E-GMAT provides courses which provide crystal clear clarity on what the GMAT exam entails and what approach should adopted to excel in the exam. The main USP of the course structure is its focus on meaning based approach and learning from the problems solved. In the GMAT preparation, probably the most vital step is hard work in the right direction, and for me E-GMAT was that partner for me.

I will strongly recommend this course for everyone planning to give the GMAT.

I will also like to give a special mention to Archit, he was there guiding me throughout and played a significant role in my score improvement of 90 points.

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E-GMAT has helped me with prep work very well. After a couple months of prep I had plateaued at a score of 680-690. Although I was scoring well on Quants, Verbal was a major issue. I was struggling to cross 32-34 range. I had borrowed some other prep work and practiced OG questions but nothing seemed to help. I came across E-GMAT and then thought of taking the 1 week trial. I liked the feedback points that they give and try to drill the solution method in every module that you do. I personally saw a lot of benefit with the structured approach that E-GMAT teaches.
The analysis on which topics to target and the AI based study plan were good starting points.
I had only taken the coursework for about 4 weeks before focusing on the Mock tests, and was not able to use the quant prep as much. However, I would surely suggest this course if you are looking for 90+ percentile scores on verbal at the very least.
Overall, if you are struggling to target the right weakness, I would strongly suggest E-GMAT.

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So My journey with GMAT started in Feb when I bought the E-Gmat subscription as suggested by a friend. It took me around 3-4 months to give my first attempt on GMAT and score a 720 (V38 Q50). I had given one official GMATPrep Mock before starting my preparation and scored a 670 (V31Q49). So that shall give you an idea where I was before beginning my attempt. I used only the E-Gmat course and Official Guides for my preparation. Apart from these 2 I used to practice GMATClub practice question banks occasionally as well but I seriously do not think they helped me much.

I will talk about how the course helped me:

SC: This was my weakest area in verbal, but I think E-Gmat's course is as fundamental as one needs to build his/her grammatical concepts. The way the course starts from the most basic blocks and build on most complicated concepts like modifiers is great. I do not think one needs to supplement this course with anything else. Once you have learnt all the fundamentals from this course, what is left is just how well you apply those fundamentals. There again E-GMAT does a great job in laying out a process for you to follow. Meaning is super important in GMAT SC and I have learned this the hard way. If you can develop a knack of comprehending the intending meaning early on, as the E-Gmat course teaches, applying grammatical concepts will become way easier. I suggest taking this aspect super seriously from the first sentence you read in your prep. Once you have built a habit of rushing through the meaning analysis part, it is very tough to train your mind to go the other way round. I still struggle with that just because I was complacent about this aspect in the beginning.

The questions scholoranium provides for SC encompasses all fundamental concepts of grammar application. If you do all of them and get 100% learning from their explanations, you will rarely learn anything new on SC. The only area of improvement I see here is that meaning based or rather hard meaning based questions in E-GMAT are a little less and those get tested heavily in GMAT.

CR: The CR course again is super conceptual. The way the course covers each question type is great and can help anyone learn from the scratch. The best take away from E-GMAT's CR course was Pre-Thinking. Though the term gets used in the GMAT world like a scientific concept, but it is not. It is a super elegant/simple way of solving CR problems. It is because of this simplicity that many students just ignore its importance (like me). I learnt from E-GMAT how important it is to read the question stem slowly and carefully and plan your line of attack. The E-Gmat course stresses on reading the stimulus as thoroughly as possible and I do not think there is any better advice possible for CR questions. I still fail on questions but only when I rush through the stimulus or through prethinking. Pre-Thinking becomes natural after a while, so you may need a little patience there. I don't think one needs to anticipate an answer in prethinking, planning a line of attack is just fine. Once you are sure about your line of attack, irrelevant options/ trap options would be visible to you. Thanks to this approach, by the end of my Prep CR had been my strongest suit.

RC: Even though I considered SC my weakest area, it turned out that RC was as weak as SC for me. Somewhere it still is weak. I was neither a voracious nor a fast reader. All my life I had read just simple texts. Even the books I used to read before GMAT Prep were mostly non fiction and had very simplistic language. E-GMAT course again offered the best advice of reading slowly upfront and understanding the passage thoroughly before going to questions. You may find other techniques such as reading passages in 2.5- 3 mins with 70% understanding and then rereading information each question asks but I strongly feel those strategies work only for people who already are good readers, who would anyways do good on RC. I tried all the approaches and worked super hard on RCs but the only approach that worked for me was one suggested by E-GMAT: Read the passage thoroughly in 4+ mins and then go to questions.

