Reading Comprehension · Comparative (shared question)

PrepTest 150 · Section 1 · Question 13

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Comparative (shared question)

The one idea it tests

In a two-passage set, the shared question is the one BOTH authors spend their effort answering.

The basic logic

Ask what each passage is mainly trying to settle, then find the question that fits both. Cut answers that only one passage touches or that neither really answers.

Tiny words that decide it

“both”
“rather than”
“what decides”

Playground logic

Grandpa says a game's family comes from how kids play; Priya says it comes from styles of play. Both are answering one question: what puts a game in one family instead of another?

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 13–19). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: What Makes a Game a Chasing Game? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Lulu's report and Priya's notebook are both mainly trying to answer which question?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 150, Section 1, Question 13 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 13 in your official copy and answer it first.

Write one line for each passage: what question is this author working on? Then look for the choice that names a question both lines share. Cross out anything that only one passage raises, anything that is a mere side example, and anything neither passage tries to answer.