You have plenty of time to improve. Forget about the PTs don't take them for months!! Focus on improving every single question type the best you can. Then, and only then, start taking complete, timed PTs. How can you do the PTs when you don't know the rules yet! I had studies for about 6 mo before I took my first timed PT. Now scoring in the 99%.

I live in the Design District but work in Key Biscayne and come to Coral Gables regularly. How long have you been studying? What kind of score are you hoping to get?

I think that what made you improve was the fact that you gained self confidence. You were kinder to yourself.That was the biggest lesson to learn. I use formal thinking pretty much constantly. In LR and in RC as well. For me it is a huge help. So I don't think that dropping this was the reason you improved. But there is a sure way to make my scores drop: by telling myself that I don't know how to do this. Normally I am 100% accurate in every section but I have made myself loose 5 questions in a single section when I have worked myself up over nothing. I am mainly training my mind now lol..

Congratulations! You have reached the child state of LSAT Preparation. When you start, you are a baby. You are blissfully unaware of the things you don't know. You are full of self confidence, optimism, and joy. You will get 180! You will be accepted to Yale for sure! Then you start studying the rules. Learn how complicated the test actually is. You lose your self confidence. You know that the way you used to do LSAT is wrong but you don't quite know how to apply the newly learnt rules. Your score drops. You are a child. This is no time to take LSAT! This is the time to keep on studying. You will soon reach the awkward teen years. You start seeing your strengths and learn your weaknesses . Your score slowly start to crawl up. Then you are an adult. You know the rules. You know how to score 180. You just don't know how to do it fast enough. Until the age of wisdom finally arrives. You are a Yoda. You did not learn to do things any faster like you thought you would. You learnt to predict: when you see a question stem in game or LR you quite often see what they are going to ask. What trick they are sending your way. You just skim thought the answer choices to look for the one that you know is there. You recognize the wrong answer types as if they were bad people you have learnt to avoid. You cherish the correct answers as if they were old friends. Study some more you must.

Thank you so much for all your comments and suggestions. I think that I finally figured out what went wrong. First, I am really tired. I have been preparing for LSAT about 6 months. I am a single mother of 2 kids and I work full-time. BUT, what really got me was this: I typically rush through the first 10 LR questions because they seem so easy to me. This time I did not understand one crucial word in questions 2,3, and 4 (English is not my native language). Instead of thinking that missing 3 questions is not that big of a deal and putting these questions behind I panicked. After these early mistakes I did not even realize that they were nothing but language related and that my English is pretty strong and it would be highly unlikely for me to have the same kind of problems with the rest of the questions. I started telling myself that I was really stupid, I had been overly confident, and that I was going to fail the LSAT. After that I made mistake after mistake on the whole section.

After calming myself down and giving myself some time to rest I realized that this was a very valuable lesson to learn. We really need to learn to put our possible failures behind us and take every single question as a fresh start or 3 mistakes might turn into 12 mistakes. I re-did the section last night. I still made the 3 language related questions and 2 other typical mistakes that I often make, but 5 mistakes is a lot better than 12 right. So, as a summary, LSAT does not test your logical reasoning abilities alone but your abilities to stay calm and focus no matter what. I wish to all of you that this will happen to you while you are preparing for LSAT instead of during your actual exam so you can figure out how to deal with this issue. Have a super focused and confident LSAT day!

No, on average I am getting around 175-180 per PT. I stopped taking this particular PT after I felt like I totally panicked in the LR section. I checked the results and realized that I had gotten 12 wrong. I don't think that it has anything to do with old or new tests I think that I am just burnt out and need a break or something. I actually find the old tests to be more challenging because their rules are not so exact. Anyway, I am going to do nothing for the rest of the day..

MBT answers must be true with 100 percent certainty, whereas MSS answers allows a little room for interpretations. You could say that they answer is correct with 95 percent certainty. Also in MSS question type all wrong answers are 100 percent wrong. This is not the case with MBT questions.

They actually express their take on this quite clearly on their blocks. ..

Check what the school that you are mainly interested in says about this. For example Harvard has clearly said that if you apply late you will get the decision later but your changes of getting in are the same.

If you are doubting yourself in games you are missing something for sure. It is the only section in lsat where I can say for sure if I got the question right. I started with far worse scores than you and I typically get 0 wrong almost everytime nowadays. Keep on practising!