Based on what you described, I think you can improve your score to a 700+. For your retake, I recommend seeking out some more robust prep materials that provide sufficient practice for you to discover and fix your weak areas. It’s possible that in your previous round of studying you were not fully exposed to all GMAT topics and thus encountered many unfamiliar issues, which in turn, may have led to the disparity between your practice GMAT scores and your actual test day score.
Whatever prep resource you select, ensure that it allows you to do focused practice of one topic at a time: e.g, sentence structure or good reasoning practices for verbal; number properties or rate problems for quant. After doing each problem set, analyze exactly why you got each question wrong and fix any weak points.
However, improving your quant score may have less impact than improving your verbal score. The higher your present score, the more incremental possible gains will be. You are clearly deficient in some important verbal issues: parallelism, perhaps, or how to determine the assumptions behind an argument, to mention two possible examples. There is more here for substantial improvement, and the verbal also tends to be more greatly weighted.
Once you have mastered all the major and lesser topics, begin taking practice exams to uncover what else you may need to study. Unless you have already exhausted them, only take practice exams from MBA.com; those exams provide the most accurate exam experience and use the most accurate scoring algorithm. You can start with the
two free exams. After that you can purchase
exam pack 1 and
exam pack 2When taking your practice exams try to replicate the test day experience as much as possible. Take your exam in a quiet location, preferably at the same time and day that you will take the scheduled exam. For example, if your GMAT is scheduled for 11am on a Saturday morning, take your practice exams at 11am on Saturdays so that by the time your test rolls around, you will be mentally prepared for an exam given then.
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