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I need a 695+ before Round 1. Do you think that's achievable?
I'm considering using only GMAT Club this time since I find it more useful than most prep companies. I've already invested a significant amount in prep courses and coaching.
In my latest attempt, I need a 695+ before Round 1. Do you think that's achievable?
I'm considering using only GMAT Club this time since I find it more useful than most prep companies. I've already invested a significant amount in prep courses and coaching.
In my latest attempt, I got six verbal questions wrong right at the beginning, which hurt my score badly. I'm looking for expert advice on how to address this issue and improve my performance before R1.
I've attached my score report below for your review.
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I'm considering using only GMAT Club this time since I find it more useful than most prep companies. I've already invested a significant amount in prep courses and coaching.
In my latest attempt, I need a 695+ before Round 1. Do you think that's achievable?
I'm considering using only GMAT Club this time since I find it more useful than most prep companies. I've already invested a significant amount in prep courses and coaching.
In my latest attempt, I got six verbal questions wrong right at the beginning, which hurt my score badly. I'm looking for expert advice on how to address this issue and improve my performance before R1.
I've attached my score report below for your review.
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Going from a 535 to a 695 is about a 160-point climb, and a jump that size is a big one. This will take several months of consistent, high-quality work, because your report shows gaps across all three sections, not just one isolated weak spot.
About the six verbal questions you missed at the start: I get why that stood out, but it's worth reframing, because the fix depends on it. On the current GMAT, missing early questions doesn't lock you into a low score. The test adapts question by question, and your score reflects the difficulty you reach and hold across the whole section, not the first few items. So the real question isn't why you missed those six. It's why those question types are giving you trouble at all, wherever they show up.
Your score report answers that. Your verbal profile is soft across the board, with both Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension needing rebuilding and the reasoning-heavy CR skills flagged as your weakest area. A few of those misses also ran long. One RC question went past four minutes and was still wrong, while others were answered fast and missed, which usually means the reading wasn't finished before you committed. That's a skills gap that happened to surface early, not a slow-start problem.
Quant is the same story. The report flags the Rates/Ratios/Percent and Value/Order/Factors clusters, and word problems are weaker than pure equation questions. Those clusters break into the topics you'd actually study: Rates, Work, Unit Conversions, Ratios and Proportions, and Percents in one, and Number Properties, Linear and Quadratic Equations, Inequalities and Absolute Values, Exponents and Roots, and Basic Arithmetic in the other. You also spent close to seven minutes on one question and over four on another, which almost always means the approach wasn't automatic. The fix isn't speed work. It's learning the content well enough that the setup is instinctive, and the time drops on its own.
Data Insights is your high point, and Multi-Source Reasoning is a real strength. But for a 695, even DI has room to climb, so I wouldn't treat it as finished. Data Sufficiency is the weak spot, and your math-related DI questions lean on the same Quant gaps, so that work carries over.
The method that produces a jump like this is the same everywhere. Take one topic at a time, relearn the concepts and techniques, then practice that topic untimed until your accuracy is consistently high. Review every miss for the actual cause, whether it was a concept you didn't know, a misread, a careless error, or a trap answer, since each one calls for a different fix. Redo the ones you got wrong a few days later to confirm the fix held. Only once accuracy is solid do you add timing and start mixing topics into broader sets.
You said you've already spent a lot on courses and coaching. I'd push back a little on the idea that structure isn't worth it. When prep doesn't move the score, it's usually less about the resource and more about how the studying was done: practicing before the fundamentals were solid, or covering topics without mastering each one first. The resource matters, and so does the method.
On Round 1: a jump this size with a rebuild across three sections is a months-long project, not a weeks-long one. If R1 is close, be honest with yourself about whether your score will be where you want it. Round 2 is competitive at most programs and gives the prep room to land. Either way, start the topical work now.
More details here: How to Improve Your GMAT Focus Score.
About the six verbal questions you missed at the start: I get why that stood out, but it's worth reframing, because the fix depends on it. On the current GMAT, missing early questions doesn't lock you into a low score. The test adapts question by question, and your score reflects the difficulty you reach and hold across the whole section, not the first few items. So the real question isn't why you missed those six. It's why those question types are giving you trouble at all, wherever they show up.
Your score report answers that. Your verbal profile is soft across the board, with both Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension needing rebuilding and the reasoning-heavy CR skills flagged as your weakest area. A few of those misses also ran long. One RC question went past four minutes and was still wrong, while others were answered fast and missed, which usually means the reading wasn't finished before you committed. That's a skills gap that happened to surface early, not a slow-start problem.
Quant is the same story. The report flags the Rates/Ratios/Percent and Value/Order/Factors clusters, and word problems are weaker than pure equation questions. Those clusters break into the topics you'd actually study: Rates, Work, Unit Conversions, Ratios and Proportions, and Percents in one, and Number Properties, Linear and Quadratic Equations, Inequalities and Absolute Values, Exponents and Roots, and Basic Arithmetic in the other. You also spent close to seven minutes on one question and over four on another, which almost always means the approach wasn't automatic. The fix isn't speed work. It's learning the content well enough that the setup is instinctive, and the time drops on its own.
Data Insights is your high point, and Multi-Source Reasoning is a real strength. But for a 695, even DI has room to climb, so I wouldn't treat it as finished. Data Sufficiency is the weak spot, and your math-related DI questions lean on the same Quant gaps, so that work carries over.
The method that produces a jump like this is the same everywhere. Take one topic at a time, relearn the concepts and techniques, then practice that topic untimed until your accuracy is consistently high. Review every miss for the actual cause, whether it was a concept you didn't know, a misread, a careless error, or a trap answer, since each one calls for a different fix. Redo the ones you got wrong a few days later to confirm the fix held. Only once accuracy is solid do you add timing and start mixing topics into broader sets.
You said you've already spent a lot on courses and coaching. I'd push back a little on the idea that structure isn't worth it. When prep doesn't move the score, it's usually less about the resource and more about how the studying was done: practicing before the fundamentals were solid, or covering topics without mastering each one first. The resource matters, and so does the method.
On Round 1: a jump this size with a rebuild across three sections is a months-long project, not a weeks-long one. If R1 is close, be honest with yourself about whether your score will be where you want it. Round 2 is competitive at most programs and gives the prep room to land. Either way, start the topical work now.
More details here: How to Improve Your GMAT Focus Score.
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