Reading Comprehension · Inference (Author's View)

PrepTest 149 · Section 2 · Question 16

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference (Author's View)

The one idea it tests

Pick the statement the author's own reasons would back up.

The basic logic

Find why the author says the group acts as it does. Then flip that reason: if the obstacle went away, what would follow?

Tiny words that decide it

“would”
“more likely”
“if”

Playground logic

Passage A says kids skip the form because it is slow and uncertain. So if it were quick and sure, more kids would use it.

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

The author of kid Passage A would most likely agree with which one of the following?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 149, Section 2, Question 16 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 16 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the author's stated reasons for the group's behavior. Ask what those reasons predict under changed conditions. Pick the choice that follows from those reasons with the least stretching. Cross off choices that are too strong, that reverse the author's view, or that bring in a recommendation the author never makes.