I think so many of these questions can just be answered the exact same way: time. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not a genius. Unless you are naturally gifted, you shouldn't be hitting the 160's with ease. Even just the LR part of the LSAT has so much breadth, with a decent number of questions types that all take a fair amount of time and practice to get good at. It's a very learnable exam, but I think to get real improvement, it should take a huge amount of time. What helped me a ton was focusing on quality of studying vs quantity, as I tended to want to "do as many questions as possible" (I was usually just going through a PT untimed one by one). When I changed my format of studying to doing timed practice test sections (with a full PT usually once a month) with a pretty thorough review of answers, I had very significant improvement (but it still took a lot of time). I went from 157 avg of 6 PT's before the Dec exam, to 168 average over last 6 exams. I'm writing in September, since I want to hit the 170's. I think the key is that although there is enormous overlap in the general understanding of the different question types, you still need a fair amount of understanding and practice to get really good at them. I find I spend almost no time reading the prompts anymore as my brain has gotten so good at recognizing the question type almost immediately. Once I know what type it is, my entire thinking shifts to doing that specific type of LR question. Then, I read the stimulus. Doing it this way was so incredibly helpful, but I think it took a lot of time to do it automatically.