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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 1 | Social science passage | Wool
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach a Recognition question on a social science reading passage on the LSAT. Created by Dave Travis.
Video transcript
- [Instructor] Which one of the following is given in the passage as the cause of the decline in the
price of clean strong wool? So this question is a
question that asks us to tell them exactly what is
explicitly in the passage. The right answer is going
to be in here someplace very specific. So let's scroll up and
see if we can find it. I think it was in the first paragraph you know, the decline in the
price of clean strong wool that was part of the setup to understand that profitability was down and that the wool industry
in New Zealand is in trouble so let's go see if we can
find the answer to that. I'm going to first head
towards the first paragraph. Okay there's strong wool. Strong wool shows up here, the price of clean strong wool here so our answer is going to be
around here somewhere okay but for the past 20 years
competition from synthetics has inexorably driven down the
price of clean strong wool. So here's what we're looking for. We're looking for
competition from synthetics so let's go down and find it. A farmers' switching their
land to other uses, no. Market competition from
synthetic materials, yes. Let's look at the others. Market competition from
Australian wool growers. That was mentioned but that
wasn't specifically the cause of the decline in the
price of clean strong wool. C sounds good but it's
not what we just found. D competition from cotton
growers for available land, no they're not competing
with cotton growers for the same land. E the deep division in the wool industry between large and small farms so that wouldn't have driven
down the price of wool so that's not right either. It's important to remember
with questions like this that we should get an idea
of the answer in our heads before we look at the choices at all because if you just
start reading the choices a couple of them might
wind up looking really good and then you wind up going
back and trying to see whether each one of those
choices could be right. You're giving each of those
choices the benefit of the doubt when they don't necessarily
deserve the benefit of your doubt so you're going to save a lot
of time by finding the answer to the question first and
then looking at the choices and matching the answer choice to the idea that you've predicted as the answer and that's what we're going here. The answer here is B.