I’ve been consistently scoring around 173 on fully timed LSAT PTs, and I’m taking the exam in April. My goal is to reach the mid-to-high 170s.

On BR, after reviewing all my missed/flagged questions, I often get up to around 178. So now I’m wondering: is missing 1-3 questions per section under timed conditions basically inevitable for me at this point, or is this a bottleneck I can still break before the test?

In terms of my circumstances, I often do have time after LR to double-check my work, usually around 5 minutes or so. But I still miss a good percentage of those wrong answers because I didn’t flag them. Basically, I choose the wrong answer without realizing it’s wrong, so I don’t go back to it. For the questions I do flag, I’ve actually been getting them right.

This has been happening pretty consistently for the last two weeks, and I’m worried I’ve plateaued. For people who’ve made the jump from the low 170s to the mid/high 170s, what actually helped? How do you get a perfect score on a section without it feeling like a coin toss?