LSAT 105 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q25

RC Question 25 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Which one of the following, if true, would most weaken …

DISCUSSION: The passage states that grammar education was passive, training students to understand and interpret texts rather than express themselves.

On the other hand, rhetoric and dialectic were about persuasion and public debate. These were considered inappropriate for women.

To weaken this distinction, we need something that shows grammar wasn’t necessarily more passive. Maybe grammar students were encouraged to engage in their own expression.

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1. Imitating others is still a passive activity. It doesn’t mean students were expressing their own arguments.
2. This describes how rhetoric was taught, but not that grammar may be more similar to it than described.
3. This describes a structural difference in education but doesn’t challenge the distinction.
4. CORRECT. If grammar training encouraged students to articulate their own thoughts, that goes beyond being passive and blurs the distinction.
5. Same as B. This focuses on how rhetoric was taught, but doesn’t weaken the distinction.