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I am very happy with my result and I am thankful to e-GMAT for helping me achieve this result without spending too much time.
When I decided to study for GMAT, I considered different options such as self-study using books and GMAT Club resources, taking different online courses and hiring a private tutor (this option was too expensive for me). There was overwhelmingly large quantity of resources available, and I had limited time for the preparation, as I work full-time. I heard about e-GMAT from a friend of my friend and decided to check it out. I used free trial and decided to purchase the course because of two reasons: 1) the course has structure which I knew would save me time by helping me focus on relevant areas and 2) I liked how the concepts were explained for each section and that each concept was followed by tests.
I started studying for GMAT in January 2022 and had to stop after two weeks because I was busy at work. I continued my preparation from May and studied for about 10 – 12 hours a week using e-GMAT for four months. e-GMAT helped me a lot with both quant and verbal.
For quant, I needed to remember math concepts that I learned at school and I needed to learn relevant terminology, as I had studied math in my native language at school. Watching e-GMAT’s concept videos was very helpful for me to refresh my knowledge and learn some techniques that school has failed to teach me. After concept videos, e-GMAT offers questions to solve, starting with easy and going to very hard. Video or written solutions are offered for each question. This structure helped me master the skills to solve complicated GMAT questions in time. One of the best skills I developed was solving data sufficiency questions without doing full calculations. e-GMAT also offers cementing process, which is very important for developing confidence in one’s abilities and cementing the skills.
As for verbal, I was good at reading comprehension from the start (I read non-fiction literature in English), however I struggled with critical reasoning and sentence correction initially (I got v31 on GMAT Club’s verbal mock before doing e-GMAT’s sentence correction module). I did those sections on e-GMAT and got v45 on exam as a result (I would have gotten higher mark if I had managed time better). e-GMAT teaches both concepts and the process to apply knowledge in such manner that after I completed the course I was able to easily solve most difficult questions.
I highly recommend e-GMAT course, it is very helpful even if you are starting GMAT preparation from scratch and it is quite inexpensive. I recommend that if you take the course, you follow their instructions and not skip concept videos or cementing part.
p.s. I have not indicated score improvement, as I had not taken mock exam before I began studying on e-GMAT
Dear Mchik,
Congratulations on a great score and thank you for your kind words. A 14-point improvement in verbal and a 760 in the first attempt is no mean feat! In fact, very few people improve their GMAT score by 170-points, and fewer still score a 760. I commend you on your diligence and dedication.
You set out the right way by planning for your GMAT preparation journey by creating your Personalised Study Plan which showed that you would need around 3 months to reach your target score and you were able to do that in the planned 4 months.
Here is the screenshot of your Personalised Study Plan (PSP):
https://success.e-gmat.com/590-to-760-study-plan
“GMAT Quant”
Your diligence is clearly visible in GMAT Quant where you excelled in all GMAT Skill Practice files. The screenshot of the Primes Module and your scores in 3.11 GMAT Skills practice files indicate the same.
Refer to the screenshot here:
https://success.e-gmat.com/great-first-time-GMAT-skill-file-scores
In fact, because you did so well on the course, you excelled in Scholaranium right away. You had to solve fewer than 100 questions in each subsection.
Refer to this image to see how Scholaranium predicted your quant score:
https://success.e-gmat.com/85percentile-in-quant-predicted-by-scholaranium
The same diligence you showed in verbal too where in you had great first-time practice quiz scores in SC and CR that helped you build great ability – your Scholaranium stats predicted that that you were at a 90%ile + ability in SC.
And to have achieved all this, working full – time in the first attempt itself goes to prove that when one sets out to achieve something wholeheartedly, nothing is impossible!
Mariam, on the behalf of the entire e-GMAT family I wish you all the very best for your applications and your future endeavours.
Regards,
Rashmi Vaidya