Need to improve 30/40 points asap! Help!

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Hi,

Once again, I am writing a new topic.. as I am struggling to improve my GMAT score. 
I have an inconsistent score of 495 and 475 points, but I need to get a score of 525. I need to improve it within 3/4 weeks. 
These are the scores I am getting:

Test 1 mba (free test) - 495
Quant 70
Verbal 79
DI 75

Test 2 mba (free test) - 495
Quant 75
Verbal 78
DI 71

Test 3 mba - 475
Quant 77
Verbal 74
DI 70

-> For test 3, I experience the questions for Verbal and DI were for sure more difficult than test 1 and test 2. This discouraged me during the test as well and I lost my concentration many times.

How can I improve my score to the desired score? And to be able to do this, where do I start and how do I improve it by focussing/doing exercises on which platform?

Any tips, strategy, everything is welcome! 
It is quite discouraging that I am not getting the desired score and even went backwards with some categories.

Thank you so much in advance!

VirenderSingh092 · Answer

Can you elaborate a bit more on your strategy so far?

hello12345678910 · Answer

I am working full time, so I always study 1/2 hour on weekdays and during the weekend, I study around 5hrs each day. 
I bought the official guide from mba, so I practice the exercises for easy and medium level. Each category I study in a set of 5 questions with 10 minutes on exam mode (online). I try to switch the categories, but lately I focussed more on Quant and DI since I scored it worse on test 2.

Do you have tips on how I can improve?

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

If CR assumption questions are a bit of an issue, consider checking out the negation technique. For RC, becoming familiar with how inference questions work may also help a bit. For Quant, seeing whether you can leverage the answer choices and, for DI, taking a "question first" approach sometimes could also be helpful.

How to score high on GMAT Verbal.

How to score high on GMAT Verbal.

hello12345678910 · Answer

Thank you! I will try. I am mostly struggling with DS questions and RC is soo long to read + answer the questions!

Do you have any tips how to study, as in material wise and how to improve score?

GMATinsight · Answer

hello12345678910

My suggestion goes in one line "Take professional help to boost your score"

I would be happy to offer you a free trial session and assess the problem area and suggest the remedial action to be taken.

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Hi hello12345678910,

I'm sorry to hear how things have been going with your GMAT. Regarding how to move forward, a great way to improve your skills is with topical learning and practice. In other words, be sure to focus on just ONE quant or verbal topic at a time and practice just that topic until you achieve mastery. If you can study that way, you will start seeing incremental improvement.
 
For example, let's say you are studying Number Properties. First, you'll need to learn all you can about that topic, and then practice only Number Property questions. After each problem set, thoroughly analyze your incorrect questions. For example, ask yourself why if you got a remainder question wrong. Did you make a careless mistake? Did you not properly apply the remainder formula? Was there a concept you did not understand in the question?
 
By carefully analyzing your mistakes, you will be able to fix your weaknesses efficiently and, in turn, improve your GMAT quant skills. Number Properties is just one example; follow this process for all quant and verbal topics.

For some more tips on the best way to structure your studying, here is a great article:

The Best Way to Study for the GMAT

Good luck!

RetaketheGMAT · Answer

There's probably an element of you "fighting the test". What I mean by that is approaching the GMAT like other tests you've taken before.

Make sure you spend time seeing what consistent approaches are most effective in each question type. Like in CR (for example), narrowing down the argument to 10 words in your own mind is really effective at eliminating all the clutter in the question stem and getting laser focus on exactly what's most important to answer the question. Just one example.

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