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[transfer9858]

Hey everyone,

I started studying for the Gmat in January. I have been going through a lot of problems but haven't been that intense in my studying. I just took my first gmat prep cat and to put it nicely, it sucked. I got a 630, 41 quant and 35 verbal. My test is in a little over a month and I need to break a 700. I am looking to raise my scores to a 46 quant and a 40 verbal.

Quant was really hard... I felt like I was guessing on every other problem and almost just stopped taking the test. Thought I may as well complete it to see my score. I am not sure what im doing wrong with quant though. I'm getting basically all the questions in the og right and my fundamentals are strong. I have to work on rate/work, probability, and perm/comb, but don't think I should be scoring so low as a 41.

Verbal I haven't started studying yet. I spent way to long on a cr question and had to randomly guess on the last four. I got 12 wrong on the verbal section, 6 sentence corrections, the last 3 I got wrong all guesses and those were rc and cr. So besides for the carless error here and there, I think my I need to mainly study SC.

Can anyone give me any suggestions on these scores and if its realistic to get up to that 700 in a month? Thanks a lot!

[Mike@Magoosh]

Hi, there. I'm happy to give my 2 cents on this.

Here's a detailed one-month study plan I wrote for a blog:

https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/1-month-gm ... -schedule/

You may also want to give this 3-month plan a glance:

https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/3-month-gm ... -students/

That three month plan is designed for folks who are pretty comfortable already with math & verbal, and want to get up into the 700s. You may find some of the resources I recommend there helpful.

Getting from where you are now to up in the 700s is realistic IF you are really willing to roll up your sleeves and do some serious prep work in the next month. You will notice: that one-month schedule I designed is intense --- a few hours every day, and long stints on the weekends. If you can put in that kind of time with discipline, you definitely can work some magic with that score.

BTW, consider using Magoosh. I gather you haven't taken an official GMAT yet, so our score guarantee wouldn't technically apply, but that will give you a ballpark idea of the kind of improvement our product can create.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Mike