LSAT 145 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q5

RC Question 5 Explanation

DISCUSSION: There’s no preparation for this type of question. Just try to confirm the answer you choose using the passage. If you can’t do this quickly, then you need to work on building a mental map of the passage so that you can quickly find specific information without stress.

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1. This was the most tempting answer, because I knew the author thought the Charter wasn’t strong enough.
    
   However, this answer is an extremely strongly worded criticism. We’d need actual evidence to conclude the author thinks this. I scanned paragraph 1: while the author thinks the Charter could be stronger, they never say that it’s completely useless.
2. Lines 45-47 and 50-53 contradict this answer. The author would disagree with this; they like the UDHR.
3. The second paragraph contradicts this. Line 34 says the articles were extensively debated.
4. If this were true, then the author would have mentioned it in the final paragraph, when they discuss the weaknesses of the UDHR. But the author didn’t list this as a weakness.
5. CORRECT. The proponents are the people listed on line 20 who called for a legally binding document. These proposals led to the UDHR.
    
   Lines 45-49 say that the weakness of the UDHR is that it isn’t legally binding. So if it were legally binding it would better match the intentions of the original proponents.