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Showing posts with label reading comprehension. Show all posts
LSAT Reading Comprehension Explanation - Philosophical Anarchism
LSAT Reading Comp Explanation - Evolutionary Game Theory
LSAT Reading Comprehension Comparative Passage Explanation - Narrative
I've written explanations for over 1,000 LSAT questions and joined forces with other awesome LSAT tutors to write even more. Below, I'm including a small free sample of the Reading Comprehension explanations just so you can see what they're like.
Get the full LSAT PrepTest explanations for LSAT PrepTest 52 (and TONS of other exams) HERE.
These are just for the second Reading Comprehension passage of LSAT PrepTest 52:
Section 4 (Questions 7-12)
These are comparative reading passages. It is important to focus on the general topic of both, the specific topic of each, and how they relate.
Passage A opens with a discussion of the joy of reading in general, and contrasts this with the lack of joy created by academic historians. The author follows with a colorful description of how these historians “sap the vitality of history.”
The second paragraph discusses the trend towards change in the writing style of historians, specifically towards narrative. The author then says that most historians still fail at accomplishing the goals of narrative.
Passage B is also about narrative, and criticizes legal writing in the same way that the author of passage A criticizes the writing of academic historians. The sentence in lines 34-36 is similar to passage A’s criticism of how academic historians “leave little to the imagination.”
The second paragraph discusses the tradition of legal writing; how “lawyers write as they see other lawyers write,” in much the same way that passage A discusses how historians “visit on students what was visited on them in graduate school.” This is followed by a description in a trend towards narrative, just as in passage A.
The third paragraph here diverges from passage A in that it provides hope for the future of narrative and implies the legitimacy of the movement towards narrative, whereas passage A lacks such hope.
7. Tests your ability to find attitudes justified by each passage.
A) The effectiveness of teaching methods isn’t really mentioned in either passage.
B) This is also unmentioned in either passage.
C) Too extreme to be justified by either passage (“cannot be”.)
D) Correct. This can be inferred from the second paragraph of passage A, and can be inferred from the last paragraph of passage B.
E) Quite the opposite. Both passages look to narrative fiction, another discipline, as a way of rectifying the problem they see in their respective fields.
8. An inference question about both passages.
A) “I started teaching,” in line five of passage A is enough to negate this choice. The term “we” in passage B would also be enough to negate this choice.
B) Correct. For the same reasons choice A was wrong, choice B is right.
C) This choice is half right, but we already found justification for the author of passage B being a member of the profession he discusses.
D) Passage B is about law, passage A about history. While these disciplines are related, they are certainly different.
E) Passage B does not even mention history, the topic of passage A.
9. This question requires you to understand the tone of both passages. In addition, it tests vocabulary. It is not an easy question.
A) Correct. “Abstract” is mentioned in line 10 and again in in line 49.
B) Hyperbole is a literary technique employed in narrative fiction.
C) “Subversive” is mentioned in passage B, but as referring to the movement toward narrative. It is not in passage A.
D) Narrative is discussed as atypical, not typical.
E) Imagination is currently lacking in both disciplines discussed.
10. This question asks about the difference between the two passages.
A) Passage A does not do this.
B) Both passages make evaluative claims.
C) Correct. See lines 20-25 in passage A; there are no examples in passage B.
D) Both passages criticize the writing in their respective professions.
E) Both passages discuss narrative theory.
11. Method of argument.
You need to find the correspondence between two lines in analogous arguments. “Sap the vitality,” is a criticism of the current standard of writing in the author’s profession. The author of passage B discusses the same topic with regard to his profession in lines 34-38. Let’s look for a choice that quotes something in those lines.
You need to find the correspondence between two lines in analogous arguments. “Sap the vitality,” is a criticism of the current standard of writing in the author’s profession. The author of passage B discusses the same topic with regard to his profession in lines 34-38. Let’s look for a choice that quotes something in those lines.
A) Not a criticism.
B) Correct. This choice matches what we were looking for.
C) In the right area of passage B, nonetheless the criticism of this trend is later in those lines.
D) This is analogous to a completely different part of passage A.
E) This indicates hope for the future, not criticism of the present.
12. Inference.
We are asked to infer the author’s expectation of the current prevailing standards of legal writing. This is discussed in lines 34-36; let’s look for something similar to that.
We are asked to infer the author’s expectation of the current prevailing standards of legal writing. This is discussed in lines 34-36; let’s look for something similar to that.
A) Poorly written perhaps, but that would be according to the professors’ advice.
B) Quite the opposite according to the lines we reread.
C) “Well crafted” contradicts “write badly.”
D) Correct. If you join the lines referenced above with lines 48-49, the choice becomes clear.
E) This may actually be true of legal writing.
Authored by Robert Brind
Authored by Robert Brind
LSAT Reading Comprehension Passage Explanation - Ousmane Sembene
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Online LSAT Reading Comprehension Video Course Syllabus
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Introduction to Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension Passage Topics
How NOT to Approach Reading Comprehension Passages
Where Do LSAT Reading Comprehension Passages Come From?
Reading Comprehension Approach Part 1: Mindset
Reading Comprehension Approach Part 2: Note-Taking Strategy
Reading Comprehension Approach Part 3: More on Mindset
Reading Comprehension Approach Part 4: Even More on Mindset
Reading Comprehension Approach Part 5: Should You Take Notes?
Reading Comprehension Approach Part 5: Should You Take Notes?
Reading Comprehension Vocabulary
How to Approach Comparative Reading Short (Dual) Passages
Types of Reading Comprehension Questions
Types of Wrong Answer Choices
Passage #1 Analysis
Passage #1 Questions
Passage #2 Analysis
Passage #2 Questions
Passage #3 Analysis
Passage #3 Questions
Passage #4 Analysis
Passage #4 Questions
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LSAT Reading Comp Explanations PDF
I've written explanations for over 1,000 LSAT questions.
You can get the full LSAT PrepTest explanations for TONS of exams HERE.
LSAT Reading Comp Solutions PDF
I've written explanations for over 1,000 LSAT questions.
You can get the full LSAT PrepTest explanations for TONS of exams HERE.
LSAT PrepTest Question Explanations for Reading Comprehension (a free sample!)
I've written explanations for over 1,000 LSAT questions and joined forces with other awesome LSAT tutors to write even more. Below, I'm including a small free sample of the Reading Comprehension explanations just so you can see what they're like.
Get the full LSAT PrepTest explanations for LSAT PrepTest 52 (and TONS of other exams) HERE.
These are just for the second Reading Comprehension passage of LSAT PrepTest 52:
Section 4 (Questions 7-12)
These are comparative reading passages. It is important to focus on the general topic of both, the specific topic of each, and how they relate.
Passage A opens with a discussion of the joy of reading in general, and contrasts this with the lack of joy created by academic historians. The author follows with a colorful description of how these historians “sap the vitality of history.”
The second paragraph discusses the trend towards change in the writing style of historians, specifically towards narrative. The author then says that most historians still fail at accomplishing the goals of narrative.
