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Dear Experts,
Hope you are well.
I am writing this post seeking your opinion on what I should do going forward.
A little about me, I have been prepping for the GMAT on and off for the past 2 years now. I gave an official attempt last August and scored 545. I was not shocked because the mocks were never better than that. I had booked the exam earlier and just gave a shot. After that it was on and off till February 2026.
I have started to prep full time from March 2026 and was genuinely putting in lots of efforts consistently. I solved question topic wise and difficulty wise and was focusing much on Quant and Verbal alone. Because I wanted to get a strong hold on this before moving to DI. I almost exhausted all of the gmat offical CR questions. LSAT feels a lot hard. And I know answers to many of the OG questions. So, i don't know how to prep for verbal going forward. The verbal review guide questions, are tagged as OG-guide in gmatclub? Please verify this, so I can decide about purchase them.
I gave an official mock 1 yesterday and scored the same 545 (Q78, DI78, V75) I ran out of time in verbal, and the last question was unmarked. I am exhausted and tired and not sure what to do going forward. I need to apply for the applications this year and August is very near and **** scared. I don't what I am doing wrong in gmat or how I should prep to ace this.
I also took the gre cold mock today, because I wanted to see if that will work. I scored a 300 in GRE (V147 and Q153)
The cold mock score is not that great and many schools I aim for has an average GRE of 325+ (t-15 schools)
I honestly don't know if 25+ point in gre is realistic in the next 60-75 days.
Help me please! Help me choose one and give me tips and suggestions, whatever you think will help me. The standardized tests are new to me and make me feel completely dumb. I am an engineer and did great in Math in my undergrad and I know that is irrelevant to the gmat/gre but I am just trying to understand why/where am i lacking.
For context, I am 25F with 3.5 years of work experience and have a fast-track promotion in my career, but I am no IITian or NITian (Indian B schools) and I come from a basic pool of IT professional, so I don't think gmat/gre waiver is gonna happen to me. This is year is the last year my parents are giving me to pursue my higher studies because the marriage pressure is getting really bad.
I need this! I don't wanna give up but I genuinely don't know what to do, and I'd really appreciate any of your help. Should I continue GMAT or switch to GRE? Any suggestions on how to get a decent score please...
Attaching my score card below for your reference. I have also attached detailed screenshots in the word document below. Please advice.
Thanks and Regards,
Swetha Reddy L
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Hope you are well.
I am writing this post seeking your opinion on what I should do going forward.
A little about me, I have been prepping for the GMAT on and off for the past 2 years now. I gave an official attempt last August and scored 545. I was not shocked because the mocks were never better than that. I had booked the exam earlier and just gave a shot. After that it was on and off till February 2026.
I have started to prep full time from March 2026 and was genuinely putting in lots of efforts consistently. I solved question topic wise and difficulty wise and was focusing much on Quant and Verbal alone. Because I wanted to get a strong hold on this before moving to DI. I almost exhausted all of the gmat offical CR questions. LSAT feels a lot hard. And I know answers to many of the OG questions. So, i don't know how to prep for verbal going forward. The verbal review guide questions, are tagged as OG-guide in gmatclub? Please verify this, so I can decide about purchase them.
I gave an official mock 1 yesterday and scored the same 545 (Q78, DI78, V75) I ran out of time in verbal, and the last question was unmarked. I am exhausted and tired and not sure what to do going forward. I need to apply for the applications this year and August is very near and **** scared. I don't what I am doing wrong in gmat or how I should prep to ace this.
I also took the gre cold mock today, because I wanted to see if that will work. I scored a 300 in GRE (V147 and Q153)
The cold mock score is not that great and many schools I aim for has an average GRE of 325+ (t-15 schools)
I honestly don't know if 25+ point in gre is realistic in the next 60-75 days.
Help me please! Help me choose one and give me tips and suggestions, whatever you think will help me. The standardized tests are new to me and make me feel completely dumb. I am an engineer and did great in Math in my undergrad and I know that is irrelevant to the gmat/gre but I am just trying to understand why/where am i lacking.
For context, I am 25F with 3.5 years of work experience and have a fast-track promotion in my career, but I am no IITian or NITian (Indian B schools) and I come from a basic pool of IT professional, so I don't think gmat/gre waiver is gonna happen to me. This is year is the last year my parents are giving me to pursue my higher studies because the marriage pressure is getting really bad.
