Help: How to go from 720 to 740+ in 1 month?

Hi everyone,

I have been preparing for gmat for 3-4 months now. I am planning to retake the exam within a month, hoping to score 740 or higher since this score will put me in above average section wrt gmat scores of schools I am targeting(T15) and improve my chances for scholarship

Materials used in First Attempt:

Verbal:
Learnt Basic of SC through a course(Gmat whiz)
Solved OG and verbal review all questions.
Quant:
Solved some advanced sets by Bunuel

Took 6 GMAT prep Mocks:
Ranging from 700-730 (Q49-51 , V34-V40)
last 2 (5 and 6) i got V39 and V40 - which boosted my confidence


the above took around 2-3 months of time spending 3-5 hrs everyday

Took first attempt in June - 640 Q50 V26
Cancelled the score
I was overwhelmed by verbal
writing exam with mask felt weird.

Decided to concentrate on improving my verbal - mainly improve my reading (big RC passages scared me away)

Materials used in second attempt:

Verbal:
Resolved the OG verbal questions
Did the RC and CR comprehensive set of questions by souvik101990
Did the Hundred 700+ SC questions

Solving a lot of RC and CR improved my comfort with the verbal sections

For Mocks:
Used MGMAT 5 mocks:
Scored v33-v36 and Q44-Q47 ( but I knew Q section had hard question with less time compared to gmat prep, and they have a amazing mock analysis system where we can see score after each question, so before running out of time I was always at Q51)

Gmat Prep:
Retook 3 of them 730,760,760
Some repeat questions so scores were inflated\

Wrote my mocks with masks on

Just a week away I started using error log for SC and was able to learn some new concepts
After 1 month from my first attempt. I took the second one recently.


Score 720 Q50 V37 IR7 AWA 3.5
-Accepted the score
-How much ever I practiced some new SC questions appears in the exam (first question because of which I lost extra minute and just randomly selected the answer)
-3rd RC passage was long and difficult - spend 3-4 minutes extra and probably only got 2/4 correct.
-I ran out of time and randomly chose answers for last 5-6 questions.


Looking to retake within a month before R1 applications.
I think my weakness are:
1) Hard questions in all categories
2) Long RC passages.
3) Average Verbal question timing.

I am not able to attach my ESR here.
Sub Section Rankings(percentile):
CR - 75
RC - 71
SC - 78

Time Management:
Overall - 1:46
CR - 1:40
RC 2:17
SC : 1:24

Percent Correct:
1st Quarter - 62%
2nd Quarter - 71%
3rd Quarter - 71%
4th Quarter - 62%

How Can I reach my Target Score? souvik101990 Bunuel GMATNinja