Passage B is also about narrative, and criticizes legal writing in the same way that the author of passage A criticizes the writing of academic historians. The sentence in lines 34-36 is similar to passage A’s criticism of how academic historians “leave little to the imagination.”
The second paragraph discusses the tradition of legal writing; how “lawyers write as they see other lawyers write,” in much the same way that passage A discusses how historians “visit on students what was visited on them in graduate school.” This is followed by a description in a trend towards narrative, just as in passage A.
The third paragraph here diverges from passage A in that it provides hope for the future of narrative and implies the legitimacy of the movement towards narrative, whereas passage A lacks such hope.
7. Tests your ability to find attitudes justified by each passage.
A) The effectiveness of teaching methods isn’t really mentioned in either passage.
B) This is also unmentioned in either passage.
C) Too extreme to be justified by either passage (“cannot be”.)
D) Correct. This can be inferred from the second paragraph of passage A, and can be inferred from the last paragraph of passage B.
E) Quite the opposite. Both passages look to narrative fiction, another discipline, as a way of rectifying the problem they see in their respective fields.
8. An inference question about both passages.
A) “I started teaching,” in line five of passage A is enough to negate this choice. The term “we” in passage B would also be enough to negate this choice.
B) Correct. For the same reasons choice A was wrong, choice B is right.
C) This choice is half right, but we already found justification for the author of passage B being a member of the profession he discusses.
D) Passage B is about law, passage A about history. While these disciplines are related, they are certainly different.
E) Passage B does not even mention history, the topic of passage A.
9. This question requires you to understand the tone of both passages. In addition, it tests vocabulary. It is not an easy question.
A) Correct. “Abstract” is mentioned in line 10 and again in in line 49.
B) Hyperbole is a literary technique employed in narrative fiction.
C) “Subversive” is mentioned in passage B, but as referring to the movement toward narrative. It is not in passage A.
D) Narrative is discussed as atypical, not typical.
E) Imagination is currently lacking in both disciplines discussed.
10. This question asks about the difference between the two passages.
A) Passage A does not do this.
B) Both passages make evaluative claims.
C) Correct. See lines 20-25 in passage A; there are no examples in passage B.
D) Both passages criticize the writing in their respective professions.
E) Both passages discuss narrative theory.
11. Method of argument.
You need to find the correspondence between two lines in analogous arguments. “Sap the vitality,” is a criticism of the current standard of writing in the author’s profession. The author of passage B discusses the same topic with regard to his profession in lines 34-38. Let’s look for a choice that quotes something in those lines.
You need to find the correspondence between two lines in analogous arguments. “Sap the vitality,” is a criticism of the current standard of writing in the author’s profession. The author of passage B discusses the same topic with regard to his profession in lines 34-38. Let’s look for a choice that quotes something in those lines.
A) Not a criticism.
B) Correct. This choice matches what we were looking for.
C) In the right area of passage B, nonetheless the criticism of this trend is later in those lines.
D) This is analogous to a completely different part of passage A.
E) This indicates hope for the future, not criticism of the present.
12. Inference.
We are asked to infer the author’s expectation of the current prevailing standards of legal writing. This is discussed in lines 34-36; let’s look for something similar to that.
We are asked to infer the author’s expectation of the current prevailing standards of legal writing. This is discussed in lines 34-36; let’s look for something similar to that.
A) Poorly written perhaps, but that would be according to the professors’ advice.
B) Quite the opposite according to the lines we reread.
C) “Well crafted” contradicts “write badly.”
D) Correct. If you join the lines referenced above with lines 48-49, the choice becomes clear.
E) This may actually be true of legal writing.
Authored by Robert Brind
Authored by Robert Brind
LSAT Grouped by Reading Comprehension Passages Book (More)
For those of you who intend to complete every LSAT Reading Comp Passage ever published, there's a book for you. It's called:More Grouped by Passage Type: LSAT Reading Comprehension- The Complete Collection of Actual, Official Reading Comprehension Passages from PrepTests 21-40
This book is incredibly useful for two major reasons (which the title makes obvious):
Reason #1: It compiles all the passages from PrepTests 21-40 for you in one book. This allows you to avoid getting 10 More Actual Official LSAT PrepTests (exams 19-28), Next 10 Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests (exams 29-38), and PrepTests 39 and 40 if you would've wanted any of those books/exams only for their Logical Reasoning questions.
Reason #2: It organizes Reading Comp passages by passage topic, rather than putting them in order by PrepTest (as the traditional books of PrepTests from LSAC do). It divides them into different "chapters" based upon the type of passage. Because these are not from the newest exams (they're from December 1996 - June 2003), you may want to complete those exams in pieces anyway, rather than as full timed exams.
While this book is a great concept, it may not be for you simply because you'll probably want to complete all of the Logic Games and Reading Comprehension sections in 29-38 anyway, or because you may want to use some of these exams for full timed sections.
Reading Comp Passage Categorization
Most prep companies simply divide passages into 4 major categories:
Natural Science, Social Science, Humanities, and Law
I find that breakdown a bit too simple, so I've done my own categorization of every Reading Comp passage from every LSAT PrepTest.
The categorization of passages in More GROUPED by Passage Type is somewhat similar to mine, only the categories are slightly broader since it's limited to PrepTests 21-40. (Because there are 4 passages per exam, you get 80 passages altogether.)
I'm listing the book's chapters so you can see the types of categories it uses:
Humanities
-Art
-Literature
-Music & Poetry
Social Sciences
-Economics
-History
-Linguistics
-Racial Minorities
-Women
Biological & Physical Sciences
-Biology
-Earth & Space
-Scientific Theories
-Species
-Technology
Issues Related To The Law
-Legal System
-Legal Theory
-Legislation
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Who should use this book:
Most test-takers won't find this book necessary. However, anyone who intends to focus specifically on LSAT Reading Comprehension questions by type in exams 21-40 without doing those exams' Logic Games/Logical Reasoning questions (or just wants less to carry around!) will find this book worthwhile and convenient.
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Also see GROUPED by Question Type and GROUPED by Game Type.
LSAT Prep Reading Comp Tips
This LSAT Blog post lists all my Reading Comprehension-related blog posts.
I've listed them below in two separate groups and included a link to the categorization of Reading Comprehension passages from every LSAT PrepTest.
This is all meant to accompany the initial Reading Comprehension portion of my LSAT study schedules, in order to give you more specific guidance on where to find each Reading Comprehension blog post.
Read these for general Reading Comp strategy:
LSAT Reading Comprehension Passages: Easy As Harry Potter
Newer LSAT Reading Comp Tips And The Truth About Reading Comp
New LSAT Reading Comprehension Tips
Reading Comprehension Questions | Inference and Main Point
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LSAT (Part 3 of 3)
10 Strategies for LSAT Reading Comprehension
How to Ace Reading Comprehension | 7 Habits
After you've read the above, use these to identify RC passages to complete:
LSAT Reading Comp Passages, Categorized
Reading Comprehension Passage Topics
5 Hardest LSAT Reading Comprehension Passages
I've listed them below in two separate groups and included a link to the categorization of Reading Comprehension passages from every LSAT PrepTest.
