GMAT Strategy

Received a PM asking me to respond.

ALWAYS do the essays when taking practice tests. Always. I know you don't care about the AWA score, but you do care about your stamina and your ability to do well on the verbal during the last hour of the test. You have to be prepared for a 4-hour long test, not a 3-hour long test.

You mention that you want to improve in the next 2 weeks - does that mean you're taking the official test in 2 weeks? I'll assume yes.

You mentioned in your PM that you've taken the official test before but haven't yet achieved your target score. Your PM mentioned that you'd like to score 700+, so I assumed that was your target score, but here you're scoring above 700 on your practice tests and you say you still want to improve more. Or do you just want to do better on your practice tests to improve the odds that you'll score above 700 on the real test?

Can you give me more data as to your previous test attempt? Did your practice test scores leading up to that test reflect what you got on the official test? Or were your practice scores similar to what you posted above, but your official test score lower? I'm trying to figure out whether you scored what you would have expected (in which case, that bodes well for your next attempt) or whether you experienced a drop in your score (in which case, we need to talk about that, because we want to figure out why your score dropped - if we can figure that out, then we can try to stop that from happening again).

Also, you mention that your RC performance tends to fluctuate. Do you have any idea as to why? Does it depend upon the topic of the passage or the length / complexity? Does it depend upon the type of question? Does it depend upon your stamina / energy levels? Etc.

That's awesome - congratulations!