Great Course Content and Value for Money

Egmat has very carefully curated content that has all the relevant aspects of the exam covered. The allied services offered by Egmat to ensure your exam success are also commendable. I finally scored a 770 on the GMAT that I gave in August 2021.

I shall list down the relevant positives and negatives:

Positives:

1. Value for money: The course is much cheaper than any other GMAT Prep company of comparable content quality. The course also covers IR (which is often absent from many such GMAT prep courses).

2. Thorough Verbal Course: The verbal course covers all bases. It is comprehensive in every way possible. The Master Comprehension module is a great starter and the course flows from SC to CR to RC in a seamless manner. Initially, a lot of candidates lack the patience to read a long RC passage (atleast I was very impatient back then and used to get bogged down by a complex and/or long RC passage) and the logic of administering SC followed by CR and finally followed by RC is a great strategy, in my opinion. SC course added the most value to my preparation (I did not know the relevant rules, nor was I very skilled at intuitively identifying the errors) by providing me a systematic way to approach questions. With time, the process was not really something that I needed to ensure for myself, it came naturally just after reading the stimulus. CR provided me a new way to approach the questions (prethinking is very important for Assumption, Strengthen questions otherwise you'll waste a lot of your time and you might end up getting the question wrong). RC course is ok to just go through, I did not follow it through-and-through.

3. Good Quant Course: Quant course is good as well. The summary pointers help a lot. For most Indians, I believe, it shall just be a revision of elementary maths that we were taught in school. I played the videos on 1.5x or 2x and solved a few questions to solidify my understanding.

4. Scholaranium: Great set of questions, and an amazing analytical representation of your abilities as you keep solving on the platform. Although I am guilty of solving fewer questions than I was expected to :P, I really liked the Scholaranium 2.0. Amazing work by the team on that.

5. The Guidance and the LMT Program: The newly started LMT program is indeed great. The continual support that I got from the entire team (and specifically from Aditee Biyani) was commendable. Aditee helped me plan the study and helped me get started with the various crucial steps in my preparation. I wasn't a great student per se (sorry Aditee) because I did not follow all the advices diligently, but I always made sure that I was thorough with my understanding of the concepts. Egmat team has always been supportive. Their commitment to candidate-success is inspiring, to say the least.


Negatives/Improvements:

1. The verbal course gets repetitive at many places and can seem very slow at times. I often wished there were a 'play faster' button so that the video pace could be increased to 1.25 or 1.5x.

2. I feel that the SigmaX mocks did not reflect the actual score range for me. I always scored in the 670-690 range in the mocks (I did not take too many, to be honest). I happened to score 770 on the actual GMAT. This might be a personal thing because I have seen that SigmaX mocks are reasonably accurate for other candidates. But I have just put it here so that some people, who might end up taking the course, remain warned and don't worry too much about the SigmaX mock scores. I'd suggest to use these mocks more for the Strategic Review and to work on the ability improvement.

3. The questions in the scholaranium are 'like' the official questions, but the official questions, I felt, were slightly different. And no, it is not about easier or harder questions, the official GMAT questions (which you get in OGs or Official GMAT Prep mocks) are just slightly differently. Egmat Scholaranium is an excellent place to build ability but it is more important to give an official mock or two to get a feel of actual GMAT questions.

All in all, if you are thinking if you should buy the Egmat course, I'd say, go for it! The course shall only add value. I have not tried any other course, but I am satisfied with my experience with Egmat and I think you shall benefit from the course as well. The course is so structured that anyone, from a 550 level to a 700+ level, shall be able to improve his/her ability.