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I sat on writing this for a while, mostly because my first attempt was a mess. But the jump from a 625 to a 725 came down to a handful of very specific things I'd have killed for someone to just spell out a year ago.
Background and the first attempt
Working professional here. I started thinking about the GMAT around three years ago and was extremely on-and-off about it. A senior recommended e-GMAT, I signed up, and then made the classic mistake of treating it as something I could do casually around work. My diagnostic came in at 595 (V81, Q78, DI79) and I told myself I'd clean it up in a few months. I didn't actually get serious until the last four or five months.
Quant — the wake-up call
This is the section that humbled me. I walked in assuming Quant was basically tenth-standard stuff. I'd been through the modules, knew the formulas, figured I was sorted. First attempt came back at the 54th percentile. I literally remember telling my mentor Shubham "I'm not this bad at Quant," and, well, the score disagreed. The problem was I knew formulae but had no feel for how questions get twisted on the exam. Algebra and a few Number Properties question types genuinely put me off — I'd see one and freeze. What fixed it wasn't more theory — it was not moving past a weak sub-topic until I hit ~70-80% on medium and 60% on hard, and grinding new questions on Scholaranium and Neuron instead of re-reading lessons. I got through basically the whole hard Neuron bank for Quant. The day I cleared the hard Word Problems cementing quiz at 80%, I was embarrassingly happy about it.
Verbal — the one I was dreading
Data Insights
Honestly, DI got the least time from me, and it still went from 79 to 87. Part of that is I do this kind of analysis at work, but the modules were comprehensive enough that I never needed outside material. The one thing that nearly wrecked me was MSR — it's like RC and Quant stacked on top of each other. I was burning close to four minutes just opening tabs and reading everything before I'd even looked at the question. Shubham's fix was dull but effective: skim the passage just enough to know what it's about, then only dig into the tab the specific question needs. And a hard ceiling of three minutes on anything. That rule alone saved me from running out of time at the end.
What actually changed in the last couple of months
First attempt, I was a jack of all trades — a bit of everything every day, never really closing anything out. It felt productive and got me a 625. The second time I rebuilt everything around the personalized study plan and around hitting my target in mocks repeatedly before booking a date. I was also on LMP for the closing phase, so I was in touch with Shubham almost daily, sometimes a few emails a day, and he'd actually reply. The most useful thing he did was go through my data section by section and tell me, bluntly, where I was wasting time versus where the real gaps were — you can't see your own patterns from the inside. He also kept me grounded: when I sent him that 80% cementing result clearly fishing for a "well done," I got a deliberately flat reply so I wouldn't get carried away over one milestone. Mildly annoying at the time, correct in hindsight. If you can get that kind of outside read on your habits for the final stretch, take it.
Test day
Day before, the advice was to do zero new questions — just trust the prep. I watched some random show and got nine hours of sleep. My order was Verbal, Quant, break, DI. Going in fresh genuinely bought me a couple of points — it's a 2h15 test and being fried halfway through quietly costs you. You'll still be nervous — I was anxious in the car ride over — and that's fine.
If you're earlier in this
Two things. Stop trying to be good at everything — find the one or two question types in each section you keep missing and obsess over those. You won't be weak across the board, it's always a few specific patterns. And keep an error log you actually use: make your mistakes now, log them, clear them out one at a time. I made a ton and I'm glad I did, because I wasn't making them on exam day.
Background and the first attempt
Working professional here. I started thinking about the GMAT around three years ago and was extremely on-and-off about it. A senior recommended e-GMAT, I signed up, and then made the classic mistake of treating it as something I could do casually around work. My diagnostic came in at 595 (V81, Q78, DI79) and I told myself I'd clean it up in a few months. I didn't actually get serious until the last four or five months.
Quant — the wake-up call
This is the section that humbled me. I walked in assuming Quant was basically tenth-standard stuff. I'd been through the modules, knew the formulas, figured I was sorted. First attempt came back at the 54th percentile. I literally remember telling my mentor Shubham "I'm not this bad at Quant," and, well, the score disagreed. The problem was I knew formulae but had no feel for how questions get twisted on the exam. Algebra and a few Number Properties question types genuinely put me off — I'd see one and freeze. What fixed it wasn't more theory — it was not moving past a weak sub-topic until I hit ~70-80% on medium and 60% on hard, and grinding new questions on Scholaranium and Neuron instead of re-reading lessons. I got through basically the whole hard Neuron bank for Quant. The day I cleared the hard Word Problems cementing quiz at 80%, I was embarrassingly happy about it.
Verbal — the one I was dreading
Funny how it goes: Verbal was the section I was most scared of, and it ended up one of my best (81 to 86). I spent close to one and a half to two months on CR alone. Pre-thinking — forcing yourself to anticipate where the argument is heading before you touch the options — was the unlock. But the bigger fix was admitting that on attempt one I'd lived on medium questions. It's very easy to do 80% on mediums, feel ready, then get taken apart. The hard cementing quizzes killed that illusion fast (4 or 5 out of 10 at first, which stings). They also showed me Evaluate and Weaken questions specifically were my leaks, so I drilled exactly those instead of redoing the whole syllabus.
Data Insights
Honestly, DI got the least time from me, and it still went from 79 to 87. Part of that is I do this kind of analysis at work, but the modules were comprehensive enough that I never needed outside material. The one thing that nearly wrecked me was MSR — it's like RC and Quant stacked on top of each other. I was burning close to four minutes just opening tabs and reading everything before I'd even looked at the question. Shubham's fix was dull but effective: skim the passage just enough to know what it's about, then only dig into the tab the specific question needs. And a hard ceiling of three minutes on anything. That rule alone saved me from running out of time at the end.
What actually changed in the last couple of months
First attempt, I was a jack of all trades — a bit of everything every day, never really closing anything out. It felt productive and got me a 625. The second time I rebuilt everything around the personalized study plan and around hitting my target in mocks repeatedly before booking a date. I was also on LMP for the closing phase, so I was in touch with Shubham almost daily, sometimes a few emails a day, and he'd actually reply. The most useful thing he did was go through my data section by section and tell me, bluntly, where I was wasting time versus where the real gaps were — you can't see your own patterns from the inside. He also kept me grounded: when I sent him that 80% cementing result clearly fishing for a "well done," I got a deliberately flat reply so I wouldn't get carried away over one milestone. Mildly annoying at the time, correct in hindsight. If you can get that kind of outside read on your habits for the final stretch, take it.
Test day
Day before, the advice was to do zero new questions — just trust the prep. I watched some random show and got nine hours of sleep. My order was Verbal, Quant, break, DI. Going in fresh genuinely bought me a couple of points — it's a 2h15 test and being fried halfway through quietly costs you. You'll still be nervous — I was anxious in the car ride over — and that's fine.
If you're earlier in this
Two things. Stop trying to be good at everything — find the one or two question types in each section you keep missing and obsess over those. You won't be weak across the board, it's always a few specific patterns. And keep an error log you actually use: make your mistakes now, log them, clear them out one at a time. I made a ton and I'm glad I did, because I wasn't making them on exam day.
Happy to answer anything in the comments. Good luck.
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21 Jul 2026, 05:32
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congrats for score.. all the best with applications..
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Congrats on the huge improvement! Going from 625 to 725 is seriously impressive. Thanks for taking the time to write this up there are a lot of practical tips here that will definitely help people preparing for the GMAT.
