How to Track LSAT Mistakes to Reach 170

Once you are scoring in the 160s, your overall score stops telling you what to fix. The students who push into the 170s track something narrower: every question they miss, plus every question they got right but felt unsure about, logged by question type, difficulty, and the reason they missed it. Review that log once a week and drill the pattern that shows up most, not the section with the lowest score.

What should I track when studying for the LSAT?

Five fields are enough. Anything more and you will stop keeping the log, which defeats the whole point.

Log shaky correct answers too. If you guessed right or picked between two choices and got lucky, that question belongs in the log. Luck that you do not understand will trick you twice.

Blind review deserves its own note because it powers the whole system. Blind review means re-solving a question untimed, without looking at the answer key, before you check anything. The gap between your timed answer and your blind review answer tells you what kind of mistake you made. Misses you fix on blind review are execution errors under time pressure. Misses you still get wrong on blind review are knowledge gaps. Those two problems need different fixes, and your log is what separates them.

Why your score alone stops helping past 160

The jump from 160 to 170 is widely considered the hardest stretch of LSAT prep, and the reason is diminishing returns. At lower scores, broad gaps are everywhere, so almost any studying helps. At higher scores, you already get most questions right, so each additional point comes from a smaller and smaller set of mistakes. The hardest questions on the test are what separate 170 scorers from everyone else, and getting those right demands precision, not volume.

That is why more practice tests stop working on their own. A student who takes a test, checks the score, and moves on learns almost nothing about the three or four specific errors that actually cost points. A student who logs those errors, sees that three of them were trap answers on flaw questions, and drills flaw questions with an eye for trap answers is fixing the real leak. For a full schedule around this cycle, see how many practice tests you should take.

How to review your miss log each week

Set aside 20 minutes once a week, plus a longer review after every full practice test. Read the log four ways:

1. Sort by question type. Three or more misses in one type is your drill target for the week. One miss is noise, three is a pattern. If you are not sure which types you are missing, the logical reasoning question types guide is a good reference for naming them consistently.
2. Sort by reason. If most misses are trap answers, your job is answer-choice discipline, not more content review. If most are timing, your job is pacing. If most are concept gaps, your job is lessons on that topic before more drilling.
3. Check blind review. Misses you fix on review mean you know the material and need timed reps. Misses you still get wrong mean you need to relearn the concept first.
4. Ignore one-offs. A single strange miss on a question type you usually ace is not a pattern. Chasing it wastes the week.

Then drill the top pattern only. Ten focused questions on your weakest pattern, reviewed deeply, beat fifty mixed questions reviewed shallowly. Update the log as you drill, and watch whether the pattern shrinks over two or three weeks. If it does not shrink, the fix is wrong, not the tracking.

What does Jurly track?

Jurly has an analytics dashboard that does most of this tracking for you. It shows your estimated score and your mastery across 16 skills, names your weakest skills from your actual results, and shows pacing by skill once a skill has enough timed answers. When you miss a question, you tag the reason: misread the question, picked an answer that went too far, picked an off-topic answer, mixed up the logic, torn between two answers, didn't follow the argument, or unsure. The dashboard then summarizes your miss reasons from your last 25 tagged misses, so the pattern shows up without a spreadsheet.

That still leaves one job for you: the weekly review. A dashboard can surface the pattern, but it cannot decide what to drill next or notice that a pattern is not shrinking. Use both sides together. Let the dashboard point at your weakest skills and top miss reasons, then drill that pattern and check two or three weeks later whether it moved. As of October 2026, Jurly's bank holds 1550+ original questions plus 4 practice tests, so the drilling side of the system is covered once the dashboard tells you what to drill.