Reading Comprehension · Main Point

PrepTest 152 · Section 3 · Question 7

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Main Point

The one idea it tests

The author's point is a criticism of the scholar's approach, shown through how it handles the misfit category.

The basic logic

Track the Voice Tracker: the scholar's view, then the author's reply. The main point is the author's verdict, not the scholar's claim and not a narrow side fact.

Tiny words that decide it

“but”
“too quickly”
“stretches”

Playground logic

The kid author says Grandpa has to call party games true races even though the dance breaks plainly stop the race, and that shows Grandpa's method is off.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 7–13). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Grandpa and the Wiggle Race →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Which choice best sums up the kid passage's central claim?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 152, Section 3, Question 7 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 7 in your official copy and answer it first.

Mark whose view each sentence gives. Find where the author turns against the scholar and what the author concludes about the scholar's method. Choose the answer that states the author's critical verdict and its basis. Reject choices in the scholar's voice, choices that lean on a reason the author never uses, and choices narrower than the whole passage.