When you consistently hit the scores you want on practice test, then you can take the actual PT. It is better that you are well prepared to get a good score, rather than just take the tests many times with the hope that you will do well by luck. If you have budget for private tutoring, you should get tutoring to get as much help as you can.

If you do an untime PT, how much time it takes per session for you to reach high 160 to low 170? That will be your baseline time. For each session you take, you will remove 1 minute, so you can gradually increase the time pressure while trying to maintain your accuracy. For example, if it takes you 53 minutes per session to get a high 160/ low 170 on a PT, then you would set a timer for 52 minutes for the next session you practice, then check your accuracy to see if it is still at the same level. Then reduce the time gradually until you reach 35 minutes per session.

You mentioned that you score -1/-0 on BR for LR, which means if you have enough time, you would get most to all LR correctly. One way, you can get more time to do questions that you struggle is to get faster at the first 10 question to bank time for later. You can set up drill for 10 questions at easy level at about 1 minutes or less per question. For medium level question, you can set up the drill for 1 minutes 15 second to practice.

For RC, do you know what kind of questions, or what kind of passage topic that you struggle with? You should take note on the questions you get wrong, why you get that wrong. You can get the book PowerScore LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible, by David M. Killoran and Jon M. Denning, to see if the strategy in the book will help you. The used version in Amazon is less than $10 or get a new one so you can have clean RC passages by PowerScore (not the actual LSAT PT) to practice.

PT is nonrenewable resources because once you use it all, so you should save about 5 untouched PT for few weeks before your test date.

Do you normally have short span attention or just on the LSAT reading ? If you naturally have short span attention or any learning difficulties, you might want to get a diagnostic. LSAC gives accomodation for some learning difficulties.

I usually build a skeleton of the stimulus, by that I mean the abstract concept of the stimulus. For example: "Only dogs like to play outside. Kathy is a cat so Kathy doesn't like to play outside." The skeleton of the stimulus is A --> B (translation: Like to play outside --> dogs) . ~B--> ~A (translation: cat (aka not dogs) --> doesn't like to play outside). After you build a skeleton, you would scan through the answers for matching elements (in this case there are condition in stimulus, and a contrapositive in the conclusion). If diagraming on paper help you, please do so before you can metally diagram your skeleton.

What is a comfortable time per session that you need to complete a PT and get a 177? You can use that time as your baseline then you gradually drop the time 1 minute per session you take and check if your accuracy still the same. In that way you gradually increase your time pressure. Try this method for a month to see if you can mantain your accuracy at shorter time.

If you take the LSAT in April, the score is released in the end of April, right? You should check what school still accept application at the end of April. Another option is start your application now with the score you had from January and then contact the admission with your update your LSAT score in April, in that way, you won't miss deadline for majoriry of law school. Even if you do very well in April, what can that score do for you if you miss the application deadline for the Fall.

Since you have accomodation on the test, try to pause at the end of your reading and check if you know 1) what is the purpose of the passage? 2) How many view points 3) What the author's viewpoint (if the author is present) 4) how each viewpoints are supported or criticized. If you don't know that 4 things then you can try to annotate the passages (ie, highlight viewpoint, underline examples, take notes on scratch paper etc) when you read the passage. Annotating the passages will slow you down for a moment but can improve your accuracy in a long run.

What is ECs stand for? You refer to a resume to added to your application right? If the organization is meaningful to you, you can include it and add explaination what the organization do. U Michigan Law school has a youtube chanel about all the application material. You can watch their video about resume:

@BWBloch I have the Bible. The used workbook is less than $10 on Amazon (might have note in that thought). You can also get that if it is helpful.

The Power Score LSAT Reading Comprehension Bible book has RC passages that PowerScore creates to teach. They are not from the PT in Law Hub. I bought a used one for $8 on Amazon, you can get a used book by David M. Killoran to get more material to practice. The book also has explaination for every passage and questions.

131 is around 12 percentile. To get to some ABA-accredited schools, the accept scores is in the low-to-mid 140s. Try to take 1 more PT and if you cannot get to around 140, then it is very hard to score above 140s in the actual test next week. You should take the test when your PT is around your target score. If you notify the LSAC this coming week that you don't show up, it will not count against your score report. You only get 4 times to take the test within 5 years, and will have to wait for another 5 years to take the test the 5th time. Please take the test when you really feel ready.

The blind review is better than your score because you did blind review untime while taking the original test under time pressure. You get 3 of the first 10 questions wrong, while the first 10 questions tend to be easier the rest of the exam. The most practical thing to do now is that you should focus on getting the easier questions right under time pressure so your score can improve.

My tip is when you see "unless" on the right side of the sentence, instead of translating as "if not", take contrapositive of the condition and it will be faster. Imagine the conditional arrow => strike through the "unless"! I will diagram the sentence you use as an example: (MMI <--> ME) => MMI before ME

The diagram in plain English: If Major Meteor Impact causally link to Mass Extinctions, then Major Meteor Impact occured before Mass Extinction (or "mass extinction have followed major meteor impacts).

When mention "draining", how long into the session that you start to feel that way? Is that the 3rd and 4th passage? What you experience is probably brain fatique. Then you should do a marathon, which mean doing a drill with 5 or 6 passage in the row and don't check your accuracy and don't take a break in the middle. This drill will train your brain for endurance. You can work on accuracy separately. Try that drill once a day for a week to see if you feel less brain fatique. Also, you don't need to memorize all information, you need to know where the information located and come back to review it when you do the question.