I need this! I don't wanna give up but I genuinely don't know what to do, and I'd really appreciate any of your help. Should I continue GMAT or switch to GRE? Any suggestions on how to get a decent score please...
Attaching my score card below for your reference. I have also attached detailed screenshots in the word document below. Please advice.
Thanks and Regards,
Swetha Reddy L
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SwethaReddyL I am not a GMAT tutor, but if you have already spent two years preparing, something fundamental in your approach likely isn’t working. Long back when I was preparing, I improved by 90 points (legacy GMAT) by giving GMATClub’s quant mocks. I am not sure how they are perceived now, but at the time, after I had exhausted most study material, they were the most brutal but effective way for me to quickly lift my quant score, in 6 months. That said, simply taking mocks won’t help unless you are doing the real work around them such as maintaining detailed error logs, revisiting questions to check if you are repeating the same mistakes, and truly internalizing the underlying concepts. The same applies to verbal. Track your errors in an excel file, identify patterns in the types of questions you consistently get wrong, and work toward correcting those systematically.
Having said that, it may be more efficient for you to consider the GRE. Moving from a 300 to a 320 can be faster on the GRE than achieving the equivalent jump required on the GMAT for T20 programs. If you would like to discuss your profile in more detail, I would be happy to help you think through where to focus your efforts (quant vs. verbal) and which schools would be realistic targets.
We had a similar discussion sometime back so linking that thread here: When to switch to GRE from GMAT? Consider these to evaluate your plan : ISB
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Having said that, it may be more efficient for you to consider the GRE. Moving from a 300 to a 320 can be faster on the GRE than achieving the equivalent jump required on the GMAT for T20 programs. If you would like to discuss your profile in more detail, I would be happy to help you think through where to focus your efforts (quant vs. verbal) and which schools would be realistic targets.
We had a similar discussion sometime back so linking that thread here: When to switch to GRE from GMAT? Consider these to evaluate your plan : ISB
Wondering how your profile stacks up? Get a free profile evaluation and discuss a tailored MBA plan that aligns with your goals.
Best wishes
Aanchal Sahni (INSEAD MBA alumna, former INSEAD MBA admissions interviewer)
Founder, MBAGuideConsulting
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aanchal-sahni-83b00819/ |WEBSITE: https://mbaguideconsulting.com/| Message(WA): +91 9971200927| email- [email protected]
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Hi Swetha,
Take a breath. Your situation is more fixable than it feels right now.
Stick with the GMAT. Your cold GRE of 300 (V147, Q153) tells me GRE verbal (which is heavily vocabulary and reading-driven) would require a massive lift in very little time. A 25+ point improvement in 60–75 days from a cold start is extremely unlikely. The GMAT, on the other hand, tests only Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension in its verbal section. These are logic-based skills. You're an engineer, logic is your language. Your verbal score is low not because you lack ability, but because you haven't yet built a repeatable methodology for CR and RC. That's a solvable problem.
Here's what I think is going wrong.
1. You've burned through questions without building a framework.
You mentioned exhausting almost all official CR questions and knowing the OG answers. Here's the hard truth: if you've seen all those questions and your V score is still 75, the issue isn't exposure, it's approach. Solving hundreds of CR questions without a structured method for identifying argument components (conclusion, premise, assumption, logical gap) means you're pattern-matching from memory rather than reasoning through the logic. That works on questions you've seen before and falls apart on new ones, which is exactly what happened on your mock.
What you need is to go back to fundamentals with a structured CR methodology. Learn to spot the assumption (the unstated link between the evidence and the conclusion). Learn techniques like the negation method for Assumption questions. Learn how Weaken, Strengthen, and Evaluate questions all revolve around attacking or supporting that same logical gap. Once you have this framework, you won't need to have seen a question before to get it right.
2. Your timing problem is a symptom, not the cause.
Running out of time and leaving a question unmarked tells me you're spending too long deciding between answer choices — usually a sign of choosing by gut feel rather than eliminating traps with clear reasoning criteria. When you have a reliable method, elimination gets faster. On the GMAT, CR questions should take roughly 1.75 to 2 minutes each, and that pace comes naturally once you're reasoning efficiently, not from rushing.
