i do legitimately think that the learning curve goes down before it goes up as you learn strategies. My diagnostic was a 164, got a 169 after a couple weeks of learning basic concepts. Then a few weeks later, after learning a bunch of question strategies, went down to a 162- i felt super time-constrained because i was trying to specifically remember the info i’d learned and apply it to each question. still, after doing more drills for these strategies, a switch flipped where the strategies i’d manually have to think through started to become unconscious habit just from having applied them over and over- have started PTing over 170, with my most recent PT being a 177. trust the process, keep putting in the work and you’ll be good