610 to 690

After scoring a disappointing 610 (Q47V27) on my first attempt, I identified 3 key areas on which I had to work on to improve my GMAT score.

1) Verbal, as I scored very low on it and I knew I was having conceptual gaps.
2) Speed, I was not able to finish any of the sections and simply had to guess the last 3-4 questions in each section.
3) Stamina, I was exhausted halfway through the verbal section which was my second section.

To overcome the above, I knew I had to give mock tests and need to get a verbal course,

I did my research and e-gmat stood out when it came to verbal preparation, so I planned to enrolled to the Verbal course of e-gmat, however, I ended up enrolling to the entire course (Verbal +Quant) after I heard about the scholaranium section of e-gmat because I knew I had to practice quant with time limits setup.

It turned out to be quite a good decision as I was able to increase my score by 80 points to 690 (Q47V39) with a massive improvement of 12 points in the verbal section.

Using e-gmat, I attacked the 3 key areas I had identified.

1) Verbal: The modules for SC and CR are exceptional, they really helped in understanding the key concepts which I was missing. In terms of RC, I was able to grasp some new concepts in it, however not as much as in the SC and CR section. For RC, I think it's just about being a good reader, so I just worked on improving my reading skills by reading random articles and practicing on E-Gmat scholaranium. The verbal course is very well structured overall, there are concepts videos, quizzes, application quizzes, cementing quizzes and the scholaranium, also the explanation for every question is very thorough. I followed the approach that e-gmat team guided me with and it helped me a lot.

2) Speed: From my perspective, the best and most powerful thing about e-gmat is the scholaranium, this tool is a blessing. I used scholaranium to get my timing right, in the scholaranium you can create your custom quiz and give short exams setting up a timing limit, I really found it very very helpful, not only it allowed me to practice and get my timing right but also it allowed me to give quick short exams in between my busy work schedule. They have a huge pool of questions with different difficulty levels, I found the questions slightly more difficult than what I got in actual gmat which was perfect as it made the Gmat test look slightly easier. The dashboard of scholaranium was also very helpful, I was able to identify my weaknesses using it and work on them.

3) Stamina: I got access to 6 adaptive tests which helped me work on my stamina, again the adaptive tests were slightly more difficult than the actual gmat, the highest i scored on e-gmat mock test was 670, on the official gmat mock test i had scored 710 and on the test day I scored 690.

Overall, I am very thankful to the e-gmat team for providing support wherever required, I asked numerous questions on different modules which e-gmat experts replied to and helped me clarify my doubts.

If you are someone who is looking to improve on verbal and who is looking for some practice to improve speed and stamina, I would strongly recommend e-gmat, their verbal course as well as scholaranium has really helped me and I hope it will help you too.