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I took the Verbal Online Prep, in Aug 2017 when I was restarting my preparation for the GMAT. The Verbal Course is phenomenal and truly helps a non-native English speaker understand the core rules of spoken and written English. The course is very well structured and divided into easy-to-do sections. I took up the Gmat preparation after 5 years in service and the course got me up to speed with the format of the GMAT, the structure of the questions and the quickest methods to solve SC/CR and RC questions. In the next couple of sections, I will explain what worked for me in the Verbal Online Prep

Verbal-Online

Background
I am an engineer with an Oil and Gas E&P Company in India and I have been working since 2012. As with any regular engineer in my country, I was pretty decent on my Quant and average on my Verbal. Since I manage operations in my company, my work is pretty dynamic and I spend anywhere close 9-10 hours a day working, sometimes even on weekends. I started my GMAT preparation back in Nov 2015 but achieved my desired results Jan 2018. Over the years I sampled almost all the test prep products in the Market and I can safely say that the E-GMAT course is the best strategy and test prep course on the market.

Before I started with the E-GMAT. I had tried Classroom Coaching, which I never felt was as helpful as the E-GMAT course. After realising that my classroom prep was insufficient, I started doing self-study. The highest score that I got on Verbal was a V34. However, I was always aiming > V40 score on the GMAT. By July 2017, I had given multiple GMAT attempts and was out of ideas as to how to increase my score. A friend introduced me to the E-GMAT Verbal Prep. Since the test prep module was online, I was skeptical whether I would be able to clarify my doubts on the E-GMAT platform because the online course follows a fixed structure. I thought I would miss the attempt to speak to someone and get my doubts clarified. However, my skepticism was unfounded. The E-GMAT answer forums are a Gold-mine of information and there were days when I just went thru the Forum to understand how people think about, how do they deconstruct the questions.

Course Structure
The Course Structure is very straightforward. You start off with the Strategy and the Master Comprehension Module. Both these modules are essential to kick-start your preparation. The Strategy Module will help you prepare a strategy to get to your desired score. The Master-Comprehension Module was an eye-opener. The Module introduces the meaning based approach and gives you a complete low-down on how to effectively apply the meaning based approach.
After going thru the basic modules, the real action starts on the individual section modules. The Section modules are fun and I gleaned a lot of information, ideas and methods to solve the Verbal Questions. Mind you, by this time I had already given the GMAT thrice and I thought I already knew quite a lot about verbal section on the GMAT. The E-GMAT Verbal Online Prep changed that notion. Daily I was learning about new things that I had not read and found during my self-preparation.

Course Concepts

The course breaks down tough concepts into easy to understand videos and slides. Before starting the course, I knew I had trouble with SC and RC. The SC course started with the meaning based-approach to solve the questions and the approach was carried on to CR and RC question solving as well. All the 3 sections are nicely done and they give you a feel of complete control of the Verbal Section. One of the best things about each of the sections is that each section starts from the basics and then keeps building up towards tougher questions. Further, the concepts that you learn in SC are useful for both CR and RC.

Scholaranium

Scholaranium is the best tool for analysis and rectification. The Verbal online Scholaranium is quite detailed and really gives you an idea about your weaknesses and helps you prepare by practising more questions of a certain type. The scholaranium has the option of letting you choose between Easy, Medium, Hard questions. The Easy, Medium and Hard Categories are true representations of the Questions on the GMAT. The hard questions of all the 3 sections are fantastic. For the attempt in which I scored 740 (Q49/V41), I figured thru scholaranium that even though I was doing the questions correctly, but I was taking a lot more time to do the questions. My timing was way above the "takt" time and this timing issue was causing me all sorts of problems on the real test. Once I figured out in which sections I had the worst timings, I started to work on the questions selectively and kept on improving my timings. Another benefit of the platform is that it provides detailed solutions with a great forum discussion topic and an ability to bookmark and review the questions.

Verbal Workshops
The Verbal workshops are tests conducted by the E-Gmat team. These tests give you a detailed feedback on your strengths and weaknesses. This is a must-try for anyone who is looking to improve his/her score. In my first attempt I got a score ~ 69 percent in the Verbal Workshop and in my Final attempt I got a score ~ 89 %. Once I checked the scores, I knew I was ready for the real test.

Overall, I wholeheartedly recommend the course to students. The course is flexible enough to adapt the different requirements and will truly help you understand the areas of improvement. The course is really great for new test-takers as well as seasoned test-takers.

For further details on my experience of testing multiple time on the GMAT you could also read my debrief at https://gmatclub.com/forum/a-lifetime-journey-gmat-259969.html