There's a lot here so I'm going to focus on the last part of your question - perfecting LR / RC.
Since you're already in the high 160s, I don't think you need more resources. It's about your LSAT prep review process.
A couple of things that get you from the high 160s to the mid-170s:
- Working not only to consistently apply strategies, but to understand why the strategies work. I consider this equivalent to reading the beginning of a chapter in a math textbook where they explain how the formula is derived in the first place.
- For RC, consistently find the exact lines supporting a given answer choice in the passage. The answer is always in the passage - inference questions don't actually give you a license to go beyond the text.
- Seeing the exam more from the test-makers' perspective. Patterns in tempting wrong answers and discouraging correct answers.
(For more on the test-makers' perspective, check out this book of interviews I did with a former question-writer.)
At this point, if you have a strong foundation, so time to work on pacing and endurance. You also want to be ruthless in skipping tough questions to come back to at the end of a section. Avoid getting bogged-down in any one question. At this point, it's probably more mental than anything else.
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