Prompt: Which one of the following judgments conforms most closely to the principle stated above?
Difficulty: 🌕🌑🌑🌑
How will the right answer fit in terms of support and conclusion?
Only the right answer will have a conclusion the passage supports.
Highlight the main conclusion in the passage, if there is one:
The passage doesn’t have a conclusion.
Principle: [SUPPORT].
The judgment in a principle always matches the conclusion. This principle tells us when someone is “likely to be overcompensated”, so that’s the conclusion the right answer will have.
Map the wording of the answers to the wording of the passage:
(A) Conclusion is someone is “definitely overpaid”.
(B) Conclusion is someone is “probably overpaid”, which is what we want. But the passage was about a consultant, which this answer leaves out. There was nothing in the passage that explains why “profits were at an all-time high” is relevant.
(C) Conclusion is someone is “probably NOT overpaid”.
(D) Conclusion is someone is “probably overpaid”. Check. And “consultant who has many other contracts with Troskco” maps exactly to the “if…” statement in the passage.
(E) Conclusion is someone is “definitely NOT overpaid”.
(D) is the correct answer.
Common pattern/s in this question: Principles always connect another piece of support to the conclusion. Most of the time it looks just like it did here, where the principle has some judgment in it that the conclusion matches.
Elliot Hirsen / LSAT coach 
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