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Hello,

I have just taken my first diagnostic GMAT test (Official Practice Exam #1 from mba.com) and my results are the following: Overall score: 495
Quant: 75
Verbal: 79
DI: 70. ( I took them in that order)

So far I have studied for a few hours the review from the official practise book for each part to get a taste of the test. Moreover, I have done 5-6 questions from each category to get a little familiar with the question types.

During my moc test I found quant generally okay and doable. I answered all questions on time and I didn’t face any particular time pressure except for some difficult questions that I answered intuitively so I don’t waste time.

On the other hand I did find the verbal very difficult to handle. Even though I have recently taken the IELTS exam with 9.0 on reading, I found it difficult to understand the texts in such a few minutes and therefore I answered many questions intuitively. I had a great problem with time management and the professional style of the questions.

As for the Data Insights I also faced a time management issue. Even though I understood the questions I took more time than I should in the first questions and therefore I answered 4 questions completely out of luck and I didn’t manage to answer 1 question. I would really like a good mark on DI because I want to study Data Analytics.

If anyone feels confident to give me feedback please do so! Thank you in advance!
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A good strategy would be to focus heavily on improving Verbal first. Since DI combines both quantitative reasoning and verbal interpretation, stronger Verbal skills will naturally help you perform better in many DI question types, especially Multi-Source Reasoning, Two-Part Analysis, and Table Analysis. As your Verbal accuracy and speed improve, you should see parallel gains in DI, along with better time management across both sections.
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its a baseline score , u can prep for 1 month and take the mock again
since DI is mix of both quants and verbal its better to prep verbal and quants first
later move to DI - u can finish faster
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A 495 taken after just a few hours of review is a starting point, not a verdict. You've barely begun studying, so this score mostly tells you the size of the gap between where you are and where you want to be. It doesn't tell you much yet about your real strengths and weaknesses, because you haven't had the chance to learn the material. Treat it as a baseline to plan around, not a diagnosis.

The most useful thing I can do is reframe what you're calling a time management problem, because it shows up in both Verbal and DI and it's the key to everything else. What feels like a speed issue is almost always a skills issue underneath. When you haven't learned the content and the approaches, every question becomes something you work out from scratch, and that's slow. You felt it in Verbal and DI, where you answered intuitively, and less in Quant, where more was familiar. Speed is a byproduct of mastery, not something you train separately.

On Verbal, your 9.0 on IELTS reading is a real asset and tells me your English is strong. But GMAT Verbal isn't a general reading test. It's Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension, with dense, argument-driven passages in exactly the professional style you noticed, and questions that test the structure of an argument, what an author implies, why a paragraph is there. Being a strong reader doesn't automatically carry over to that. The fix isn't to read faster, which usually lowers accuracy. It's to learn how the question types work and how to read a passage for its structure rather than absorbing every detail, then build that skill through focused practice.

DI is similar. You spent too long early and had to rush at the end, but the reason is the same: the five DI question types each have their own approach, and you haven't learned them yet. Given that you want to do well on it for Data Analytics, here's the key point. DI pulls Quant and Verbal concepts into new formats, so it gets much easier once those foundations are solid. That's why I wouldn't start with DI. Build Quant and Verbal first, then give DI dedicated, structured attention later, one question type at a time. One thing you can do immediately: never leave a DI question blank. An unanswered question at the end of a section costs you more than a wrong guess does, so if you're out of time, always put in an answer.

Quant is your relative strength, and that's a good place to start from. But you were still guessing intuitively on the harder questions, so the harder content isn't automatic yet either. Don't set Quant aside. It's where you have the most momentum, and building it systematically pays off directly in DI.

To build all of this, the approach that works is topic-by-topic learning. Take one topic at a time, learn the concepts thoroughly, then practice only that topic, untimed at first, until your accuracy is consistently high. For every miss, figure out what went wrong: a concept you hadn't learned, a misread, a careless error, or a trap answer? That review is where most improvement happens. Once a topic is solid, add timing, then mix topics into broader sets. You're currently working from a few hours of review and a handful of questions, which isn't enough structure to build real mastery. A comprehensive, structured course that teaches the material topic by topic, in the right order, with accuracy tracking, tends to be far more efficient than assembling things piece by piece across three sections you're starting fresh on.

The one thing your diagnostic can't tell you is how far you have to go, because that depends on a target you haven't set. So your real first step is to decide on a target score based on the programs you're interested in, and a realistic timeline. With those numbers next to your 495, the size of the work becomes clear, and the plan gets built through the study above, not from the mock itself.

This article walks through how to build that plan: How to Make a GMAT Study Plan.


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Hello,

I have just taken my first diagnostic GMAT test (Official Practice Exam #1 from mba.com) and my results are the following: Overall score: 495
Quant: 75
Verbal: 79
DI: 70. ( I took them in that order)

So far I have studied for a few hours the review from the official practise book for each part to get a taste of the test. Moreover, I have done 5-6 questions from each category to get a little familiar with the question types.

During my moc test I found quant generally okay and doable. I answered all questions on time and I didn’t face any particular time pressure except for some difficult questions that I answered intuitively so I don’t waste time.

On the other hand I did find the verbal very difficult to handle. Even though I have recently taken the IELTS exam with 9.0 on reading, I found it difficult to understand the texts in such a few minutes and therefore I answered many questions intuitively. I had a great problem with time management and the professional style of the questions.

As for the Data Insights I also faced a time management issue. Even though I understood the questions I took more time than I should in the first questions and therefore I answered 4 questions completely out of luck and I didn’t manage to answer 1 question. I would really like a good mark on DI because I want to study Data Analytics.

If anyone feels confident to give me feedback please do so! Thank you in advance!
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