Quant: Overall the course teaches even the most fundamental things, I was already at 49 when I started quant so I kind of skimmed through the course but the way it has been made, it is good to raise quant score from any level. I believe the course fundamentals are explained in as simple ways as possible but the questions are tricky and lengthy. If speed is your problem on quant, E-GMAT can help as it throws super lengthy calculations at you at times. Even the explanations given by E-GMAT usually involved the theoretic approach of solving mathematics. This is a place where I feel E-GMAT Quant can do better. I find it doesn't teach you many smart ways of getting to the solution quickly.

Scholoranium: This is a great tool and by far the best I have seen so far in GMAT Prep. It gives you insights at so many levels that tracking your progress becomes super easy. It can even tell you what your accuracies are in each subsection such as Modifiers, Verbs etc. This just makes your prep more focussed. At last, the best value add of scholoranium is its explanations of each and every question. Even if you have a doubt you can just raise it to experts and they will answer that in a day. In most of the cases you will find most of your queries have already been answered in the doubts forum as some other student would have already raised it. Takt Time (and my struggles with it) was the most useful metric for me during my whole Prep.

Mentorship from DJ: For me, this was the most valuable part of the course. I was constantly in touch with DJ (E-GMAT's mentorship team member) over emails and I think this was the most valuable addition to my prep Yes course material and all helps but a guide there to help you charter out your whole path is of worth unexplainable. By the end, I had more than 100 emails in my email conversation with DJ. When to attempt questions, how to analyze a quiz, when to do revisions, when to give and not give mocks, how to track your progress are only a few of the aspects DJ helped me address. I never used to bother about revisions but I think that is one thing DJ used to stress a lot on and it does wonders many people like me did not expect.
I think at the end of the day you have to back your plan with data and given the sheer amount of data mentors on an E-GMAT team would have, they can clearly tell you what generally works and what doesn't. I always made it a point to validate my plans with DJ and that was very helpful.

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I had given my first attempt and even after scoring 700 in the mocks, I got a 610 on the actual exam.I wrote a mail to e-gmat support and DJ then started mentoring me through the process. He analysed my ECR report and gave me a to-do list. Once I used to complete it, he used to give me the next steps and this is how it progressed.
My earlier score was Q47 and V28. So my major weak point was verbal and thats what he made me target. The SC and CR files are especially helpful. They made the answer analysis almost automatic.
The CR prethinking files help you in understanding how the argument needs to be analysed.
The quant files take you from the basics to the advanced files and help in revision too.
Now, I am coming to the part which helped me the most. The scholaranium. The ability and cementing quizzes give you a correct estimate of your current ability in each topic.And later one can practice the custom quizzes. The scholaranium mocks give you the most accurate score that you might get in the actual exam with deviation of 10-20 points.
I used to also attend their sessions on youtube also which were very helpful.
Now with the Scholaranium 2.0, its just going to become more helpful.

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I was referred to e-gmat by a friend who himself scored a 750 with e-gmat and it was indeed a great choice. The course package has everything one needs - detailed and simple video lectures to practice sets and mocks. I want to point out the amazing course structure which focuses on testing and improving yourself at every step. The whole verbal section is methodically divided into sub-sections with intro quiz to know your understanding, followed by detailed videos on concepts and it ends with a practice set to master your learning. The Scholaranium is perfectly designed to cater to one's needs as it is highly customizable to practice on sections one wants to focus on. The Sigma x mocks are the final step. They give a great experience on what to expect on exam day. But more importantly the detailed analysis is just amazing. it's everything one needs to understand what's not working and fix those points before exam.

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When I was starting my GMAT preparation, I was totally confused about the direction I should take to ensure that I have a decent score. I consulted my friends & family, did heavy research on the internet, watched hundreds of YouTube videos but could not decide on one. Confused, I tried one Paid subscription of one company after another (Jamboree, Experts Global, MGMAT Mocks ) but there was no appreciable increase in my ability. I could feel that while solving questions, I was missing the right approach.

Then I decided to try out e-GMAT and boy-oh-boy, was I surprised!! The quality of the teaching is definitely much, much better than the rest of the others in the market. And this is coming from someone who has already invested more than Rs.2 Lacs in buying and prepping for the GMAT.

The best part of e-GMAT is that it relies on reasoning and reasoning alone to solve the questions, much as in real GMAT. Even in Verbal SC (a section that people think is about grammar), e-GMAT showed me how Meaning based approach can help in solving questions faster. In RC & CR, their concept files of Pre Thinking and Process of Elimination helped to quickly gauge and eliminate the wrong options. The Quant section is decent enough to cover all your bases, neither too hard nor too easy. My only complaints were that the IR section is not properly developed and there is no support for AWA. But overall, the e-GMAT course is still the best in business. I will be recommending it to anyone who is serious to crack the GMAT.

