I'm taking the LSAT for the third time in November, and I'm honestly feeling a bit discouraged. Whenever I take the older PTs, I do well: on PT 134 and 132, for instance, I scored 178. On the more recent PTs (150s), though, I don't do nearly as well. I just finished PT 155 and I'd felt quite confident about my performance on the LR sections, but I scored a 170. I don't want to give up on getting a high LSAT score, as I think I have the potential in me, but I'm not sure how to proceed.
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I'd stop taking the older PTs and focus on newer ones, they're more accurate to the current test and the more of them you take and drill, the better you'll do and the better you'll feel!
i actually experienced the exact same thing, down to the details, i got a 178 and a 177 and a 175 on the older band, struggled through 169-173 range on the newer band and couldn't break through, and then got to PT 156 and 158 and recently got 175 on both of them. I think a lot of it is mental, but a lot of it is literally the LSAT writers just mixing things up. I was missing 2-3 problems per test on the first 15 questions in LR sections, but overall just drill the misses you get, derive rules from your misses and don't let it get to you. I notice the LR curvebreakers on the newer tests take some getting used to, but you are using the same muscle you used to get 178 on the older band, just give it time and don't get discouraged. I do think there is a subtle switch in the way the writers write certain questions on the newer forms, but it's not objectively harder, it just takes some getting used to!