Hey scorewell,

Welcome to BTG! Thanks for sharing your experience. Just a few thoughts on what you wrote:

1) Those Veritas Simulator tests tend to be a little tougher on verbal scores and questions than other tests, so there's a fair chance that your overall and verbal scores are slightly underestimated in those numbers you reported.

2) Even more important than tracking your progress on those scores is tracking your process on the questions. Which types of trap answers seem to keep catching you (for example, on CR, you're likely missing questions when you mis-read the conclusion)? Which strategies or concepts just aren't clicking for you? Where are you spending too much time? Practice tests are incredibly valuable in giving you a forum to check your weaknesses and performance pitfalls so that you can address them.

3) In terms of whether you need to make changes in your plan, I'd just suggest that you make sure to include time to analyze what you're learning at the end of each test or study session. "Doing problems" is helpful, but only at a baseline level; learning from those problems (for example, "I tend to infer "-est" words into conclusions and need to be more careful" or "I need to be more systematic in breaking down SC errors instead of jumping to eliminate uncomfortable phrases or idioms") is what's really important.

4) Based on what you wrote I don't see any reason that you can't get near 650...ultimately the path to get there is one probably more full of "awareness" than one of just "work", though. Make sure you're paying attention to items that are holding your score down and causing you to miss questions. If you buy into that thought process you can make some pretty big improvements pretty quickly.