How to Improve a GMAT Score

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How to Improve a GMAT Score

Introduction

The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a key component of the business school admissions process. Not everyone achieves their desired GMAT score on the first try. A good GMAT score is still within your reach. Evaluate your performance on the previous test and do the necessary preparation to improve your score.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Steps

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Step One

Believe in yourself. You may have run into an obstacle when you received that low GMAT score last time, but remember that you are allowed to take it again. Make this next attempt your best attempt yet.
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Step Two

Focus on any areas of weakness you discovered while taking the quantitative portion of the GMAT. Practice using process of elimination, a powerful tool for both problem solving and data sufficiency questions, the two types of questions in this section of the test.
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Step Three

Take notes while skimming passages in the reading comprehension section. Then you won't have to look back at the passages when it's time to answer questions.
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Step Four

Concentrate on these topics when looking over sentence correction questions: subject-verb agreement, idioms, parallelisms and misplaced modifiers. These errors are among the most common in the verbal section of the GMAT.
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Step Five

Practice writing the required essays again. Improve your score here by varying sentence length, providing supporting details that respond directly to the prompt and citing examples, especially from published works of literature, when possible.
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Step Six

Turn to a tutor or a colleague you know that did well on the GMAT. Compare their study and test taking techniques with yours.
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Step Seven

Take more practice tests under timed conditions. This is especially helpful if you ran out of time the last time you took the GMAT.
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Step Eight

Register for the test again by visiting the official GMAT website when you feel confident enough to do so.
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