This is all meant to accompany the initial Reading Comprehension portion of my LSAT study schedules, in order to give you more specific guidance on where to find each Reading Comprehension blog post.
Read these for general Reading Comp strategy:
LSAT Reading Comprehension Passages: Easy As Harry Potter
Newer LSAT Reading Comp Tips And The Truth About Reading Comp
New LSAT Reading Comprehension Tips
Reading Comprehension Questions | Inference and Main Point
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LSAT (Part 3 of 3)
10 Strategies for LSAT Reading Comprehension
How to Ace Reading Comprehension | 7 Habits
After you've read the above, use these to identify RC passages to complete:
LSAT Reading Comp Passages, Categorized
Reading Comprehension Passage Topics
5 Hardest LSAT Reading Comprehension Passages
LSAT Grouped by Reading Passage Type Book
For those of you who intend to complete every LSAT Reading Comp Passage ever published, there's a book for you. It's called:GROUPED by Passage Type: LSAT Reading Comprehension: The Complete Collection of Actual, Official Reading Comprehension Passages from PrepTests 1-20
This book is incredibly useful for two major reasons (which the title makes obvious):
Reason #1: It compiles all the passages from PrepTests 1-20 for you in one book, saving you the trouble of getting all the separate books you'd need if you wanted every Reading Comp passage from these exams. 10 Actual, Official, LSAT PrepTests only contains 7, 9-16, and 18. It lacks PrepTests 1-6, 8, and 17. You can still get those, but it's a bit of a pain. (19 and 20 are in 10 More Actual Official LSAT PrepTests.)
Reason #2: It organizes Reading Comp passages by passage topic, rather than putting them in order by PrepTest (as the traditional books of PrepTests from LSAC do). It divides them into different "chapters" based upon the type of passage. This makes sense because these exams are so old (June 1991 - October 1996) that you'll want to complete them in pieces, rather than as full timed exams.
Reading Comp Passage Categorization
Most prep companies simply divide passages into 4 major categories:
Natural Science, Social Science, Humanities, and Law
I find that breakdown a bit too simple, so I've done my own categorization of every Reading Comp passage from every LSAT PrepTest.
The categorization of passages in the GROUPED by Passage Type book is somewhat similar to mine, only the categories are slightly broader since it's limited to PrepTests 1-20. (Because there are 4 passages per exam, you get 80 passages altogether.)
I'm listing the book's chapters so you can see the types of categories it uses:
Humanities
-Art
-Literature
-Music & Poetry
Social Sciences
-Economics
-History
-Linguistics
-Racial Minorities
-Women
Biological & Physical Sciences
-Biology
-Earth & Space
-Scientific Theories
-Species
Issues Related To The Law
-Legal System
-Legal Theory
-Legislation
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Who should use this book:
Most test-takers won't find this book absolutely necessary. However, anyone who intends to complete every LSAT Reading Comp passage ever published will find this book worthwhile and convenient.
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Also see GROUPED by Question Type and GROUPED by Game Type.
LSAT Reading Comp Passages, Categorized
Last week, I published a list containing the topic of every LSAT Reading Comprehension Passage. You may have noticed that some topics appeared multiple times.There are 4 Reading Comp passages per section. Each section contains one passage from each of the following categories: Natural Science, Social Science, Humanities, and Law.
Many prep companies group the 4 RC passages per section into those categories and stop there.
This week, I've gone a step further and done a more comprehensive categorization of many Reading Comprehension passages that have appeared on the LSAT.
Familiarity and comfort with these topics and/or passage styles is a good idea, as LSAC is likely to repeat them at some point in the future.
Some categories are broader than others, and some passages easily fall within more than one category. In these cases, I picked the category that seemed most useful.
The categories, in a loosely logical order, are:
Computers, Internet, Copyright Law
Judge, Jury, Lawyer, Courts
Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies
Legal and Political Theory / Systems
Slavery and Civil Rights
Psychology
Economics
American Colonies
Immigrants
Women Doing Impressive Things Throughout History
Women's Education
Medieval Times
Native American Land
Other Native American Passages
Authors Mixing Literary Genres
Latin American Lit vs. Spanish Lit
Objectivism / Subjectivism
Environmentalism
Radiation
Thurgood Marshall's Legal Strategies
Bruno Bettelheim and Fairy Tales
Parallel Computing
Animals and Bacteria
Art
Graduate-Level Education
Music
Author/Poet/Artist and Interpretations of Work
Miscellaneous (I have not placed these in any category)
What are you supposed to do with this? Well, if there's a topic that scares you (objectivism/subjectivism, for example), try to get through as many of those passages as possible, just in case you see it on Test Day.
You can also see the following passages arranged by PrepTest (and get copies of them).
The number appearing before each passage's topic tells which passage it is out of the 4 in that PrepTest.
Reading Comprehension Passages, Categorized:
Computers, Internet, Copyright Law
PrepTest 25 - June 1998
1. Email privacy and the law
PrepTest 36 - December 2001
1. Do computer conferences function as communities?
PrepTest 39 - December 2002
4. Canadian copyright law and digitalization
PrepTest 41 - October 2003
1. Course packs and copyright law
PrepTest 42 - December 2003
3. Market system and technological developments
PrepTest 51 - December 2006
4. Computer legal reasoning systems
"PrepTest 51.5" - June 2007 - Free Online (PDF)
