SOS! 6 days to D-Day, Help!

Probably, your move is to focus on some weaker areas of quant and master them one at a time. To master an area of quant, review the relevant concepts and strategies and then do practice questions, UNTIMED at first and working on answering them at test pace once you're getting them correct consistently.

From what you said, I get the impression that you haven't been preparing for quant in the way I just outlined and that your quant score has stagnated for that reason.

For some additional insights into how best to prepare for GMAT quant, see this post.

How to Increase Your GMAT Quant Score: Top 25 Tips

Also, you could practice quant and verbal as discussed in this post.

The Best GMAT Practice Methods


You can cancel your score after you take the test, either right then or within 72 hours. If you cancel it, no schools will see it.


If for some reason you feel that your upcoming test date is your last practical opportunity to take the GMAT, then I guess you have to do your best to prepare over the next six days and see how you do. In that case, even if you don't achieve your score goal, you could apply to European schools along with some top 10 US schools as reaches.

However, the truth is that you started off with a relatively high baseline score but haven't been preparing for quant in an effective way and haven't done all that much to prepare for verbal. So, basically, you're considering changing your target schools because of your GMAT score when you haven't really prepared for the test.

People commonly achieve GMAT score increases of 150 points or more with effective preparation, and some achieve increases of 300 points or more.

So, if you can take the GMAT at a later date, such as toward the beginning of December, I'm sure that, with effective preparation, you can score 740 or significantly higher.

In case you take the latter route or in case you you continue to prepare for verbal over the next six days, for some additional insights into how to prepare effectively for GMAT verbal see this post.

How to Score High on GMAT Verbal