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Many people wonder, "How much can I increase my GMAT score?" or "What's the biggest possible GMAT score increase?"
My answer to people who ask me is that they can increase their GMAT scores as much as they want. In other words, their GMAT scores will continue to increase as long as they keep preparing and finding levers to pull to improve their skills and increase their scores.
At the same time, in addition to understanding the logic of the idea that continued preparation will lead to continued development and score increases, it's great to see what others have done to increase their GMAT scores both because the fact that someone else has achieved a huge score increase is a strong reminder that you can too and because people who have achieved score increases have great insights to offer regarding how to do so.
Accordingly, I've created this post that includes some of the biggest GMAT score increases mentioned on GMAT Club, including what's probably the biggest GMAT score increase ever, 530 points, so that people can be inspired and learn how to achieve their own huge GMAT score increases.
If you know of a huge GMAT score increase (280 points or more) to add, you can DM me a link to a post associated with the increase, and I'll add it to the list.
My answer to people who ask me is that they can increase their GMAT scores as much as they want. In other words, their GMAT scores will continue to increase as long as they keep preparing and finding levers to pull to improve their skills and increase their scores.
At the same time, in addition to understanding the logic of the idea that continued preparation will lead to continued development and score increases, it's great to see what others have done to increase their GMAT scores both because the fact that someone else has achieved a huge score increase is a strong reminder that you can too and because people who have achieved score increases have great insights to offer regarding how to do so.
Accordingly, I've created this post that includes some of the biggest GMAT score increases mentioned on GMAT Club, including what's probably the biggest GMAT score increase ever, 530 points, so that people can be inspired and learn how to achieve their own huge GMAT score increases.
If you know of a huge GMAT score increase (280 points or more) to add, you can DM me a link to a post associated with the increase, and I'll add it to the list.
| Biggest GMAT Score Increases | ||||
| Points Increased | Beginning Score | Ending Score | Story | |
| 530 | 250 | 780 | daldilaimi | |
| 430 | 300 | 730 | mira93 | |
| 350 | 310 | 650 | Shawn05 | |
| 340 | 360 | 700 | vaishnavilaguduva | |
| 330 | 350 | 680 | FSpartan | |
| 320 | 400 | 720 | aussieMBA | |
| 300 | 460 | 760 | astalaa | |
| 300 | 360 | 660 | Anna | |
| 280 | 430 | 710 | dcummins | |
| 280 | 420 | 700 | positive soul | |
| 280 | 360 | 640 | Sivatorne | |
Thanks for addressing this important question. In my experience, an average test-taker usually improve about 70 to 100 points using average materials.
Take a course or putting in more effort can help progress to about 130 points. Combining a better course with more effort will get you to about 150 points.
In my experience getting above that 150 points improvement requires focusing and addressing weaknesses that are often beyond grammar rules or math formulas. This means focusing on your weaknesses and understanding them and pursuing mistakes you make. I don’t mean you have to pick up meditation though that has its own benefits but what I mean is greater awareness of what material you need to cover deeper versus which you need to cover perhaps not as deep.
In my experience, improving 200 points is some thing only about 10% achieve on GMAT Club. There are obviously exceptions in case you had an extra bad day on the first test and an extra good day on the last test or in case you had no idea how to handle data sufficiency and made a lot of silly mistakes like leaving the test unfinished and not answering the last 10 questions. Bottom line - prepare to put hard and smart work if you are looking for more than 150 points. You cannot outsmart or brute force your way. Do you have to do both.
The list here is some really impressive folks and as you can see it’s not a list of 100 people not even 20, and there’s probably fewer than 10 people I know and GMAT Club improved more than 300 points. Just something test takers to keep in mind. To give credit to TTP, they have done a great job of creating a strong course and tracking their users performance. It’s awesome to see they have a lot of legends on their list 👍
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Take a course or putting in more effort can help progress to about 130 points. Combining a better course with more effort will get you to about 150 points.
In my experience getting above that 150 points improvement requires focusing and addressing weaknesses that are often beyond grammar rules or math formulas. This means focusing on your weaknesses and understanding them and pursuing mistakes you make. I don’t mean you have to pick up meditation though that has its own benefits but what I mean is greater awareness of what material you need to cover deeper versus which you need to cover perhaps not as deep.
In my experience, improving 200 points is some thing only about 10% achieve on GMAT Club. There are obviously exceptions in case you had an extra bad day on the first test and an extra good day on the last test or in case you had no idea how to handle data sufficiency and made a lot of silly mistakes like leaving the test unfinished and not answering the last 10 questions. Bottom line - prepare to put hard and smart work if you are looking for more than 150 points. You cannot outsmart or brute force your way. Do you have to do both.
The list here is some really impressive folks and as you can see it’s not a list of 100 people not even 20, and there’s probably fewer than 10 people I know and GMAT Club improved more than 300 points. Just something test takers to keep in mind. To give credit to TTP, they have done a great job of creating a strong course and tracking their users performance. It’s awesome to see they have a lot of legends on their list 👍
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A few weeks after creating this post, I had the opportunity to interview daldilaimi and learn not only what the key moves were that she made to achieve a 530-point GMAT score increase but also what she experienced and how she felt as the took on the challenge of making her goal happen.
The interview was recorded and can be found here. daldilaimi GMAT Success Story Interview
The interview was recorded and can be found here. daldilaimi GMAT Success Story Interview