Finally, the support by the personalized e-GMAT mentor Mr. Archit has been great. He was able to find out the gaps in the armor which would have taken me a long time to figure out. he helped to develop a strategy for every mistake.

So, for all the upcoming aspirants out there, if you are reading this message - do not do the same mistakes I did. Go for e-GMAT subscription now! It is definitely worth it. You can check out their Free Trial version as well, if you wanna test the waters.

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I gave my GMAT in July 2019 and scored a 740 (Q49, V41). However, my GMAT journey began much before that. I knew that I was weak in the verbal section (especially SC), and hence when I started my prep, I used a number of book-based resources. As I went through these resources, my confidence that I could tackle the SC questions went up. I absorbed all the concept related information across different SC topics from the modules. After 3-4 months of studies, as I started with my mock exams, my performance was not that great. I would score a 49/50 in quant. However, when it came to verbal, my score was consistently in the 27-35 range. I continued to blindly solve more and more questions thinking that practice would help me achieve my target score, but my verbal score didn’t improve. I had my GMAT scheduled for Jan 2019. I went ahead and gave the GMAT and scored a 690. I immediately cancelled the score.
After this failed attempt, I was not sure how to proceed. I decide to study for a few more months and take the exam again. I continued to use the same materials for studies, until, one of my friends told me about e-GMAT. I had not heard of the company and hence wasn't sure whether it would be helpful. However, after reading a number of reviews on the GMAT Club, and talking to the friend, who was already using it, I decided to go ahead and register for the verbal live course. From the point of view of GMAT preparation, this was one of the best decisions.
As I started the course, I was introduced to the meaning-based approach for SC. When I prepared for the exam earlier, I used to concentrate on the grammatical rules that one would need to know to solve SC questions and thought that meaning was secondary. I do not disagree that grammatical rules are important. But what e-GMAT's meaning based approach made me realize was that meaning is the primary aspect one would need to focus on in order to solve SC questions. e-GMAT brought this meaning aspect, which I had considered secondary, to the forefront. Post that, I slowly started realizing that SC was less about grammar and more about logic. I realized solving a GMAT SC question meant identifying an option that conveys the correct meaning in a most logical and concise manner. Grammar was just a tool to be used to achieve this objective. I continued to diligently follow the meaning-based approach as taught in the modules and actually started enjoying the process of solving SC questions.
After I finished the concept modules with SC, I moved on to CR. Here I was introduced to the process of pre-thinking. Again, this was something new that I had never heard from the book-based resources. As I went through the course modules, I slowly started realizing the importance on incorporating pre-thinking while solving CR question. Initially it would take some extra time to solve questions as I would have to consciously make an effort to pre-think. But slowly, the idea got ingrained into my process. Pre-thinking actually helped me solve CR question more effectively with greater level of confidence. When I look back and think about it, the idea is very simple but, at the same time, very effective.
Once I was done with learning the concepts, I moved on to Scholaranium. This is e-GMAT’s practice platform where they have put together hundreds of GMAT like questions. The platform offers many capabilities such as custom quizzes, sectional quizzes, ability quizzes. I made extensive use of ability quizzes (which simulate the verbal section) as they helped me understand my standing (in terms of percentile) in the verbal section. It also provided tons of analytics that helped me identify my weak areas so that I could work on them. Additionally, I made extensive use of the forum discussion where e-GMAT experts clarified doubts for almost all the questions that are there on the platform. Scholaranium was the perfect platform for me to put my conceptual learning into practice and improve my verbal ability.
I saw a dramatic improvement in my verbal ability in my mock exams. I gave my GMAT exam again in July 2019 and scored a 740 (Q49, V41). Whenever my colleagues or friends have asked me for recommendation for a GMAT prep course, I have always recommended e-GMAT without thinking twice.
e-GMAT also has a very stealth like program that helps students like me build hyper specific plans to create milestone drive study plans. I am working with DJ right now and let us hope I can improve my score to a 750 now! *Fingers crossed* As a student this is all I can ask for and more.

I hope this review is helpful if someone is not sure which prep provider to use.

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After my second attempt at GMAT, in which I got a 690 (V34, Q49) I was really disappointed to come so close to 700, yet fall short by a small margin. I opted for the Enhanced Score Card which revealed that my SC percentile was 91%, RC was 55% and CR was lagging behind at 24%. It was then that I decided to enroll to a verbal course to enhance my CR skills and got in touch with DJ from the E-GMAT team.

