PrepTest 102
[lcid:3506] Prep Test 102 LSAT — Logical Reasoning — S3
Logical reasoning
Question prompt
In a recession, a
Remaining source text redacted.
Why the credited answer is right
Credited answer: D
The notes below walk through why it fits the stem and how to eliminate the rest.
Argument or Facts
Facts
Valid or Flawed
NA
Question Type
Must Be True Questions
Stimulus Summary
Recession → Decrease in consumer spending → Businesses fire people → Fired people can’t find new jobs → Increase in jobless Recovery from a recession = Increase in consumer spending AND Expansion of business activity → Need for Hiring Businesspeople delay hiring because of a lack of confidence
Answer Anticipation
There are a lot of connections in this stimulus! And a lot of them are presented in line, with individual sentences outlining several connections. That’s largely what happens through the first three sentences, so we just ran them all together instead of trying to create each of them individually. Note that this is a bit of a cheat. The first connection is causal, not conditional (although since it’s certain causality, so it’s also conditional), and fired people only usually can’t find new jobs. However, for an early-in-the-section question, these connections will probably be good enough, and if more than one answer lines up with it, we can always dig back in to see which individual answer matches with the causality/strength of the stimulus, and which doesn’t. After those connections, we get a definition of what recovery from a recession entails, and then it’s noted that businesspeople delay a part of that recovery because of a lack of confidence. So there are two parts to this stimulus - the recession part, and the recovery part. The recession part has a chain that we wrote out. The recovery part has two statements, and they overlap in talking about rehiring people, so we should make an inference from that. Here, the inference to be made is that businesspeople can often delay hiring people after a recession is over, despite there being a need for additional workers, because they’re not confident in the recovery. We have inferences from both “parts” of the stimulus now, so let’s look to the answers to see which one matches up with these inferences!
Answer choices
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ARecessions are usually caused Remaining source text redacted.
Why choice A is not credited
The stimulus starts with the recession, not what happens before it to lead to it, so this answer about the cause of the recession is out of scope. -
BGovernmental intervention is required Remaining source text redacted.
Why choice B is not credited
Recovery comes from an increase in consumer spending and a need for additional workers. There’s no indication in the stimulus that the government needs to step in to make this happen, and businesspeople are noted only as “delay[ing]” the recovery, not stopping it or preventing it from happening. -
CEmployees of businesses that Remaining source text redacted.
Why choice C is not credited
The stimulus notes that many businesses lay off workers or close during a recession, but there’s no indication which one creates more jobless individuals. -
DSometimes recovery from a Remaining source text redacted.
Why choice D matches the stem
This answer deals with the post-recession time period, so we should focus on the second half of the stimulus. There, we learn that “after a recession,” businesspeople lack confidence and delay hiring additional workers. As such, the recovery from the recession might happen a bit before the rehiring does, as the businesspeople delay that rehiring. This answer is supported by the stimulus, so it’s the correct answer. -
EWorkers who lose their Remaining source text redacted.
Why choice E is not credited
There’s no discussion of the quality of jobs available pre- and post-recession, let alone anything tying the quality of jobs to specific groups of individuals.
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