I started preparing for the GMAT with a diagnostic test and knew it straightaway that the verbal section will be a decider for me. I took the e-GMAT coursework to help myself with the verbal section and i could see changes in my thought process to eliminate two or three close choices. The meaning based approach for SC questions did in fact come a long way in tackling difficult questions in which grammar played little or no role. For CR questions pre-thinking approach helps one create a situation in which one has an edge with the structure of the argument, even when one is not able to exactly figure out the assumption or pre-think the exact answer choice. For RC, I practiced a lot to overcome the fear of non-familiarity with the topic.

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E-gmat was a great help for my 700 gmat score. Things I liked about e-gmat :-
1. Methodological and step by step approach
2. Quick support and response from the mentors.
3. Promoting the creation of error log
4. Well designed course structure. The process they follow is first test, then teach and then practice your skills in any particular area.
5. They also conduct frequent webinar on not only gmat exam but also on business school application.

I can't imagine getting a 700 score without e-gmat's support. Six months back when I had appeared for my first mock and scored a 610; I had no clue as to how I should go about my prepartion. The course content of e-gmat provided me confidence in my prepration.

GMAT is not a month's game. It is more about consistency and patience and time Management and e-gmat truly resonates with this.

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I took the GMAT online test in July and ended up scoring a devastating 590! I was shattered. I did not know what went wrong. I immediately wrote to e-gmat team. They sent me a set of questions to analyse what really went wrong during the test. They also looked into my schoranium data to figure out what were my weak areas. And I figured out that the test anxiety really got over me. My schoranium scores showed that I had the ability, but I got very very nervous during the test which ruined the entire test!!
I took a day off and started over again. I looked into where I lacked. I followed the instructions given to me by Aditee (from e-gmat). Her detailed feedback really helped me to work on my weak areas. For example - I was not doing great in boldface questions in CR. In SC, I was always going wrong in comparison questions. I identified and worked on the questions from specific topics I lacked. And Scholaranium data helped my identify my weak areas!!
How E-GMAT course really helped me --
Starting with the Master Comprehension Course , I learned how to pause at specific points , read slowly and comprehend the meaning while reading. This technique really helps while comprehending long sentences!! Sentence Correction module is just mind-blowing. It is my favourite part of the E-GMAT course :) It teaches the meaning based approach, which actually helps to solve the 700 level questions. With just the grammar rules, one can solve the lower level questions, but for solving the higher level questions, one really needs to focus on the meaning of the sentence. Pre-thinking approach taught in critical reasoning module works wonders. It is difficult in the beginning to pre-think, but once you are able to pre-think, you can solve a question very easily.
The Scholaranium is a great tool to know your strengths and weaknesses and work on them. Please look at what the data is telling you!! If you are taking more time in solving a modifier SC questions, it means you need to go back to the modifier module and fill in your concept gaps. This is how I used the scholaranium to identify and work on my weaknesses.
I took the GMAT online test again in September. This time I kept two things in mind. 1) TRUST YOUR PREPARATION 2) IT'S JUST ANOTHER TEST, NOT THE END OF MY LIFE :) And I scored a 710 :)

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I am 30 years old and my focus level has been dwindling over the years, so when I decided to sit for the GMAT in March 2021 where I scored a 610 after minimum preparation. I needed an average 700 score for the schools and program I was targetting. So I used to EGMAT tool. Here is a summary of my experience:
1) The video explainations were very good, though a little lengthy sometimes but going through the material increases your stamina to sit and focus for longer so it is a win win
2) The feedback loop after each prepartion step is very helpful.
3) I made it a point to go through each explaination as the approach matters, especially in quant. Also the review by other users helps, so after a while I could develop my own style of solving the questions.
4) There were neat little messages sent in the email that would champion me, in case I missed or hit my target. Those really help maintain the rhythm.

Eventually by accepting the pointers and feedbacks and working long hours I scored a 690, which wasnt exactly 700 but I am happy:-)

Knowing your own target is the most important as GMAT can become an addictive game but the idea is to learn how to learn and analyse and keep at it.

This is only the beginning really!