DJ encouraged me go through the CR videos and helped me by finalizing a timing strategy. He asked me to maintain an error log. I sent across the error logs frequently and DJ would closely analyze those and suggest remedial measures. The scholarnium 2.0 platform was really helpful in diagnosing weak areas and keeping a check on timing issues. I also learnt a lot from Stacey's guidance on the SC forum in E-GMAT as well. Finally the Sigma X mocks were really accurate in estimating the current skill levels and provided a realistic measure of the GMAT score. Overall, I believe that investing the E-GMAT verbal online course helped me push past the hurdle of the GMAT exam.

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After preparing randomly for a couple of months, I decided that it was time to get organised. That is when I cam across e-GMAT and the fact that they are considered to be the best at Verbal. I had a call with Vaibhav from e-GMAT who detailed me about the benefits that the GMAT Online course had to offer.

The verbal course overall is structured in an amazing way starting all the way from Master Comprehension. The detail with which the Sentence Correction concepts are explained is unparalleled. The Pre-thinking approach in CR just changes the game altogether. Before understanding the approach, I used to have a lot of difficulty, but going through the CR course made it probably my strongest suit in Verbal. As for RC, I always used to have trouble staying concentrated throughout the passage, but the reading strategies helped immeasurably.

It was not just the quality of the course that was amazing, but the guidance and strategy by DJ were also equally great. He himself used to spend time analyzing my errors and devising a strategy for the future. He even helped outside the course by providing my resources to help me concentrate. Ever since I completed the course once, he helped every step of the way.

I believe one of the biggest differentiating factors is the new Scholaranium 2.0. The detail down to which it helps you identify weaknesses is incredibly helpful. Another thing that helped me a lot were the strategic review guides. They helped pin-point the type of error I was making and what was the ideal corrective action for that error type.

The accuracy of the Sigma-X mocks was probably another feature that not many other course providers can manage.

All in all, anyone who is looking to either structure their preparation, I would recommend e-GMAT's GMAT online hands-down any day.

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After one month of studying with one of the most traditional programs, I was feeling that my preparation for the GMAT was taking me nowhere. I had taken 3 mocks and my score in the last 2 was flat. In spite of putting in the required hours to study, I felt that I lacked a solid strategy to help me identify and improve my weaknesses. At this point, I came across the E-Gmat platform in Google and decided to give a try to the free materials. I liked them so much, that I immediately scheduled a call with one of the experts and he gave me the confidence that E-Gmat was right for me... And he was absolutely right. Simply put: it was a total game changer, since it gave me a structured plan to follow, constant support as I followed that plan, and the most awesome testing and analytics tools to train and track progress.

1. The process

The team at E-Gmat has come up with a very structured plan in three stages that really helps you build solid foundations to tackle every single question and then practice, cement your knowledge and improve your ability to answer hard questions. The plan is really easy to follow and you don't have to invent the wheel: they guide you step by step so that you always know what comes next and can track your progress along the way. You just have to put in the hours and a learning attitude and you will certainly improve in every area that is testen in the GMAT.

2. The constant support

The E-Gmat team is very responsive via email. I reached out to them several times during the process and always received an answer within hours. I also loved that the answers they gave me were always customized: they took the time to review my progress on the platform, identify very specific opportunities for improvement and give me a detailed action plan. Most of the time, the answers also included explanatory videos that helped clarify certain things. They really make you feel like you are not alone on the process and they've got you covered. Therefore, the day I actually took the test, I felt confident about my preparation process. I still remember my first conversation with Dhruv and the confidence I felt that my target GMAT score was within my reach. Now that I actually took the test, I am super thankfull to him, DJ, Archit and the rest of the team for making me feel supported during my GMAT prep time.

3. The tools

One of the most amazing features of E-Gmat is their testing and practice platform called Scholaranium. It is a very structured platform where you can find lots of practice questions of all topics and difficulty level. But they not only give you questions, they give you a tool to build your own custom quizzes according to your needs and then give you comprehensive analytics to evaluate your performance and identify plans for improvement. After each quiz, they help you identify the set of questions that require a strategic review, and they teach you a review technique so that you actually learn from your mistakes and do better next time. Moreover, in Sholaranium you can keep track of your progress over time not only in accuracy but also in timing matters. That way you can easily identify your strengths and weakneses. Additionally, E-Gmat also gives you access to 5 mock tests with very detailed results analysis and step by step explanations for every question. The tests are so realistic that when I took the real GMAT, I felt my score was really predictable, according to what I had seen on the E-Gmat platform.

All in all, E-Gmat was a really good fit for me and helped me get one step closer to my goal of getting an MBA from a top university. I would totally recommend it to anyone looking to build a solid foundation in Quant and Verbal to take the GMAT full of confidence.

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