sparky

I saw a number that is half of that for 800 scorers, 22 out of 300,000 or 1 out of 13-14 thousand. In terms of finding upper percentiles, you can do a rude approximation like (1+x+x^2+x^3+x^4+x^5)45/300,000 = 0.01 and find x, use reasonable roots, and percentile for example for 750 would be (x^5)*45/300,000

700 is a great score, just don't look at it from the point of view of a forum where concentration of people with 99% is very high. Outside this forum if people hear that you got a 700 on GMAT all they would say is "wow". as far itsOK's comments, many of those 760+ "quant jocks" have as much right as anyone else to apply to good schools. Besides, GMAT math is not about math per se, it's about how attentive, disciplined, fast, and creative you are in terms of finding a solution to a problem. You think Harvard is looking for arrogant people instead?

Where in verbal do you lack specifically? SC, RC, or CR? In my opinion another computer test (CAT) won't help you much. You need to isolate the areas where you lack and give it extra practice. It doesn't matter whether the questions are in a comuter or a paper form - you still need to answer them correctly. Also, not to discourage you but getting more familiar with English takes time. 1 months won't do it especially if you are lacking in basic grammar and vocabulary.

Kaplan 2005 Paper test 690 94% PP1 670 89% - before OG PP2 680 90% - before OG Kaplan Diagnostic 620 87% Kaplan CAT 1 590 73% Kaplan CAT 2 630 83% Kaplan CAT3 640 85% Real GMAT 740 98% Preparation time 2-2.5 months

Math score is much easier to improve than the verbal score imo. 10 days is pushing it but nevertheless - read math drill section in OG10, page 32 and on, there they explain the math definitions. It is important to remember them not to make silly mistakes in math - do several math challenges on http://www.gmatclub.com/. They are much harder than real GMAT but they helped me a lot. They cover lots of important math topics. - Kaplan math section is very good (in Kaplan GMAT 800 and Kaplan 2005) - find your weak areas in math and focus on them (solving and understanding 10 problems in each area is enough I think) main tested ares are - sets, interest, speed/distance problems, rate problems, number properties (primes, odds, evens, remainders), geometry, probs/combinations/permutations, sequences, absolute values and inequalities. some formula I found useful combination nCm = n!/(n-m)!m! permutations nPm = n!/(n-m)! sums consecutive integers from n to N, their sum is 0.5N(2n + N -1) even numbers can be represented as 2k and odds as 2k+1 numbers not divisible by 3, for example, 3k+1 the maximum number of divisors an integer x may have will not exceed 2*sqrt(x) -1 stuff like that

I have also struggled with verbal. The things that I think helped me pull up my score by 5 scaled points on the verbal on the real test were for RC's and CR's - doing real LSAT RC's and CR's under timed conditions (35 min for 25 questions) and for SC's - going carefully through all SC answer explanations in OG10, taking notes. The result was 740 (98%), given that I never broke 700 on any of the 7 practice tests I took, and I even have scored in 500's on one of the practice tests.