710, will be doing a Retake

So I have been lurking here, and wanted to give back and tell my story.

About September-October I was unsure of my job stability prospects, and as such bean studying for the GMAT. I read all of the Math MGMAT books, and did all the practice problem. I did this slowly, and more or less on the weekends. As it became clear that my job was stable I slowed down. At the end of December I scheduled my exam for January 24th. I took the first practice, a MGMAT and got a 650.

My goal was a minimum of 720 initially, and 730 later on.
I kept retaking the exams and focusing on what I got wrong, eventually it went from not knowing to making careless mistakes and my score stabilized around the 710-730 range (on Manhattan GMAT and Kaplan exams).

I did not really do any Verbal studying, but used logic and common sense, and usually got 90%+ on it. Math I was stuck on 80% are, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less.

The 2 practice GMATs one taken 6 days before the exam (and before 6 days of continual studying) were 740 and 730 (the day before the actual GMAT).
Both had a similar math score, with only verbal varying.

I took the GMAT today and got a 710, with a 48 quant and 39 verbal. I aiming for top 10, so that is just a bit below what I need, I will be retaking it.
I scored very similar to my practice math, but just slightly worse then practice verbal.

One thing I found out was Princeton Review was more or less useless for anything 700+, their practice exams were easy, and graded on a weird scale (4 wrong in each section led to a sub 700 score). The MGMATs had Verbal and Math in my opinion that was slightly harder but was good to know, and very accurate scoring. Kaplan was a little bit worse then Manhattan.

Also please ask if you need anything else to make this more helpful.

What were your MGMAT scores?

I used Manhattan GMAT the most so this was a good indicator

I took the exam on January 24th.
After I ran out of MGMAT material I switched to Kaplan, and tried Princeton Review (but as I mentioned above PR was almost useless in terms of practice exams).

CAT 1A Completed 1/22/2012 720 Q47 V42
CAT 6 Completed 1/7/2012 720 Q47 V41
CAT 5 Completed 1/7/2012 700 Q47 V38
CAT 4 Completed 12/29/2011 720 Q47 V41
CAT 3 Completed 12/24/2011 640 Q45 V33
CAT 2 Completed 12/24/2011 650 Q40 V38
CAT 1 Completed 11/26/2011 650 Q44 V35

The 1st one was taken with no knowledge of what the GMAT really is. I think the difference between 1,2,3 and the later ones is I got good with Verbal by practicing it, and seeing what kind of answers GMAT wants.

Good luck on your next exam!

Just wanted to give an update.
Took the exam in the beginning of March and got an exactly the same score as before.
With that, and 710 being decent enough I decide that I will stay with this for now.

Ugh thats too bad but a 710 is a great score. Focus on the applications for now and good luck!

What I really want to know is when you'r score is ranging between 700-710 what strategy should be taken to grow up to 730-740