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Today after I took PT58 I felt incredibly confident about it only to get a 168 (about a 4 point drop from current average).
LR -4
RC -5
LG -0
LR -4

When doing a quick initial review, I realized that about 11/13 questions I got wrong were due to misreading. This is pretty severe. The good news is that I am finishing all sections a minute or two before the 5 minute mark, so the most obvious correction to take is to just slow down big time and go for careful, slow, quality reading on my first read of the stimulus/question stem on LR/RC (and hopefully eliminating any second reads in the process). Speed reading has been a recurring problem in my LSAT prep and it occasionally creeps back up on me.

Any other advice beyond slow, quality reading? I have tried circling logical force words, but that tends to distract me from the main thrust of the stimulus/passage. Is anyone else experiencing this problem of chronic misreading?

Do better. Finishing with 5 minutes to spare and misreading does not make sense to me. Either you get it or you don't. Misreading makes sense if you're tight on time like I was for a long time and simply did not have the time to do anything but skim a stimulus. If skimming is your default, fix that. If it isn't, I don't know what to tell you

kaseyb002 wrote:Today after I took PT58 I felt incredibly confident about it only to get a 168 (about a 4 point drop from current average).
LR -4
RC -5
LG -0
LR -4

When doing a quick initial review, I realized that about 11/13 questions I got wrong were due to misreading. This is pretty severe. The good news is that I am finishing all sections a minute or two before the 5 minute mark, so the most obvious correction to take is to just slow down big time and go for careful, slow, quality reading on my first read of the stimulus/question stem on LR/RC (and hopefully eliminating any second reads in the process). Speed reading has been a recurring problem in my LSAT prep and it occasionally creeps back up on me.

Any other advice beyond slow, quality reading? I have tried circling logical force words, but that tends to distract me from the main thrust of the stimulus/passage. Is anyone else experiencing this problem of chronic misreading?

You have answered your own question. You have a lot of room to slow down and pay more attention to detail. You could be scoring 173 or so just by doing that.

Circle stuff in the question stem... "which one of the following, if true, contributes most to the explanation of the behavior of ugly ducklings described above"

I missed a dumb RC question that asked for an inference to "recent studies" ... of course I didn't look for "recent studies" (which was the topic of paragraph 2) and just winged it. Oops.

I have this issue too. I notice that around question 14, I begin reading faster and paying less attention. Timing is not an issue for me - if I let myself move through RC/LG "quickly" I usually have 10-13 minutes left at the end. For questions 15 - 20 I time myself and FORCE myself to spend 2 minutes (minimum) per question. I don't plan to do this on test day unless I am just blowing through, but since I have done this for the last several tests, I am now able to naturally slow myself down in the middle. I'm consistently scoring 175-177 range.

I also noticed that before forcing myself to slow down, I would consistently miss questions in the 15-21 range for RC/LG.