LSAT 128 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q6

RC Question 6 Explanation

QUESTION TEXT: Which one of the following principles is most clearly …

DISCUSSION: The author advocates for improving profitability by adopting better and more productive farm management practices. A principle will generalize this from the context of the wool industry to a general principle on industries overall.

It’s difficult to exactly prephrase this. A correct answer could be that improvements in an industry should follow its best members. Or it might say that improving productivity is the solution to declining profitability.

You should be cautious of answers that misrepresent the argument, or subtly shift a key component of it.

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1. CORRECT. This is what the last sentence of paragraph 2 explicitly says, and what the general idea of the passage is.
2. The passage never suggested that successful wool growers should assist struggling ones. This mischaracterizes what the author says.
3. The passage is about a struggling industry, not an already successful one, so this doesn’t fit.
4. This is very close to the correct answer. But this says to model it on competing industries. The author never argues that wool should copy others like synthetic or cottons. He says we should learn from the best farms within the wool industry itself.
5. There was no suggestion that the wool industry needs to revisit past successful practices.