Reading Comprehension · Function (EXCEPT)

PrepTest 158 · Section 1 · 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

Function (EXCEPT)

The one idea it tests

Four choices name jobs the example does; the answer names a job it does not do.

The basic logic

List what the example story is set up to show, using the sentence that introduces it and the lines after it. The odd one out usually makes a claim about a whole category that the passage never makes.

Tiny words that decide it

“EXCEPT”
“for example”
“yet”

Playground logic

The cake story shows Gus getting a payback for his own choice, warns against grabbing too much, and lets kids see themselves. It never tries to prove geese are the best puppets.

Step 2 · The kid passage

This question belongs to Passage 2 (Questions 8–13). Read its kid passage and structure guide first: Two Kinds of Clown →

Step 3 · Try the model question

Lulu mentions the cake story for every purpose listed below EXCEPT:

Step 5 · Work the real question

Open PrepTest 158, Section 1, 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.

Read the sentence that introduces the example and the lines that follow. Write down each job the story does for the paragraph and for the passage. Check each choice against your list; four should match. The answer is the one that claims something about the example the passage never argues, such as why a particular kind of figure is special.