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I don't know if this form is still active coz I don't see any queries as such lately. Nevertheless I will go ahead and post my question.

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I have been preparing for almost 4 months now and I am strengthening my Verbal skills.
Though I have been preparing for long I don't see any reduction in time taken to answer the Verbal questions(especially Harder ones)
On average I take about 2 minutes for SC (obviously harder ones) , about 4-5 minutes for CR questions and about 2 minutes per question in RC.
I am just worried that if this pattern continues I may not be able to finish the test on time. Obviously the average times I have mentioned is for the 700-800 level harder questions and my timing is considerably low for the medium-easy ones.
At the moment, I am not having any issues with my accuracy or ability to find the correct choice, but I do see some difficulty in understanding or perhaps envisioning the whole context (arguments in case of CR and core themes in RCs) in the above 75% harder questions.
Based on the above concerns I have some questions.

1. Do I have to spend more time reading or practice more problems so that I get to understand such harder questions relatively quick or is this normal ?
2. How many hard questions on average in Verbal can I expect given the possibility that I have more than 90% accuracy with medium and easy ones. The reason behind this question is that I can quickly finish off these ones and have some time saved for the harder ones. It would help me to plan my time in the exam if I could foresee these statistics (I know it is hard to answer this but my question is more on the average/approximate numbers)
3. Since you recommend LSAT questions for CR, I have been following them religiously and whenever I search for CR question I try to pick an LSAT one. I am just a little worried if this may be not too good as GMAT and LSAT have their differences. I do solve questions from other sources like OG, Veritas and Kaplan, but I predominantly use LSATs to practice. Will this hurt me on GMAT with some surprises or I am good with what I am doing currently ?
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