@ashen03323 a few things - Flex is much more variable so those jumps don't shock me. That being said, it probably is a sign you just aren't 100% comfortable with all the traps or problem types the test may throw at you yet. If you have a few days until you take it, I'd write down your main lessons and main mistakes your making, and then otherwise, just rest. It'll give your brain a chance to line out some of what you're doing right/wrong each test, and then give it another chance to process it. Best of luck.

There are a million ways to test this kind of concept. Not sure why they choose topics like this...

The issue with A isn't the timeline, it's that the pesticides affected "most" wildlife. While the obvious uncertainty is whether it affected deer, the pesticides could have affected the predators (note that the stimulus specifically uses the plural for predators, with wolves as one example) way more than they affected the deer. It really doesn't help explain the paradox at all, it just tells you there is a reality out there where it could.

It's the worst LSAT question I have ever seen by far and that's probably why it's on this weird test.

Honestly, I don't think there's a great answer. This by far the worst LR question I've seen in my 4 months of studying. You can't make a logical assumption that the pesticides only hurt deer, or that they even did hurt the deer in the first place. It only says "most wildlife". What if the pesticides didn't hurt deer at all, but hurt their predators a lot? All you can infer from choice A is that there is a chance it resolves the paradox, and that that is roughly equivalent to the chance it exacerbates it. That's pretty weak.

Answer choice D is terrible too, but it does mean that adult wolves are being removed from the wild for an undisclosed period of time to give birth (what the do I know about wolves, maybe they can hunt deer until the moment their babies pop out of them) and that the child wolves are not in the wild for a period of time.

You're correct that neither A and D really helps to explains the paradox at all. It was a poorly written question, where A was meant to be relatively clear and D was supposed to be nonsense and the test writers just messed it up.

Many more people answer B and C than D because you should be able to tell from experience that the test writers meant it to be nonsense, and that's the important lesson to take here. B and C are also standard traps (limiting a factor doesn't cause a reversal, ratio flaw). So even though A is a answer choice that would also be a trap on most other questions, you should learn to tell that's what the test wants you to say.

The fact that's my takeaway shows how bad of a question it is.

I think the reason why is one of, or a combination of, three reasons: 1) endurance, 2) timing/feeling rushed, and 3) question difficulty (harder logic games and passages tend to be one of the last two in each section). I'd recommend checking your timing for the earlier questions after 7sage's practice tests to see if it's an issue of timing. You can also look at the question/passage/game difficulty for the ones you're missing and see if it's difficulty.

If you think it's partially endurance, right when you finish a section, immediately grab another from one of the earliest tests and just do 5 more problems at random. It's like with running - you train at distances longer than you "race" for.

Hopefully this helps. I've had a number of concussions, so fatigue is a major issue for me, and it's helped me.

I also agree with the translation drill recommendation above! Read the stimulus, cover it up or close your eyes, and translate it back into your own language. Identify the conclusion, and the controversy or the loophole, etc