LNAT · Section A
LNAT inference questions
Choose the statement the passage supports, without adding anything it does not say.
How to spot it
- Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
- Which of the following does the author's argument most strongly suggest?
Try one
Original example
Since the river path was resurfaced last spring, the council has counted cyclists on it every weekday morning, and the count has risen every month. The council says this proves the new surface attracted new cyclists.
But the council's counts began only after the work was finished, and the city's cycle-to-work scheme, which lends bikes to employees, launched in the same month.
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
The method
- Read each option as a claim that needs proof.
- Find the sentence that proves it.
- Reject anything stronger than the passage: "all", "never", "caused".
The trap
Watch forChoosing a claim that sounds like the passage but goes one step further than it.
Now a harder one
Harder
A law that is never enforced still does work. It tells citizens what the community disapproves of, and most people obey rules they believe others expect them to follow, whether or not anyone is watching.
Yet this effect depends on the law being widely known. A rule buried in a statute no one reads shapes nobody's behaviour; it simply waits, ready to be used against whoever happens to annoy an official.
Which of the following does the author's argument most strongly suggest?