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December 14, 2021
GB111

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Verified GMAT Classic score:
700 Q50 V35

e-gmat is really good

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Course e-GMAT Online Focused

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I started my GMAT Prep in June 2021, and was keen on joining a coaching institute that would teach in a live and interactive manner. I ended up joining another apparently "well-known" coaching institute and wasted 4 months (Jun-Sep) and 40K for a 3-month seemingly live course, only to realise that neither my doubts were getting cleared, nor was I getting any proper guidance (faculty was rude every time I'd ask a doubt in the live classes). All they taught were short cuts and tricks that never worked for me. In October 2019, when I took my first attempt at GMAT, I scored a mere 630 which wouldn't get me anywhere. (Please note, I got a 730 in GMAT Practice test 4 just one day before the test; I found out that the famous coaching institute had used some of the quant questions and RC passages from official mock questions in classroom teaching and perhaps hence my scores were inflated). After my GMAT, I contacted my previous coaching institute faculty seeking further guidance, only to get ghosted (faculty wouldn't respond even after I tried calling them 3-4 times). Frustrated, I rigorously searched online and came across e-gmat and after reading verified reviews and reading free eGMAT topics, set up a call with Sundeep on October 5 and explained him my situation. I had already missed R1 and desperately wanted to apply in R2. Sundeep guided me, explaining exactly how many hours I needed to put in, over the next 2 months. I immediately bought the 2 month online focussed course and started my prep. I started with SC, which was my weakest section (scored a mere 50th percentile in the first sigmaX mock). After going through most of the topic videos, taking all the cementing quizzes, and 1 ability quiz, my SC score touched 97th percentile in the second sigmaX mock. The meaning based approach was really the key! I knew most of the basic concepts (basically had the key ingredients), but did not know how to apply them without judging the correct intended meaning. Once SC became my strength, CR and RC had to be worked upon. I watched all the CR videos (at this point I hadn't touched RC) and took a few cementing quizzes. I must work more on RC and CR to score more than a V35.
eGMAT course aims to build the ability to solve questions, rather than just providing useless tricks that do not always work. Quant has been my strong area, as I am from an engineering background; however, the courses have helped me fill the gaps and reach a Q50.
I took another GMAT on 30th November and scored a 700 (Q50,V35). After that, I reached out to the team and was immediately responded back by Dhananjay. I'm now looking forward to his guidance to help me improve my scores (hopefully by December end) and I place my full trust on eGMAT and the faculty.
(Another positive point of this course is that your doubts get cleared immediately with the help of respective discussion threads, so you don't have to deal with unresponsive / rude faculty. At the end of the day, one must get the value for their hard earned money and eGMAT is worth every penny!)

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December 29, 2021
egmat

Dear GB111,

Thank you for posting your review and I am glad you find e-GMAT “really good”!

I am sorry to hear about your experience with the coaching institute, but this is the precise problem we are looking to solve with the e-GMAT Course –

1) Solving doubts real time and making sure we pre-empt the doubts you have: We have the Forums feature built into the product. I would suggest you use this as much as you can.
2) Proper Guidance: I know you are working with me in the LM program – because even with a good product we need to ensure you are getting the right advice at the right time.
3) The Complete Lack of Shortcuts and Tricks – we are the one course that you will find that advises strictly against it, only for the simple reason that tips and tricks work in an exam that is repeatable but not an adaptive test. This is probably a clear discussion point over the call e had too.
Sundeep is one of our most venerated strategy consultants and I am glad that you got the opportunity to speak with him. However, your diligence comes out in what you said -

“eGMAT course aims to build the ability to solve questions, rather than just providing useless tricks that do not always work. Quant has been my strong area, as I am from an engineering background; however, the courses have helped me fill the gaps and reach a Q50.”
I think the course and Mocks were spot in predicting your score.

Course Stats for a V35: https://success.e-gmat.com/Success-Stats-GB111

I wish you success in the LM program and I know you can score way better.

Regards,
Dhananjay(DJ)

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