Individual family members have been assisted in resolving disputes arising from divorce or separation, property division, or financial arrangements, through court-connected family mediation programs, which differ significantly from court adjudication. ███
Intro Topic ·Family mediation v. court adjudication
Two very different options to resolve family disputes
This is a primary purpose of the passage question. This is the kind of question where we can fully anticipate the answer choice. Remember that the main point of this Debate passage is to show that resolving disputes through family mediation programs better serves the needs of family law.
(B) is missing the fact that the author supports of one of the two different processes over the other, so this does not accurately capture the primary purpose of the passage.
This is the primary purpose––the passage explains why one method (mediation) of conflict resolution is preferable to another (court adjudication) for a certain class of legal disputes (family law).
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While the author does mention legal precedent at the end of P2, this is only to show one area where court adjudication has an advantage over family mediation. This is not the primary purpose of the passage.
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The passage does say that family mediation is better suited to meet the needs of family law, but the overall purpose of the passage is not to say that the court system too often disregards individuals’ needs.
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This is a slightly challenging question.
It is slightly harder than the average question in this passage.
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Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%128
137
75%146
Analysis
Implied
Implied
Stems asking us to infer an idea implied by the claims in the passage (as opposed to identifying an idea that appears explicitly). Similar to most strongly supported questions in LR.
Stems that ask us to describe the overall purpose of the passage. Similar to main point questions, but often call for more abstract language in the answer choices (e.g. "to criticize a popular theory").
Critique or debate passages contain multiple points of view on a particular subject. Sometimes the author takes sides and participates in the critique or debate, other times the author merely reports the debate.
