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Joined: 27 Nov 2023
Last visit: 18 Nov 2025
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Location: India
Concentration: Strategy, Technology
Schools: Ross '27 (WL) Tepper '27 (A$$)
GMAT Focus 1: 635 Q82 V81 DI81 
GMAT Focus 2: 695 Q86 V82 DI85
GPA: 8.6
WE:Supply Chain Management (Consulting)
Updated on: 24 Apr 2024, 12:43
Originally posted by alphaNew13 on 24 Apr 2024, 11:17.
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As I spent the last 4 months in a quest to get a higher GMAT score, I would love to share my experience with this wonderful community which was an impetus behind my success!
To start off with some background, as a working professional in management consulting, I decided to take a break from work and soley focus on my GMAT preperation. I went through most of the open source material available, OG's and focused on theory material in each of the 3 sections (Quant, Verbal & Data). My preparations went from bad to worse in the inital set of mocks ranging from 575 to 525. Stretching through the next couple of weeks and concentrating on 600-700 problems only, I ended with a 635 as my first official attempt. (Q-82, V-81, DI-81)
After a brief break and getting back to work, I was able to reach peak levels with my Quant, easily solving 700+ sums and getting good scores in GMATClub Sectional tests. But on the downside, my verbal expertise strangely came to an all time low. End of 1st Month, I still went ahead with an official mock to test my preparation and to no surprises there, ended with a 595....
Months 2&3 was a period of constantly pushing myself, barely scraping a few hours here and there alongside an intense work schedule and prearations werent really peaking as far as my performances were concerned. I pushed through spending extra hours on weekends, with a motive on just doing question bank after question bank via GMAT club search tags feature (Extremely underrated feature for anyone who isnt aware).
As the final month (Month 4) set in, I was able to get a 2-week break to solely focus on the exam and give it all I got once and for all. What I had learnt is that I needed uninterrupted 2-3 hours per day to get through question banks and prepare myself mentally for any sort of distractions without losing my rhythm. I went from looking at this from an exam testing my acadamic acumen to a mental endurance test as the key to success!
Spent the first week back in solving question banks and was feeling very good about my Quant and Verbal preperations reaching 83+ in GMATClub sectional tests. I took a mock 5 days later , in the morning(which was my initial plan on taking the exam) and ended up getting a 605 in the mocks......
Devestated, I took a break over the weekend, completely away from GMAT and restarted the next monday.
This time, with a lot of thought I made 2 major changes -
1. Swaped my exam pattern from Q-V-DI to Verbal-Quant-DI
2. Changed exam timing from morning to evening
These major changes gave me an inherent boost and excitement to experiment my change in strategy and it worked wonders!
Took a mock 3 days later, got to a 655 level in the mocks an booked an exam slot 3 days later (in the evening slot ofc)
Over the 3 days, took it easy, did mocks all 3 days getting scores in the range of 655-675 which gave me the ultimate boost.
During the last mock, I started losing touch over quant by doing rookie mistakes like spending too much time over a problem and its cascading effects.
I'm glad I faced these a day earlier and was prepared for this come the day of the exam.
On exam day, did the same thing as I had done the past 3 days and went to my exam center a little earlier and luckily they had a slot to start early.
As I finished my last DI question, and saw my final score of 695 (Q-86, V-82, DI-85) , I was overjoyed! All the hustle had finally paid off.
A big thank you to bb Bunuel KarishmaB chetan2u ScottTargetTestPrep and all the other moderators on the forum for providing answers, posting questions and especially the theory material that went a long way in my preparation.
For anyone who is on this very journey, I hope this experience can help you reach your goals!
To start off with some background, as a working professional in management consulting, I decided to take a break from work and soley focus on my GMAT preperation. I went through most of the open source material available, OG's and focused on theory material in each of the 3 sections (Quant, Verbal & Data). My preparations went from bad to worse in the inital set of mocks ranging from 575 to 525. Stretching through the next couple of weeks and concentrating on 600-700 problems only, I ended with a 635 as my first official attempt. (Q-82, V-81, DI-81)
After a brief break and getting back to work, I was able to reach peak levels with my Quant, easily solving 700+ sums and getting good scores in GMATClub Sectional tests. But on the downside, my verbal expertise strangely came to an all time low. End of 1st Month, I still went ahead with an official mock to test my preparation and to no surprises there, ended with a 595....
Months 2&3 was a period of constantly pushing myself, barely scraping a few hours here and there alongside an intense work schedule and prearations werent really peaking as far as my performances were concerned. I pushed through spending extra hours on weekends, with a motive on just doing question bank after question bank via GMAT club search tags feature (Extremely underrated feature for anyone who isnt aware).
As the final month (Month 4) set in, I was able to get a 2-week break to solely focus on the exam and give it all I got once and for all. What I had learnt is that I needed uninterrupted 2-3 hours per day to get through question banks and prepare myself mentally for any sort of distractions without losing my rhythm. I went from looking at this from an exam testing my acadamic acumen to a mental endurance test as the key to success!
Spent the first week back in solving question banks and was feeling very good about my Quant and Verbal preperations reaching 83+ in GMATClub sectional tests. I took a mock 5 days later , in the morning(which was my initial plan on taking the exam) and ended up getting a 605 in the mocks......
Devestated, I took a break over the weekend, completely away from GMAT and restarted the next monday.
This time, with a lot of thought I made 2 major changes -
1. Swaped my exam pattern from Q-V-DI to Verbal-Quant-DI
2. Changed exam timing from morning to evening
These major changes gave me an inherent boost and excitement to experiment my change in strategy and it worked wonders!
Took a mock 3 days later, got to a 655 level in the mocks an booked an exam slot 3 days later (in the evening slot ofc)
Over the 3 days, took it easy, did mocks all 3 days getting scores in the range of 655-675 which gave me the ultimate boost.
During the last mock, I started losing touch over quant by doing rookie mistakes like spending too much time over a problem and its cascading effects.
I'm glad I faced these a day earlier and was prepared for this come the day of the exam.
On exam day, did the same thing as I had done the past 3 days and went to my exam center a little earlier and luckily they had a slot to start early.
As I finished my last DI question, and saw my final score of 695 (Q-86, V-82, DI-85) , I was overjoyed! All the hustle had finally paid off.
A big thank you to bb Bunuel KarishmaB chetan2u ScottTargetTestPrep and all the other moderators on the forum for providing answers, posting questions and especially the theory material that went a long way in my preparation.
For anyone who is on this very journey, I hope this experience can help you reach your goals!
24 Apr 2024, 11:40
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Gratz on the score improvement. Consider writing a profile-review. You could mention your scoring info and the schools you're targeting, for example.
25 Apr 2024, 06:57
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