thing the question names, including what changed later. Line up 'before' facts against 'after' facts and ask what difference they prove. Choose the answer you could defend by pointing at lines. Cut choices that add details the passage never gives or that turn a 'some' into an 'always'.