GMAT 710 - How e-GMAT Helped

Background:-
I am someone who works on an average around 60 - 70 hours in a week.
I had attempted GMAT twice -once in 2019, when I got a score of 680 and -once again in Jan 2021, when my score actually decreased to 650. As with any engineer my strength was quants, but I struggled specifically in SC and CR parts of Verbal.
Major takeaways:-
1.Structured 3 stage Approach - This 3 stage approach - 1st Stage of learning the concept, 2nd of applying the learning and 3rd of mastering the concept - changed the way how I approached GMAT preparation. This seemed so very natural to follow.
2. Sentence Correction Course - This section to me was all about knowing grammar rules, many of which didn't make much sense to me. In GMAT SC is as much about applying logic as any of the other sections and that's the crux of how e-GMAT approaches SC. This helped me improve immensely.
3. Error Logs - The best thing about this entire course. You not only log the errors that you make, but also dissect the errors that you make. You exactly understand which parts of the 3-step approach are you failing to apply. For example, when I first started solving SC questions, even after taking the full course, I realized I wasn't intuitively pausing to understand the sentence, leading to increase in timing in solving the SC questions. I focused on improving that part and both my timing and my accuracy in SC questions improved greatly.
4. Critical Reasoning Course - e-GMAT equips you to pre-think varied scenarios on any question and that helped me to improve my accuracy in solving difficult CR questions greatly.
5. Quants - Although I didn't go through the Quants course due to the paucity of time at the end, I solved quite a few questions and the questions prepared me well for the real game.

I will take this opportunity to applaud the entire e-GMAT team for the wonderful course that they have designed. This course helped me improve my verbal ability greatly and I will surely take the learnings from the course much beyond GMAT.

At the end, I want to specifically thank my Mentor - Dhananjay Lowe, aka DJ. He kept pushing me to be consistent. And even after I was done with my exam, he went beyond to even tell me about various B-schools and how I should approach the next stage of B-school applications.