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I took the e-GMAT online course a little more than a month before my test. The prep material and practice tests helped me quite a bit in my preparations.
I would recommend anyone looking to take an online course to subscribe to the course early in their preparation.
e-GMAT also offers a mentorship program (not sure if that's the correct name). I worked with Dhananjay in the last 19 days of my prep and his feedback was quite helpful. Again this would have been more helpful if I had approached him earlier in my prep.
I like how the course emphasizes on improving ability and does not promote gimmicks. Their meaning approach for sentence correction takes time to implement as a habit, but it works overall. Though they could definitely improve upon their material in the verbal section. In my humble opinion their material is not up to the mark. Though I could say the same about other programs after trying their free tests.
Their "Scholaranium" question bank is of great value once you have exhausted the OG material and the Quant section is more closely aligned with the actual test than the OG.
Over all I was pleased with their program and also see that they continuously update and improve it.

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E-GMAT is a great online tool to strengthen your foundations with respect to the Quant and Verbal sections of the GMAT. It is self-paced, and the learning modules is adaptive to your personal weaknesses and focus areas.

I signed up for the online course, after taking my first GMAT attempt. While, I had score decently on my previous attempt, I was looking to improve my score by 20-30 points, to target the more competitive US B-schools.

After buying the product, I had emailed the E-GMAT team to help me with a personalized study plan to ensure my efforts were dedicated and focused on my areas for improvement. The E-GMAT team was prompt to assign me a mentor (Aditee) to guide me through this process.

Since the beginning Aditee has been extremely helpful and dedicated to my success. After taking a diagnostic test, we came up with a plan to identify my areas of improvement, and device a learning strategy accordingly.

I went through the Quant and Verbal learning modules, and used the Scholaranium platform extensively to track my progress, and cement my learning skills. Aditee was always there through the process to answer any doubt, and suggest improvement plans as per my progress.

The SIGMAX Mocks platform is really helpful to mimic the actual GMAT test experience. While the Quant section is a bit on the tougher side, the Verbal section accurately reflects the actual GMAT.

Both the Scholaranium and SIGMAX platform provide actionable analytics and data points to identify specific topics and areas of weakness. This really helps to isolate areas of improvement, and make targeted learning plans.

Even after my GMAT attempt, Aditee went over and beyond to support with analyzing my ESR, summarizing our learning journey. Having someone guide you through this test prep journey is super helpful.

Overall, E-GMAT is a really good platform, especially for someone who is starting their GMAT prep. Their mentorship program is really commendable, and I strongly recommend the E-GMAT service to prospective test takers.

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Hello all,

I gave my second GMAT on Aug26 and scored Q50 V35. My first attempt - Q50 V31. As a working professional I somehow managed time and researched a lot on what does push my verbal to a perfect score. I literally went through almost all free sample verbal courses and its resources available online. I finally took a strategy session with E-gmat and understood this could help me. Below are my takeaways.

Pros:

1. Content - Solid content on whole verbal section especially in SC. One could actually say its the most comprehensive solution for "SC". It's SC is divided into 9 topics - 1 of which is on "Meaning" - this tells us how strong is the content in SC.
The same goes for RC and CR too. The learning videos might be a bit long but getting a good verbal score do need that prep and e-gmat has done excellent job in getting the content solidified.

2. Scholaranium : It has the most equivalent verbal questions in comparision with offical gmat especially in easy and medium difficulty level. It has almost 800+ Verbal questions to practice with the count growing everyday .

3. Analytics : It's analytics is all we need to assess ourselves on where we are lagging and guides us we need to go back to learning phase. It is very intuitive and much needed if we dont know where is the specific lagging in Verbal section.

Cons :

Expert reply : The only thing that bothered me through out the course is while the explanation they give covers all the possible scenario's. In several cases when we reach out to them for the doubts - their replies are not convincing .
Also when users ask question in relevant scenario's the reply from e-gmat experts is "As per e-gmat rules , we cannot answer questions that is not in e-gmat official curriculum or their question bank" - this is something should be addressed being a leader in verbal courses.

Conclusion : E-gmat verbal content is super strong, however its customer reply service is frustrating at times and needs to be addressed by its management.

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Hello everyone,

I am Aditya Kumar, Mechanical engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur. I am working in an Oil and Gas Major for the last 4 years and planning to do my MBA in 2022

Although I am writing this review about my journey of GMAT preparation, I haven't reached my destination yet. I am still working to achieve my full potential and hope to get a 730-740 in future.

I started preparing for GMAT in March- April 2021 and was very confident that 2 months of preparation is more than enough to get a 720+ score. Dont know why I was so confident back then, mostly because my friends from college and some colleagues had got 700+ and I thought I am better than them :P. But I didnt know that I had big surprises waiting for me.

