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Reading Comprehension · Strengthen (RC)

PrepTest 148 · Section 2 · Question 13

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
Support the authors' momentum story: earlier movers help later movers through personal ties.
The basic logic
If later movers really follow friends and family, they should end up clustered with people from the same starting place. Look for a fact that fits that network picture.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “support”
  • “earlier”
  • “later”

Playground logic

If momentum works through friends' notes and walk-overs, chess club tables should fill up with kids from the same soccer squads. That pattern would back Nadia and Owen.

Step 2 · The kid passage

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

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which finding would most support Nadia and Owen's explanation?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 148, Section 2, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

State the authors' mechanism: earlier movers lower costs for later ones through personal ties. Ask what pattern you would see if that were true. Pick the fact that fits that pattern. Reject facts that point the other way (costs rising), add new outside causes, or concern events after the period.