eGMAT: One of the best courses out there

My GMAT journey started in 2018, at that point of time I tried various platforms, such as Offline Coaching, GMAT Club question sets, Manhattan Test Series, e-GMAT etc., for my preparations. I spent around 6 months on preparations and gave 3 attempts back to back. Needless to mention my performance was dismal and I ended up with:
• 680 on Ist attempt
• 640 on IInd attempt (Score Cancelled)
• 630 on IIIrd attempt (Score Cancelled)
With this score I couldn’t get into any B School of my choice, and finally gave up on my MBA dream. Fast forward 5 yrs, I got married and am doing good in my career but couldn’t really stop thinking about MBA and the momentum it provides to the career.
So, I decided to write GMAT one last final time. Because of my previous experience, e-GMAT was my obvious first choice. I started my preps in Dec’21 and religiously followed the course structure recommended by them. During the course of preparation, I made following mistakes, which I realized later and ultimately had to spend more time, later, to correct them:
• Skipping the Master Comprehension part. Supposing that it is not required, since it is not evaluated on exam.
• Skipping the videos of certain topics that I believed I knew.
• Not viewing the solution video. Cause solution generally tend to be of 10+ minutes, so I either played the video on 2x speed or didn’t view it entirely.
• Being overconfident about Quant – supposing that I knew all the concepts and hence spent only 6-8 hrs in entire quant preparation.
• Not maintaining the error log properly.
• Focusing on attempting more and more no. of questions.
Because of these things I ultimately ended up re-doing the modules and ultimately adding few more months to the timeline.
What I liked about e-GMAT:
• Structured modules – Each section of e-GMAT is structured in such a way that you can actually implement the learnings of one in another. Moreover, the structuring of Practice Quiz & Application files helps to learn and implement the concepts in a much handy way.
• Analytics: Whether it be analytics around time spent in a particular module or around the Scholaranium, it helped in providing extremely helpful insights about the weaker sections. Moreover, the analysis of the time spent in a particular question helped me to drastically reduce the time taken in RC & CR. It also helped me identify the weaker areas in SC and do a targeted practice around the same.
• Error Log: I think it is the most undervalued thing in the whole preparation :D. At first, I was not maintaining it religiously but learnt its importance, the harder way. It is extremely important as in the last phases of your preparation, when you’ve attempted 100+ questions, it is very important to understand and not repeat your mistakes. The key is not to practice more and more questions, but to learn and not repeat the same mistake.
• Support from e-GMAT experts: As a student when you’ve been preparing for 6+ months, one tends to lose patience, overlook the obvious signs of un-preparedness, and schedule an appointment in a hurry. The same happened with me. After 2 sigma mock tests, I was like I should take a date for next week.
Fortunately for me, all through my journey I had been actively writing to the support team and seeking their suggestion. In the end when I was restless and impatient to schedule an appointment, it was Support team who analyzed my performance and helped me identify the areas that needed more practice and improvement. Though the exercise took me 1 more months but it helped me be more confident in Verbal and Quant.

Many of us feel shy to reach out to Support team, thinking that they might not respond or may take long to reply. But believe me, always reach out to people, seek their support, and make them a part of your journey. People do respond. And the same was true for e-GMAT support team also.


Lastly I would like to add that GMAT is a game of patience. Plz keep your mind cool and don’t let the monotony or self-inflicted deadlines make you go in a hurry.

May the force be with you, All the best 