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Reading Comprehension · Attitude

PrepTest 149 · Section 2 · Question 9

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
The author's complaint about the usual method is that it looks at too few options.
The basic logic
Find the author's 'but' sentence about the method and name the exact limit it points to.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “but”
  • “no reason”
  • “just”

Playground logic

The author of the cake passage asks, 'why change only one thing?' The trouble is that one-at-a-time testing never even tries most of the possible cakes.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 6–12). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Grandma's Perfect Lemon Cake →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The author of the kid passage would most likely say that the usual one-change test

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 149, Section 2, Question 9 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 9 in your official copy and answer it first.

Locate the sentence where the author turns against the usual method. Ask what exactly it fails to do. The right choice names that limit in fair words. Reject choices that criticize something the author never mentions or that predict success for the method.