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since the previous comment was not helpful, here are some things that have worked for me in case they're useful to you! (context: taking the test in January, full-time student)

I try to take a pt about once a week (but I don't sweat it if I miss a week)
My goal is to never guess—I want to understand every question well enough to know that I picked the right answer (the new score prediction feature is really helpful to see how well I'm accomplishing this, actually)
I flag and come back to all the questions I'm hesitant on during the time
during BR, I focus on explaining exactly why I got a question wrong and exactly how I'll fix the problem (e.g., highlight the key word in the question)
I bookmark every question I get wrong and periodically make drill sets of those questions
I'm starting to work in taking sections/pts in non-ideal conditions (eg I just took an LR section while on a bus haha)

re: fluke- you know it's not a fluke if you feel like you understand how the test works and had a good idea of what your score would be before you saw it.

re: motivation/getting too comfortable- warning, this is utterly dorky. might not help you but it helps me. there's a passage from the Dorothy Sayers novel Whose Body that goes like this:

There is a game in which one is presented with a jumble of letters and is required to make a word out of
them, as thus:
COSSSSRI
The slow way of solving the problem is to try out all the permutations and combinations in turn, throwing
away impossible conjunctions of letters, as:
SSSIRC
or
SCSRSO
Another way is to stare at the inco-ordinate elements until, by no logical process that the conscious mind
can detect, or under some adventitious external stimulus, the combination
SCISSORS
presents itself with calm certainty. After that, one does not even need to arrange the letters in order. The
thing is done.

thinking about this keeps me motivated to keep pushing because I want to leave the test feeling the calm certainty of knowing that I found the one right answer to each question. there is just one right answer, and when you understand each question fully, you can be certain that you've found it.

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