PrepTest 136 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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Passage A.

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Critique of history writing · It's boring

It's typically too formal and abstract, and doesn't help students connect to history emotionally.

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Failed attempt at solution · Some historians have claimed to connect their writing to stories; they still write only boring stuff

Very few people historians actually incorporate stories into their writing.

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Context about legal writing · Values conformity, and doesn't have much creativity or humor

Critique of legal writing · It's boring because it leaves out the story

Lawyers learn this kind of boring writing from teachers of legal writing.

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Describe approach

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This Describe Approach question asks for a way that the two passages are not parallel. We can approach this question like an LR Method of Reasoning question.

Split Approach: After passage A, eliminate any answer choices that don’t accurately describe passage A. Then, after passage B, eliminate the remaining answer choices that don’t accurately describe passage B.

Sequential Approach: We will approach this question with the process of elimination. Eliminate any answer choices that do not accurately describe how both passages operate.

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Passage A doesn’t present and reject arguments for an opposing position––the passage doesn’t even consider an opposing position––so we can eliminate (A).

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Passage A does make evaluative claims (for example, that the historiographic approach is harmful). However, passage B makes evaluative claims too, so we can eliminate (B).

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Passage A does describe specific examples of a phenomenon that it criticizes (specifically, the examples of papers that use “narrative” in their titles but don’t actually tell stories). Additionally, passage B does not include specific examples. (C) accurately describes the way that the passages do not parallel.

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Passage B offers ██████████ ███████ ███████ █ ████ ████

Passage A does offer criticism, so we can eliminate (D). Passage A criticizes the dry, abstract approach to historical writing.

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Passage A does not outline a theory, so we can eliminate (E). Passage B doesn’t outline a theory either.

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