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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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Recognition | Law passage | Cosmic Justice
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a "recognition" question on a LSAT reading comprehension law passage. Created by Dave Travis.
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Video transcript
- [Narrator] Which one of
the following is mentioned in passage B, but not in passage A? Okay, so this is a question that requires you to
have a good recollection of what was in the passage. In a way, it's kind of a memory quiz, and what we can do here
is see what we remember, and then go back and hunt for evidence to support our answer
with the remaining things. So we should try to use
process of elimination as best we can before going and spending time working
through the passage looking for ways to cross out bad answers. So let's look at what we have here. So one way to approach this would be to do this for each choice. Is punishment mentioned in A? I don't know, we can check it out. I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in B, so, because we talk about the punishment and how it should be mitigated or not, based on the traumatic
childhood of a defendant. So, we can going back and
look for punishment in A. Trials, do passage A talk about trials? Mmm, not sure, so I'll put
a little question mark here, and it definitely is mentioned in B. Trials are mentioned in B. C, rewards, does passage
A mention rewards? We can go look for that. And when we go back and look for it, we're actually going to be scanning the
passage for these words, so the word "trial",
the word "punishment", the words "legal systems",
the words "human limitations". And that's another good strategy to use when you're trying to quickly
find information you need. D, does passage A mention legal systems? We can go find that out. The way we're going to find that out, again, is to be looking for
these two words in passage A. Does passage B mention legal systems? Maybe you remember, maybe you don't. I'll leave it as a question mark. E, human limitations, does passage A mention human limitations? Let's go back and see. One thing to think about
with these questions is they do take a little longer than some of the other questions, because it does require some searching, some treasure hunting in order
to rule out your choices. This may be a question, if
you're running short on time, questions like this, that
clearly might take longer, might be candidates for waiting
until the end of the passage to come back and do this if you have time. So, with that in mind, let's head up and see whether we can find any of these things in passage A. Because if we can find them in passage A, then we can cross out that choice. Punishments, trials,
rewards, legal systems, human limitations, let's go. (scrolling on computer page) Okay, here we go, we're looking
for trials, punishments, rewards, human legal systems,
let's see what we got. Okay, here's rewards, there's
punishments in passage A. Human limitations in passage A. Let's keep on going, read. What else are we looking for here? We're looking for legal
systems, legal systems, legal systems, legal ... There it is, legal systems. Okay, so we found four of
those choices in passage A, so let's go, trials,
trials, there's trial. Okay, so we've done a word find here, and we've been able to
cross out punishment, rewards, legal systems,
and human limitations, because those are all in A. Those are in A, these were all in A, and the question it's asking, which one of the following
is mentioned in passage B, but not in passage A, so
our answer must be trials. And we did find trials
on our own in passage B.