660. Not there yet but not giving up and neither should you.

Hi all,
I took the GMAT for the 4th time this past Saturday and scored my 2nd lowest score on the real thing. In retrospect, I really should have seen this coming because I did not change my study strategy much from my 3rd attempt.
Here are my GMAT scores:
- 650 43Q 37V
- 700 45Q 40V
- 670 47Q 35V
- 660 47Q 34V

This entire time I’ve been focusing on Quant (prioritizing quantity over quality) and winging it in verbal. Getting 40V (39 in SC, 45 in RC and 38 in CR) on my 2nd attempt gave me a false sense of security that Verbal was simply down to luck and that I could usually hold my own since my practice tests have always been around 40v. I’m going to do my due diligence in verbal starting today, while also doing my best to push my quant score to a 49 or 50.
So this is my plan, what do you think?

Verbal:
- Go through the Manhattan SC guide at my own pace, making sure to internalize the info
- Go through the Powerscore CR bible
- Watch Thursdays with Ron Videos
- Do OG and Verbal review questions to practice and check GMATClub to see how they were tackled by peers (and participate!)
- Maintain Error Log

Quant:
I’m following bb ´s guide for how to increase your score from 45 to 51 for this (thanks so much for this resource!)
- Go through OG questions and reach at least a 90% hit rate + check answers for each and every question to see how it could have been solved faster. This is a big one because I still aim to approach each question algebraically because I fear making the wrong move, which is probably keeping me from reaching 49+.
- Review OG Error Log + GMATCLUB Test Error Log on a consistent basis (I’ve taken the GMATCLUB Tests and had results ranging from 36 to 49, bookmarked all the ones I needed to.) This is one of my biggest regrets, I had one but always pushed back reviewing the questions until it was too late.
- Do 600-700 level questions from GMATClub and once I reach a hit rate of 90% move on to 700 level Questions (aim for 75% hit rate AT LEAST.)
- Take GMATClub tests again and try to hit 49+ on a consistent basis.

Practice tests:
I’ve done the official ones way too many times for the scores to be anywhere near accurate so I’ll be purchasing the Veritas and Manhattanprep practice tests next. But to give you a bit of an idea, when the GMATPrep exams were still fresh, my scores would range between 710 and 740 (Quant would always be either 49 or 50).

Resources available: Kaplan 800 (never touched it), Full MGMAT Collection + Adv Quant Book (never touched neither Verbal books nor Adv Quant Book), GMATPrep question pack (old software), OG + Verbal & Quant Review 2018

Resources Used: OG 2015, EMPOWERgmat course, Target Test Prep course, GMATClub Tests, Magoosh Premium and Veritas Course.

I’ll be applying next year (R1 hopefully) so I have time but not too much of it because I need to fit in doing HBXCore and taking a few classes to build an alternative transcript. My 2nd score is not bad, I know, but the breakdown is not the best and I need a much higher GMAT score to mitigate a sub 3.0 GPA.

Any feedback on this strategy? Whatever happens, I will not give up and if any of you are in a similar situation reading this post, know that we’re brothers in arms and the GMAT won't win. We will.