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I am aiming for a 165 on August/September LSAT, I've been sitting in the low 160s, but have made massive gains in LR. For example, I just had my best LR section today, scoring a -2 on a tough (3 star difficulty) PT section. To couple that, I've been trying to get my LR down to the -3/4 range to give myself more wiggle room on RC. For some reason RC has just not improved, if any maybe become worse. I just did a 15 question drill, on 2 tough art/spotlight passages (my 2 worst by far) and got 8/15 wrong. (Lol) What am I doing wrong with RC??? I feel like a lot of the time I read the tough passages I kind of just have no idea what the fuck is going on, get to the questions and try to fill in the gaps with my wrong ACs, and kinda exacerbate my passage ignorance.
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You have to fully invest yourself in the passages. Read them with the level of attentiveness as you would an acceptance letter from your dream law school. Convince yourself to care, and then give yourself the time to give the passage a good read. Don't make it perfect, but you have to have a good solid understanding of what's going on and how the author feels about the subject (as well as a general idea of their argument approach). Then you can go to your question stems and let them direct you back to certain areas of the passage, but do not use them to fill in gaps in your understanding about the passage. I like to give myself about 8 minutes per passage, which usually consists of about 4 minutes on the first read of the passage itself, give or take. Don't rush yourself or worry about time or the questions or the test or anything else while you are reading, purely focus on the subject like this is the most important and interesting thing you've ever had to learn/read.
What is your timing like on RC? I was having the same issue where there was a huge gap between my LR and RC, I found my problem was worrying far too much about going too fast through the passages and ending a standard 35 minute section with around 8 minutes to spare. By slowing down and taking even a 10 second pause in between paragraphs to digest what I read I no longer had to resort back to the passage during questions nearly as often, and have been getting far less wrong.