Reading Comprehension · Function

PrepTest 147 · Section 3 · Question 9

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Function

The one idea it tests

Each piece of a hypothetical plan is there to build the plan as a whole.

The basic logic

When an author says 'suppose', the details that follow are parts of an imagined alternative. Ask what the whole alternative is meant to show, then fit the detail into it.

Tiny words that decide it

“suppose”
“and”
“better”

Playground logic

In the comic passage, the nickel charge is one gear in the author's imagined lending system, a more practical way to handle the comics than a flat ban.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–13). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Attic Comics →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author mentions charging a nickel per comic mainly in order to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 147, Section 3, Question 9 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 9 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the detail and notice which paragraph it lives in and what kind of paragraph that is. If it sits inside an imagined alternative, ask what that alternative is for. Pick the choice that ties the detail to the paragraph's job. Cut answers that claim the detail describes something real, or that link it to a different paragraph.