Took GMATPrep as diagnostic test,need help undrstnding score

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Hi,

I am planning on taking the GMAT around April this year. As a starter to my preparation I took one of the GMATPrep tests and these are my scores :

IR Scaled 5 Percentile *
Quant Scaled 31 Percentile 27
Verbal Scaled 31 Percentile 58
Total Scaled 530 Percentile 40

IR 7 correct, 5 wrong
Quant 19 correct, 18 wrong
Verbal 29 correct, 12 wrong

Can someone help me understand what these scores mean ? Is 530 a good overall score for someone who hasn't prepared anything and just took the test ? Can someone suggest a good strategy to improve this score to 700+ in a period of 4 months ( 2 hrs on weekdays and 10 hrs on weekends) .

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Azeem

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by Jim@StratusPrep » Sat Jan 05, 2013 9:44 am
Couple things.

1) Yes the improvement can be made...

2) Are those cumulative times that you can study? (only 2 hours in the 5 days?)

3) Start by learning the basics of each discipline, don't be lazy and just try to find "tricks" - this always fails

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by [email protected] » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:29 pm
Hi Jim,

Thanks for your reply. The 2 hours aren't cumulative, I meant to say that I will putting in 2 hours of effort each weekday and 10 hours on each weekend.

Thanks,
Azeem