From Q44 to 49! 640 to 700 (Q49 V35) after a long plateau!

I came across E-GMAT’s course when I was struggling with CR with just a week to go for my first GMAT attempt. I got to attend a free webinar and I really loved the use of pre-thinking, a concept that I hadn’t come across before. My CR score immediately improved in just 2 days. Unfortunately, I had other skill gaps and ended up scoring only 640(Q44 V34) in my first attempt at GMAT. My prep had been very random, without any structure and I wasn't able to figure out what was going wrong and I decided to give E-GMAT a shot because I liked the way the course was structured.

Within a month of using the platform to learn and practise questions my score improved to 700 and then to 720 in my mocks and stayed there for a while. However, things didn’t go well in my second attempt too as I wasn’t mentally prepared to take the test then and I got a 660 (Q48 V33). My third attempt was just 16 days after this attempt and I was completely down but I religiously followed the strategy laid out by DJ (E-GMAT Mentor). Thankfully, everything went well and I got a 700 (Q49 V35).

Some aspects of the course that really worked for me –

# The Verbal section of the course is really good. E-GMAT emphasizes on the importance of understanding the right approach to solve questions. Whether it is the meaning-based approach in SC or pre-thinking in CR, once you understand and master the approach, the entire process of solving Verbal questions becomes more enjoyable and effective!

# One thing that I loved about their Verbal course was that it became easy to understand why the wrong answer choices were wrong. Every question and answer choice had a detailed explanation and understanding the same made it a lot easier to pick the right answer even though it might seem wrong at first. This is particularly useful when you are stuck with the last two choices, especially in 700-level questions.

# The Quant section was detailed and covered almost all the important topics with an emphasis on conceptual clarity. There are multiple quizzes in every single topic that when you finish a module you would have covered every possible type of question that could be asked and that too in a way that you become super comfortable with the topics. Again, detailed explanations for every question and answer choice helped me a lot as I needed that extra bit of understanding.
I would say that my quant score improved from 44 to 49 only because of the conceptual clarity and variety in terms of practise that I got from the course.

# My favourite part of E-GMAT is SCHOLARANIUM 2.0, their question bank with its precise analytics. It has a wide range of questions in every single topic and for each level of difficulty that enables you to get enough practise and also to get test-ready. It also has multiple types of quizzes with accurate analytics. Just observing the analytics provided there made me understand what kind of mistakes I was doing and what my weak areas were, time and again. It made my practise really easy and effective because I didn’t have to waste time on deciding what material to use, where to hunt for satisfactory explanations, analyse my error-types and weak areas - Scholaranium 2.0 was doing all of this for me. Just one thing here, make sure that you use it effectively – focus on quality over quantity.

# DJ's Mentorship - I am really thankful for the support that I got throughout my prep period from DJ (Mentor at E-GMAT). He would analyse each of my Sigma-X mocks and give a thorough de-brief of what went right and what went wrong. His suggestions and tips really made me effectively focus on areas that needed improvement. This is something I couldn’t figure out when I was prepping by myself. DJ’s support especially helped me push through the last leg when my score hit a plateau and I lost my motivation. When we figured out that I am not able to perform as effectively on the actual exam as on my mocks, he asked me a lot of questions and finally devised a strategy that would help me during the exam to stay more focused and guess what, it did!
DJ laid out weekly plans that were tailor made for my requirements and following these plans really helped break the frustrating plateau. It honestly helps to have someone guide you this way to inch towards your target score, in my opinion!

Overall, my experience with the course has been great! I used the course to the maximum extent possible and it honestly helped me finally get to 700.

If you are someone who is looking for good conceptual clarity , structure in your prep, a solid question bank with really good analytics, and constant support you can definitely consider E-GMAT.

All the very best :)