3. The Web, links, copyright law, and intellectual property
PrepTest 54 - June 2008
1. Internet - sovereignty and regulation
PrepTest 58 - September 2009
3. Tangible-object theory of copyright
Judge, Jury, Lawyer, Courts
PrepTest 1 - June 1991
3. Criminal procedure - adversarial vs. inquisitorial systems
PrepTest 13 - December 1994
4. Jury inferential errors
PrepTest 24 - December 1997
3. Social science tools to analyze court opinions
PrepTest 27 - December 1998
1. Jury impartiality, judges, media coverage, voir dire
PrepTest 32 - October 2000
1. Defense lawyers and innocence/guilt of clients, obligations
PrepTest 33 - December 2000
4. Jeremy Bentham and evidence reform - nonexclusion principle
PrepTest 37 - June 2002
1. Jury trials, unanimity requirement
PrepTest 40 - June 2003
4. Leading questions and memories
PrepTest 49 - June 2006
1. Computer-generated courtroom displays
Law and Literature, Critical Legal Studies
PrepTest 18 - December 1992
1. Law and literature movement, Richard Posner
PrepTest 21 - December 1996
2. What is "law"? Law and Economics, Critical Legal Studies, Law and Lit
PrepTest 30 - December 1999
3. Denise Meyerson vs. Critical Legal Studies
Legal and Political Theory / Systems
PrepTest B - February 1999
2. Rationales for punishing criminals, social-benefit vs. retributivist
PrepTest 4 - February 1992
1. Territorial waters, regulation of international waters
PrepTest 10 - February 1994
3. Legal realists and vagueness in law
PrepTest 11 - June 1994
2. Robert Dahl, democracy, and polyarchy
PrepTest 12 - October 1994
3. Legal systems in US vs. England - substantive vs. formal reasons
PrepTest 16 - September 1995
2. Native Americans and Supreme Court decisions
PrepTest 17 - December 1995
2. "Hard" legal cases, H.L.A. Hart vs. Ronald Dworkin
PrepTest 25 - June 1998
3. Native American intertribalism, Pan-Indian view
PrepTest 26 - September 1998
4. English marriage contracts and women's property rights, Susan Staves
PrepTest 34 - June 2001
1. Authoritarian rulers and democratic reforms/change
4. Women refugees and definitions according to the United Nations
PrepTest 35 - October 2001
4. Ronald Dworkin, legal positivism, and natural law
PrepTest 36 - December 2001
4. South Africa's legal system and change
PrepTest 38 - October 2002
2. Intellectual authority vs. institutional authority. Legal systems.
PrepTest 40 - June 2003
1. Multipolar vs. bipolar international political systems
PrepTest 44 - October 2004
1. Canadian Auto Workers' Legal Services Plan
PrepTest 45 - December 2004
4. Aboriginal rights in Canada
PrepTest 46 - June 2005
4. Prevention of harm - legal/moral theory
PrepTest 47 - October 2005
3. Family dispute resolution. Mediation programs vs. court adjudication.
PrepTest 48 - December 2005
3. Native Canadians vs. Canadian courts on property rights
PrepTest 53 - December 2007
2. British common law, Peter Goodrich
PrepTest 55 - October 2008
1. Trade secrets and court injunctions
PrepTest 56 - December 2008
3. The Roma and definition of national minority, Capotorti *
Slavery and Civil Rights
PrepTest C - February 2000
3. African American communism in Alabama, Robin Kelley's Hammer and Hoe
PrepTest 10 - February 1994
4. Civil rights movement social theories
PrepTest 11 - June 1994
1. Martin Luther King, Thoreau, and transcendentalism
PrepTest 14 - February 1995
4. Russian serfdom vs. U.S. slavery, Peter Kolchin
PrepTest 15 - June 1995
4. Black economic progress - hypotheses
PrepTest 19 - June 1996
4. Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Eric Williams
PrepTest 30 - December 1999
4. Vernon and African American rice cultivation
PrepTest 33 - December 2000
2. Harriet Jacobs' autobiographical narrative, slave women, domestic novel
PrepTest 47 - October 2005
1. Downstate campaign, Congress of Racial Equality
PrepTest 54 - June 2008
3. Cakewalk, Aida Overton Walker, African American performer
PrepTest 57 - June 2009
1. FCC vs. United Church of Christ, broadcasting license
Psychology
PrepTest 24 - December 1997
1. Risk communication
PrepTest 37 - June 2002
4. Psychology of decision making, and risk-taking
PrepTest 54 - June 2008
4. Groupthink and group cohesiveness
Economics
PrepTest 3 - December 1991
3. Abuse of monopoly power
PrepTest 8 - June 1993
2. Gray marketing
PrepTest 22 - June 1997
3. CEOs' economic vs. moral responsibility
PrepTest 28 - June 1999
3. Steady-state economics vs. neoclassical economics
PrepTest 33 - December 2000
1. Per capita GNP vs. human indicators, measuring a nation's economic health
PrepTest 50 - September 2006
2. Modern bankruptcy laws
PrepTest 55 - October 2008
4. Dutch tulip market, speculative bubble, Charles Mackay, Peter Garber
PrepTest 59 - December 2009
4. Ultimatum Game. Economics, emotion, and evolution
American Colonies
PrepTest 9 - October 1993
4. Political attitudes / institutions in England vs. American colonies
PrepTest 13 - December 1994
2. Freed African Americans in colonial Virginia, Myne Owne Ground
PrepTest 16 - September 1995
4. Women in colonial America vs. England
Immigrants
