General GMAT Questions and Strategies | GMAT : Scored a 720 (Q 50, V 37, IR 8) against a target score of 750+

To state the obvious: your Quant was excellent but your Verbal was lacking, especially with regard to the front-loaded scoring algorithm.

You performed reasonably well on the Verbal overall (22/30 counted questions = 73% correct), but your score fell apart in the very important 2nd quarter of the test, where you answered only 3 of 7 (43%) counted questions correctly. It was hard to recover from there, as you can see from the difficulty chart. You simply didn't earn enough hard Verbal questions
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