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I started my GMAT journey with the e-GMAT's GMAT online course back in December 2020 after some research on the GMAT club about the different available tutoring options. I am glad to have made the right choice as the e-GMAT provides an extremely well-tailored prep program where smart analytics and experienced strategy experts guide you towards identifying your weak areas, resolving the weaknesses in an appropriate manner, and scheduling your prep in a manner that you can manage it as I did with a full-time job.
When I started my GMAT journey, I had taken a diagnostic test from the Sigma Mocks available in the e-GMAT course and scored a 630 (Q49V27), hence I was aware that Quant was my strong foot coming from an engineering background therefore I used the E-GMAT course only for the Verbal prep.
E-GMAT provides a comprehensive and very well-rounded verbal course. The meaning-based approach for SC is the best suited to solve hard questions on the GMAT where you can't just get away by looking at splits. Not only the approach but also the basic concepts are very well covered in the course. For CR, the concepts were covered really well to develop an understanding of the argument structure in terms of identifying the premise and conclusions and identifying the author's perspective. Here the prethinking of the assumption/strengthener/weakener is a game-changer in getting your accuracy right up there, and, also with sufficient practice, helps you reduce your average time on a CR question considerably. For RC, the strategies on how to approach the RC passages, how to break up the passages and summarizing in between for a comprehensive understanding, and realizing the author's perspective through your summaries from the passage really helps tackle some of the difficult RC passages irrespective of the topics.
Talking about the sigma mocks from e-GMAT, I found the mocks to be one of the closest to the actual GMAT exam as I got the exact same scores in my final 2 sigma mocks and my actual GMAT on the first attempt. Also, the ESR-like analysis reports available at the end of the mocks really help you improve your approach for the sections with respect to timings, and identify accuracy in the different difficulty level questions for the different sections to shed light on the weaknesses. Also, with the introduction of Scholaranium 2.0, e-GMAT has taken their analytics game to a different level providing brilliant insights and accurate representations of the current ability levels in the different sections of verbal and quant.
But out of all the features of the e-GMAT course, the one that suited me the most was the constant support provided to me by Dhananjaya from e-GMAT who helped me create an elaborated study plan and fix my issues with my verbal approach, especially with my weaknesses in RCs. His incredible analysis from the sigma mocks, official prep tests as well as the ESR from my first attempt, in the form of personalized videos, helped me identify my timing issues and fix them significantly. Even when I was not able to give the best of my ability at the GMAT and fall short of my target score, Dhananjaya and others from e-GMAT were constant support on my journey forward and helped me get back to intensive preparation.
My journey has not ended yet with the GMAT, looking forward to what should be my final attempt(hopefully) to crack my target score and I trust the support from e-GMAT to achieve that.
To summarize, I would say that the e-GMAT course is without a doubt, one of the best overall packages for the GMAT prep, and I highly recommend it.