When i made my mind on taking GMAT test in early 2021, i started looking around for ways to study online. I read reviews of online programs on gmatclub, and what people said about e-GMAT's course content and approach struck a cord with me.

From my first encounter with types of skills and questions tested in GMAT, i understood well enough that i will be needing a tailored and 1 to 1 course that comes with a comprehensive plan and guide. There was no hesitation about choosing e-GMAT.

After i signed up and started my prep on e-GMAT's platform, i found it exceeding my expectations. The plan specifically tailored for my needs and weaknesses helped me navigate the course content and stay focused on study sessions.

For a student who is steeped in jumping to calculations right away without analyzing the problem at hand first, Payal's emphasis on learning the core process skills and not the sheer number of questions solved, have changed my entire outlook for taking a test such as GMAT. As analyzing, understanding and concluding whilst carrying out the solution was my modus operandi until now, deploying process skills first was an eye opener and habit changer. It was transformational.

I have previously studied and prepared for others tests. However, i have never encountered a course content that is broken down into easy-to-digest portions. Every practice question was followed by a detailed explanation and every explanation was demonstrating the actual "process skills" involved. Since i finished my bachelor's degree, my mind was a bit rusty about math, yet e-GMAT' step by step courses helped revive those forgotten concepts. (with the corresponding logic in real practice).

After any subject completion, there is a section (Scholaranium) that helps the learner cement and track his/her understanding and ability. It is not just solving question after question. I got to know the areas i was faltering with the help of data and statistics. (These very data and stats are indicating that i need to retake the test).

All these study sessions and preparation were taking place during the pandemic waves and quarantines. Yet i managed to brush up basic concepts and test taking skills without any added course related stress. All thanks to the support and good effort by e-GMAT team.

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Around 4-5 months back when I was considering to take the test, I approached quite a few people for their opinion on the test, and thus, I started researching about the different sections in GMAT, and what would the "Syllabus" and way of preparation for this test be. I talked to a few friends who had recently scored an amazing 730 or 760 with just a few months of preparation. So I had an Opinion that GMAT is a really easy test and as per their suggestions if I do the OG and some GMAT Club Questions I will be all set for a 700+ score in 2 months.

I would laugh hard at that thought even now. Not that it is unachievable, but that was definitely not the case with me. But there are no regrets except one, that I did not sign up for e-GMAT earlier than I did. I wasted around 2 months just solving questions and learning from singular topics in an unstructured way.

I’m enlisting a few interesting things from the e-GMAT pedagogy, which helped me increase my score from 540 in first mock to 710 in the actual exam:

1) Sigma X mocks helped me begin my learning journey by telling me the exact areas I should focus upon.

It provides you with tons of data and analytics, I guess even more than the official GMAT ESR which helps you analyse your ability and behaviour.

2) Direct guidance on mail and pre-recorded videos help you with a custom path. With every student starting from a different ability level, this becomes really important. For me this was the only reason I wasted the first 2 months, as I took guidance from people who had a higher ability or those who had prepared for CAT or similar exams.

3) Analytics in Verbal and Quant Scholaranium.
This is a pure blessing, as with every quiz you take, you can customize the type of questions (especially difficulty level - imp to judge current ability) and view your weak and strong areas in a really bifurcated manner.

And the guidance on mail which you receive from experts makes it truly BETTER THAN A PRIVATE TUTOR. Because these experts use such intensive data to analyse behaviour and use their experience to provide the exact way ahead. This was especially useful for a confused person like me.

4) Mixed way of visual learning.
Their interactive interface is the best I have ever seen. I tried quite a few free trials of others and the e-GMAT platform was the most engaging amongst all.

I needed this as I am a visual learner and engaging in non-GMAT style quizzes while learning made a major difference for me.

5) Individual attention.
While signing up, I was quite apprehensive of how will I be able to solve my personal doubts on an online platform. This was my first experience with online learning and I am way too careful in paying for online courses. But the support I got from e-GMAT was really helpful.

We have to mail our doubts to the experts which are then replied to within a day. They even have forums inside the e-GMAT portal (for each Module and Question !) which helps us research our question before posting it on mail.

In the beginning, I felt that mailing was too stretchy and tiring but I realised the beauty of structuring our thoughts on mail. In fact, this is even something that I am implementing in my office and my working style. Writing a structured mail allowed me to see my thoughts and half the doubts were cleared there and then. It was like writing a day journal.

6) The LEARNING PROCESS is seamless.
I studied a lot about HOW TO LEARN during my GMAT prep, and by the end of the prep I realised that e-GMAT had actually covered all the known methods and ways of learning through their course and their expert's suggestions.

Visual Learning, Timely repetition, motivating us for note-taking, Quizzes and summaries etc. So I was quite impressed by the behavioural science used while creating this platform and the course. Kudos to the creators.

