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hey guys, today i will share my debrief.
i took my first attempt on 28th of august 2025. i got an avg score of 580. from there i lost my hope to continue this journey. and i was just focusing on my job. and in few months my ielts also expired, then out of nowhere in january i felt lets do it again so i started my ielts again and after 2 months i got 7 bands. i wasn't really good at english but i got very good band score.. after that i felt like maybe i can do it again. and i started my prep journey, i purchased gmat club test series which really helped me uplift my score. i was scoring 78 on quants which is a below avg score and before the test i was feeling like quants is my strong subject i double downed on quant. DID more than 500 ques on various topics. covered a variety of topics areas.. learned new things.. i am now feeling more confident and maybe i will take my exam again in coming 3 months and i will not give up till i get 100 points boost in my score. i hope i inspired you with my prep journey in someway.. happy prep guys : )
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Feeling more confident and having done 500+ questions aren't the same as having raised your ceiling. A Q78 isn't below average, by the way. It's right around the middle, so it's neither the weakness you feared nor the strength you assumed when you decided to double down. Volume across scattered topics tends to reinforce wherever you already are. It rarely closes the specific gaps costing you points.

What moves a score is depth, one topic at a time, practiced untimed until your accuracy is genuinely high. And the part most people skip: for every miss, diagnose why. Concept you didn't know, misread, careless slip, or a trap? Five hundred questions with no diagnosis is five hundred reps of the same level.

Also, where are your Verbal and DI scores? Your 580 (which I assume you mean 585 since all GMAT Focus scores end in a 5) is the combination of all three sections, and you've only mentioned Quant. The most room is very often not the section you'd guess, and Data Insights in particular is where the largest untapped gains usually sit.

So, before scheduling anything, take a free official practice test from mba.com to see all three sections side by side. Then build a topic-by-topic plan aimed at the actual gaps, with real error analysis on every miss. A 100-point jump is well within reach over three months.

This article walks you through how: How to Improve Your GMAT Focus Score.

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hey guys, today i will share my debrief.
i took my first attempt on 28th of august 2025. i got an avg score of 580. from there i lost my hope to continue this journey. and i was just focusing on my job. and in few months my ielts also expired, then out of nowhere in january i felt lets do it again so i started my ielts again and after 2 months i got 7 bands. i wasn't really good at english but i got very good band score.. after that i felt like maybe i can do it again. and i started my prep journey, i purchased gmat club test series which really helped me uplift my score. i was scoring 78 on quants which is a below avg score and before the test i was feeling like quants is my strong subject i double downed on quant. DID more than 500 ques on various topics. covered a variety of topics areas.. learned new things.. i am now feeling more confident and maybe i will take my exam again in coming 3 months and i will not give up till i get 100 points boost in my score. i hope i inspired you with my prep journey in someway.. happy prep guys : )
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Thanks for the feedback. I should have mentioned that I do maintain an error log and regularly revisit my mistakes.
For example, while practicing TSD, I noticed a recurring careless error: the data would be given in minutes, but the answer was asked in hours, and I would often forget to convert the units. After identifying patterns like these, I revisited similar questions until I felt comfortable with the topic before moving on.
Also, sorry for the confusion—my score was 585, with Q78, DI81, and V78.

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Feeling more confident and having done 500+ questions aren't the same as having raised your ceiling. A Q78 isn't below average, by the way. It's right around the middle, so it's neither the weakness you feared nor the strength you assumed when you decided to double down. Volume across scattered topics tends to reinforce wherever you already are. It rarely closes the specific gaps costing you points.

What moves a score is depth, one topic at a time, practiced untimed until your accuracy is genuinely high. And the part most people skip: for every miss, diagnose why. Concept you didn't know, misread, careless slip, or a trap? Five hundred questions with no diagnosis is five hundred reps of the same level.

Also, where are your Verbal and DI scores? Your 580 (which I assume you mean 585 since all GMAT Focus scores end in a 5) is the combination of all three sections, and you've only mentioned Quant. The most room is very often not the section you'd guess, and Data Insights in particular is where the largest untapped gains usually sit.

So, before scheduling anything, take a free official practice test from mba.com to see all three sections side by side. Then build a topic-by-topic plan aimed at the actual gaps, with real error analysis on every miss. A 100-point jump is well within reach over three months.

This article walks you through how: How to Improve Your GMAT Focus Score.


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