Need 180 point improvement in 1.5 months

It was so important post.

Please guide here.

Hi Priya,

To start, since you're interested in some highly-competitive Schools, you would likely find it beneficial to speak with an Admissions Expert about your overall profile. There's a Forum full of those Experts here:

https://gmatclub.com/forum/ask-admissio ... tants-124/

GMAC has publicly stated that the Official Score that you earn on Test Day is within +/- 30 points of actual ability. Assuming a similar 'swing' in how your CATs function, 3 of your recent CAT score results show that you essentially performed the same each time (about 560 +/- a few points); the 640 and 470 are 'outliers', so they are likely NOT reflective of your actual 'ability level.' You handle certain aspects of the GMAT consistently well, but you also make certain consistent mistakes.

Raising a 560 to the point that you can consistently score 740+ will likely require at least another 3 months of consistent, guided study - and you'll have to make significant improvements to how you handle BOTH the Quant and Verbal sections. Thankfully, the GMAT is a consistent, predictable Exam, so you CAN train to score at a higher level. Unfortunately, your current timeframe gives you just 1.5 months of study time - and that type of score improvement in such a short period of time is probably too difficult to be considered realistic. If you don't actually "need" a Score that high, then the time needed might change - but if you're going to keep studying until you hit 740+, then you can potentially save some money and aggravation by pushing back your planned Test Date.

1) Going forward, how many hours do you think you can consistently study each week?

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

Hi Priya,
I'm am an Indian myself.
I understand that your ambition and goals are something of a stretch for now as you only have 1.5 months
Give the first official Practice test. There are 6. Save the 5 for later. See your current relevant position

I would truly advice you to apply in round 1 NEXT year and not ruin your score by rushing
EMPOWERgmatRichC has guided me during my exam phase too
Also test center condition need to be good too. I reached a 760 on my last official practice test, but, on test day fell to 700 because of my allergies
Since I had exhausted my material, no use in taking test again
Don't do the same mistakes that I did.
Give GMAT when you're ready, research the schools, know what you want, why do you want to do an MBA, there has to be more to it than brand of ivy league, good luck.

p.s. top college of country would be IIT, NIT, BITS
No other names are quite well known

My best recommendation for people who really need to see a jump in score, is to DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT than what you've been doing -- in other words, get some different resources. Buy a different book, take a different class online, do something, anything different, if you want to get different results.