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GMAT & GRE
99th percentile on the GMAT, achieved twice. 99th percentile on the GRE, verbal and quantitative. I have sat these papers at the level you are aiming at, which is rarer among tutors than the advertising suggests.
Practice: 239 GMAT and 120 GRE questions with worked solutions and percentile levels, timed sections at exam pace (GMAT, GRE), and Executive Assessment practice for Executive MBA applicants. Choosing a test: GMAT or GRE, from the class profiles.
How this is sold
Preparation here is self-directed. Every question, worked solution and timed section is open, with Ask AI on any line. If what you need is a view of the whole application rather than the score, the strategy hour covers that.
What actually moves a plateaued score
Almost everyone who comes to me has already taken the test once or twice and stalled somewhere in the high 600s or low 700s. The instinct at that point is to do more practice questions. It is almost always the wrong instinct.
A plateau usually comes down to a small number of recurring reasoning errors the candidate cannot see, because the blind spot causing the error also hides it. More volume repeats the error more times.
What works is someone watching you solve problems in real time and identifying the pattern. It usually takes two sessions to find, and once named it is often fixed in a fortnight. The largest single-attempt jumps I have seen came from that, not from a further six hundred questions.
The full method, with GMAC's percentile table and a ten-week plan, is in how to score in the 99th percentile on the GMAT.
The quantitative section, specifically
This is where an Oxford computer science and financial engineering background stops being a decoration and starts being useful.
GMAT and GRE quantitative sections are not tests of advanced mathematics, the content stops around age sixteen. They are tests of whether you can find the efficient route through a problem under time pressure. Someone who has spent a career in quantitative research sees the shortcut immediately and, more importantly, can explain why it is the shortcut rather than just demonstrating it.
The Data Insights section on the GMAT Focus edition rewards this more than anything the old format did.
Verbal, which quantitative candidates underestimate
Engineers, quants and scientists reliably lose more points on verbal than on quant, and reliably spend their preparation time the other way round. Critical reasoning in particular is a formal logic test wearing a linguistic costume, which means it is learnable in a structured way, and the people best placed to learn it quickly are exactly the ones who assume they cannot.
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The MBA Admissions Report
188 GMAT, GRE and EA problems written for the report, each with a worked solution, and 18 business schools side by side: class profiles, deadlines, costs, pay, essays and interviews.
Where this fits
GMAT practice
Quant and Data Insights questions with percentile levels and worked solutions, and timed sections.
GMAT practice questions → RGRE practice
Quantitative comparison, problem solving and data interpretation, with timed sections.
GRE practice questions → MThe MBA Admissions Report
What the score has to sit alongside: profiles, deadlines, essays and interviews at nine schools.
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