The Fairfax Lectern | One-Quarter Length LSAT Exam

Section I
Time—9 Minutes

Directions: The questions in this section are based on the reasoning contained in brief statements or passages. For some questions, more than one of the choices could conceivably answer the question. However, you are to choose the best answer; that is, the response that most accurately and completely answers the question. You should not make assumptions that are by commonsense standards implausible, superfluous, or incompatible with the passage. After you have chosen the best answer, blacken the corresponding space on your answer sheet.

1.

Workers need and deserve to have a voice in determining their destiny. In order to be effective, that voice must be heard before decisions are made, rather than afterward. Because labor needs to play a role in the decision-making process, instead of merely reacting to corporate decisions, labor representation on corporate boards is long overdue.
It may be inferred from the passage above that

(A)

workers who are affected by corporate decisions have no voice in corporate management.

(B)

corporate management does not consider the effects of its decisions on workers.

(C)

a corporate board of directors chooses the course the corporation will follow.

(D)

the participation of labor in decision-making is opposed by corporate boards of directors.

(E)

corporate boards of directors are not responsive to the reactions of labor.

2.

For the past ten years, funds for the vocational training of state prison inmates have accounted for less than one percent of the criminal justice system budget. It’s no wonder that so many prisoners return to a life of crime immediately after their release.
Which of the following may be inferred from the passage above?

(A)

The inmates of state prisons do not want vocational training.

(B)

If more funds were targeted for vocational training, fewer prisoners would return to a life of crime.

(C)

The salaries of guards in state prisons account for a larger share of the budget than vocational training.

(D)

The budget priorities of the criminal justice system are properly aligned.

(E)

Some individuals are inevitably driven to lead lives of crime.

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