Self-study
For the past few weeks, I have been consistently scoring in the high 150s and low 160s on practice tests and scoring in the low 170s during blind review. I am taking the LSAT in April. Does anyone have any advice on how to close this gap between my scores?
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This is a super common problem. I wouldn't even call it a problem -- it's more like a fundamental element of everyone's process. It's common enough, anyway, that I made a video laying out the basic basic beginnings of an answer to your question.
More detail than that requires more information about your particular case. Feel free to reply here with any follow-up questions you've got. (That goes for anyone else reading this, as well.)
If you find that you are often deciding between 2 answers, and that you select the wrong answer during the PT, but then select the other one of the 2 (Aka the correct one) you had initially came down to during Blind review, then you might be falling for trap answer choices. If this is the case I would suggest learning the different traps test makers use, as well as looking at the 2 final answer choices more critically. For example, I used to choose the answer I felt was more relevant to the stimulus, but now I actively look for something wrong in every AC.