RC Identification Strategies

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

Main Point

Which one of the following most accurately captures the main point of the passage?

Main Point

The passage most strongly supports which one of the following statements?

Supported

The passage provides information that is most helpful in answering which one of the following questions?

Supported

Which one of the following would be an example of the kind of “insinuation” referred to in the first sentence of the last paragraph of the passage?

Supported

The passage provides information that is most helpful in answering which one of the following questions ?

Stated

According to the passage, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did all of the following except:

Stated

Which one of the following is a claim that is advanced by the author of passage B, but not by the author of passage A?

Stated

The passage most strongly suggests that the author holds which one of the following views?

Agree

The author would be most likely to agree with which one of the following statements about financial investigations into the fraudulent activities of Mary Smith?

Agree

It is most likely that the authors of the passages would disagree with each other about the truth of which one of the following statements?

Agree

Which one of the following would, if true, most strengthen the author’s position in the passage?

Strengthen

Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen Johnson’s explanation regarding Detroit’s population decrease in the 1950s?

Strengthen

Which one of the following would, if true, advance the position of the scientists in passage B, as well as that of the critics of genetically modifying embryos in passage A?

Strengthen

Which one of the following would, if true, most weaken the author’s position in the passage

Weaken

Which one of the following, if true, would most weaken Balachandran’s theory regarding the use of an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer?

Weaken

Which one of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the conclusion made by the author of passage B?

Weaken

The author of the passage regards the legal principle that “with just compensation, the government has power to take private property for public use” as…

Meaning

Which one of the following comes closest to capturing what the author of passage A means to suggest in asking “Do birds really fly, then?”

Meaning

In using the phrase “maximized consequentialism,” the author refers to the idea that…

Meaning

Based on the passage, which one of the following most accurately describes Natalie Threlfall’s stance toward the position ascribed to Jonathan Lennox?

Tone

The author’s tone toward the 26th Amendment can best be described as…

Tone

Passage B differs from passage A in that passage B is more…

Tone

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the primary purpose of the passage?

Purpose

By referring to the 1927 Solvay Conferences as “merely speculative” in nature, the author most likely intends to emphasize…

Purpose

Both passages are concerned with answering which one of the following questions?

Purpose

Which one of the following most accurately represents the organization of the passage?

Organization

Which one of the following most accurately describes the relationship between the final paragraph and the first paragraph?

Organization

The passages are alike in that each seeks to advance its main argument by….

Organization

Which one of the following is most analogous to doctors’ original explanation regarding multiple chemical sensitivity as described in the passage?

Analogy

The reaction described in which one of the following scenarios is most analogous to the response of the record companies mentioned in the second paragraph?

Analogy

The summary given in passage B most closely corresponds to which one of the following approaches to the predictive analysis described in passage A?

Analogy