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Reading Comprehension · Detail

PrepTest 150 · Section 4 · 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
Detail
The one idea it tests
The group's explanation of the illusion is stated outright: we do the step, but do not notice we are doing it.
The basic logic
Track the group's voice. Find their cause for the illusion and match it. Do not pick answers that deny the step happens at all.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “according to”
  • “fail to notice”
  • “because”

Playground logic

The researchers say we feel we just know our route because we piece it together so fast that we never notice the piecing.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 8–14). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Do You Really Know Your Way Home? →

Step 3 · Try the model question

According to the researchers in the kid passage, the feeling that we just know our own route comes from the fact that

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 150, Section 4, 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.

Use the Voice Tracker to find the group's explanation of the illusion, then the sentence giving its cause. Restate it in plain words. Choose the answer that keeps both halves: there is a process, and we miss it. Reject choices that say no process happens, invent feedback stories, or add claims about accuracy the passage never makes.