LSAT 148 | Section 2 | Reading Comprehension: Q18

RC Question 18 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Remember, you’re looking for something that doesn’t happen in passage B. So you can eliminate answers for two reasons:

• They don’t happen in passage A
• They do happen in passage B

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1. There were no particular examples. A particular example would be “Bob was an executive at ACME. He sold shares because he knew there was a problem with the company. This sale helped knowledge spread.”
2. CORRECT. Passage A does this by comparing insider trading and insider nontrading. See especially lines 31-36. Passage B makes no such comparison.
3. Both passages A and B talk about what happens if you allow insider trading. Passage A says that information will spread faster. Passage B says that market confidence will be undermined.
4. I think both passages do this. Passage A shows how insider trading helps the market (the wider context) by speeding information flows. Passage B shows how insider trading weakens the market by hurting investor confidence.
5. I’m not sure passage A specifically mentions motivations. But, passage B definitely does, so this can’t be right. Lines 56-58 discuss the motives of people who invest in the stock market: they want to make money.