Relationship between SAT and GMAT score?

I'm taking the GMAT at the end of the month. I can already tell with my practice tests that I'm not where I need to be and I'm wondering if I'll actually be able to study for the GMAT between now and about 6 months from now and dramatically improve my score. If you've taken the GMAT, can you please share your SAT score and GMAT score? I got a 2060 (V - 690; M - 670; W - 700) on the SAT, which I realize is not very strong. I did study for the SAT, but probably not as much as most high scorers (2100+). I am just trying to figure out if anyone has gotten a 700+ on the GMAT with SAT scores similar to mine. I know this is kind of a stupid post, because there are so many factors that go into SAT test scores that aren't present on the GMAT and vice versa, but I still think it will give me a good proxy of what is actually possible.

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Ah yes, I remember it well: Sweating bullets over midterms while prepping for the GMAT so that I can enroll for the Fall Semester in my graduate school of choice.  In short, I had a 710 GMAT, 98th percentile over 72nd percentile score on the ACT.  Take every chance you can to study the segments of the test and then go out and knockout the competition.  Break up your study materials into What you have down cold, what you have down, but not cold and that which you need the most work on.  Spend two thirds of your time on that which you do not have down cold and one third on that which you need the most work on.  Next step: Find the best tutor you can.

Good Luck

 

How is a 710 in the 98th percentile? In which year did you take it? I took it 2/3 years ago and my 740 was 97th percentile. I know that getting a higher percentile has gotten increasingly difficult over the years but didn't imagine such a difference, right now a 710 is probably 90th percentile. Sadly never took SAT, ACT or others but I was always pretty decent at standardised tests I had to do during highschool/middle school.

 

Looking back at my SAT, I scored in like the 60th percentile (I didn't take it seriously and didn't study). Flash forward to GMAT and I scored in the 90th percentile (700+). Personally, I don't think that your level of success on the SAT necessarily predicts your level of success on the GMAT, but, if you are in that kind of situation, I think that you would need to be a substantially different person in terms of work ethic and dedication in order to outperform on the GMAT. 

With time, effort, and a bit of luck you definitely can outperform on the GMAT. Good luck and keep focused!

 

SAT: 1390/1600 (730M, 660V) 

GMAT: 740 (49/51 on quant, 41/51 on verbal)

I thought it was pretty easy to break 700+ on GMAT after studying math/engineering in ug due to GMAT being a very logic-heavy exam. I had issues improving my verbal score, specifically sentence correction. 

Also, I went to a weak public HS (avg. SAT of ~1000/1600) and wasn't really aiming for top schools, so I remember being pretty happy with the 1390/1600. For the GMAT, I was targeting 760+ from the onset and made sure that I was testing at that level before taking the actual exam

 

ACT: 31 (was 96th percentile at the time, didn't study at all), SAT was around 2100

GMAT: 730 (was 96th percentile at the time, studied the math portion for several months)

There will likely be significant correlation. However, I've seen more people who did well on the SAT/ACT struggle with the GMAT than the other way around. GMAT has a little more "problem solving" to it. People hate on it but I actually think it's a great test. Instead of random vocab it's logic and grammar and quickly solving or estimating on the math side.

 

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