strategy needed for 715+

Question

Hello out there,
I faced gmat recently.
I took e gmat course and in mock i scored around 640-630.
Official mock i got 605.
I am consistent with Quant at Q82-Q87.
and in verbal i scored V73-V83.
and in DI D75-79.
But in actual it's 
Q84 (3 incorrect)
V81 (50%ile CR/ 71%ile RC)
D73 (DS 100%ile)
Overall 595
From here how to move to 715+?
Any valuable feedback is appreciated by side.
Thank You in advance.

SarfrazAP · Answer

Target a 655-665 score first. Once you get there, plan on how to get to a 715+. Because the two will require different approaches. And keep in mind that your score on test day will typically be 20-30 points lower than your average score in the official mocks. So your previous score was a true score given you were scoring around 630 in the mocks.
 
The biggest problem area for you seems to be DI. In my experience, most people don't devote enough time to their DI prep. So if you are one of those, then spend 70% of your prep time on DI now. Feel free to reach out if you need some good resources for DI.

quamaliquam · Answer

Do provide me some good resources and which platform should i use for mock and all

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

First thing worth noting: your official mock came in at 605 and your actual at 595. Those are basically the same result, so the 595 is a fair reading of where your prep sits. I would set the 630 to 640 from the unofficial mocks aside.

Your section ranges say something too. Verbal swung from V73 to V83, a 10-point spread, and Quant from Q82 to Q87. That kind of variation usually means some topics are solid and others are still being worked out in the moment, and which ones show up decides your score that day. Deep mastery tightens the range.

595 to 715 is a 120-point climb. Every section has to move, Quant included. Q84 is your best of the three and it still has room.

On Quant, you missed only 3 questions and scored Q84 because the test is adaptive, and the score reflects the difficulty of what you get right and wrong, not just the count. Moving up is not about missing fewer questions. It is about holding accuracy as the questions get harder, which comes from depth in the topics where your approach is not automatic yet.

Verbal points at CR. At the 50th percentile against RC's 71st, that is where the loss is. Get precise about identifying an argument's conclusion, its support, and the gap between them, and do not assume the conclusion is the last sentence. Cover all the question types, not just Strengthen, Weaken, and Assumption. Practice untimed while you are building the skill. When you are down to two choices, articulate the specific logical reason one works and the other does not rather than going with feel. And watch for word-matching, since correct answers usually paraphrase while traps echo the passage.

DI is your biggest gap and the clearest read. DS at the 100th percentile with a D73 means Table Analysis, Graphics Interpretation, Two-Part Analysis, and Multi-Source Reasoning are where the section is bleeding. Some of that is format familiarity and clears up with exposure. The rest is content, since DI is Quant and Verbal in unfamiliar packaging. Get Q and V stronger and DI rises with them.

So: Quant and Verbal in parallel, one topic at a time, until your accuracy on that topic is consistently high. For every miss, name the cause: concept gap, misread, careless error, or trap answer. Then redo the question cold a few days later. Keep DI light early, then put real time into those four question types once your foundations are there.

Hold off on more mocks for now. They are a measurement tool, and taking more will not move your prep forward. When you go back to them, use official ones.

And don't lock in a date and squeeze the prep into it. Let the date follow your readiness.

Hope this helps, and good luck with your prep.

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