PrepTest 12 - October 1994
2. Socioeconomic achievements on Chinese and Japanese immigrants
PrepTest 21 - December 1996
4. Southeast Asian immigrants and James Tollefson's Alien Winds
PrepTest 23 - October 1997
4. Fugita and O'Brien's Japanese American Ethnicity
PrepTest 24 - December 1997
2. Korean Americans, cultural identity, Pico Korea Union
PrepTest 43 - June 2004
2. Code-switching among Puerto Rican Americans
PrepTest 44 - October 2004
2. Historiography and Asian settlers of the Pacific Coast
PrepTest 50 - September 2006
1. Mexican-American literature vs. Mexican literature
Women Doing Impressive Things Throughout History
Official LSAT PrepTest - February 1997
3. 19th-century British feminists and legal/labor historians
PrepTest 4 - February 1992
3. Women's participation in French Revolution
PrepTest 6 - October 1992
2. Women physicians in China
PrepTest 11 - June 1994
4. Women medical practitioners in Europe during Middle Ages
PrepTest 15 - June 1995
2. Women folklorists
PrepTest 35 - October 2001
1. Women's memoirs of the French Revolution, Denis Bertholet's study
PrepTest 49 - June 2006
3. Women doctors in ancient Greece and Rome
Women's Education
PrepTest B - February 1999
4. Privileged Renaissance women's education
PrepTest 56 - December 2008
4. French women and egalitarian educational reform
Medieval Times
PrepTest A - February 1996
1. Medieval marriage practices, Alexandrine doctrine
Official LSAT PrepTest - February 1997
1. Childhood in medieval Europe, Philippe Aries vs. Shulamath Shahar
PrepTest 11 - June 1994
4. Women medical practitioners in Europe during Middle Ages
PrepTest 20 - October 1996 - Free Online (PDF)
2. Medieval canon lawyers and lack of disciplinary proceedings
PrepTest 23 - October 1997
2. Medieval women's legal / financial rights
PrepTest 29 - October 1999
4. Medieval law and women, lack of knowledge
Native American Land
PrepTest 7 - February 1993
4. Native American land and the Dawes Act
PrepTest 9 - October 1993
2. Native Americans, land, readjustment, Bureau of Indian Affairs
PrepTest 19 - June 1996
2. Native American graves, individual vs. communal property law
PrepTest 28 - June 1999
1. Native American land claims, Mashpee, legal discourse
Other Native American Passages
PrepTest 3 - December 1991
4. Navajo weaving, Amsden
PrepTest 27 - December 1998
2. Personal names in Hopi culture
PrepTest 29 - October 1999
2. Tribal communities in North America, and teaching traditional languages
PrepTest 32 - October 2000
3. Native American autobiographies
PrepTest 38 - October 2002
1. Native Americans and controlled burning of forests
Authors Mixing Literary Genres
PrepTest 51 - December 2006
1. Ezekiel Mphahlele, South African writer, mix autobiography/fiction
"PrepTest 51.5" - June 2007 - Free Online (PDF)
1. Rita Dove, African American writer, gap between poetry and fiction
PrepTest 52 - September 2007
1. Ousmane Sembene, Senegalese filmmaker, oral tradition, sociopolitical
PrepTest 55 - October 2008
3. Chinese talk-story, Maxine Hong Kingston
PrepTest 56 - December 2008
1. Amos Tutuola, Nigerian writer, folktales, traditional lore
PrepTest 57 - June 2009
3. Willa Cather, novel vs. narrative *
Latin American Lit vs. Spanish Lit
PrepTest B - February 1999
3. Hispanic American writers and Spain, cosmopolitanism vs. nativism
PrepTest 40 - June 2003
2. Latin American poetry vs. Spanish poetry
Objectivism / Subjectivism
PrepTest 18 - December 1992
2. Science - objective vs. ideological bias (subjective), new historians
PrepTest 22 - June 1997
2. Objectivism vs. alternative legal narratives
PrepTest 31 - June 2000
3. Donna Haraway's Primate Visions
4. Objectivism vs. subjectivism when studying the mind
PrepTest 32 - October 2000
2. Multicultural education and proposals for implementation
Environmentalism
Official LSAT PrepTest - February 1997
2. Greenhouse gases and impact
PrepTest 4 - February 1992
2. Biological diversity and human activity
PrepTest 11 - June 1994
3. Species diversity in Amazon River basin
PrepTest 17 - December 1995
3. Industrial carbon dioxide emissions, impose a tax
PrepTest 19 - June 1996
3. Species diversity hypotheses
PrepTest 23 - October 1997
3. Environmental crisis, George P. Marsh, Frederic Clements
PrepTest 26 - September 1998
3. Dolphin die-off, PCBs, brevetoxin, synthetic pollutants
PrepTest 31 - June 2000
1. Ideal industrial ecosystem and Earth's population increase
PrepTest 33 - December 2000l
3. Potential benefits of increased atmospheric CO2 levels / concentrations
PrepTest 41 - October 2003
3. Fossil fuels and renewable energy sources
PrepTest 43 - June 2004
1. Oil well drilling and contaminated groundwater
Radiation
PrepTest 37 - June 2002
2. Marie Curie, radiation/radioactivity
PrepTest 39 - December 2002
3. Max Planck, wave theory, and radiation
Thurgood Marshall's Legal Strategies
PrepTest 31 - June 2000
2. Thurgood Marshall's legal career and his strategies / approaches
PrepTest 42 - December 2003
1. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP, public interest law, tactics/strategies
