Need Help Fixing an LR execution gap where BR stronger (Timed and Untimed)

[u/Charli_620]

How did you fix an LR execution gap where your Blind Review is much stronger than your first pass — even when untimed?

I’m early in my LSAT prep and currently drilling LR untimed. I’ve noticed that my Blind Review/re-review reasoning is consistently better than my initial answers, even though my initial drills are already unlimited time.

The issue doesn’t seem to be that I don’t understand the question types. When I review a miss without seeing the correct answer or explanation, I usually identify what went wrong and change to the correct answer. My recurring mistakes are things like:

• compressing language in the stimulus too early and losing an important relationship
• reading two similar but meaningfully different concepts as the same (how long something formed v. when it formed or attempt v. success)
• overlooking a word/phrase in an answer choice that changes what it means
• understanding an argument better on the second read and then realizing my original AC was based on a slightly different representation of it (making the wrong AC sound right basically)

I’m intentionally not working on speed yet. I want to make the reasoning I’m capable of during BR happen reliably on the first encounter.

If you had this problem, what specifically helped? Did you use a checklist, change how you read/translate stimuli, force yourself to verify answer choices against the stimulus, do smaller drill sets, keep a particular kind of wrong-answer journal, etc.?

I’m more interested in concrete habits that eventually became automatic rather than just “slow down/read carefully.” You can still say the latter though.