And most interesting thing is that all this seems to backed up by data. Which makes these structural decisions of the platform even more reliable and trustworthy.

7) Speaking of data. Every question had a good amount of data behind it. Meaning I could judge my time average of answering the question as compared to others. And how the mean and median students performed on accuracy.

Each question had an elaborate explanation and a lucrative forum supporting it.

8) Structured approach towards Verbal. I was shocked to see how eGMAT tutors understood the psychology of a student and created the Verbal course.

They gave such a structure to approaching the Verbal section, which I am still in awe of how they creatively got it all together. So much data must have gone into the research to bring out a course that will suit all kinds of learners.

Lastly, looking back, I see this score jump from 540 to 710 and though I would even give the credit to the schedule changes I made, the learning habits I incorporated and the support I received from my family, I could not have gotten this result if it wasn't for the data-driven support from e-GMAT.

Ohh and a shoutout to DJ and Rida, the experts who were constantly and tirelessly answering my mails without judging or avoiding any silly questions. Thank you. Also thanks Rida for going a mile ahead and getting on a video call to solve my CR and SC related doubts.

There were many more points which I was impressed by. I am not sure if this is how other non-GMAT ONLINE Teaching portals are, but definitely, e-GMAT has created a benchmark for me that I will be using to judge the competency of the platform I am singing up for.

If I have to sum-up my e-GMAT experience with some keywords:
#data driven #personalised support #best and most accurate gmat styled questions #smart learning #structured approach

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The course covers all concepts in depth and is the go-to course for a person at any stage of the preparation. It is an end-to-end solution for preparing for GMAT Verbal. The concepts are explained very clearly by Payal Tandon and the question bank is really good. Moreover, all questions are solved and you can compare your approach with the best approach. Also, the support is good as whenever I reached out to the e-gmat team they always responded fast and solved my problem. I also found the blogs to be helpful. The methodology of the course is also pretty good.

Recommend this to everyone starting their preparation!

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I heard about e-GMAT course from a friend of mine and after going through the online reviews of the course,I chose the 4 month course.

My instant impression was that the course was well thought of,streamlined and engrossing. Well thought of as it started from basic and foundational topics which were tested through interactive quizzes;building on the skills acquired through application/GMAT level quizzes;refinement through scholaranium and finally evaluation through sigma tests.

I needed to improve on the verbal section as my quant was fairly strong.I felt the Verbal section of the course to be the best (I solved mock free tests of other course providers as well in the past).There was no ambiguity in the e-GMAT content. Unlike all other content providers e-GMAT course simplified the Verbal section through the strategy and approach towards any subsection be it SC,CR or RC.It wasn't based on some abstract notion which a person doesn't know how to implement.There were clear meaningful methods to improve one's skills.Meaning based approach in SC reduced the otherwise confusion especially between 2 options. Elimination of incorrect options became a breeze. RC approach provided more clarity towards the approach. The best advice was to approach them as an article in a journal or as an editorial rather than as a tool which evaluates a test taker. My weakest section was CR. I always felt this section to be quite random which was at times quite frustrating However,e-GMAT explanations were mostly logical and helped me in formulating subcategories within the section to solve the questions more efficiently.

Scholarnium is the prefect stage to gauge one's understanding of the foundational skills and implementation potential.It not only has GMAT relevant questions and their explanations but also has in depth explanation about the attempts,accuracy,strength,weakness.It also provides quite a a lot of customization options as per the stage of one's preparation.All these inputs helped me increase my score from 640 to 720.

The only aspect which I feel can be added to the course is to have human connection i.e. e-GMAT experts reaching out to the student atleast twice during the course. I feel once during the mid course and then towards the end. A lot of insights are provided by the e-GMAT AI,but I feel e-GMAT expert can help in clear interpretation of the data.

I will definitely recommend the course for its vision,style and particularly the Verbal content!

Neetiraj

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I recently took the GMAT Online test and scored a 710 (V38, Q49), finally crossing the 700 barrier. My score in the first attempt was 650. Overall, E-GMAT has helped me gain a 60 point improvement with their mentorship program.

Coming from an engineering background, I never faced problems with Quant. Verbal however, was my weaker section where I was scoring in the range on V27-28 when I started off. With their specialised mentorship program, I was able to exactly find the pain points of my approach to Verbal questions and fix them.

The E-GMAT pedagogy stresses on maintaining Error Logs. They believe in solving problem with the help of data and this approach clearly, works. Through my error logs, Atreya helped identify where I was going wrong in my approach. And my scores started automatically improving once we started fixing those errors one by one.
The meaning based approach completely changed my SC game and my accuracy improved drastically.

