Reading Comprehension · Primary Purpose

PrepTest 148 · 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

Primary Purpose

The one idea it tests

The purpose covers the whole passage, start to finish, by its verb.

The basic logic

Map each paragraph's job, then pick the verb (describe, argue, criticize) that fits all of them. Most of the space here goes to explaining how a new idea works.

Tiny words that decide it

“ingenious”
“clever”
“but what”

Playground logic

One paragraph sets up the problem with voting. The rest walks through how Priya's fair-way idea solves it, step by step. So the passage mainly describes a clever new solution.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Priya's Mystery Seat →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The narrator mainly wants to

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 148, 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.

Write a five-word job for each paragraph. Count how many paragraphs serve one purpose. Choose the answer whose verb and scope fit that majority. Reject choices that are too strong (arguing for truth), too narrow (one paragraph), or about history the passage does not trace.