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03 Oct 2025, 15:53
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Hi everyone,
I just took the GMAT and would love your help analyzing my performance and advising me on how to improve to reach a score of 665. I’ve attached my score report below.
Test Order: Q 78 – DI 72 – V 80
Quant
This is where I made the biggest mistake.
Because of the Quant disaster, I couldn’t focus properly when starting DI.
I took a break between DI and Verbal.
Based my current score profile, what should I do to significantly improve DI (especially G&T), how can I raise my Quant to around 87, and what else can I do to strengthen Verbal?
Thanks a lot for any advice!
I just took the GMAT and would love your help analyzing my performance and advising me on how to improve to reach a score of 665. I’ve attached my score report below.
Test Order: Q 78 – DI 72 – V 80
Quant
This is where I made the biggest mistake.
- I spent 10+ minutes on the first 3 questions, which were heavy word problems.
- I solved them correctly, but my pacing collapsed afterwards.
- As a result, I got several very simple pure math questions wrong later—questions I’m sure I could normally get right.
Because of the Quant disaster, I couldn’t focus properly when starting DI.
- I was distracted and couldn’t concentrate on the first 3 questions.
- Time management wasn’t a problem overall, but I somehow got the last 6 questions wrong in a row.
- For reference, my prep scores in DI were 78 (Prep 1) and 77 (Prep 3). Could my poor performance here have been mainly due to my mental state?
I took a break between DI and Verbal.
- Verbal felt like my usual performance level.
- However, I was surprised that a raw score of 80 is only 56th percentile. Should I focus more on the scaled score or the percentile when tracking progress?
- I got almost all CR questions wrong
- RC mistakes were fewer.
But in the actual exam, my Verbal performance was much more balanced. Why would there be such a big difference between Prep and the real exam?
Based my current score profile, what should I do to significantly improve DI (especially G&T), how can I raise my Quant to around 87, and what else can I do to strengthen Verbal?
Thanks a lot for any advice!
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03 Oct 2025, 18:37
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For Verbal, consider checking out Manhattan-Prep's 6th Edition for Critical Reasoning. For RC, becoming familiar with how inference questions work may also be helpful. In case you find it takes you a bit of time to warm up, it may help to do a few questions beforehand (i.e. not letting the first questions you see on the day be those of the actual exam).
How to score high on GMAT Verbal.
How to score high on GMAT Verbal.
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Mistake 1. You should have skipped one of them or a few. May have been experimental. The new test (Focus edition) does not penalize as harshly for mistakes in the first 5-6. There was no reason for you to spend the time you did not have.
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Suggestion #2 (don't let the sections or questions influence each other. It is very hard so I would suggest taking your weakest section last so that you don't ruin the test. The reality however is that most people are bad judges of their performance, myself included.
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I would focus on percentile as it is easier to manage between Q, V, and DI where 80 means very different percentiles.
So I would say that the official test report is very helpful but not very useful. You should be analyzing your PRACTICE TEST scores and results. With this test, you have no questions to check and no other details. Sure, it is the real test, but it would be much better to analyze GMAT Prep where you can actually see the questions and topics and take actions.
It is really hard to say ANYTHING helpful about the real test result. A lot is in play. It is much better when they are looking at their practice tests and consistency across those.
