Time: 35 minutes
Format: 26-28 questions
Topics Tested: Identifying Purpose, Identifying
Structure, and Ascertaining Main Idea
Reading Comprehension is the only question type that appears
on all major standardized tests, and the reason isn't too
surprising. No matter what academic area you pursue, you have to
make sense of dense, unfamiliar prose. Law, of course, is no
exception.
What's the objective?
The Reading Comprehension section consists of four passages,
each about 450 words long with five to eight corresponding
questions. The topics are chosen from the areas of social
sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and the law. As of June
2007, the Reading Comprehension section has a new question type �
Comparative Reading. This queston type replaces one of the
passages with a new type that has 2 shorter passages.
Types of questions include identifying the main idea, detail,
inference, logic, extrapolation — questions on the Comparative
Reading passage will also ask about how the shorter passages
relate to one another. The questions are designed to test your
ability to read dense, scholarly material and ascertain the
structure, purpose, and logic.
