Day 89 / 168 Week 15 of 28 Phase 3: RC Deep Dive

Comparative Passages II: Agreement, Disagreement & Cross-Passage Questions

🕑 ~75 min · Archetype B — RC Deep Dive

Comparative Passages II: Agreement, Disagreement & Cross-Passage Questions

Building on yesterday's relationship-mapping: the specific question types unique to comparative sets, mirroring LR's Point at Issue/Point of Agreement but at passage scale.

1. Cross-Passage Agreement/Disagreement

Same standard as Day 50/51's LR version: both passages must address the same specific claim, with identifiably matching or opposing positions.

2. "Both Passages" Questions

Answers must be true of (or supported by) both passages independently — the single most common trap is a claim true of only one, which is exactly the COMP-ONE-PASSAGE-ONLY trap from the library.

Practice items on this page are curriculum-authored in LSAT style; they are not official LSAC questions. Real drilling happens on LawHub — see the assignment below.

Q1. Using yesterday's standardized-testing comparative set, which claim would both passages likely agree is true?

A. Standardized testing should be abolished immediately

B. Admissions decisions rely on imperfect information, and the debate is about which imperfect measure is least bad

C. GPA is a perfect measure

D. Testing has no relationship to preparation access

Correct answer: B. Both passages implicitly accept that admissions measures are imperfect — Passage A criticizes one imperfection (access confound), Passage B defends comparability despite GPA's own imperfections — a shared premise beneath their disagreement.

LawHub drill-tier comparative RC set, untimed, focused on cross-passage questions.

Saturday: your second full timed RC section, with a comparative-passage focus.

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