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I would really try to not listen to any music just since you will not have it for the real thing. Sometimes if my roommates are being loud I will put on headphones while I test so I can block their noises out but I will only have white background music playing.
Honestly my first piece of advice would be to have faith in yourself. I struggled with a plateau for months and then finally it started to click and my scores have increased ever since.
I would also focus on your wrong answer review more than anything else. For every single question I get wrong I would ask why did I get this wrong and then say out loud to myself why I will never make that mistake again on another question.
Studying with school on top of it is really hard. But truly if you make it a priority you can do it. You can improve your score as long as you consistently study for about two hours a day. I studied during this past school year and I would always study for the LSAT before I started my schoolwork. I found that this helped because although being tired and doing homework is never fun it is a lot better than being tired and working on the LSAT.
Also the high 160s is in itself a good score so if you are comfortable with that then maybe just take this August test and start to focus on your applications instead.
I totally get feeling frustrated. For about two months I was stuck in the 164-166 range and now I have consistently scored in the mid 170s. It is rare for someone to get their goal score on actual test day when they have not gotten it in practice. So, my advice would be to push back your test date. This might help with you feeling discouraged if you give yourself some more time. Also if you feel like you are giving up I would give yourself a break. Even if it is only a weekend off that can be a good refresh for your brain and you might look at the test more positively after that.
For me, what helped me get into the 170s was focusing on RC. That was where my main problems were as I had always scored better on LR. A few tips for RC that helped me was slowing down on the passage, and before I went into any questions was saying out loud my low res summary and the authors attitude towards the main concepts or any other views presented in the passage.
For the actual RC questions I noticed I was always down between two, usually the right one and then a trick AC and I kept falling for the trick AC. To help me in this area I would out loud say to myself did the passage say this, and if it did where is it in the passage, can I point to a sentence and say this is the support? Again this is time consuming but you get faster and faster at this over time.
some: at least one
many: can treat it like some but it usually means more than 2
few is similar to many
most/majority: 51 or more
all and none are the only quantifiers that we 100% know what value it is talking about as it could only be 100 or 0 for all or none respectively,