LSAT 103 – Section 2 – Question 18

LSAT 103 - Section 2 - Question 18

September 1998

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Question
QuickView		 Type Tags Answer
Choices		 Curve Question
Difficulty		 Psg/Game/S
Difficulty		 Explanation
PT103 S2 Q18
+LR
Resolve reconcile or explain +RRE
Causal Reasoning +CausR
A
9%
162
B
8%
163
C
69%
169
D
10%
160
E
4%
161
152
160
168
 +Hardest 149.468 +SubsectionMedium

Each child in a group of young children read aloud both a short paragraph and a list of randomly ordered words from the paragraph. The more experienced readers among them made fewer pronunciation errors in whichever task they performed second, whether it was the list or the paragraph. The order in which the two tasks were performed, however, had no effect on the performance of beginning readers, who always made fewer pronunciation errors when reading the paragraph than when reading the list.

"Surprising" Phenomenon
Children read aloud a short paragraph and a list of random words from the paragraph. More experienced readers made fewer pronunciation mistakes with whatever they read second, whether it was the paragraph or the list. Less experienced readers made fewer pronunciation mistakes with the paragraph than with the list. What explains the difference in mistake tendency?

Objective
Th correct answer should differentiate more experienced readers from less experienced readers in a way that would lead more experienced readers to make fewer mistakes with the second task and less experienced readers to make fewer mistakes with the paragraph.

A
Because several words were used more than once in the paragraph but only once in the list, the list was shorter than the paragraph.
This doesn’t differentiate more experienced from less experienced readers.
B
In reading the paragraph, the more experienced readers were better at using context to guess at difficult words than were the beginning readers.
This would lead more experienced readers to perform better on the paragraph, which contains context. But the more experienced readers performed better on the task performed second, even if it was the list of words.
C
The more experienced readers sounded out difficult words, while the beginning readers relied solely on context to guess at difficult words.
Since the paragraph contains context, this helps explain why less experienced readers performed better on the paragraph. And since more experienced readers sounded out difficult words, they might perform better the second time they’ve seen those difficult words.
D
Both tasks used the same words, so that the words the children read in whichever task was performed first would be recognized in the second task.
This doesn’t differentiate more experienced readers from less experienced readers.
E
The beginning readers made more pronunciation errors than the more experienced readers did in reading both the paragraph and the list.
This doesn’t explain why the less experienced readers performed better on the paragraph than on the list, or why the more experienced readers performed better on the second task.

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