Reading Comprehension · Inference

PrepTest 149 · Section 2 · Question 27

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Inference

The one idea it tests

Draw the general lesson hidden in the figure's view of past and present.

The basic logic

She said something was needed once but now needs balancing. Generalize that: what helps at one time can hold back progress later.

Tiny words that decide it

“at one time”
“now”
“required”

Playground logic

Priya thought bossy leading helped in week one but now the cabin needs balance. So something useful at one stage can block progress at another.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 4 (Questions 21–27). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Priya and the River Idea →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Priya's views, as the kid passage tells them, point to which lesson?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 149, Section 2, Question 27 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 27 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the figure's claim that contrasts an earlier time with the present. Restate it as a general rule in your own words. Pick the choice that matches that rule. Cross off choices that say the earlier arrangement was never useful, that predict a sure outcome, or that add claims about how change must happen.