Bruno Bettelheim and Fairy Tales
PrepTest 27 - December 1998
4. Fairy tales, Bruno Bettelheim, Freud, therapeutic
PrepTest 39 - December 2002
2. Interpreting fairy tales, parents vs. children, Bruno Bettelheim
Parallel Computing
PrepTest 58 - September 2009
2. Parallel computing. Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian-born computer scientist
PrepTest 59 - December 2009
1. Parallel computing and increased computing capabilities *
Animals and Bacteria
PrepTest B - February 1999
1. Invertebrate schooling behavior and benefits
PrepTest C - February 2000
1. Kinglets' survival in cold winters
PrepTest 2 - October 1991
3. Water-bug adaptive responses, micropterous, macropterous
PrepTest 5 - June 1992
3. Bacteria and chemical attractants, concentration gradient
PrepTest 7 - February 1993
3. Phytopathogens, pseudomonas fluorescens / syringae
PrepTest 13 - December 1994
1. Neurogenesis and canaries
PrepTest 15 - June 1995
1. Dinosaur extinction, volcanic-eruption theory vs. impact theory
PrepTest 27 - December 1998
3. Homing pigeons - hypotheses re: how they "home"
PrepTest 29 - October 1999
3. Platypus uses bill to locate prey
PrepTest 30 - December 1999
1. The okapis' relatives, size and location of population, eating behavior
PrepTest 34 - June 2001
3. Lamarck and the inheritance of acquired characteristics - new examples
PrepTest 36 - December 2001
3. Hormones, behavior, and osmolality
PrepTest 46 - June 2005
3. Pronghorn relict behavior, adaptation, fastest land animal
PrepTest 47 - October 2005
4. Pathogen/parasite vs. host
PrepTest 48 - December 2005
4. Embryo polarity, fruit fly, nematode
PrepTest 52 - September 2007
3. Evolutionary game theory, Susan Reichert
PrepTest 53 - December 2007
4. Cyclamen mites and Typhlodromus mites
PrepTest 56 - December 2008
2. Inclusive fitness theory, kin recognition
Art
PrepTest 5 - June 1992
2. Nico Frijdas "law of apparent reality" and emotional responses to art
PrepTest 9 - October 1993
1. Technology and art, video, photography
PrepTest 14 - February 1995
3. Stolen art, legislation, and purchasers
PrepTest 29 - October 1999
1. Are pre-World War I painters prophetic?
PrepTest 39 - December 2002
1. Muralists - Mexican artists / painters
PrepTest 44 - October 2004
4. Modern Movement in architecture
PrepTest 47 - October 2005
2. Chinese Cultural Revolution, Scar Art movement, Revolutionary Realism
PrepTest 48 - December 2005
1. Aurignacian cave paintings / art
PrepTest 49 - June 2006
2. Determining tribal origins of African sculptures/art based on style
Graduate-Level Education
PrepTest 38 - October 2002
4. Medical school ethics training
PrepTest 52 - September 2007
2. Professional (historical/legal) writing and narrative *
PrepTest 59 - December 2009
2. Importance of teaching statutory law in law school
Music
PrepTest 6 - October 1992
. Early music movement
"PrepTest 51.5" - June 2007 - Free Online (PDF)
2. Music, language, and evolution *
PrepTest 58 - September 2009
4. Music, complexity of sounds, and emotions *
Author/Poet/Artist and Interpretations of Work
PrepTest A - February 1996
4. Jose Antonio Maravall's interpretation of Baroque culture
Official LSAT PrepTest - February 1997
4. Robert L. Jackson's Black Writers in Latin America
PrepTest 1 - June 1991
1. Phillis Wheatley, African American poet/poetry
PrepTest 2 - October 1991
1. Langston Hughes and folk poetry
PrepTest 4 - February 1992
4. French Impressionism, Robert L. Herbert
PrepTest 7 - February 1993
2. John Webster, Elizabethan playwright, and critics
PrepTest 10 - February 1994
2. Venetian religious narrative painting, Patricia Fortini Brown
PrepTest 12 - October 1994
1. Otto Wagner's Modern Architecture
PrepTest 13 - December 1994
3. French artist Watteau and admirers
PrepTest 15 - June 1995
3. J.G.A. Pocock and political discourse
PrepTest 16 - September 1995
1. Byron's poetry and personality
PrepTest 17 - December 1995
1. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
PrepTest 18 - December 1992
3. Cherokee and Euro-American culture, William McLoughlin
4. Luminist paintings, Fitz Hugh Lane
PrepTest 19 - June 1996
1. P.D. James' crime novels
PrepTest 20 - October 1996 - Free Online (PDF)
1. Miles Davis and jazz innovation
4. Collapse of Classic Mayan civilization, John Lowe
PrepTest 21 - December 1996
1. London Pianoforte school and Nicholas Temperley's anthology
PrepTest 22 - June 1997
1. Frida Kahlo and Mexican nationalism
PrepTest 23 - October 1997
1. Dutch artist Rembrandt as entrepreneur, Svetlana Alpers
PrepTest 24 - December 1997
4. Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception (fake art)
PrepTest 25 - June 1998
2. Homer's poetry - studying works vs. peripheral issues, Milman Parry
PrepTest 26 - September 1998
2. James Porter and African influence on African-American art
PrepTest 35 - October 2001
2. Romare Bearden, paintings, and the African-American experience
PrepTest 37 - June 2002
3. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, critics
PrepTest 41 - October 2003
2. Countee Cullen - Harlem Renaissance poet, European-style verse
PrepTest 42 - December 2003
2. Roy Lichtenstein, fine art, pop art, comics
PrepTest 46 - June 2005
2. Joy Kogawa's Obasan and rite of passage to become a hero
PrepTest 48 - December 2005
2. Louise Gluck's poetry and gender issues
PrepTest 53 - December 2007
1. Wing Tek Lum's poetry
PrepTest 59 - December 2009
3. Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi
Miscellaneous (I have not placed these in any category)
PrepTest A - February 1996
2. Nontraditional black women filmmakers
3. Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift
PrepTest C - February 2000
2. Juvenile delinquency
4. Darwin's conception of early prehistoric humans, and taphonomy
PrepTest 1 - June 1991
2. Cell biology / cytology and biochemistry
4. Professions - defining the term
PrepTest 2 - October 1991
2. U.S. railroad, "romantic-era distrust" of it, John Stilgoe
4. War Powers Resolution
PrepTest 3 - December 1991
1. Asteroid satellites
2. English scientists not crediting technicians for their work
PrepTest 5 - June 1992
1. Administrative contracts and altering contracts unilaterally
4. Life-passage vs. life-history studies
PrepTest 6 - October 1992
1. Taft-Hartley Act, "right-to-work" legislation, Thomas M. Carroll
4. U.S. steel industry
PrepTest 7 - February 1993
1. Working mothers in the labor force
PrepTest 8 - June 1993
1. Recombinant DNA (rDNA)
3. African American autobiographical narratives
4. British wealth, Rubinstein's claim
PrepTest 9 - October 1993
3. Literacy in Ancient Greek society and the elite
PrepTest 10 - February 1994
1. Crude oil pumps and offshore processing platforms
PrepTest 12 - October 1994
4. Serotonin and carbohydrate craving
PrepTest 14 - February 1995
1. Earth's magnetic field - hypotheses
2. Deconstruction - term and meaning
PrepTest 16 - September 1995
3. Large interactive systems, catastrophe caused by minor events
PrepTest 17 - December 1995
4. Drought in sub-Saharan West Africa
PrepTest 21 - December 1996
3. Origin of oil - biogenic vs abiogenic theory
PrepTest 22 - June 1997
4. Language and math, essentialist vs. conventionalist views of language
PrepTest 25 - June 1998
4. Analytic method vs. organicism
PrepTest 26 - September 1998
1. Compulsory national service
PrepTest 28 - June 1999
2. Volcano-climate connection, Mass and Portman
4. Movie quality/promotion changes due to mass media
PrepTest 30 - December 1999
2. Greek tragic dramas, and free will vs. gods and fate
PrepTest 32 - October 2000
4. Why wine is healthy in moderation
PrepTest 34 - June 2001
2. The blues, African American folk tradition, and spirituals
PrepTest 35 - October 2001
3. Universal laws, determinism, and biology
PrepTest 36 - December 2001
2. Latin texts in Renaissance England
PrepTest 38 - October 2002
3. Philip Abrams, historical sociology, and structuring
PrepTest 40 - June 2003
3. Dark matter and neutrinos' mass
PrepTest 41 - October 2003
4. Victorian philanthropy and criticism of it
PrepTest 42 - December 2003
4. Neurotransmitters, synapses, and electrical impulses
PrepTest 43 - June 2004
3. Reader-response theory vs. formalism
4. Faculty inventions/discoveries and universities'/institutional policies
PrepTest 44 - October 2004
3. Nerve growth factor (NGF) and Rita Levi-Montalcini
PrepTest 45 - December 2004
1. Natural disaster relief proposals/approaches
2. Hippocratic Oath outdated?
3. Lichen-forming fungi DNA study
PrepTest 46 - June 2005
1. Definition of prosperity. Monetary vs. other considerations.
PrepTest 49 - June 2006
4. Maize / corn cultivation
PrepTest 50 - September 2006
3. Determining national / cultural identity
4. Riddled basins of attraction - John Sommerer and Edward Ott
PrepTest 51 - December 2006
2. Late heavy bombardment (LHB), craters on the moon
3. Impact of TV in developing nations, cultural imperialism
"PrepTest 51.5" - June 2007 - Free Online (PDF)
4. Irish landscape, history, and preserved pollen grains
PrepTest 52 - September 2007
4. Philosophical anarchism
PrepTest 53 - December 2007
3. University research findings as commodities *
PrepTest 54 - June 2008
2. Drilling muds *
PrepTest 55 - October 2008
2. Purple loosestrife *
PrepTest 57 - June 2009
2. Humanists vs. scientists, scientific humanism
4. Fractal geometry, self-similarity
PrepTest 58 - September 2009
1. Ancient textiles, analyzing archaeological remains and texts
* = comparative (dual) passages, started in June 2007.
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Reading Comprehension Passage Topics
Below, I've listed every LSAT Reading Comprehension passage topic from every released LSAT PrepTest.Best LSAT Prep Books lists the books containing these exams. You can also see most of these passages categorized by topic.
