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Reading Comprehension · Attitude

PrepTest 148 · Section 2 · 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
Attitude
The one idea it tests
Collect the author's tone words; the answer must fit all of them, both the warm and the cool.
The basic logic
Praise words for how the idea works plus a worry word near the end equals mixed: impressed but uneasy about a result.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “ingenious”
  • “clever”
  • “unfortunately”

Playground logic

The narrator calls Priya's idea 'sharp' (praise) and then says 'The trouble, I think...' about one result (worry). Two halves, both needed.

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

Which best describes how the narrator feels about Priya's plan?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 148, Section 2, 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.

Underline every word where the author judges, praise or doubt. Notice what the praise is aimed at (how the idea works) and what the doubt is aimed at (a result). Pick the choice whose two halves match both targets. Reject one-sided choices and ones that aim the doubt at the wrong thing.