No improvement - 700(Q49,V38) to 700(Q49, v34), advice ?

Question

Guys, I gave the gmat again today after my previous attempt 700(Q49,V38) one year back and after more than a month long arduous preparation but it bombed again 700(Q49, v34)

My target was to improve by at least 50 points and get into the 750 zone but that did not happen.

During the past one month I completed the following - 
(a) OG 12
(b) Official Verbal review
(c) Manhattan SC guide
(d) Powerscore CR bible
Tests
(a) MGMAT (All6) - 680,710,710,720,730,740
(b) GMATPrep - 730,740
(c) Knewton-Diagnostic - 730
(d) some 800score test
I realized that I was not performing best during the exam, had a choking feeling which started from the quant section and continued till verbal. 
I have a 5 years of experience in consulting and an engineering background with below average GPA. I am targeting top 10 B-schools and was advised by a popular admission consultant to give GMAT again.

Given my result I am in a dilemma what to do next, also at this point I am a quite burnt out from GMAT prep and feeling quite helpless and down.

gurpreetsingh · Answer

try Knewton, it gives you 50 pt guarantee - full refund if 50 pt increase is not met.

intellijat · Answer

sorry for being such a moron

.....but can someone explain how even after a drop of 4 points in verbal the overall score remained the same ?

Hussain15 · Answer

Well, as said by Gurpareet, why dont you try Knewton?? It will take 36 days for the completion of the course, you will have your refund if the target is not acheived & your application will not be delayed too.

whiplash2411 · Answer

He might have gotten harder questions this time. As GMAC says, the number of questions answered correctly is relative to the difficulty of the questions answered.

As to the OP, I agree. Try Knewton. They offer a 50 point money back guarantee and hence will help you hone some of your strategies.

I think your Quant is already in good shape, so as long as you keep in touch with all the methods/strategies to solve problems, you're good. But with Verbal, I think you can definitely improve by doing LSAT RC and LR. It might help you go to the next level of preparation. Check out the 650-700+ thread in the forum. It'll definitely help you. Also read through Slingfox's Condensed Strategies and Pelihu's debrief (He was a lawyer, I think, though, so take that with a grain of salt)

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No improvement - 700(Q49,V38) to 700(Q49, v34), advice ?

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