PrepTest A - February 1996
1. Medieval marriage practices, Alexandrine doctrine
2. Nontraditional black women filmmakers
3. Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift
4. Jose Antonio Maravall's interpretation of Baroque culture
PrepTest B - February 1999
1. Invertebrate schooling behavior and benefits
2. Rationales for punishing criminals, social-benefit vs. retributivist
3. Hispanic American writers and Spain, cosmopolitanism vs. nativism
4. Privileged Renaissance women's education
PrepTest C - February 2000
1. Kinglets' survival in cold winters
2. Juvenile delinquency
3. African American communism in Alabama, Robin Kelley's Hammer and Hoe
4. Darwin's conception of early prehistoric humans, and taphonomy
Official LSAT PrepTest - February 1997
1. Childhood in medieval Europe, Philippe Aries vs. Shulamath Shahar
2. Greenhouse gases and impact
3. 19th-century British feminists and legal/labor historians
4. Robert L. Jackson's Black Writers in Latin America
PrepTest 1 - June 1991
1. Phillis Wheatley, African American poet/poetry
2. Cell biology / cytology and biochemistry
3. Criminal procedure - adversarial vs. inquisitorial systems
4. Professions - defining the term
PrepTest 2 - October 1991
1. Langston Hughes and folk poetry
2. U.S. railroad, "romantic-era distrust" of it, John Stilgoe
3. Water-bug adaptive responses, micropterous, macropterous
4. War Powers Resolution
PrepTest 3 - December 1991
1. Asteroid satellites
2. English scientists not crediting technicians for their work
3. Abuse of monopoly power
4. Navajo weaving, Amsden
PrepTest 4 - February 1992
1. Territorial waters, regulation of international waters
2. Biological diversity and human activity
3. Women's participation in French Revolution
4. French Impressionism, Robert L. Herbert
PrepTest 5 - June 1992
1. Administrative contracts and altering contracts unilaterally
2. Nico Frijdas "law of apparent reality" and emotional responses to art
3. Bacteria and chemical attractants, concentration gradient
4. Life-passage vs. life-history studies
PrepTest 6 - October 1992
1. Taft-Hartley Act, "right-to-work" legislation, Thomas M. Carroll
2. Women physicians in China
3. Early music movement
4. U.S. steel industry
PrepTest 7 - February 1993
1. Working mothers in the labor force
2. John Webster, Elizabethan playwright, and critics
3. Phytopathogens, pseudomonas fluorescens / syringae
4. Native American land and the Dawes Act
PrepTest 8 - June 1993
1. Recombinant DNA (rDNA)
2. Gray marketing
3. African American autobiographical narratives
4. British wealth, Rubinstein's claim
PrepTest 9 - October 1993
1. Technology and art, video, photography
2. Native Americans, land, readjustment, Bureau of Indian Affairs
3. Literacy in Ancient Greek society and the elite
4. Political attitudes / institutions in England vs. American colonies
PrepTest 10 - February 1994
1. Crude oil pumps and offshore processing platforms
2. Venetian religious narrative painting, Patricia Fortini Brown
3. Legal realists and vagueness in law
4. Civil rights movement social theories
PrepTest 11 - June 1994
1. Martin Luther King, Thoreau, and transcendentalism
2. Robert Dahl, democracy, and polyarchy
3. Species diversity in Amazon River basin
4. Women medical practitioners in Europe during Middle Ages
PrepTest 12 - October 1994
1. Otto Wagner's Modern Architecture
2. Socioeconomic achievements on Chinese and Japanese immigrants
3. Legal systems in US vs. England - substantive vs. formal reasons
4. Serotonin and carbohydrate craving
PrepTest 13 - December 1994
1. Neurogenesis and canaries
2. Freed African Americans in colonial Virginia, Myne Owne Ground
3. French artist Watteau and admirers
4. Jury inferential errors
PrepTest 14 - February 1995
1. Earth's magnetic field - hypotheses
2. Deconstruction - term and meaning
3. Stolen art, legislation, and purchasers
4. Russian serfdom vs. U.S. slavery, Peter Kolchin
PrepTest 15 - June 1995
1. Dinosaur extinction, volcanic-eruption theory vs. impact theory
2. Women folklorists
3. J.G.A. Pocock and political discourse
4. Black economic progress - hypotheses
PrepTest 16 - September 1995
1. Byron's poetry and personality
2. Native Americans and Supreme Court decisions
3. Large interactive systems, catastrophe caused by minor events
4. Women in colonial America vs. England
PrepTest 17 - December 1995
1. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
2. "Hard" legal cases, H.L.A. Hart vs. Ronald Dworkin
3. Industrial carbon dioxide emissions, impose a tax
4. Drought in sub-Saharan West Africa
PrepTest 18 - December 1992
1. Law-and-literature movement, Richard Posner
2. Science - objective vs. ideological bias (subjective), new historians
3. Cherokee and Euro-American culture, William McLoughlin
4. Luminist paintings, Fitz Hugh Lane
PrepTest 19 - June 1996
1. P.D. James' crime novels
2. Native American graves, individual vs. communal property law
3. Species diversity hypotheses
4. Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Eric Williams
PrepTest 20 - October 1996 - Free Online (PDF)
