Reading Comprehension · Analogy

PrepTest 154 · Section 3 · Question 3

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

Step 1 · Pre-Question Guidance · read this first

Question type

Analogy

The one idea it tests

Name the exact relationship between the two things in the passage, then find a pair with the same relationship.

The basic logic

Say the relationship as a plain sentence: 'X is what made Y possible in a place where Y normally could not happen.' Then test each pair against that sentence, ignoring topic.

Tiny words that decide it

“made possible”
“normally”
“despite”

Playground logic

In the kid passage, the usual lunchbox method could never feed forty kids, and the bike fleet is what made a club that big possible anyway. So the relationship is: a clever system lets something exist where it normally could not.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–6). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Secret of the Maple Street Club →

Step 3 · Try the model question

The bike system's relationship to the size of the Maple Street Club is most like the relationship between

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 154, Section 3, Question 3 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 3 in your official copy and answer it first.

Reread why the usual farming pattern could not support a big town. State the link: the herding system enabled a large population despite a hard setting. Test each pair: does the first thing make the second possible where it otherwise would fail? Drop pairs that are parts of a whole, two similar jobs, or a place and what happens in it.