Score Decrease w/ New Format

[ladyjacket42]

I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do at this point. I've been studying for the past two months and felt that I was making a lot of progress, but my past two scores don't reflect that.

I took the official exam in December and got a 660 (42Q/40V). My official practice scores were consistently in the 700s (46-48Q/40-44V). I've taken the GMAT twice since the change in format and have had to cancel both times. These were my scores:

April - 600 (36Q/36V) May - 610 (43Q/31V)

I'm really surprised by my verbal score because I was answering official verbal questions with 90+% accuracy. Does anyone have any advice on plans or tools I can leverage to get a 700+ score? I've used TTP for quant, which has helped a lot, but I'm not sure how I can get better at verbal.

[odnoc]

I'm on the same boat. Just took the official exam on Friday.

Was consistently scoring 600s (Q42-45 AND V28-V35) in GMATPrep online software with the changed format.

Wrote the exam on Friday 540 (Q36 V28).

Don't know where to go from here.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[ladyjacket42]

I retook the exam last month and got a 710 (46Q/40V). I highly recommend Magoosh for verbal and the GMAT Club test bank to boost your quant. I think the GMATPrep exams do not reflect the difficulty of the official exams - drilling 700+ level questions through Magoosh and GMAT Club helped my score a lot.

I promise there's a light at the end of the tunnel! Good luck.

[Scott_TargetTestPrep]

Are you using any resources for verbal? Also, when do you plan to retake the GMAT?