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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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Inferences about attitudes | Social science passage | Wool
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach an Inferences about attitudes question on a social science reading passage on the LSAT. Created by Dave Travis.
Video transcript
- [Narrator] Approval of
which one of the following is implicit in the author's
argument in the passage? So, the question is asking,
what does the author approve of? So, the choices here
are going to be things that we might have seen in
the passage, or maybe things that we didn't see in the
passage, but the right answer is gonna be a choice that says, oh yeah, the author approves of
this thing and may not have said it explicitly,
but it is implicit from other things that the author says that we understand that he or
she approves of this thing. So does the author approve of competition between New Zealand's wool growers and producers of synthetics, like, oh yeah, I like that competition. Don't think so. B, changes in land use
by New Zealand's farmers over the last several decades. No, the author spends
most of his or her time making recommendations in order
to save the wool industry. So, B's definitely not right. C, the farming practices of New Zealand's family farmers who grow wool. Okay, the author is saying
that those, you know, small family farms don't,
you know, necessarily use the most productive, the most
efficient ways of farming. So, I'm not thinking
that the author is all that supportive of
those farming practices, but I'm not gonna cross out that because I also don't think the author would say bad things
about the family farmers. But let's look at D and E. Efforts by New Zealand's
wool-growing industry to increase the efficiency
of wool processing. Okay that was mentioned,
we need to find that and see whether the author has good things to say about that or maybe
bad things to say about that. E, the farm management practices of the most profitable
wool-growing farms in New Zealand. That looks really good, we
can go up to the passage and prove that to ourselves. Pretty sure the author was very supportive of everybody in New Zealand adopting the farm manager practices of the most profitable wool-growing farms. So let's go up and find that. (scrolling) So here we have this paragraph here. The other side of family
farmers, that we were wondering about family farmers, they are willing to receive a substantially lower return to maintain their lifestyle. Doesn't say anything negative,
this is kind of like neutral. Oh here we are, okay, this
goal of greater productivity can be readily achieved
if the industry as a whole were to adopt the management
and breeding practices of the country's leading wool growers. There's our answer. The author is recommending
this, which means that the author must think it's a good thing. So, here's our answer, E. The last thing I wanna do here is to explain why D isn't right, so, a wool-growing industry
increasing wool processing. Okay, here's where the
industry is making efforts to improve the efficiency
of wool processing. So does the author support
that or not support that? The author is making a suggestion, or making a recommendation
that would represent a shift away from those efforts. So the author doesn't
approve of those efforts, would recommend, you know, using the investment in other ways. So that's how we know
that we can cross out D.