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Re: Last minute 700+ prep [#permalink]
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I took the GMAT a year ago and scored a 720 (Q45 V44). I really wanted at least a 730, so I tried again in October but scored a 720 again (Q47, V41). I scheduled a second test date for Friday, and since my last try I've gone through all the OG questions. But I'm realizing now that there are almost no 700+ level questions in the OG and I'm not sure it helped me at all. Is there anything I can do between now and Friday to help myself?


The last 2-3 days are usually set aside for revision and relaxation, not to work on new stuff! 720 and 730 aren't different. What you could aim for is a higher Quant score. If you haven't done any extra preparations after the recent 720, I don't see how your score will improve in the upcoming test. You might want to think about postponing the test if you want to work on improving your Quant score.

OG has very few 700+ level questions but there are many other resources you can use. The official Prep tests have many 700+ level questions, as do our practice tests. You can also use our free question bank available here: https://www.gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep-resource-links-no-longer-available-399979.html#-question-bank/
Anything between 41 and 51 in Verbal is great.


I did do a decent a amount of prep over the last six weeks, mostly OG, but also digging further into the types of problems I didn't know (ie. rate problems, combinatorics, permutations, etc.). What's strange is that these problems don't seem that much more challenging than the hardest problems I saw on the actual test, and I scored a 720 both times. Thanks for the advice. I don't feel the time has been wasted, since working through the entire book helped me look differently at each math problem, which makes the high level math much easier.
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Couple options here, all of these are official GMAT sources:

1) Get the GMATPrep Question Pack 1 and then exclusively practice on the hard questions, they are segmented by difficulty.

2) Here is the entire database of questions from GMATPrep. The challenge would be to select which ones are hard because it gives you the entire set of questions. However, you could choose those questions that fall in the category that you are struggling in. all-gmatprep-questions-quant-verbal-187679.html

3) Take GMATFocus diagnostic tests if you would like to be barraged with extremely difficult questions.

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I took the GMAT a year ago and scored a 720 (Q45 V44). I really wanted at least a 730, so I tried again in October but scored a 720 again (Q47, V41). I scheduled a second test date for Friday, and since my last try I've gone through all the OG questions. But I'm realizing now that there are almost no 700+ level questions in the OG and I'm not sure it helped me at all. Is there anything I can do between now and Friday to help myself?


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Hi trivium,

Since your original post is over a month old, you must have taken the GMAT again by now. How did you score?

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