LSAT PrepTest 136 - Section 3 - Passage 2 - Question 9

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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

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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.

Potential solution · Become more aware about the value of story in legal writing

Not sure if this will actually change how legal writing is taught, but it might help.

Passage Style

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Question Type

Stated

This Stated question asks what each passage says is typical of writing in each respective profession.

Split Approach: After reading passage A, eliminate any answers that don’t capture what passage A says about historical writing.

Then, after passage B, eliminate the remaining answers that don’t capture what passage B says about legal writing. Legal writing is discussed throughout passage B, so we will use the process of elimination.

Sequential Approach: We will approach this question with the process of elimination. Eliminate any answer choices that don’t describe both historical writing as described in passage A and legal writing as described in passage B.

abstraction

Passage A says that historical writing tends to turn history into an abstract debate. Passage B also says that legal analysis is focused on the abstract legal form of the case.

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hyperbole

Passage A doesn’t say that historical writing tends to be hyperbolic, so we can eliminate (B). Passage B doesn’t mention hyperbole either.

subversion

Passage A doesn’t say that historical writing tends to be subversive, so we can eliminate (C). Passage B says that attention to narrative is a potentially subversive trend that may eventually work its way into the legal curriculum, but author B doesn’t say that legal writing as it currently exists tends to be subversive.

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narrative

Actually, passage A says that historical writing needs more elements of narrative writing (and tht it still lacks the narrative elements), so we can eliminate (D). Also, passage B says that the narrative is currently left out of legal writing.

10%

imagination

Passage A doesn’t say that historical writing tends to be imaginative, so we can eliminate (E). Also, passage B doesn’t mention imagination in legal writing.

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