My GMAT Mock and sectional score is around 590, given 2 mocks yet.

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Hi, I am targeting a 680 score. How can I increase it by around 90-100 score in 2 months. want to particularly know about the DI section.

dhruv23320 · Answer

Consistent practice of official questions

dhruvnatani · Answer

Hi, from where can I get the official questions?. Also, can you tell what score should i target for ISB, 2023 grad from NMIMS Mumbai, working in a VC fund.

kingbucky · Answer

Go to GMAT > Free Question Banks From here you can practice by topic, filter by OG questions, filter by prep-providers questions. I would strongly recommend you to get the adaptive quiz from GMATClub, that will simulate the actual test. And what is the time period you are going to allocate for your preparation ? And make use of the immensely helpful community and the explanations that experts have given to each question. All the best.. If you have any question please feel free to ask !

dhruvnatani · Answer

Hi, I am planning to give my exam on 27th August. Also, i have bought mocks and sectionals series of GMAT club

TheAdmissionHub · Answer

Hi  dhruvnatani ,

Going from 590 to 680 in two months is doable, but it requires being pretty deliberate about how you use your time — random practice won't get you there.

First, a general point: at your current score, the biggest gains usually don't come from doing more questions; they come from understanding why you're getting questions wrong. After each mock, spend at least as much time reviewing your errors as you spent taking the test. Look for patterns — are you misreading the question? Running out of time? Struggling with a specific question type? That diagnosis will tell you where to focus.

On DI specifically, since you asked, this is actually where a lot of people can gain points relatively quickly because it's a newer section and many test-takers underinvest in it. The DI section tests your ability to evaluate information across different formats: Two-Part Analysis, Table Analysis, Graphics Interpretation, and Multi-Source Reasoning. A few things that help:

1. Get comfortable with the format before anything else. A lot of DI mistakes at the 590 level come from not fully understanding what each question type is actually asking. The Official GMAT prep materials are the best resource here — don't rely only on third-party content for DI.
2. Practice reading data critically, not just quickly. DI rewards people who slow down slightly to understand what the table or chart is actually showing before jumping to the answer choices. Rushing costs more points than it saves.
3. For Two-Part Analysis, treat each column as a separate sub-question. Many people try to find both answers simultaneously and lose track.

For the overall 90–100 point jump, I'd structure the two months roughly like this: spend the first three weeks doing a full diagnostic of your weak areas across all three sections, then the next four weeks doing focused, topic-level practice on those areas, and the final week doing full mocks (ideally official GMAT Focus mocks) and light review. Don't burn through all your official mocks early — save at least two for the final stretch.

One more thing: a 590 after only two mocks means you probably haven't fully adapted to the test format yet. Some of that 90-point gap will close naturally just from increased familiarity, so don't panic about the number right now.

What sections are you finding hardest beyond DI? Happy to give more specific suggestions.

dhruvnatani · Answer

Hi, thanks for this.
In DI, I am facing more timing issues after the mocks and sectionals. I have found some weak areas and am doubling down over there. For the strategy, I have 10 full mocks left plus at least 10 sectionals of each; every week I give one mock and, in a week, 1 sectional test of each section to find more topics where I need to double down. 
Giving 1.5-2 hrs on weekdays and around 7 hrs on weekends. So I'm trying to do at least 25 hrs a week. 
Making more of silly mistakes/mistakes due to panic of time rather than conceptual mistakes

TheAdmissionHub · Answer

Good update — the fact that your mistakes are timing/panic-driven rather than conceptual is actually useful information, because it means the problem isn't knowledge, it's execution under pressure. That's a different fix than most people expect.

Here's what I'd do: for now, stop worrying about the clock entirely. Seriously. When your errors are coming from panic rather than gaps in understanding, adding time pressure to your practice just trains you to make rushed mistakes faster. First, you need to consolidate — go through your weak areas without a timer, understand each question type deeply, and make sure you can reliably get to the right answer when there's no stress. Accuracy before speed, always.

Once you feel solid on the content and your error rate in untimed practice is low, then you start reintroducing time pressure gradually — first with sectionals, where you can focus on one section at a time, then building up from there. The goal at that stage is to get your brain comfortable executing what it already knows under a bit of stress.

The final week before your exam is when the full mocks really earn their place. That's when you want to simulate real test conditions repeatedly — back to back, timed, full length — so that the pacing becomes automatic and the test-day pressure doesn't feel new. Think of that last week as calibration, not learning. By then, the learning should already be done.

On the silly mistakes specifically: those almost always happen because you read the question too fast and answer what you think it's asking, rather than what it's actually asking. One simple fix — before clicking your answer, re-read the question stem for five seconds. It sounds trivial, but it catches a surprising number of those 'I can't believe I got that wrong' moments.

dhruvnatani · Answer

Hey, thanks for that.
Also, what do you think about my test calendar and hours given? Also, should I give mock every week or give consecutively in end??

TheAdmissionHub · Answer

Your hours are fine, 25 a week is more than enough if you use them well.

On the mocks: consecutive at the end, not spread weekly. Right now a full mock doesn't teach you anything — it just burns good practice material before you've fixed the underlying issues. Spend the next six weeks on untimed practice and sectionals, then shift into full simulation mode in the last week or ten days before the exam. That's when doing mocks back to back actually makes sense — the content is solid by then and you just need the pacing to become automatic.

Keep the weekly sectionals though. Those are useful at any stage.

AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi dhruvnatani,

"Consecutively in end" is generally not a good idea, and one practice test every week makes much more sense. You don't have to start taking practice tests regularly immediately, but I recommend targeting mid-July for an end-Aug appointment.

