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The evaluator can only score what's on the page, but a gate speech is eventually delivered by a real person in a real room. A manuscript that reads well but was never built with physical delivery in mind often falls flat — the words are right, but nothing in the writing gives you anywhere to move, pause, or breathe.
Suggested pace: about a week. This lesson works best across a few short sessions, not one sitting — write today, come back and revise in a day or two, then rehearse once more before you submit. Real progress comes from returning to the same skill more than once, rested, not from cramming it all in at once.
Think about a speaker you've watched who used stillness well — a real pause, not a nervous one. What did that silence do to the room? Hold that image before you touch your draft.
For each of your three marked pauses, write one sentence describing exactly what you'd be feeling in that silence, not just what you'd be doing. If you can't name the feeling, the pause may not be earned yet — go back and see what's missing before it.