30 point jump in 3 months

Well, a 30 point jump in 3 months might not sound that great to someone. But, for me, it was a huge jump going from a 720 to 750, thanks to e-gmat!
Before getting into the review, bear with me while I give a brief background of my struggles with GMAT. After contemplating giving the GMAT for a good 6 months, I finally decided in January 2020 to give the exam and booked an appointment for May 1, 2020. However, covid hit, starting a series of appointment cancellations due to closure of centers. Finally after months of struggle with the after-effects of contracting covid and motivating myself, I was able to finally book a test on November 23, 2020! While I thought I had done all there was to do to excel, I was unhappy looking at the 720 score. While I was more than happy with the Q51 score, the V35 felt like a slap on the face.
In those 2 minutes I contemplated not accepting the score but then accepted it thinking it was too late to retake it before the second round applications. So, I went ahead with the score and got rejected at all the schools I applied to. (P.S.: I am sure it was not just the score that got me rejections, it was a combination of gaps in my profile and application)
Anyways, fast forward to April-May 2021 when I finally decided to retake the GMAT and registered for e-GMAT, impressed by the structured program with fixed timelines that can help students achieve their target scores. As per the roadmap constructed by them based on my previous and target scores, I was supposed to re-take the GMAT in first week of June 2021.
Happy with the structure and timed schedule, I started the course, naturally with the SC section and I am very happy to share that I learned a lot of things with that course - idioms I hadn't heard of earlier, new methods that helped me solve SC questions quickly and apt practice quizzes that cemented the concepts well.
Due to a family emergency, there was a gap in my preparation and I started questioning my whole purpose of giving the GMAT and pursuing an MBA. After a few weeks of self-doubt, I finally opened my e-gmat account and saw the activity chart on my profile - I hadn't done any substantial study for a long time. The bar chart showing the number of hours spent daily and the pie chart in each section showing what percent of the activities are pending gave me the push I needed to get back to it.
Completing the concepts and practice quizzes in the SC section gave me some confidence that was boosted further with the improvement I saw in my SC cementing quizzes. Next were the CR and RC sections. E-GMAT's way of explaining the CR question types and how to deal with each of them is just perfect. Though I took some time to grasp and get used to the pre-thinking approach, I realised its importance once I started doing its cementing quizzes. Pre-thinking makes CR questions look so easy!! Same goes with the RC section. In my first attempt at the GMAT, I was over-confident with the RC section and that is what pulled down my score. But, with e-gmat I learned new things about the RC section such as the kinds of wrong answers that can come up and how important it is to read the RC questions and their answers very minutely to find the correct answer.
By the time I finished the verbal section, I was totally free of my earlier misconception that the course couldn't really help me much.
So, even with a starting score of Q51, I immediately jumped into the quant section and let me tell you, I am glad I paid attention to the quant section. This is because there were some shortcuts, methods and formulae that I was unaware of, before e-GMAT.
Nonetheless, I did leave out a few sections that I though I knew, because I was short of time and I had booked my appointment for July 19, 2021. While the test center exam got cancelled just 3 days before, I was lucky enough to book the at-home version. But, torrential rains in the two days before the exam resulted in network issues that didn't let me take the test!
It seemed like the struggle wasn't ending anytime soon. However, soon I realized it was a blessing in disguise. It gave me time to go back to the topics I had left out and get a hold of some of e-GMAT's jewels - the Wavy Line Method of solving inequalities and some other concepts.
Along with getting a good grasp of all the concepts, I was also able to practice more with the custom quizzes (where you can select specific topics to practice) with the medium and hard level questions of both the sections. I believe that those additional two weeks of practice actually helped me improve my ability and score the 750!
I would like to give a special mention to the Sigma X mocks of e-GMAT! They are a decent representation of the official GMAT and the analysis - Wow!! Having taken as many as 20 full mocks, I know the importance of full mocks and I recommend everybody to take the full mocks to get an idea of the format of the exam and getting used to the 3.5 hour marathon that is the GMAT. However, the official mocks only tell you the right or wrong answer, they don't tell you where and why you went wrong. On the other hand, the Sigma mocks of e-GMAT contain only the verbal and quant sections, but the analysis they give post the test is very essential for the GMAT prep. The software analyses in detail the answers you give and the time you take and helps you determine what topics you need to work harder on. A fun fact - My final GMAT score (including the quant and verbal breakup) is the same as the score I got in the first Sigma X Mock!
All in all, I believe that e-GMAT was a good investment for me and I am sure the 30 point jump will help with my applications as well! So, thank you e-GMAT!