LSAT 150 | Section 4 | Reading Comprehension: Q26

RC Question 26 Explanation

DISCUSSION: Passage A and Passage B seem complementary. Passage A explains why research may work in trials. Passage B explains why it wouldn’t work in appeals courts, using similar reasons that passage A does.

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1. Passage A was positive, but both of these are negative.
2. CORRECT. This matches. “Beneficial for some people” = trial court judges. “People with high blood pressure” = appellate court judges.
    
   This matches the structure in saying “some people should do a thing, but another category of people absolutely should not”
3. Passage B was very clear that appellate court judges should not do research. The second half of this doesn’t match at all: “inconclusive” research describes a situation where we can’t draw a definite conclusion.
4. This doesn’t match: passages A and B were talking about different things: trial court judges vs. appellate court judges. Here, both titles discuss the same thing: salt substitutes.
5. Passage A was positive. Whereas the first title here is neutral: “health effects of salt” could be good or bad.