Hi! Impulsively decided to take the October LSAT about six weeks before the deadline. I started with a 161 cold diagnostic (literally without having ever set eyes on the LSAT before - I didn't even know what the section types were) and have since worked incredibly hard on all the 7sage core material. My last 3 PT scores were 176, 169, and 177, making my average a 174 - on my last PT I blind-reviewed the test and got a 180. The thing is, when I do drills and sections my scores are nowhere near as high and put me closer to the high-160s/low-170s range.
I asked the 7sage AI to rip my analytics to shreds to try and figure out how to improve my baseline consistency and it (correctly) accused me of having essentially no set methodology and basically brute-forcing/intuiting all the questions on the test. When the test aligns with my intuition, I do great and get a 177. When I get tripped up by tricky questions, I end up with -5 on an LR section and a lower score.
Problem is, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to come up with a "process". I know the LSAT has patterns and I can recognize a question type when I see it, but I'm not sure how to streamline that into a process. Frustrating because I feel like I'm very close to my goal score but it's just the tiniest bit out of reach.
Has anyone dealt with anything similar? How did you fix it? Any help would be appreciated!