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Reading Comprehension · Detail

PrepTest 155 · Section 3 · Question 2

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
A detail answer is something the passage actually states, almost word for word in meaning.
The basic logic
Go back to the lines that discuss the item asked about. The right answer restates one of those lines. Anything you have to imagine or stretch is out.
Tiny words that decide it
  • “according to”
  • “always”
  • “with some exceptions”

Playground logic

Ask what the kid passage says about old sides, and you find it plainly: they were helpers, never the star of the meal.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 1 (Questions 1–7). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: The Side Dish Problem →

Step 3 · Try the model question

According to the kid passage, what does the kid passage say about the old side dishes?

Choices

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 155, Section 3, Question 2 in your official copy from LSAC (for example in LawHub) and read it there.

Your answer

How to apply it

Open Question 2 in your official copy and answer it first.

Find the lines in the passage that describe exactly the item the stem names. Read them slowly. Pick the choice that restates one of those lines without adding anything. Cross out choices that borrow a word from somewhere else in the passage, or that need an outside fact to be true.