For my 1st attempt, I used only the offical resources for practice and Manhattan SC as additional resource for refreshing all grammar concepts. The preparation lacked discipline and structure mainly due to lack of guidance and also the covid situation which was at its peak in 2nd wave at the same time.

Although I had practiced most of the questions of official, I was not feeling confident about my ability. To check my ability and to verify my test preparadeness I bought official mocks and gave all of them. I scored 660 700 710 and 740 respectively, which seemed to suggest that I had the ability and strategy to score a 700+. Therefore after my last mock (740) I booked my test date and was super excited to give the official GMAT exam and complete this part of my MBA application.

Guess what ! I performed poorly and scored a 670 (Q49 V33) Even while giving the exam I could feel that i was not following any process, randomly marking a lot of ques and was not in the righ state of mind.
So after the completion when the screen popped up 670, it was not a surprise, to be honest I was expecting even lesser. I may have got a few guesses right I think.

So the strategy for my next attempt was very clear. First I need to identify my weak areas and then follow a structured approach. Based on the reviews on GMAT Club and some of the debrief videos on YT, I thought e-GMAT could be the right fir for me. So I reached out to e-GMAT and got a meeting with Karan who explained using the analytics of e-GMAT my weak areas, timing of ques, etc based on the mock i gave on eGMAT. To be honest, I was a bit fascinated by the insights that he drew so quickly and efficiently. I had never realised that we need to look at these many parameters to devise an effective exam strategy. I made up my mind to take up the e-GMAT course for 2months and e-GMAT was kind enough to provide a mentor to me to monitor my progress and guide me during the preparation.

So I started working with DJ, my mentor during mid July. The things we identified to work on were :-
1. CR :- I was taking a lot of time in CR and also was not following any process to solve the ques. I did all the concept files followed by the Cementing quizzes where I had to clear a certain threshold of accuracy for going to next step. DJ was very peculiar in asking me to make detailed error log as per e-GMAT strategic review.
2. RC :- Although I had decent accuracy in RC, I still followed the comprehension methods suggested by e-GMAT which helped me improve my comprehension ability. The error log which I made was reviewed by Harsha and he provided a detailed analysis on ways I could do better error logging and also on improving my ability on inference based ques. I feel the insights shared by Harsha were very helpful and really made my RC prep efficient
3. SC :- Although I was confident enough in SC and didnt do the concept files, I still did error logging as per e-GMAT strategic review and was able to narrow down my mistakes.
A big mention to Shraddha for making a video reviewing my SC error log and giving insights that I would never have taken into account.

After around 40-45 days of verbal prep and also doing quant questions (weak topics identified during the discussion with DJ), I felt the need to give a MOCK test to test my ability. So I reached out to DJ and he replied with a strict NO. Although I did not agree with his decision :P, I still followed it since he has been working with a lot of students and definetely knows much more than me about test preparation strategies.

DJ shared a test readiness plan with me, which I feel was the most critical part of the prep. According to the plan, I had to give multiple tests in each subsection - SC, CR and RC get the minimum accuracy, then only move to the sectional test (all 36 questions in 65 minutes). This was a real gamechanger as after going through all the concepts and practice I knew I have the ability to solve, but didnt know the best way of timing myself in each sub section and creating an best working strategy for the verbal section. The custom quizzes in Scholaranium was my ultimate source of practice during this phase.

After going through the test readiness phase, I moved to the sigma X-mock. I found the quants to be a bit tougher than official, but verbal was exactlly to the point. I gave 1 mock in every 3-4 days and analyzed all the questions irrespective of right or wrong in the same error log module that I used during prep. By the end of my prep I scored a 750 in sigma X-mock which fuelled me to book a date for my 2nd attempt.

Although my second attempt did not go as planned and I faltered in areas which had actually become my strength by the end of the prep, I still managed to score a 700 (Q49, V35).

I am analyzing my ESR with DJ now and hopefully will be able to edit this review in future.

Till then cheers and keep preparing !

Thanks
Aditya

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First Attempt 670 (Q-50,V-30)
I started of my Prep for GMAT around November 2020. In the initial days of my Prep I used only the GMAT official content and GMATClub for my studies. After giving 2 mocks(640-650) in a span of 1 month, I realized my scores in weren't improving at all I was stuck around V27 and 28 and had some major flaws in my concepts in sentence correction. After talking with few of my peers, I booked a session with Egmat to get a review on my preparation and they made me realize that I do a lot of scope to improve on my verbal skills. They even gave me a peek through the egmat platform. After going through similar calls with different services and some reviews from my peers I decided to go ahead and buy the egmat subscription. In the next month of my Prep using the egmat platform I learnt about the right approach to solve any SC or CR and how to eventually save on time by making this approach a habit. I Gave my first online attempt in the month of Feb and score a 670 (Q-50 and V-30).

