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I have noticed that I often understand the reasoning behind "hard" questions right away, and struggle with "easy" ones. Recently when drilling 20 flaw questions, I found myself accurately answering the difficulty 4 questions quickly while struggling with the difficulty 1s. While the sample size was small (8/10 D1 vs. 10/10 D4), this seems rather inconsistent.On PTs, I find myself missing 1-2 questions in the first 10 of every PT, sometimes missing fewer in questions 11-20 than in 1-10. Does anyone else have these issues, and if so, what does it mean on a larger scale?

I've been there. Here are a few possible explanations:

1) Since you are aware of the difficulty level of the questions you are asking, you might be subconsciously reducing how much you pay attention when you answer them. It makes sense: you don't want to sweat too much before you get to the hard ones. Ultimately, however, the difficulty of a questions is more relative to the person answering it than is its place in the section or in a drill set, so you have to remain vigilant throughout the whole section.

2) When I first learned that you should aim for finishing the first 10 questions in 10 minutes, and eventually the first 15 in 15, I think I began to prioritize speed too much when it came to the "easy" questions, which resulted in a loss of accuracy. Maybe you are making the same mistake?

3) You might just be tired. Maybe take a break? It can be extremely productive, ironically.

4) From my own experience, it seems like there is a higher frequency of conditional-logic based questions among those that are considered hard than among those that are considered easy. Maybe you need to work on other LSAT staples besides conditional logic?

Hope this helps...