1. Miles Davis and jazz innovation
2. Medieval canon lawyers and lack of disciplinary proceedings
3. Birds and status signaling hypothesis, Rowher
4. Collapse of Classic Mayan civilization, John Lowe
PrepTest 21 - December 1996
1. London Pianoforte school and Nicholas Temperley's anthology
2. What is "law"? Law and Economics, Critical Legal Studies, Law and Lit
3. Origin of oil - biogenic vs abiogenic theory
4. Southeast Asian immigrants and James Tollefson's Alien Winds
PrepTest 22 - June 1997
1. Frida Kahlo and Mexican nationalism
2. Objectivism vs. alternative legal narratives
3. CEOs' economic vs. moral responsibility
4. Language and math, essentialist vs. conventionalist views of language
PrepTest 23 - October 1997
1. Dutch artist Rembrandt as entrepreneur, Svetlana Alpers
2. Medieval women's legal / financial rights
3. Environmental crisis, George P. Marsh, Frederic Clements
4. Fugita and O'Brien's Japanese American Ethnicity
PrepTest 24 - December 1997
1. Risk communication
2. Korean Americans, cultural identity, Pico Korea Union
3. Social science tools to analyze court opinions
4. Mark Jones's Fake? The Art of Deception (fake art)
PrepTest 25 - June 1998
1. Email privacy and the law
2. Homer's poetry - studying works vs. peripheral issues, Milman Parry
3. Native American intertribalism, Pan-Indian view
4. Analytic method vs. organicism
PrepTest 26 - September 1998
1. Compulsory national service
2. James Porter and African influence on African-American art
3. Dolphin die-off, PCBs, brevetoxin, synthetic pollutants
4. English marriage contracts and women's property rights, Susan Staves
PrepTest 27 - December 1998
1. Jury impartiality, judges, media coverage, voir dire
2. Personal names in Hopi culture
3. Homing pigeons - hypotheses re: how they "home"
4. Fairy tales, Bruno Bettelheim, Freud, therapeutic
PrepTest 28 - June 1999
1. Native American land claims, Mashpee, legal discourse
2. Volcano-climate connection, Mass and Portman
3. Steady-state economics vs. neoclassical economics
4. Movie quality/promotion changes due to mass media
PrepTest 29 - October 1999
1. Are pre-World War I painters prophetic?
2. Tribal communities in North America, and teaching traditional languages
3. Platypus uses bill to locate prey
4. Medieval law and women, lack of knowledge
PrepTest 30 - December 1999
1. The okapis' relatives, size and location of population, eating behavior
2. Greek tragic dramas, and free will vs. gods and fate
3. Denise Meyerson vs. Critical Legal Studies
4. Vernon and African American rice cultivation
PrepTest 31 - June 2000
1. Ideal industrial ecosystem and Earth's population increase
2. Thurgood Marshall's legal career and his strategies / approaches
3. Donna Haraway's Primate Visions
4. Objectivism vs. subjectivism when studying the mind
PrepTest 32 - October 2000
1. Defense lawyers and innocence/guilt of clients, obligations
2. Multicultural education and proposals for implementation.
3. Native American autobiographies
4. Why wine is healthy in moderation
PrepTest 33 - December 2000
1. Per capita GNP vs. human indicators, measuring a nation's economic health
2. Harriet Jacobs' autobiographical narrative, slave women, domestic novel
3. Potential benefits of increased atmospheric CO2 levels / concentrations
4. Jeremy Bentham and evidence reform - nonexclusion principle
PrepTest 34 - June 2001
1. Authoritarian rulers and democratic reforms/change
2. The blues, African American folk tradition, and spirituals
3. Lamarck and the inheritance of acquired characteristics - new examples
4. Women refugees and definitions according to the United Nations
PrepTest 35 - October 2001
1. Women's memoirs of the French Revolution, Denis Bertholet's study
2. Romare Bearden, paintings, and the African-American experience
3. Universal laws, determinism, and biology
4. Ronald Dworkin, legal positivism, and natural law
PrepTest 36 - December 2001
1. Do computer conferences function as communities?
2. Latin texts in Renaissance England
3. Hormones, behavior, and osmolality
4. South Africa's legal system and change
PrepTest 37 - June 2002
1. Jury trials, unanimity requirement
2. Marie Curie, radiation/radioactivity
3. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, critics
4. Psychology of decision making, and risk-taking
PrepTest 38 - October 2002
1. Native Americans and controlled burning of forests
2. Intellectual authority vs. institutional authority. Legal systems.
3. Philip Abrams, historical sociology, and structuring
4. Medical school ethics training
PrepTest 39 - December 2002
1. Muralists - Mexican artists / painters
2. Interpreting fairy tales, parents vs. children, Bruno Bettelheim
3. Max Planck, wave theory, and radiation
4. Canadian copyright law and digitalization
PrepTest 40 - June 2003
1. Multipolar vs. bipolar international political systems
2. Latin American poetry vs. Spanish poetry
3. Dark matter and neutrinos' mass
4. Leading questions and memories
PrepTest 41 - October 2003
1. Course packs and copyright law
2. Countee Cullen - Harlem Renaissance poet, European-style verse
3. Fossil fuels and renewable energy sources
4. Victorian philanthropy and criticism of it
PrepTest 42 - December 2003
1. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP, public interest law, tactics/strategies
2. Roy Lichtenstein, fine art, pop art, comics
3. Market system and technological developments
4. Neurotransmitters, synapses, and electrical impulses
PrepTest 43 - June 2004
1. Oil well drilling and contaminated groundwater
2. Code-switching among Puerto Rican Americans
3. Reader-response theory vs. formalism
4. Faculty inventions/discoveries and universities'/institutional policies
PrepTest 44 - October 2004
1. Canadian Auto Workers' Legal Services Plan
2. Historiography and Asian settlers of the Pacific Coast
3. Nerve growth factor (NGF) and Rita Levi-Montalcini
4. Modern Movement in architecture
PrepTest 45 - December 2004
1. Natural disaster relief proposals/approaches
2. Hippocratic Oath outdated?
3. Lichen-forming fungi DNA study
4. Aboriginal rights in Canada
PrepTest 46 - June 2005
1. Definition of prosperity. Monetary vs. other considerations.
2. Joy Kogawa's Obasan and rite of passage to become a hero
3. Pronghorn relict behavior, adaptation, fastest land animal
4. Prevention of harm - legal/moral theory
PrepTest 47 - October 2005
1. Downstate campaign, Congress of Racial Equality
2. Chinese Cultural Revolution, Scar Art movement, Revolutionary Realism
3. Family dispute resolution. Mediation programs vs. court adjudication.
4. Pathogen/parasite vs. host
PrepTest 48 - December 2005
1. Aurignacian cave paintings / art
2. Louise Gluck's poetry and gender issues
3. Native Canadians vs. Canadian courts on property rights
4. Embryo polarity, fruit fly, nematode
PrepTest 49 - June 2006
1. Computer-generated courtroom displays
2. Determining tribal origins of African sculptures/art based on style
3. Women doctors in ancient Greece and Rome
4. Maize / corn cultivation
PrepTest 50 - September 2006
1. Mexican-American literature vs. Mexican literature
2. Modern bankruptcy laws
3. Determining national / cultural identity
4. Riddled basins of attraction - John Sommerer and Edward Ott
PrepTest 51 - December 2006
1. Ezekiel Mphahlele, South African writer, mix autobiography/fiction
2. Late heavy bombardment (LHB), craters on the moon
3. Impact of TV in developing nations, cultural imperialism
4. Computer legal reasoning systems
"PrepTest 51.5" - June 2007 - Free Online (PDF)
1. Rita Dove, African American writer, gap between poetry and fiction
2. Music, language, and evolution *
3. The Web, links, copyright law, and intellectual property
4. Irish landscape, history, and preserved pollen grains
PrepTest 52 - September 2007
1. Ousmane Sembene, Senegalese filmmaker, oral tradition, sociopolitical
2. Professional (historical/legal) writing and narrative *
3. Evolutionary game theory, Susan Reichert
4. Philosophical anarchism
PrepTest 53 - December 2007
1. Wing Tek Lum's poetry
2. British common law, Peter Goodrich
3. University research findings as commodities *
4. Cyclamen mites and Typhlodromus mites
PrepTest 54 - June 2008
1. Internet - sovereignty and regulation
2. Drilling muds *
3. Cakewalk, Aida Overton Walker, African American performer
4. Groupthink and group cohesiveness
PrepTest 55 - October 2008
1. Trade secrets and court injunctions
2. Purple loosestrife *
3. Chinese talk-story, Maxine Hong Kingston
4. Dutch tulip market, speculative bubble, Charles Mackay, Peter Garber
PrepTest 56 - December 2008
1. Amos Tutuola, Nigerian writer, folktales, traditional lore
2. Inclusive fitness theory, kin recognition
3. The Roma and definition of national minority, Capotorti *
4. French women and egalitarian educational reform
PrepTest 57 - June 2009
1. FCC vs. United Church of Christ, broadcasting license
2. Humanists vs. scientists, scientific humanism
3. Willa Cather, novel vs. narrative *
4. Fractal geometry, self-similarity
PrepTest 58 - September 2009
1. Ancient textiles, analyzing archaeological remains and texts
2. Parallel computing. Philip Emeagwali, Nigerian-born computer scientist
3. Tangible-object theory of copyright
4. Music, complexity of sounds, and emotions *
PrepTest 59 - December 2009
1. Parallel computing and increased computing capabilities *
2. Importance of teaching statutory law in law school
3. Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi
4. Ultimatum Game. Economics, emotion, and evolution
* = comparative (dual) passages, started in June 2007.
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