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My background is similar to yours: 2300+ SAT, STEM major. I pulled off a near perfect score (169V, 170Q, 6.0 AWA) with about three weeks of self prep--no Magoosh, no tutor, etc. You can probably do the same. I didn't study for quant at all. I used Manhattan Prep's study guides 7 & 8 for strategies for writing and verbal. I memorized Manhattan Prep's 500 essential words and 500 advanced words and Barron's 500 GRE words using flashcards in about two weeks (about 100 words per day). I did reading comprehension practice questions from the Manhattan Prep 5 lb book and the GMAT official guide. Lastly I took the 2 practice tests in the ETS official guide and the 2 PowerPrep tests. You can definitely pull off at least a near perfect score in three weeks if you spend a few hours on prep everyday.

You get a percentile for each section but not an overall percentile. However, it is possible to figure out an approximate overall percentile on your own if you can program a joint distribution. You can find the mean and standard deviation for each section on the ETS website, assume a correlation coefficient, generate a bivariate distribution, and figure out the approximate percentile for your score.

ETS (Official Guide) PT 1: 170 V 170 Q ETS PT 2: 168 V 170 Q PowerPrep 1: 166 V 170 Q PowerPrep 2: 166 V 170 Q Actual: 169 V 170 Q 6.0 AWA

PowerPrep 1: 166 V 170 Q PowerPrep 2: 166 V 170 Q Actual: 169 V 170 Q

Lol you're an English major and you don't even know that it's supposed to be "couldn't care less," not "could care less." You have to care in order to be able to care less, which means you're saying that English departments do care.

You can improve your performance on sentence equivalence and text completion questions by just memorizing a lot of vocabulary. Buy a deck of flashcards from Barron's or Manhattan Prep and memorize at least the 500 most frequent words. You can improve pretty quickly even if English isn't your native language since these questions have more to do with memorization than with comprehension. Reading comprehension is more difficult to improve. If you want to do it you should try "blind review" (Google it). Get a copy of the GMAT official guide for reading comprehension practice questions. GMAT passages are more straightforward than GRE passages and the reading comprehension questions are easier, but they're still good for practice. GMAT critical reasoning questions are very similar to the ones on the GRE. I've never done any quant prep myself but I've read that Manhattan Prep's material is pretty good.