LSAT 137 – Section 2 – Question 03

LSAT 137 - Section 2 - Question 03

October 2012

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PT137 S2 Q03
+LR
Strengthen +Streng
Value Judgment +ValJudg
Analogy +An
A
1%
156
B
98%
163
C
0%
152
D
0%
143
E
0%
153
120
125
135
 +Easiest 146.731 +SubsectionMedium

A person reading a new book for pleasure is like a tourist traveling to a new place. The reader reads, just as the tourist travels, to enlarge understanding rather than simply to acquire information. Thus, it is better to read fewer books and spend more time on each rather than to quickly read as many as one can, just as it is better to travel to fewer places and spend more time in each rather than to spend a small amount of time in many different places.

Summarize Argument
The author concludes that it’s better to read fewer books and spend more time on each, rather than reading as many as possible. As support, she draws an analogy, saying that it’s better to travel to fewer places and spend more time in each, rather than spending a little time in many places. She notes that reading, like traveling, is about deepening understanding, instead of just gaining new information.

Notable Assumptions
In order to draw an analogy between reading and traveling, the author assumes that there are no relevant differences between the two. She also assumes that spending more time in one place leads to a better understanding of that place than spending less time there does.

A
Tourists typically learn something about the places they visit even when they are there only to relax.
Irrelevant. This fails to address whether tourists deepen their understanding of a place when they spend more time there. The author focuses on how long tourists are in a place, not why they are there.
B
Tourists gain much more understanding of a place once they have spent several days at that place than they do in their first few days there.
If tourists gain more understanding of a place once they’ve spent several days there and reading is like traveling, this suggests that readers gain more understanding by spending more time reading each book.
C
Many people report that they can learn far more about a place by visiting it than they can by reading about it.
Irrelevant. This fails to address whether tourists deepen their understanding of a place when they spend more time there. The author uses reading and traveling as two different but analogous activities, both of which deepen understanding. Like (D), (C) mixes them together.
D
Tourists who have read about a place beforehand tend to stay longer in that place.
Irrelevant. This fails to address whether tourists deepen their understanding of a place when they spend more time there. The author uses reading and traveling as two different but analogous activities, both of which deepen understanding. Like (C), (D) mixes them together.
E
Some tourists are unconcerned about gaining information about a place other than what is necessary for their immediate enjoyment.
Irrelevant. This fails to address whether tourists deepen their understanding of a place when they spend more time there. Also, the author already said that people travel “to enlarge understanding rather than simply to acquire information.”

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Section 1 - Reading Comprehension

Section 2 - Logical Reasoning

Section 3 - Logical Reasoning

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