E-GMAT mocks are also very helpful and are quite similar to the actual test. The level of mock analysis provided by them is unbelievable.They break everything down to identify the specific areas where the student went wrong. These tests might feel a bit more difficult than the actual test, but I feel that is always a good thing since it prepares you for the final test day.

For someone who is just starting off their GMAT prep, I would definitely recommend taking help from E-GMAT.

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E-Gmat played an instrumental role in my GMAT journey. The structured approach to learning concepts followed by cementing quizzes in Scholaranium helped me tremendously to internalize all the concepts, especially Sentence Correction. The large Question pool in the Scholaranium with features such as customize Quiz, which allows one to choose not just a specific section but also a specific sub-topic in that section really helps to work on your weaknesses.
Apart from a beautifully created learning platform, the entire support team too is very helpful in answering all your queries and doubts. Special mention to DJ, whose advice on re-thinking my approach to solving questions was crucial in my score improvement.
Thanks Rajat, Payal and the entire E-Gmat team for a great learning experience!

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Let me just start my review by thanking the creators of the course and Scholaranium .

I would like to mention beforehand that everyone's preparation method is different and mine may not resonate with others. I literally used the course for 30 days (around 10 hrs per week). Due to my personal circumstances (having a 6 months old baby and full time job) I did not have enough time to go through the official guide. My strategy was just to practice questions and learn from the solutions (only for the incorrect ones) and for that I extensively used the Scholaranium and the practice test ( I purchased the official tests as well),

For quant, when I gave the first official test, it became more or less clear that I needed to brush up the number systems and that's where I spent some time on (solving the number system questions) . Apart from that I didn't do much. I wonder if my quant score was a bit more only if I had spent more time on it. However, I made a point that every day I solved 2 questions each from different topics of quant such as geometry, algebra, numbers etc.

Verbal was the section I mostly concentrated upon (with whatever time I had). I solved almost all the questions on Scholaranium and solved it in practice test mode in order to keep time as well. My aim was to ace the sentence correction question as I thought these are the ones that can raise my score. Though , my final results say a different story. In my comprehensive test report, I realized that I aced the RC questions and my accuracy was 100% (Thanks to Scholaranium questions).

I cannot insist anymore that if one has got limited time then all they need to do is practice practice practice (obviously look at the solution of the incorrect ones)

I did not spend anytime on IRA (except while I was giving mock test). This is evident from my score of 5.
I did not spend any time on AWA (did not even practice during the mock tests) . While in the exam my sole aim was to find flaw in each line of the paragraph given and highlight it. I just followed a basic structure :
First paragraph mentioning that the argument is flawed and list down at least 3 reasons for it. Next 3 paragraphs were spent on expanding the reasons mentioned in the very first paragraph one by one. I made sure to mention that what else the author could have included to make the argument stronger. The final paragraph was just the conclusion that based on the reasons and the rationale above, it can be concluded that the argument is flawed.


Honestly, with my experience I would like to give whole credit to Scholaranium and the mock tests as they essentially helped me to get an alright score.

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Hi
I have taken e-gmat course for my Verbal prep. And I have few points to share:
1. SC part is really good. Meaning based approach really worked for me.
2. CR part is very confusing and I would not like to recommend. It's very time consuming I believe.
3. RC is also fine but it depends on ones capabilities in verbal. I really liked the cementing section. But I feel if you are not good at Verbal then whether you have taken their RC course or not, it does not matter at all.

I did not get time to use their quant section much. But it is very lengthy. If someone is planning to take GMAT in a month or so then you would not be able to cover all the topics but if you are just starting with the prep of GMAT and this might work for you.

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E-Gmat offers a comprehensive course with several Concept and Practice quizzes to help get a good grasp on concepts of both Verbal and Quant.The level of detail with which each topic is discussed really helped cement the concept , especially the pre-thinking framework in the CR and RC course is very immersive and helps deconstruct the passage to a great extent.Once thorough with the course, one can easily try their hands at the Scholaranium which has close to 1000 practice questions on Verbal and Quant each along with helpul insights on time taken by you vs the median time. Sigma Mock is identical in design to the GMAT official practice test, with added advantage of detailed explanation following each question and analysis of time spent on each question. This helps you identify your weak areas and work on them.

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1. Exhaustive coursework that changes the way one approaches any topic

- SC, the meaning based approach
- CR, pre-thinking frameworks

2. Scholaranium - to keep track of your performance, skill and ability levels - provides a near real-time feed back loop that allows you to visit weak topics and be razor sharp in your prep.

3. Webinars and occasional workshops boost your prep tremendously; allows you to interact with the mentors and get guidance

4. Very quick to respond on emails for any kind of strategy and support

5. I have and will continue to recommend e-gmat to any gmat aspirant

6. If someone is measuring the NPS of gmat prep providers, e-gmat is above 8.0

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