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Ok, I just noticed that you are the founder of the website. Perhaps I should ask you for tips instead.

Ha-Ha. Not sure. Once you get to that level it is really hard to give good tips, since diff elements impact diff people.
I found that reading helped me the most to improve my verbal. Good luck though. I know for MBA it is not worth getting a higher score once you got 760 but for the PhD maybe a diff story.

Why is it not worth getting a higher score than 760 for an MBA? Do admissions boards just lump applications with high scores together? What about a jump from 760 to 800?

760 is 99th percentile. The only 2 reasons some people go beyond 730 or 720 to 760 are: 1)Scholarship opportunity and 2)Teaching for a GMAT Prep company that may require 99th percentile.


The majority believes that the top 20 schools consider GMAT as a check-mark and usually 700 earns it.
It is possible to get into Harvard or stanford with 650.

Most believe that spending the time on the application package (essays, letters of recommendation, community service, interview prep, etc) has a greater benefit than going let's say from 750 to 780 or 800. The 800 is a great score and so far I don't think anyone officially had it (a few claimed but nobody would confirm it with me) but it is really hard to get and the value besides (wow) is not really there. I believe the stats is that 50 people per year do get 800

Here is an interesting discussion to that topic: stanford-rejects-perfect-scores-of-applicants-92372.html

That makes perfect sense. Getting an 800 on the GMAT is a personal goal for me. I run a tutoring business, and an 800 score would be a great qualification for marketing. I'll study up on the verbal, take the test, and let you know how I do.

Wow. This seems to be great trick to save time during exam.