Hi
nsa35Thanks for reaching out on the forum, it feels good to see you coming out and asking for advice.
Looking at your scores, I can say that you need significant improvement in both Verbal and Quant. Majority of students falter in their GMAT exam because they start their preparation with OG.
This is a major mistake because if you start your preparation by solving OG questions, you are skipping to practicing questions without learning the concepts. This is a trial-and-error based preparation methodology which cause a two-fold problem:
1. It increases your preparation time by up-to 5X.
2. You tend to miss out on concepts even after solving many questions.
We have helped more than 25,000 people in last 1 year in achieving their target of a good GMAT score. Maximum people attributed their success to the structured process which we suggested them. I suggest you break your preparation into 3 stages and follow the below plan:
Stage – 1 Learn the concepts
Stage – 2 Cement the concepts by practicing a sub-section in Isolation
Stage – 3 Become test ready (practicing all the sub-sections together)
If you follow the above approach you can expect your preparation to get over in a timeline of 2-3 months with 18 hours of preparation time per week.
You can also analyse your ability topic-wise and skip stages if you are good in a topic, this will expedite your preparation even further.
Prawee (550 to 740) used all the books and local coaching classes but was unable to improve her GMAT score beyond a certain point. She changed her approach and finally scored 740 in her 5th attempt and got a $180,000 fellowship cumulatively from 3 top business schools. She is currently pursuing MBA from Kellogg. Kellogg was once not even on her radar.
7 Steps – How to score 700+ on the GMAT You can start your preparation by giving a mock to test your current ability.
Hope the above strategy get you to your target score
Deepak
e-GMAT strategy Expert