In this Analogy question, we are looking for a phrase in passage B that is analogous to the role played by the highlighted phrase in passage A. We will only approach this question after reading both passages.
The phrase in passage A demonstrates that historical writing is dry and lifeless. This is the problem of historical writing that the author hopes to resolve. We are looking for a phrase from passage B that demonstrates a similar problem in legal writing.
a
"Writing is at ███ █████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████ ██████ ████████ ██ ███████ ██
This isn’t the problem with legal writing, nor does it explain that legal writing is often boring, so it’s not analogous to the highlighted phrase from passage A.
b
"Conformity is a ███████ ██████████ ████████ █████ ██████████ ███ █████ █████ █████ ████████ ██ ███ █████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██
This phrase explains that legal writing is often dry and lifeless, which is the problem with legal writing that author B is addressing. Thus, this phrase is analogous with the phrase in question from passage A.
This isn’t the problem with legal writing, nor does it explain that legal writing is often boring, so it’s not analogous to the highlighted phrase from passage A.
d
"every case has ██ ███ █████ █ ██████ ███████████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ███████ ██
This isn’t the problem with legal writing, nor does it explain that legal writing is often boring, so it’s not analogous to the highlighted phrase from passage A. Instead, this phrase shows that legal writing has the potential to be more interesting.
This is a proposed resolution to the problem of legal writing; the phrase that we are looking for should capture the problem in legal writing, not propose a solution.
Difficulty
81% of people who answer get this correct
This is a slightly challenging question.
It is similar in difficulty to other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%124
140
75%157
Analysis
RC analogy
Comparative
Law
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
1%
155
b
81%
163
c
14%
160
d
4%
156
e
1%
151
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