Reading Comprehension · Organization (Paragraph Function)

PrepTest 153 · Section 1 · Question 21

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Organization

The one idea it tests

Name the job of the last paragraph relative to the one before.

The basic logic

The final paragraph opens by offering a reason for an effect just described. That is explaining, not doubting or summarizing.

Tiny words that decide it

“may account for”
“explain”
“same logic”

Playground logic

Priya's survey showed the panel over-trusts own-up notes. The last paragraph then tells us why: people blame character, not situation.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 3 (Questions 15–21). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Paint Spill Panel →

Step 3 · Try the model question

What job does the kid passage's last paragraph do?

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 153, Section 1, Question 21 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 21 in your official copy and answer it first.

Read how the last paragraph opens and ask: is it explaining, doubting, summing up, or solving? Then check which earlier paragraph holds the thing being explained. Choose the answer that names both the job and the right target paragraph.