After few weeks of introspection, I realized that during my prep I didn't concentrate much on learning from my mistakes. I used to prepare the error logs but never took them seriously or read them properly and in repeated the error. Considering that I Still have time left for my applications and my score can be improved I took on to give my second attempt.

Second Attempt 660(Q-49, V-31)
Before starting any of my prep I first gave the 1 Sigmax mock and scored a 690. This made me realize that Yes I can score good on the GMAT. I just need have some patience and work effectively. Considering my learnings and the type of data analytics provided by scholarenium on egmat. This time I went straight to Egmat for assistance with my Gmat Prep. Seeing my SigmaX mock score and the potential to improve Egmat assisted me a mentor Dhananjay(DJ).Before beginning any of my prep, I connected with DJ and discussed with him what I feel are my weakness , where did I fail in my first attempt. DJ Carefully listened to me and then assured me that we can work together in bits and pieces to overcome my weaknesses. We started of with RC prep. Realizing that Humanities is a major category I faced issues in, DJ advised me to read through articles on Humanities of WSJ , The Washington Post or NYT and draw a summary of those writings in my words. Initially it was too boring to read such lengthy articles and drawing summaries from them. But as I made this my daily habit I could see my RC scores improving and the time taken to solve a RC also decreased . After tackling RC we moved on to CR and SC. DJ helped me design custom quizzes to concentrate specially on my weakness and made me Strategically review each and every quiz even if I got all my questions right. The strategic review process developed by Egmat helped me understand the smallest of the errors I was making like not visualizing the answer choices properly or not creating sentence structures for a SC and helped me avoid repeating those errors. With the help of the scholarenium platform I was able to visualize what Question Type are my weaknesses . After consecutively scoring a 730 and 740 in my sigmax mocks and official mocks, DJ advised me to go ahead and book a Date for my GMAT since I was peaking my performance. I went on and booked a GMAT at Test center for 11th August . I gave my 2nd attempt and scored a 660 (V-31, Q-49). I had gone completely blank during my Verbal section and couldn’t think properly on applying the proper approaches to the question. Seeing the score drop from my first attempt I was completely dejected. I took a break for a day and convinced myself that it was just not my day and I deserve much better scores. I ordered my ESR and had a session DJ to understand what went wrong and how to prepare . He helped analyze my mistakes and gave a short plan on my reattempt.

Third attempt 710 (Q-49, V-36)

This time I decided to my attempt within 2-3 weeks, since I was already doing well and just had few mistakes to work on. I took on solving questions from GMAT Club and writing few mocks and scored an 730 and 720 . After gathering the confidence I went on to book the GMAT for 7th Sept and scored a 710 (Q-49, V-36).


A huge shoutout to DJ and the entire Team at Egmat. DJ, has been like a mentor who motivated me when I was getting anxious before booking on my GMAT dates. After failing on my second attempt I was completely dejected and was in no mood even to order an ESR, But DJ pinned me 2-3 times day via mails that I should at least order ESR and have a look at my mistakes, that’s when I gathered courage to go ahead and take a 3rd attempt. Egmat has been really helpful through-out my Journey and course is really very well designed especially for Verbal. The Scholarenium platform and the Strategic review process have been really helpful in spotting errors perfectly and working on them. GMAT is an exam of Learning from your mistakes so getting your error logs and the Strategic review process right is the key success.

My learnings- Be Patient, Learn from your Mistakes, Do not Rush and Believe in yourself.

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I had already attempted the GMAT three times - getting scores of 720, 740, 740. I needed that extra jump for my target schools to stand out given the extremely competitive Indian demographic. I tried several other platforms before settling down on E-GMAT.
Right from the start. they were super helpful. I loved their precision targeting strategy. While we focused on improving my Verbal score, we also subsequently worked on Quant areas that could boost up my score.
I never did pre-thinking before, specially in RC, which was an immense help. The scholaranium tests and diagnosis helped me chart out my path ahead and work on my weak areas.
Atreya was super helpful and would push me to take mini mocks every week, analyze it and then recommend the next steps ahead.
The Sigma-x mocks were a game changer too and i took all of them before my final exam.
I wish I had just started with e-GMAT at the very start but I'm grateful that at the end, I found the right place!

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