Scored a 635 on my first official attempt. Is 700+ realistic in 7-8 weeks?
Gave my first official test on May 7th and scored 635 (Q79, V84, D81).
Prep was staggered and on-and-off for about 3 months because I work full-time and long hours. Spent the first 1.5 months learning concepts on a course and then did topic-wise practice questions on GMAT club, mostly stuck to easy and medium questions to grab some low hanging fruit and to get the highest ROI on the time spent practicing. Quant is a bottleneck, I would say it’s mostly careless errors/pacing problem/translating word problems issues and rarely a conceptual gap. Verbal was my strongest, didn’t do much prep for this other than practice questions here and there. Data was okay, struggled with pacing and DS and was relatively better on non-DS questions, mostly practiced DS questions.
Have my second official test coming up on July 7th so that gives me about 8 weeks of prep time and trying to make around 2 hours for this everyday and 3-4 hours on the weekends. Aiming for a 700+ this time, want to approach prep wisely this time. Any specific pieces of advice/suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I have not used the official mocks (2-6) yet but will be purchasing them this time.
Mock Scores:
Diagnostic - GMAT Official Practice Test 1 - 555 (Q76, V79, D78) - 1/14/2026
1 - Magoosh Test 1 - 525 (Q75, V81, D72) - 2/9/2026 (Horrible pacing, couldn’t finish Q and D sections on time)
2 - GMAT Official Practice Test 2 - 545 (Q73, V81, D77) - 4/26/2026 (Same pacing problem as previous mock)
3 - GMAT Club Free Test - 565 (Q76, V81, D77) - 5/3/2026 (did get through all questions, made careless errors)
4 - Magoosh Test 2 - 605 (Q82, V82, D77) - 5/6/2026 (Made some careless errors)