Hi Stacey or Joe or anyone from MGMAT :),
Feeling kind of defeated. I took the GMAT in March and scored a 570 (well below my practice CATs; I had timing issues). I worked hard over the past few months on timing and strengthening my fundamentals on quant. 3 weeks ago, I scored a 720 on GMATPrep's exam (Q47 73 %tile, V42 96 %tile), and 2 weeks ago, I scored a 760 (Q50 90 %tile, V44 97 %tile). On the second test, my quant may have been inflated a bit because I recognized some quant Q's from my practice.
So as you can see, I'm very strong in verbal. I was only getting maybe 6 questions wrong on each GMATPrep test: 3-4 SC or 3-4 CR and no wrong RC Q's. I kept up with my verbal practice by doing a few CR, SC, and 1 reading passage every night or so.
Actual score today: Q44, 63 %tile; V38 84 %tile. I don't know what happened on verbal. it's obviously not BAD, but I'm depending on verbal to be super high in order to boost my score. Every practice test I did was under official test conditions with essay and IR sections. I stuck to healthy snacks during breaks, did jumping jacks between breaks to keep me going, and honestly, i was feeling psyched, energized and ready to get this test done. I was so confident i'd be scoring in the 700s.
What can I do to help against another verbal slip up?? My verbal score dropped on my 1st actual GMAT, too, but I was overall a hot mess that test day so i'm not sure if what drove that decline drove this test's decline. I'm also not sure if i have it in me to retake again, and at this point, I am running out of resources with which to practice. I also don't know that I want to keep continually practicing for another month (and i'll be away on vaca in Italy for 2 weeks this month and want to be GMAT free).
As always, thanks very much.