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19 Sep 2025, 14:28
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Hello all, Peter here, new to the forum. Looks like an awesome resource. A little bit about my current scenario.
My background is in accounting (including a bachelors and masters degree) and I am looking to apply for an accounting phd program, and as such am in the process of preparing for the GMAT. Deadlines for applications for academic year beginning fall 2026 are around the 12/1/2025 time frame. With this in mind, I am hoping to sit for the GMAT ideally no later than 11/1/2025.
I began preparing a little over 3 weeks ago (late August). The very first thing I did was to go in cold and take a free practice test on sigmax - I scored 485 on this test. With this score I figured I probably could benefit from learning the basics, so my next step was to purchase the Manhattan prep textbooks: All the Quant + DI and All the Verbal. I spent about 3 hrs a day over the next three weeks (about 60 hours total) reading through these books, highlighting and taking notes where appropriate, and completing the small number of questions provided in the book. After this, I took a gmat official practice test (today) and scored a 555. While this was a substantial improvement (70 points), I am still a way off from my goal score of 705.
My main question is what those of you who have reached up near or into the 700s would suggest. I probably have about 5-6 weeks of prep time remaining before I ideally must take the test. I am in between jobs at the moment, and this being so probably will have 3-4hrs a day available to devote to study. One last note, when I was getting started on my studies I did purchase the GMAT official guide book + online question bank, so I do have access to that as well, although I have not really begun either yet. The main options that came to mind after taking the second practice test today were to either proceed to the GMAT official guide book and questions, which I am pretty sure I could complete in under the 5-6 week time frame, then take another practice test? Or to try out another prep course like TTP. Or maybe some combination if time permits? I guess I wonder if 5-6 weeks would be enough to realize strong utilization out of TTP?
Anyway, any advice or suggestions on next steps to bump that score up from 555 would be greatly appreciated!
P.S. in the practice test I took today, my scores were 75 (51st percentile) on DI, 77 on quantitative reasoning (46th percentile) and 80 (60th percentile) on verbal reasoning.
My background is in accounting (including a bachelors and masters degree) and I am looking to apply for an accounting phd program, and as such am in the process of preparing for the GMAT. Deadlines for applications for academic year beginning fall 2026 are around the 12/1/2025 time frame. With this in mind, I am hoping to sit for the GMAT ideally no later than 11/1/2025.
I began preparing a little over 3 weeks ago (late August). The very first thing I did was to go in cold and take a free practice test on sigmax - I scored 485 on this test. With this score I figured I probably could benefit from learning the basics, so my next step was to purchase the Manhattan prep textbooks: All the Quant + DI and All the Verbal. I spent about 3 hrs a day over the next three weeks (about 60 hours total) reading through these books, highlighting and taking notes where appropriate, and completing the small number of questions provided in the book. After this, I took a gmat official practice test (today) and scored a 555. While this was a substantial improvement (70 points), I am still a way off from my goal score of 705.
My main question is what those of you who have reached up near or into the 700s would suggest. I probably have about 5-6 weeks of prep time remaining before I ideally must take the test. I am in between jobs at the moment, and this being so probably will have 3-4hrs a day available to devote to study. One last note, when I was getting started on my studies I did purchase the GMAT official guide book + online question bank, so I do have access to that as well, although I have not really begun either yet. The main options that came to mind after taking the second practice test today were to either proceed to the GMAT official guide book and questions, which I am pretty sure I could complete in under the 5-6 week time frame, then take another practice test? Or to try out another prep course like TTP. Or maybe some combination if time permits? I guess I wonder if 5-6 weeks would be enough to realize strong utilization out of TTP?
Anyway, any advice or suggestions on next steps to bump that score up from 555 would be greatly appreciated!
P.S. in the practice test I took today, my scores were 75 (51st percentile) on DI, 77 on quantitative reasoning (46th percentile) and 80 (60th percentile) on verbal reasoning.
20 Sep 2025, 03:45
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Consider checking out the Share GMAT Experience subforum. You could see what people who've scored well/improved their scores (e.g. on Quant) have done/used during their prep journeys. Another quick suggestion would be to check out the myth vs. fact info in the beginning of the official-guide and the scoring factors mentioned on the Understanding Your Score page on the MBA website. All the best with the prep. There's a Quant 'Cheat' Sheet on the gmatknight tutoring blog you can also check out.
20 Sep 2025, 10:24
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Hi commodiaut,
Welcome to GMAT Club. Yes I think your logical next step should be extensive practice using the OG. Your Manhattan books, if purchased new, should come with Manhattan's own question bank with 1,000+ questions. But since you purchased the OG already, why not go for the original source.
If you need to deep dive into certain Quant topics, you can also leverage the following Quant "encyclopedia" by Bunuel:
Ultimate GMAT Quantitative Preparation Guide.
Manhattan's verbal guides are the gold standard. What you need should be just keep practicing the strategies you learned from the books.
Also I would suggest taking official mock tests from mba.com. Maybe once every two weeks initially and one every week towards your exam date.
All the best.
Welcome to GMAT Club. Yes I think your logical next step should be extensive practice using the OG. Your Manhattan books, if purchased new, should come with Manhattan's own question bank with 1,000+ questions. But since you purchased the OG already, why not go for the original source.
If you need to deep dive into certain Quant topics, you can also leverage the following Quant "encyclopedia" by Bunuel:
Ultimate GMAT Quantitative Preparation Guide.
Manhattan's verbal guides are the gold standard. What you need should be just keep practicing the strategies you learned from the books.
Also I would suggest taking official mock tests from mba.com. Maybe once every two weeks initially and one every week towards your exam date.
All the best.
commodiaut
