Do I need to address all of the perspectives in my LSAT argumentative essay? I'm not totally sure if there are certain expectations aside from crafting an argument and including potential counterarguments.

Some people have told me not to register until I am consistently PTing at my goal score, but what is considered consistent? I really want to register for April (otherwise I will not be able to sit until August due to immovable scheduling conflicts), but I'm not at my goal score yet and I don't want to waste an attempt.

I feel like waiting until August for my first (and hopefully only) attempt feels so last minute since I want to apply for law school in the 2026-2027 cycle. Am I creating an unnecessary time constraint? Any advice is helpful!

For context - my goal is to get as close to a 180 as possible, but realistically I would be happy with 173+

My last PT was a 168 (BR 174) in jan, and since then I've been scoring -1 to -4 on all practice sections, RC and LR.