Q81/V80/D77
Working professional with 7 YoE.
My GMAT journey had nothing but rocky. Had started back in 2024, completed TTP entire course by late 2024; but then life happened, and everything spiralled out of control.
Things stabilised a bit, and now got determined to resume my GMAT prep since November 2025
Been studying(2hrs weekdays, 4 hrs weekends) since then. Completed Magoosh in a month. Got comfortable with questions and grew confident. Took a free mock, and scored 535. Shattered. Realized that maybe I needed challenging material for preparation.
Subscribed to eGMAT. Completed the material. Since I knew most of the concepts, I was focusing purely on the quizzes. My mistake, I solved all the easy questions across all topics first, then medium questions, and then hard. Things were fine until Medium questions. But hard questions felts extremely hard. Outright incomprehensible. Felt that maybe i was overdoing it, so stopped eGMAT right away.
Moved on to GMAT Club quizzes. Here’s where it gets interesting. Every time I took those sectional quizzes it pretty much hovered in the same range Q(78-82),V(80-81),D(76-82), Overall(565-625). Would go through my mistakes, and questions where i took a lot of time, and would learn those concepts; but I’d do this just for Quants.
I honestly never understood how to analyse Verbal and DI. I thought, practise would make me perfect, but in hindsight i think over practice just made good better, and bad worse. Obviously, I would try different scapegoats in verbal- such as lack of comprehension, or disinterested topic, etc to attribute to my stagnant score, but that’s it. This was a rather cosmetic attempt to address something structural.
Started with Experts Global, and my scores did improve a bit- moved from 535 to 635. But that higher score was in a test where questions felt breezy. Thought things finally were falling in place and purchased the OG mocks. Got slapped hard. Twice. Score 535, and 575 in Mock 3 & 4. Each of these times, the first few questions would hit me hard and derail my strategy and confidence.
Hoping for a miracle, I took my test as scheduled and got a 595. Mind you, this was second best score in all my mocks.
I am now exhausted. But I am even more frustrated, because something tells me that my preparation wasnt structured. I was hitting hard, but aimlessly. I repeatedly did not address the flaws I did. The worse part, I donno how do i do it differently.
How do i move ahead now?