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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 info | Social science passage | Wool
Watch a demonstration of one way to approach an Inferences about Info question on a social science reading passage on the LSAT. Created by Dave Travis.
Video transcript
- [Teacher] The passage
most strongly suggests that which one of the
following would be a function of the research company proposed for New Zealand
in the final paragraph? So, we're given a place
to find our answer. We're talking about the research company that the author proposes. And it most strongly suggests question means that the answer isn't going to be explicitly
there in the passage, but it's gonna be strongly suggested. So, it makes sense for us to go back up and remind ourselves, you know, what the author is recommending about this research company. So, it's all right in this paragraph here. The commercial genetic research company which would concentrate on genetic selection
for crossbreeding sheep, but not on the artificial
manipulation of genetic material in individual sheep. So, okay, that specifically says what the genetic research
company was meant to do according to the author. So, let's see if we can
the answer right there. A, to develop more-productive
varieties of sheep by introducing genes from
other organisms into, other organisms, frankensheep. No, that's definitely not
right, let's get rid of that. B, to concentrate on conducting
basic genetic research that could have applications in various areas of agriculture. You know, conducting basic research, yes. But applications in various
areas of agriculture, no. We just heard about the author focusing on the wool industry. C, to encourage wool growers to focus on developing
other wool varieties as an alternative to growing strong wool. Okay, so, other wool varieties. We talked about sort of like strengthening the gene pool of the sheep by cross-breeding the best,
most productive sheep. I'm not sure that means producing
different wool varieties, but I'll leave that one in for now. D, to create a composite profile
of optimal physical traits for sheep based on characteristics of the sheep that produce
the most valuable wool. Okay, so we do like the
characteristics of the sheep that produce the most valuable wool, so this sounds pretty good. It doesn't involve like
real genetic, you know, genetic manipulation. Okay, E, to oversee the
distribution of funds among the various programs intended to increase the
efficiency of wool processing. So, efficiency of wool processing is something that the author was trying to get the
industry to move away from, so you know, processing
is what makes that wrong. That's in the third paragraph, that's not right. Okay, so what do we have left, we have C and we have D. And again, we're not making
different wool varieties. If we wanna be doubly sure about D, we can just go up and remind ourselves, you know, read a little
bit more of that paragraph. This part of the paragraph says that you know, we're
trying to improve the genetics. The best of New Zealand sheep produce wool worth significantly more than the wool of the
country's average sheep and these superior sheep, 'cause we're lookin' for the best sheep can be identified and
kept as breeding stock. So we need to figure out like
what is a superior sheep? How do we decide, you know, which sheep are superior
and which are inferior? But, it seems like
superiority versus inferiority is about like optimizing the
physical traits of the sheep based on the most valuable wool. This looks really good. It's not explicitly said, but again this question is implicit because it's a strong suggestion, not, you know, explicit statement, so here's our answer, D.