Hi all—took the GMAT (yes another GMAT thread sorry) after doing the mprep course and got a 660... Quant 41 Verbal 41. Any advice for how to study to boost quant? And can verbal really get better?

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I went from 660 to 730. 99 percentile verbal

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Really my plan is just to do practice problems.. and keep retaking the quant practice tests. But any advice for resources/plans/strategies etc is more than welcome. Timing was fine.. I actually felt pretty “good” after the quant section too which makes me angry. And my last mprep practice test was a 680..

If you haven’t, you should take lessons for quant exam. There are some tricks to boost that. 41 is not great - I bet you can get close to 50 after some good professional advice + more practice.

How long did you study? I assume you are targeting round 1.

41 definitely not great. I took the mprep course which was about two months and didn’t see much progress, then about a month of practice problems and tests. Also yes targeting round 1, so gave myself some cushion

Lazard 1 — what did you do after test 1 to prepare / do differently?

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