Best platform to prepare for GMAT - Special for Verbal

Earlier I had tried multiple of GMAT preparation courses and material but was not able to excel in the test as attempted GMAT once in 2015 and was only able to manage 550 (Q48 and V19). As you can see I was really poor in Verbal. And that came to me as a biggest fear as how to overcome this. And as because of that GMAT was one of the huddle which I was struggling to cross till I came across the e-GMAT Online course which was a best decision I have ever made till date.

I was good in quants but the verbal was really effecting my overall score and e-GMAT course came as a saviour for me. First, I got to know about e-GMAT course while I was browsing through the GMATCLUB website and thought of giving a try as they were offering the Free Trial to see if it’s really worth taking up the course. So, in the free trial I was able learn those aspect of Verbal which I did not know early and it offered a systematic approach of how to address a particular type of question in GMAT. And as I was able to gain and was getting the right approach, I made my final decision to taken up the GMAT ONLINE course offers as I want to learn in my own convenience without any time constrain. And the best thing about the purchase was the 7 days money back guarantee. After the purchase, I followed the provided study plan provided by e-GMAT. I would stay up till late night, watching the videos. They were light and helped me clear up my concepts very well. For each concept, I use to make notes while watching videos as that not only helped me revise, but also create a handy notebook for me to skim through while I was analysis my errors. This tip helped me a lot and I would really recommend it to you all as well.

About the approach of the course, it is very innovative but most importantly structured. The idea of application files and concept files helps grasp the crux of the all the Concepts specifically in Verbal section of SC, CR and RC. With a whole host of practices and their detailed analysis helps is finding the real problem in the approach and helps in rectifying then with the further practice sessions. Now I am able to attempt a SC question in an around 1-1.5 mins.

In the CR section the concept of pre-thinking seemed very obvious to me but the application was just as difficult. However, adopting the step-by-step e-GMAT strategy I was able to get to a proper structured approach to CR questions. What I found excellent were the solutions CR questions and the methodology use in approaching the CR questions which gave the real understanding of how to attempt a CR question and help me to easily eliminate the wrong answer choice, which I think gave me a confidence boost to score well in CR section. 

The RC videos were really helpful as well. e-GMAT provides you a number of key strategies that you must keep in mind while reading through RCs. The two strategy that worked wonders for me were, first - "to get immersed" – with each passage I was able to say "Oh! this sounds interesting, lets read what happens next!" I use to summaries each paragraph in RCs passage to get the GIST of each paragraph and for the overall summary of the passage on a regular basis and was thereby able to get all my main point and structure questions right and reading to the context of the passage and not getting bog down to an unknown word which help me built a better faster way to attend the topic given. These strategies seem very time consuming in the beginning, but found within no time, you start to internalise them and able to reduce the time in RC sections.

Additional Master comprehension course built the foundation for me to have a systematic approach to attempt the verbal section in total as it helps a lot of how to go thought the each provided passage or a sentence without being lost.

And finally, the best thing about e-GMAT course is the Scholaranium. Customized practice tests are excellent both in terms of quality of the material and quantity. Question are optimized to make the candidate be extra-ready for the exam level questions. It is a great tool through which you can take 'Verbal Ability' tests to identify your weak areas and then selectively work on them using e-GMAT's 'custom quiz' option. Once you have mastered those areas you can again take an 'ability quiz' to gauge your progress. In total Scholaranium has a total of close to 750 questions from which you can take customized quizzes. From the day, I started practicing on e-GMAT Scholaranium, I developed a habit of taking a 10 CR, 10 SC, 4 RC test for sure! I witness a huge impact both in terms of accuracy and speed. I have been able to improve my overall accuracy from 40% to 87%. Answer explanations are also great which helped me in areas where I was making repeated mistakes. I am working on right now achieve a 96% accuracy which will be a great achievement for me as my GMAT test is due in next 30 days.

Thank you e-GMAT for the course as it is really helping me to be prepared for the GMAT test and achieve my desired score of 700+. With this I will have only thing to says that e-GMAT courses are the best and I hope whom so ever is reading my review will be motivated and make the rightful selection in choosing a course as I did.

I will be uploading my final review and GMAT results after 16th with additional information regarding my preparation next time.

Please wish me luck for my GMAT test. And all the best to you all who are aspiring for MBA and preparing for GMAT!!