LSAT 128 | Section 1 | Reading Comprehension: Q7

RC Question 7 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: In stating that bankruptcy laws have evolved …

DISCUSSION: For questions like this that reference a specific line, I recommend that you go read that line before reading the answer choices in order to be as precise and accurate as possible.

Line 5 says that it’s unexpected that shifting away from punishment has been a financial remedy for creditors. Why? Maybe punishment wasn’t the best way to get their money back, and the new laws that provide relief to debtors actually also help creditors out.

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1. This is not what the line implies.
2. This is too far. We know creditors benefit too, but chief beneficiaries is too strong.
3. We don’t know this.
4. CORRECT. Yeah. The new laws focus on bankruptcy being a remedy for debtors instead of a punishment. You wouldn’t immediately expect this to also benefit creditors. But “unexpectedly”, it does.
5. We don’t know this.