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January 13, 2023
Abhilashrawat

Joined: Dec 08, 2021

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Verified GMAT Classic score:
720 Q49 V38

710 on my first attempt

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Improvement 110 Points

Course e-GMAT Online 360

Location Online

Strengths:

Well structured and easy to follow modules. Excellent for someone who is starting the GMAT prep from scratch.

Would make the product better:

Total no of Sigma x mocks could be increased.

I started my GMAT journey with e-GMAT on 15th March 2022. I came to know about e-GMAT through my friends who were also preparing for GMAT. Before joining e-GMAT, I reviewed other courses and found that e-GMAT is less expensive and has delivered better result than other courses available online. I decided to use a trial version of e-GMAT just to be sure of my decision. One thing that stood out for me in the trial version was how both quant and verbal concepts are taught from scratch. I was fully satisfied with what I saw in the trial version and decided to go for e-GMAT course.
Here is my detailed review of both Verbal and Quant course:
Verbal:
Like a typical Indian engineer’s verbal ability, my verbal ability was very poor from the beginning. I knew that I had to work both hard and smart to get a good score in verbal. e-GMAT provided me a perfect platform for just that.
Regarding sentence correction (SC), every concept, starting from verb to modifiers and idioms, was taught from the scratch in e-GMAT. These concepts were also taught in structured format through well -explained videos. After each and every concept, there is an evaluation test based on that concept to test your skill on the concept. Each and every question in the evaluation test is very well explained through videos or written analysis by Subject Matter Expert (SME). This helped in clearing a lot of doubts regarding SC. Also, e-GMAT focuses on meaning-based approach in SC. This approach increased my accuracy significantly and reduced my time for answering questions as I was able to eliminate the answers based on meaning of questions.
After one is done with SC, there are cementing quizzes, which tests your knowledge on the the concepts learned in the SC. These are medium and hard difficulty level quizzes. e-GMAT, through videos, guides the students on how to effectively use these cementing quizzes without exhausting question bank. e-GMAT also guides a student on how to maintain error logs. Remember, it is important one maintains an error log as it helps in identifying the weakness and strength.
Talking about CR and RC, both are also taught from the very basic. In CR, pre thinking approach is used for solving questions. This approach saved a lot of time and improved my accuracy significantly. All type of questions, from assumption to boldface, are explained in detail and in a structured format in e-GMAT by SME. For me, improving my CR skills did a lot of wonders. Once my CR skills improved, I observed that my RC skills were also improving as I was able to understand the RC questions easily and eliminate the wrong choices easily.
Each of CR and RC is followed by cementing quizzes, which helps in strengthening the base and building your confidence on your own verbal abilities.
I highly recommend the verbal course to someone who wants to score more than 700 in GMAT with a good verbal score
Quant:
As I am from engineering background, I was confident in my quant abilities. e-GMAT took my quant abilities to next level in a very short amount of time. e-GMAT has interesting feature called PACE engine. This feature enables one to customize the course and saves a lot of time. In my case, I was able to cover the entire quant course in half the time because of this feature. Each and every concept is taught from very basic and gradually difficulty level increases. Generally, quant questions in e-GMAT are of higher difficulty level as compared to official GMAT. Students who do well in e-GMAT quant course will have no problem in answering quant questions in official GMAT exams.
If one wants to score equal to or more than Q49 in official GMAT, I highly recommend the e-GMAT quant course.
Sigma X Mocks:
Once, I was done with my quant and verbal course, I started giving Sigma mocks. These mocks are adaptive and pretty close to official GMAT. ESR + analysis feature allows you to identify weakness and strength in different quant and verbal section. These mocks are an effective way to track your progress and learn about the improvement areas during the preparation.
I recommend that you take full advantage of the Sigma-X mock tests if you have subscribed to the e-GMAT way.
Overall, my experience with the course was excellent and I highly recommend it to someone who is starting from the scratch.

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January 25, 2023
egmat

Hi Abhilash
Heartiest Congratulations to you on your 710 score!  

A colossal 110-point improvement is a dream for many, and you are one of those very few who was able to accomplish this dream on the very first attempt. I applaud you for your efforts that allowed you to achieve this score of 710 (90th percentile) from a starting score of 600 (50th percentile). 

You enhanced your SC and CR abilities by internalizing the ‘Meaning-based approach for SC’ and ‘Pre-thinking approach for CR’.

The image below shows a steady improvement in your SC abilities.

Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/Abhilashrawat-SC-Improvement-90th-Percentile

With your diligence and the structured approach for SC and CR, you developed your RC abilities.

In GMAT prep, time is one of the most valuable resources. You strategically saved yourself 6+hours using the P.A.C.E AI enabled Quant course on our portal. Here is an example of how you benefited from using the P.A.C.E feature in Advanced Topics.

Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/Abhilashrawat-Quant-PACE-AI

Your repeated success on the mocks gave you the confidence you needed to succeed on the test day. You could predict your success just by having a glance at your last 2 Sigma -X mock scores, wherein you scored 720 and 710 respectively.    

Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/Abhilashrawat-SIGma-X-mocks

At last, I just want to say, on behalf of e-GMAT, I wish you all the best for the journey you have ahead of you.  

Regards,    
Dhruv

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