gunning for an extremely high score. Need help from experts.

[mbakiller]

Hi. I have been taking 7 GMAT exams in the last two years. But I have also been stuck between 700-750.
To clarify, I am not some sorts of franatic or crazy guys. I just find this exam interesting and try to get a 780+ or so as an non-native speaker. Following is my several attempts on the exam, can experts give me some advice to break this bottleneck and achieve a higher score? Thanks in advance.

Total Quant Verbal SC SC Timing CR CR Timing RC RC Timing
720 51 36 42/51 1min37s 19/51 2min01s 35/51 1min26s
680 49 33 27/51 1min48s 51/51 1min43s 29/51 2min11s
750 50 41 35/51 1min27s 41/51 1min58s 51/51 2min02s
720 50 37 41/51 1min06s 32/51 2min32s 36/51 2min13s
700 51 32 30/51 1min29s 30/51 1min53s 35/51 2min08s
720 50 38 34/51 1min25s 41/51 2min13s 39/51 1min59s
720 51 35 46/51 1min29s 6/51 2min16s 34/51 1min52s

[StaceyKoprince]

Are these official scores or practice test scores? Either way, nice work.

It can be exceedingly difficult to go from 750 to 780. This is rarefied air and the differences can be pretty subtle. We've had people who want to teach for us but are 10 points short on the score requirement—and some of these people have studied for a year or more and taken the test multiple times and they've still not been able to get up to the 99th percentile. I have sometimes worked with someone who we thought was a fantastic teacher because we wanted him/her to get the score and teach for us—I basically private-tutored them. Even then, it can take a lot of time / work.

You can get some idea of the differences in a 700-type score vs. 760-ish in this article:
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog ... and-a-760/

I'd love to hear what you think about what that article says!

[mbakiller]

Are these official scores or practice test scores? Either way, nice work.

It can be exceedingly difficult to go from 750 to 780. This is rarefied air and the differences can be pretty subtle. We've had people who want to teach for us but are 10 points short on the score requirement—and some of these people have studied for a year or more and taken the test multiple times and they've still not been able to get up to the 99th percentile. I have sometimes worked with someone who we thought was a fantastic teacher because we wanted him/her to get the score and teach for us—I basically private-tutored them. Even then, it can take a lot of time / work.

You can get some idea of the differences in a 700-type score vs. 760-ish in this article:
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/blog ... and-a-760/

I'd love to hear what you think about what that article says!

those scores are all official scores. I have seen this article before. I think it is pretty insightful. I think the biggest barrier for me to break the 750+ is to maintain stablility among various sections in Verbal part.

My Quant is pretty good. But as you can tell from the data, my SC / CR /RC all have achieved a very high or full-mark level, but not at the same time. Even at the 750 score, my SC still lags far behind my CR /RC section.

How can I solve this instability during the exam? I have taken a lot of mock test to find my pace (all under very real conditions: I have done all four parts of the exam and only take a rest after IR section and Quant section)

Thanks~

[StaceyKoprince]

Can you give me the full verbal data for the 750 test and the most recent 720 test? That is, all the data by quadrant, etc. (I know you can't attach images here and it's a pain to type it out, but that info will help me to try to figure out what's going on with verbal.)

On quant: you already have the capability to hit the top score of 51, so there you'll need to make sure that you really execute on your game plan. Don't get caught up for too long in one question, be really careful to write everything down and work systematically to minimize mistakes, etc.

Also, if I'm reading the data correctly (it's a little hard because the columns get misaligned a bit when you post), on two occasions, your CR performance dropped quite a bit. There's a little bit of a limitation in the way that the score reports work: if you miss every counted question of a certain type, the score report will essentially default to the lowest score (6). Your ability is not truly at that level, but the test has no "positive" data for you, so the report shows you at the lowest level.

So your CR is not really that low, but there's still some kind of an issue because you missed all of the counted questions (or almost all). I don't know the dates for the test tests on which your CR performance was quite low, but if either one was relatively recent, then there's some work to do on CR, too.