E-GMAT Review

I started with my GMAT Journey in January of 2021. Since I was in the final year of college and had sometime on my hands, I decided to give gmat a shot. I started my preparation by purchasing the official guides, and I started solving some questions from these guides. After a few months I realised that my preparation did not have any formal structure and that I was going around in circles. This was in the November of 2021. I had taken 5 Manhattan Mocks and was scoring in the range of 620-640. I realised that I was desperately in need of a structured preparation plan. I reached out to the egmat team and got on a call with Manas Sadana to discuss my problems. He guided me through the details of the egmat plan and I really liked the overall program structure and processes. I decided to enrol.

I started off with Sentence Correction and went on to Quant and finished the course with CR and RC. With EGMAT, every sub topic has a structural improvement plan to guide students with different level of abilities- if I was strong in Geometry, the AI driven insights would guide me in a way that I only had to study limited content. This helped me save time in my preparation and focus only on my weak areas and keep working towards improvement. After completing the course, I would undergo the process of cementing to ensure that I hit my target abilities in each subsection. Taking these quizzes would enable me to deal with GMAT like questions and strengthen my process abilities. In each question, the course provides the students with forum posts related to the doubts and issues faced by the students. This would allow me to resolve my doubts and also strengthen my conceptual understanding. I could also post fresh doubts that would get resolved within 2-3 business days by the egmat team. The mentors for Verbal- including Harsha, Kanupriya, Stacey, Shraddha would provide excellent support on the forum. On the quant side also we had Bikramjit, Krishna and several others who would provide detailed solutions to each problem.

Coming to the mock stage- I gave 6 mocks before sitting for the exam over a time period of 1 month (I gave weekly mocks). During this phase, I was assigned a mentor to guide me through my preparation - Kanupriya Sharma. The mock phase is one of the most important stages of preparation and having Kanupriya’s guidance every step of the way helped me structure my improvement plan and work on my weak areas after doing a detailed mock analysis. I would take a mock on the weekend and Kanupriya would help me put together an improvement plan that I could work on during the week before my next mock. I was scoring 710-720 in most of my mocks. However, 4 days before the main exam I scored a 560 in Official Mock 6. I became extremely stressed upon seeing such a drop in my score but Kanupriya guided me and helped me work on a small improvement plan in the last 2 days of my preparation. Her support really helped me regain my confidence and I was able to ensure that I remain calm enough to make it through till the exam day. To regain my confidence, Kanupriya suggested that I take a final mock 2 days before the exam. I scored a 720 in this mock. I was able to regain some level of calm and composure upon seeing this score.

Exam Day- I had an 8 am slot at the Pearson Noida exam centre. I reached there in time and overall had a smooth exam experience. I ended up with a 710 (Q51,V34,IR-6,AWA-5.5).