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Lesson 10: Reading Comprehension - Worked Examples- Law passage overview | Cosmic Justice (paired passages)
- Main point | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Recognition | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Inferences about views | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Inferences about info | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Principles | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Analogies | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
- Law passage overview | Copyright
- Main point | Law passage | Copyright
- Purpose of reference | Law passage | Copyright
- Applying to new contexts | Law passage | Copyright
- Humanities passage overview | Music (paired passages)
- Main point 1 | Humanities passage | Music
- Main point 2 | Humanities passage | Music
- Recognition | Humanities passage | Music
- Inferences about views | Humanities passage | Music
- Principles and analogies | Humanities passage | Music
- Additional evidence | Humanities passage | Music
- Primary purpose | Humanities passage | Music
- Science passage overview | The Sun
- Recognition 1 | Science passage | The Sun
- Recognition 2 | Science passage | The Sun
- Organizing info | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about views 1 | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about views 2 | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about views 3 | Science passage | The Sun
- Inferences about info | Science passage | The Sun
- Social science passage overview | Wool
- Main point | Social science passage | Wool
- Recognition 1 | Social science passage | Wool
- Recognition 2 | Social science passage | Wool
- Inferences about info | Social science passage | Wool
- Inferences about attitudes | Social science passage | Wool
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Main point | Social science passage | Wool
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a Main Idea question on a social science reading passage on the LSAT. Created by Dave Travis.
Video transcript
- [Instructor] Which one of the following most accurately expresses the
main point of the passage? So, wondering what the main
point of the passage is. Should go back, read the passage again. If you read the passage
accurately, actively the first time you shouldn't need to go back and review the passage right now. You should be able to say to yourself, okay what was the point
of the whole passage and hopefully you remember that it was about New Zealand wool industry and the author was making
specific recommendations about how the New Zealand
wool industry can return to profitability through
a number of suggestions that the author made. So let's see if we can find
that here in the choices. A, New Zealand wool growers
should be encouraged to shift to other agricultural exports to maintain profitability. No, the author was not
saying forget all about wool, it's time to move on. A is not the answer. B, wool growing in New Zealand parallels agricultural practices worldwide in that it is becoming deeply divided between large professional operations and smaller family farms. Okay, well that was in the passage but is it the main point
of the entire passage? No. C, New Zealand's wool industry has been adversely
affected by the development and improvement of synthetics. Again, that is in the passage, I think it was in the first paragraph, but is it the whole point? No, we're looking for a choice that encapsulates the entire passage, which is, here's a problem,
the author is recommending how to solve it. C is not the answer. Superior farm management
should be encouraged among New Zealand's wool growers to revitalize the country's wool industry. Now that's starting to get at it, management practices was a
big focus of the whole passage and other suggestions. So I like D, let's check out E and see whether it disqualifies itself. E, the wool industry in New
Zealand has put too much focus on increasing the efficiency of processing and has failed to address the issue of dwindling breeding stocks. Okay, that isn't the message
of the whole passage either. D is really good for a couple of reasons. One is that it encapsulates
better then the others what the whole passage is about, what the point of the passage is. Another clue here is the,
you know, the should be part of this answer. We were looking for a choice
that was getting at the fact that the author making
a set of recommendations in order to revitalize the
country's wool industry. We have our answer here, D.