Analysing GMAT 1st attempt to establish baseline and Study Plan

Hi all, I started practicing the GMAT last week and decided to take 1 free Prep Test to establish my baseline and create a study plan.

I'm aiming to get 740+, I have not scheduled yet a date to do the exam, I will once I feel I'm in the 740 ballpark.

In my first prep test, I got 700: Q49 V37 with the following results:

PS: 71% accuracy from 17 questions
DS: 50% accuracy from 14 questions
RC: 75% accuracy from 12 questions
SC: 64% accuracy 14 questions
CR: 60% accuracy 10 questions

My questions is, given that the online exam modifies the difficulty of the questions, can the previous statistics be used as a proxy for my current skills?

In case it does, my plan would be the following:

My immediate next steps will be to do again the questions I answered incorrectly.

Since the GMAT score is more heavily weighted in Verbal, I will focus improving there, without compromising my current Quant skills.

My focus will be in improving CR and SC skills (any tips are also very welcomed), so I will practice mainly those type of questions, and I will do 5-10 daily exercises of RC, PS and DS to keep the pace in those parts.

In SC I don't know all the grammar rules, I just used logic so it could be a good idea to study theory for SC, given that I'm not an english native speaker. Does anyone know a good source to study SC?
For CR I will deep dive and see if there are some type of CR questions (Weaken/Strengthen, Assumption, Boldface, etc.) in which I'm underperforming. I will try to look for youtube videos on the GMAT Club channel for CR.

I'm also open to study with a buddy if anyone wants! I'm from Argentina (GMT-3).

Any tips or suggestions are very welcomed!

Does anyone know a good source to study SC?

Have suggested Manhattan-Prep's 6th Edition for SC to students.

I got 700: Q49 V37
aiming to get 740+

Consider working on your solving approach for Verbal. May boost your score a bit. Had a 6-hour student who retook a V41 and get a V45 in less than 2 weeks, for example. Working with a study buddy with strong verbal skills may be helpful on that end. There's a study buddy group on the GMAT Knight blog you might want to check out.
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Hi machin94,

A 700 is an outstanding initial CAT score (the Average Score on the Official GMAT hovers around 550 most years) - so if you took this CAT under realistic testing conditions that match-up with how you will take the Official GMAT, then you are clearly a really strong overall critical thinker - which is great!

Before I can offer you the specific advice that you’re looking for, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

1) To confirm, was this Practice Test one of the two Free CAT Exams available at www.mba.com - or was the Test from some other source?
2) What study materials do you currently have access to?
3) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich

Contact Rich at: Rich.C@empowergmat.com
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That's a great score to begin with. Plan your study well to cover all topics, and for sure, you will taste success.

Hi machin94,

Since you are looking to improve in both SC and CR, here are two helpful articles you can check out:

GMAT Sentence Correction: 15 Essential Tips

GMAT Critical Reasoning: 8 Essential Tips
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