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Thank you both for your suggestions. So I will begin with the free GMAT Ultimate Grammar book which is provided by gmatclub and get on with the SC Strategy Guide of MGMAT. I think this will take 2-3 weeks and after i will have finished this and Im gonna take another CAT-Exam and post my results. Thank you!
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Finally, I've done it - and I achieved my desired score of 600 (44/29).
I think, I could have improved my score even a bit more, if I had put more focus on my weak areas. But all in all, now I am very content.

I would like to thank both all people here in this community which helped me on my way and the operators which offer such an amazing platform and helpful contents.

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Not so fast, buddy! :D

Congrats! I'm always super happy when people reach their target score! No matter what that score is.

You've brought your quant score up from 33 to 44. That's quite an improvement. Could you please highlight how you've worked throughout your preparation? I think I'm asking for a mini debrief here :)
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Yes, sure....better late than never.

What did I do to improve my score. Hmm, I just bought the MGMAT Strategy Guides and work through them one after another. I started with verbal.
Parallel, I did the corresponding problems in the OG. I especially looked for explanations of quant problems that I did not understand in this forum - special thanks to bunuel and his awesome explanations at this point. After I had finished working through all MGMAT Strategy Guides, I took an MGMAT practice test. For me, the most important thing after taking a practice test was a solid analysis of all questions that were wrong or guessed with a strong focus on the quant part. In this way, I figured out my weaknesses and tried to eliminate them by doing related problems in the OG. Yes, I know, there are still some big and foundational gaps of knowledge with a 44-Quant-Score. Anyway, I repeated this approach 4 weeks - every sunday a practice test and mon-sat OG-problems. My score history of MGMAT is 490 (31/27)->590 (42/31)->570 (41/28)->590 (41/31)...unfortunately there was no increase of my score in the last three tests, I don't know why. On the weekend before the real test I took the second GMATPrep test and score a 570 (44/25). I was quite shocked by my verbal score but now it was too late. In my opinion, the quant part of the GMATPrep was a bit easier than the quant part of MGMAT but the verbal part of the GMATPrep was much harder.
On test-day everything went fine :-)

My biggest problem was and is the english language. I bet, if the gmat had been in my native language, I would have scored a >90%-ile in the verbal part easily. For instance, I could solve all problems that I understood 100% very easily. But especially RC and CR was sometimes very hard to understand. I think, I guessed 40-50% in verbal part in my prep tests and real test just because of non-understanding. But this should not be an excuse, it is how it is.

Good luck for your exam!

By the way, I never tried an IR-section before and scored a 5/8.
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