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Here's a fun question to which there is obviously no definitive answer:
Could you pick a random (English-speaking) person off the street and, at least most of the time, tutor / coach them to a 700+ GMAT score within a year, if they were willing to work hard enough and do everything you say?
I guess what I'm asking is: is a 700+ GMAT score in reach of the average English speaker, or is it like dunking a basketball, where no matter how hard we try, most of us will never achieve this feat? After all, it's "only" 88th percentile: https://www.mba.com/exams/gmat/after-th ... king-means
I like to think that I can coach almost anyone to a 700+ score, but even I will admit that I first prefer to see proof of a 500+ score, preferably a 550+ score.
Yes, of course I heard about that one person who improved 530 points, verified, from their worst score (250) to their best (780), but I think we can agree that the average 1% GMAT scorer will never score 99%. (Prior to that, the most improvement we had ever seen here on GMAT Club was 350 points.)
Even the person who improved 550 points took their two GMATs nearly 5 years apart, and admitted that they gave up a bit on that 250 attempt.
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Could you pick a random (English-speaking) person off the street and, at least most of the time, tutor / coach them to a 700+ GMAT score within a year, if they were willing to work hard enough and do everything you say?
I guess what I'm asking is: is a 700+ GMAT score in reach of the average English speaker, or is it like dunking a basketball, where no matter how hard we try, most of us will never achieve this feat? After all, it's "only" 88th percentile: https://www.mba.com/exams/gmat/after-th ... king-means
I like to think that I can coach almost anyone to a 700+ score, but even I will admit that I first prefer to see proof of a 500+ score, preferably a 550+ score.
Yes, of course I heard about that one person who improved 530 points, verified, from their worst score (250) to their best (780), but I think we can agree that the average 1% GMAT scorer will never score 99%. (Prior to that, the most improvement we had ever seen here on GMAT Club was 350 points.)
Even the person who improved 550 points took their two GMATs nearly 5 years apart, and admitted that they gave up a bit on that 250 attempt.
-Brian
Posted from my mobile device
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