LSAT 21 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q26

RC Question 26 Explanation

DISCUSSION: You should reread the paragraph before answering. Then the right answer is fairly clear.

First, the author compares Tollefson to other writers who study immigrants (lines 1-7).

Second, the author tells us how Tollefson did his work (lines 8-13). This is his methodology.

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1. CORRECT. See discussion above. Methodology just means “method”.
2. The first part is close, but the second part is wrong. We only learn about Tollefson’s argument in the second paragraph.
3. We don’t know what documents other studies used. The author only compares the subject matter of Tollefson’s work and other studies.
4. Tollefson’s topic is immigrant education. We’re never told what the normal theory is, and certainly not in the first paragraph.
5. The point of the first paragraph is that Tollefson’s study is rare. There are very few other works on the same subject. No such comparison is made.