Hi KartikSingh09,
To start, a 710/Q48 is an outstanding Score, so you can comfortably apply to any Schools that interest you. Are you planning to apply sometime soon (and which Schools are you planning to apply to?)?
While we are NOT supposed to discuss specific questions that you saw on your Official GMAT, we can probably discuss some of this in general terms. For example, when you say that the prompts are essentially copies of material that you saw in the OG, which VERSION of the OG are you referring to? I suppose it's possible that the GMAT question writers could (on rare occasions) dip back into older material to fashion 'new' questions, but that is definitely NOT the norm (and it's also possible that those 3 prompts were 'experiemental' questions - meaning that they did not count towards your Score). All things considered, if you actually did have prior knowledge of 3 of the 36 Verbal questions that you faced, then that could very easily have led to an 'inflated' Score result.
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
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