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Two mocks both landing around 590 gives you a read on where you are right now, and the gap to 680 is about 90 points.

One thing worth checking before you build the plan: look at your per-section scores from those mocks, not just the composite. A 590 total can come from very different section splits, and the 90 points you're after will come fastest from wherever you're weakest. You've asked about DI specifically, so let's start there, but make sure DI is actually where your biggest gap is before you pour the most time into it.

On the DI question itself, the answer reframes how you should think about the whole plan. DI feels like its own separate beast, but it really isn't. The section tests the same Quantitative and Verbal concepts you're already studying, just presented in unfamiliar formats: graphs, tables, multi-source prompts, two-part problems. A Graphics Interpretation question is often a percentages or rates problem in disguise. A Multi-Source Reasoning question leans on the same critical reasoning skills you'd use on a Verbal argument. So the single biggest lever for raising your DI score is strengthening your underlying Quant and Verbal mastery. If those foundations are shaky, no amount of DI-specific drilling will make the section click.

That said, DI does have its own recognition patterns, and you can't ignore it. It's a full third of your total score, weighted exactly the same as Quant and Verbal, and treating it as an afterthought is the most common mistake I see. Here's the sequencing that works: build your Quant and Verbal skills first (Data Sufficiency is the exception, since it's really a Quant skill, so study it alongside Quant), and then, in the back half of your prep, layer in dedicated DI work. Learn each question type and its subtypes one at a time, practice them untimed until your accuracy is high and your approach is routine, and only then add timing.

A few DI-specific things that matter on test day. There's no partial credit on multi-part questions. You have to nail every part to get the point, so you need a guessing strategy going in. If a question is built on a weak area or just looks like a tangled mess, make your best guess and move on rather than burning four minutes on it. And never leave a DI question blank. A blank is a guaranteed miss; a guess at least gives you a shot. Estimation is also your friend here. Many DI questions can be reasoned through with approximation rather than precise calculation, which saves real time.

Now the broader method, which applies to all three sections. Work topic by topic. Learn the concepts and techniques for one topic, then practice only that topic until your accuracy is consistently high before moving on. For every question you miss, figure out exactly why: was it a concept you didn't actually know, a misread, a careless slip, or a trap answer you fell for? That diagnosis is what turns practice into improvement. Redo the missed question from scratch a few days later to confirm it stuck. This is how the content becomes automatic, and that depth is what produces both accuracy and speed under pressure.

On the mocks, I'd hold off on burning through more for now. Practice tests are measurement tools, not study tools, and there's a limited supply of good ones. Taking them mid-prep mostly tells you what you already know, that you haven't covered everything yet. Save the rest to gauge progress in the final few weeks.

One note on the timeline. Two months of focused, consistent study can move you meaningfully toward 680, but the closer you get, the more clearly your mocks will tell you whether you're on track. If you're still well short as the date approaches, pushing the test back a few weeks will almost always serve you better than sitting for it underprepared. From there the plan stays the same: keep working topic by topic, keep analyzing every miss, and let the next mock confirm the gains.

This article walks through exactly how to approach DI prep in more detail:  How to Prepare for GMAT Data Insights .

PrepSignals · Answer

A 90-100 point jump in 2 months is possible, but it depends on whether your current score is low because of content gaps, timing, or test strategy. For DI specifically, most improvement comes from better triage and cleaner reading, not just doing more questions.

For DI, focus on these:

- Learn the formats separately: tables, graphs, two-part analysis, multi-source reasoning.
- Don’t read everything first. Read the question/task, then pull only the data needed.
- Practice deciding when to quit. Some DI questions are time traps.
- Review slow correct answers, not just wrong ones.
- Track error types: misread data, wrong calculation, missed condition, time sink, careless selection.
- Do mixed timed sets because DI fatigue is real.

A 2-month structure:

Weeks 1-2: diagnose. Take a mock, review DI deeply, identify top 2 weak DI formats.

Weeks 3-5: targeted DI practice + Quant/Verbal maintenance. Do small timed DI sets daily.

Weeks 6-7: full section practice and official mocks. Build pacing checkpoints.

Final week: error log, light review, sleep, and strategy.

For resources, use official DI questions first. GMAT Club can help for extra practice, but don’t overuse very hard questions that are heavier than the real exam.

I built a free GMAT planning tool from real debrief patterns that may help compare 590-to-680 style score paths and DI strategies: prepsignals.vercel.app

Main DI advice: train yourself to extract only what the question asks for. Over-reading is the silent score killer.

dhruvnatani · Answer

So I am planning to give my exam on 27th August, and it's an expensive exam; I can't afford to give it multiple times. My GMAT mock is 590. I am thinking that I will see my mock score on 1st August and then book. What should I do??

PrepSignals · Answer

If the exam is expensive and you can’t afford multiple attempts, don’t book based on hope. Book only when your official mock score is close to your target.

A good rule:

- If your target is around 650: book when official mocks are consistently 630+.
- If your target is around 680: book when mocks are 650-660+.
- If your target is 700+: book when mocks are at least 675+ or very close.

Since you’re at 590 now, use the next 3-4 weeks to diagnose and improve, then take an official mock around 1 August as planned. If the score is still far from target, postpone. It’s better to delay than spend money on an attempt you already know is unlikely to hit the goal.

Until 1 August:
- Review your 590 mock deeply.
- Find the biggest 2-3 score leaks.
- Do timed sets, not just concept review.
- Keep an error log: concept, timing, careless, trap.
- Take one more official-style mock before booking.

dhruvnatani · Answer

How to take official mock before booking? Dont we get that only after the payment? Also, is there a free reschedule?

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