You were also probably taught to seek out truth and knowledge. Often these patterns are invalid, such as fallacious arguments. Searching for knowledge and truth can be ruinous to your LSAT score. Instead, seek out patterns and relationships. Although time is strictly limited on the LSAT, working too quickly can also damage your score.
Many problems hinge on subtle points, and most require careful reading of the setup.
Because undergraduate school puts such heavy reading loads on students, many will follow their academic conditioning and read the questions quickly, looking only for the gist of what the question is asking. Once they have found it, they mark their answer and move on, confident they have answered it correctly. Later, many are startled to discover that they missed questions because they either misread the problems or overlooked subtle points. To do well in your undergraduate classes, you had to attempt to solve every, or nearly every, problem on a test. In fact, if you try to solve every problem on this test you will probably decimate your score.