How much time per question on the GRE?

The average time per question on the GRE is about 1:45 for quant and 1:30 for verbal, based on the actual section timing from ETS. But those are averages, not limits. You'll be faster on some questions and slower on others.

For practical purposes, think of about 2 minutes as a soft ceiling for most questions. If you're past 2 minutes on a vocab question or 3 minutes on a quant problem and still don't have a clear path to an answer, that's a signal to mark it, guess, and move on. The goal isn't to hit a specific per-question time. It's to make sure you're not burning your limited minutes on questions that are unlikely to produce correct answers.