PrepTest 101

[lcid:3500] Prep Test 101 LSAT — Reading Comp — S1 Reading comp

Passage

Questions 7-13  .        In April 1990 representatives of the Pico Korea  . Union of electronics workers in Buchon City, Remaining source text redacted.
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Passage Summary

Topic: Social Sciences


Paragraph 1

  • Paragraph note
    • Background on Pico Korea Union (championed by Korean Americans, who were affected by PKU's dispute)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • Author's view:
      • The Pico Korea Union's dispute was supported by an extraordinary collection of Korean-American groups and had a profound effect on the Korean-American community (last sentence)
    • Author's attitude: "championed" (last sentence); "deeply affected" (last sentence)

Paragraph 2

  • Paragraph note
    • How the PKU’s dispute affected KA community (increased young KAs' interest in politics/culture, expanded KA’s political base)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • List of ways the Pico Korea Union's dispute affected the Korean-American community, according to the author:
      • Unified a diverse Korean-American community (first sentence)
      • Increased the political awareness of second-generation Korean Americans (second sentence)
      • Promoted second-generation Korean American's interest in their cultural identity (third and fourth sentences)
      • Expanded the political base of the Korean-American community to include recent working-class immigrants, who gave the community a more global perspective on working conditions (fifth and sixth sentences)
      • Created new alliances between the Korean-American community and progressive labor and social justice groups (last sentence)
    • Author's attitude: "rallying focus for a diverse community often divided" (first sentence); "Most notably" (second sentence); "mobilized" (second sentence); "can help to globalize the perspective" (sixth sentence); "can help to establish international ties on a more personal level" (sixth sentence); "especially warm" (sixth sentence); "as evidenced" (last sentence)

Paragraph 3

  • Paragraph note
    • Why PKU dispute affected KA community (strong human component of PKU's demands)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • Cause-and-effect relationship, according to the author:
      • The strong human component and a lack of an ideological bent to the Pico Korea Union's demands caused members of the Korean-American community to put aside their differences and focus on the Union's demands for social justice and workers' rights (first and second sentences)
    • Author's attitude: "strong human component" (second sentence); "larger concerns" (second sentence); "unencumbered" (third sentence); "economic exploitation" (last sentence); "underscored the common interests" (last sentence)

Paragraph 4

  • Paragraph note
    • Lesson of PKU's dispute (joining labor/social struggle in original country can unify immigrant community)
  • Views, minor Meta-Structures, and the author's attitude
    • Author's view:
      • The Pico Korea Union's visit shows that the most effective way to unify and empower an immigrant community may be joining a fight for economic and social justice in their country of origin (first through last sentences)
    • Author's attitude: "offers an important lesson" (first sentence); "need more than just knowledge" (second sentence); "perhaps the most effective means" (last sentence); "may be" (last sentence)

Main Point: The Pico Korea Union's dispute over unpaid wages mobilized and unified the diverse Korean-American community against the economic exploitation of these workers and offers an important lesson on how to empower immigrant communities.

Key Lines?

Paragraph 1, Sentence 2 (P1, S2) - Author summarizes how PKU affected KA community

P4, S3 - Author summarizes lesson to take away from PKU's dispute

Meta-Structure?

Importance of Subject: This passage utilizes the Importance of Subject Meta-Structure. In this passage, the author describes why the Pico Korea Union's dispute over unpaid wages and eventual visit to the U.S. was historically significant, particularly in how it impacted the Korean-American community.

When a passage utilizes an Importance of Subject Meta-Structure, the main point is generally the author's opinions on why the subject is important. The author's has two takes on why the dispute was important, which the author describes at length in the second and fourth paragraphs. The author uses the second paragraph to enumerate the ways the Pico Korea Union's dispute and eventual visit to the U.S. mobilized and unified the Korean-American community. The author uses the fourth paragraph to describe what lessons we should take away from the Union's dispute. We summarized both of these points in our anticipated main point.

List: The most prominent minor Meta-Structure is the list of all the ways the Pico Korea Union's dispute and eventual visit to the U.S. affected the Korean-American community. We've listed each effect in the Passage Summary above. Expect this list to figure into at least one of the questions.

Last Thoughts?

This question has a balanced mixed of author’s attitude and minor Meta-Structures. Therefore, we should expect a balanced mix of Major Point, Minor Point, Argument Structure, and Tone questions.

Question prompt

The passage suggests that Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right

Credited answer: C

The notes below walk through why it fits the stem and how to eliminate the rest.

Question Type

Social Science

Strategy Overview

Refer to notes or what you highlighted/underlined to locate where the passage discusses what led to the decision to shut down the Pico plant in Buchon City, and refer to the relevant part of the passage as needed to find that answer choice that must be true

Answer Anticipation

For questions that ask us to find a specific detail mentioned in the passage, quickly finding and reviewing that piece of information is paramount. That is why we make brief notes describing the role of each paragraph and highlight or underline definitions and the minor Meta-Structures — doing so helps us find the salient information efficiently and reliably. Once we review that part of the passage, we can look through the answer choices to see which one is best supported by what we reviewed.Here, the question asks about the decision to shut down the Pico plant in Buchon City. Where did that show up in the passage? Our note for the first paragraph is, "Background on Pico Korea Union (championed by Korean Americans, who were affected by PKU's dispute)." The word "background" suggests the background facts related to the Pico Korea Union dispute are in this paragraph. Reviewing this paragraph, we see that the U.S. company shut down the plant's operations "upon the formation of the union" (P1, S1). That suggests the decision to form the union was a significant factor in the decision to shut down the factory (and withhold the workers' wages). Let's look for that in the answer choices.

Answer choices

  1. A
    the decreasing profitability of Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice A is not credited

    (A) Does this say the formation of the union was a significant factor in the decision to shut down the factory?

    Nope, so we can cross off this answer choice. Our review didn't reveal anything about "decreasing profitability," after all. That shouldn't come as a surprise, as the passage never discussed the plant's profits.

  2. B
    the failure to resolve Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice B is not credited

    (B) Does this say the formation of the union was a significant factor in the decision to shut down the factory?

    No, which means we can quickly eliminate this answer choice. After all, our review didn't reveal anything about "long-standing disputes" between workers and management. That's not surprising because the passage never discusses what happened before the workers formed the union.

  3. C
    the creation of a Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice C matches the stem

    (C) Does this say the formation of the union was a significant factor in the decision to shut down the factory?

    Yes, it does. We can select (C) and move straight to the next question.

  4. D
    the withholding of workers' Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice D is not credited

    (D) Does this say the formation of the union was a significant factor in the decision to shut down the factory?

    No. According to our review, this is what happened after the union formed and the plant was shut down. So, we can eliminate (D).

  5. E
    the finding of an Remaining source text redacted.
    Why choice E is not credited

    (E) Does this say the formation of the union was a significant factor in the decision to shut down the factory?

    Negative, so let's cross off (E). After all, our review didn't reveal anything about finding an "alternate site for operations." Indeed, the passage never clarifies whether or where the plant's operations resumed.

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