Reading Comprehension · Answerable Question (Comparative)

PrepTest 149 · Section 2 · Question 15

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Answerable Question (Comparative)

The one idea it tests

Which question gets a real answer in one passage and none in the other?

The basic logic

For each question, find the line that answers it. It must be answered in A and not in B.

Tiny words that decide it

“why”
“but not”
“addressed”

Playground logic

Passage A explains why kids skip the complaint form (too slow, can't tell who built first). Passage B says kids skip the Secret Drawer but never says why.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 13–20). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Forts, Folds, and the Rules Nobody Wrote Down →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Kid Passage A, but not kid Passage B, gives an answer to which question about its group of kids?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 149, Section 2, Question 15 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 15 in your official copy and answer it first.

Treat each choice as a quiz question and hunt for its answer. If you cannot point to a line in A that answers it, cross it off. If B answers it too, cross it off. Notice the difference between a passage that mentions a fact and one that explains the reason behind it.