@gurbytown Yeah thats definitely a good point. I've done timed sections in my office with noise in the background and did mostly fine, I guess I should try doing full PT's with more noise too.

On the test thinking back I was probably extra rattled in the first 15 minutes by the noise on S1 and maybe S2. Obviously I'm not sure since I don't know which parts I bombed, its totally possible I actually did fine in the opening but just choked in the harder sections. But thanks so much for your input!

@SequoyaCasey Thats a good decision on your part, good things can come from taking a break! I was plateauing in the 60s last year, then I took a break for a few months and when I came back I was able to break 170s, though I suppose given the results today I didn't go as far as I thought I did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I am trying to apply for the 2027 cycle so timeline wise its not the end of the world yet, but this test is definitely taking a toll on my mental and I'd really like to get it over with. Best of luck to you!

I was in a similar situation to you and I wish I could point to a magic bullet to solve this problem. I just took the Feb LSAT and I'm waiting for the score to come out in a few days. Honestly at this range between a 172 and a 178 its really splitting hairs. I've gotten 179 as my highest PT but got 170 on the following PT. I feel a lot of it comes down to luck, like question weighting, what kind of passages and questions I get and how I'm feeling at a particular moment I read the question.

I'd imagine someone who consistently scores mid to high 170s would have some level of superior reading ability, where they can break down difficult questions into fundamentals, or comprehend a passage quickly enough to evaluate inferences on the fly. I'm not sure if this is even attainable for everyone, but as a low 170s scorer you're probably good enough get a higher score by being just a bit lucky.

this is so fucking dumb, I ruled out C because I thought figurative here means becoming more abstract. And while that is true in regards to the use of words, when it comes to art and representation it actually means to be a more accurate depiction.

I crossed out every single answer actually. Ended up skipping over D because I forgot MOST correctly addressed mail do in fact NOT get damaged.

Seriously though: If you had won the lottery, you would be rich.

Lottery -> Rich

It would

That's interesting and also I think really weird of the LSAC. Where did you see this?

@TheBigFatPanda so the opposite of no person can work without A would be some person(s?) work without A. How many persons? We just know its not zero.

The opposite of "no" is just "some". This could be 1, 10 , "most", or "all". You have to be really careful with these negations and account for different outcomes.

This is just pure dumbassery on my part, like I knew D wasn't sound and went with it anyway. What does the first sentence of the last paragraph do? Explain why this theory wasn't widely accepted, hence B.

The key to this is finding the right place to look for the answer. I went looking all over paragraph 1 but didn't realize the next sentence, in the next paragraph, literally presents this.

Big fucking stretch right here implying best ending -> approval of the character. Still the problem with A is that, although this is basically what the author does to evaluate Woody Allen's films, i.e looking at his body of work, there's nothing to imply what the author thinks critics should think. Add on top of that there's nothing about artistic merit the author talks about, there's no evaluation about the quality of any of the work, it only talks about a specific theme.

bro fuck AC E what is this phrasing. I picked it on POE but still had no clue what its on about.

The fact that you have scored 170+ multiple times already indicates you've mostly gotten over this plateau. This kind of variance 100% happens pretty much at every level. If you can maintain -2 to -3 between all sections you'd already be on course for a mid 170 score. Just focus drill your biggest weaknesses and the hardest questions. Go back and re-study the basics if you need to.

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my dumbass didn't make the connection that hard covers and hardbacks are the same thing.