3. Your Quant and DI are actually a strong foundation.
Q78 and DI78 are solid. You don't need to rebuild those sections. Your biggest ROI by far is Verbal. Moving V from the 18th percentile to even the 50th percentile would significantly boost your total score. That's the single highest-leverage move available to you.
4. Here's what I'd recommend for the next 60–75 days.
You said standardized tests make you feel "completely dumb." I want to push back on that. You're an engineer with a strong academic record and a fast-track promotion. You're not lacking intelligence; you've been lacking a structured approach to a test that rewards methodology over raw effort. Studying hard without the right framework is like running faster on the wrong road. The fix isn't more effort. It's better direction.
A meaningful score jump in your timeframe is realistic when you shift from "do more questions" to "learn the reasoning framework."
You've got this, Swetha!
Take a breath. Your situation is more fixable than it feels right now.
Stick with the GMAT. Your cold GRE of 300 (V147, Q153) tells me GRE verbal (which is heavily vocabulary and reading-driven) would require a massive lift in very little time. A 25+ point improvement in 60–75 days from a cold start is extremely unlikely. The GMAT, on the other hand, tests only Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension in its verbal section. These are logic-based skills. You're an engineer, logic is your language. Your verbal score is low not because you lack ability, but because you haven't yet built a repeatable methodology for CR and RC. That's a solvable problem.
Here's what I think is going wrong.
1. You've burned through questions without building a framework.
You mentioned exhausting almost all official CR questions and knowing the OG answers. Here's the hard truth: if you've seen all those questions and your V score is still 75, the issue isn't exposure, it's approach. Solving hundreds of CR questions without a structured method for identifying argument components (conclusion, premise, assumption, logical gap) means you're pattern-matching from memory rather than reasoning through the logic. That works on questions you've seen before and falls apart on new ones, which is exactly what happened on your mock.
What you need is to go back to fundamentals with a structured CR methodology. Learn to spot the assumption (the unstated link between the evidence and the conclusion). Learn techniques like the negation method for Assumption questions. Learn how Weaken, Strengthen, and Evaluate questions all revolve around attacking or supporting that same logical gap. Once you have this framework, you won't need to have seen a question before to get it right.
2. Your timing problem is a symptom, not the cause.
Running out of time and leaving a question unmarked tells me you're spending too long deciding between answer choices — usually a sign of choosing by gut feel rather than eliminating traps with clear reasoning criteria. When you have a reliable method, elimination gets faster. On the GMAT, CR questions should take roughly 1.75 to 2 minutes each, and that pace comes naturally once you're reasoning efficiently, not from rushing.
3. Your Quant and DI are actually a strong foundation.
Q78 and DI78 are solid. You don't need to rebuild those sections. Your biggest ROI by far is Verbal. Moving V from the 18th percentile to even the 50th percentile would significantly boost your total score. That's the single highest-leverage move available to you.
4. Here's what I'd recommend for the next 60–75 days.
- Weeks 1–3: Go back to CR and RC fundamentals with a structured course. Don't just do more questions, learn the methodology first. Work through lessons and practice applying the framework on fresh questions untimed until your accuracy is consistently strong. Speed comes with skill, not with rushing.
- Weeks 4–6: Start adding time pressure gradually. Do sets of 8–10 CR/RC questions with a loose timer. Review every wrong answer, not just what the right answer is, but why you were drawn to the wrong one.
- Weeks 7–9: Take 2–3 official GMAT practice exams from mba.com (6 are available). After each, do a thorough review of your pacing and trap-answer patterns.
- Throughout: Spend about 70% of your time on Verbal, 20% on Quant maintenance, 10% on DI.
You said standardized tests make you feel "completely dumb." I want to push back on that. You're an engineer with a strong academic record and a fast-track promotion. You're not lacking intelligence; you've been lacking a structured approach to a test that rewards methodology over raw effort. Studying hard without the right framework is like running faster on the wrong road. The fix isn't more effort. It's better direction.
A meaningful score jump in your timeframe is realistic when you shift from "do more questions" to "learn the reasoning framework."
You've got this, Swetha!
SwethaReddyL
