The focus on data, analytics and process skills to excel at the GMAT is what led me to the e-GMAT online course.
After my first attempt, I was looking for a course that would help bridge my concept and ability gaps. Though, I was comfortable with Quants initially, after going through the course, I did learned the correct methods to solve higher difficulty level questions. The Quant course is very comprehensive and the Quant 2.0 course helped me identify the exact nuances and traps present in difficult DS questions.

The e-GMAT strategy team was always supportive and helpful with providing concrete next steps throughout my preparation. My call with Dhananjay (DJ) helped me understand where exactly I was faltering and and how to improve on the same. The last minute pro tips were super helpful in building that confidence just before my exam. The video analyses from DJ and Ashutosh were very helpful in understanding the exact areas that I could improve on to reach the score I deserved and kept motivating me to keep working towards achieving my goal.

If you are dedicated towards excelling at the GMAT, then the e-GMAT team would leave no stone unturned to help you realize your potential.

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The course was very comprehensive. Really helped me improve my fundamentals. The well curated video lectures coupled with powerful analytics of Scholaranium, helped me improve my verbal score. The video lectures were easy to understand as well as detailed. With Scholaranium, I could improve my SC the most,followed by CR and RC.The score in cementing & custom quizzes actually was true reflector of actual score. The Quant was a little harder than actual Quant but was good enough for practice. Also the Quant 2.0 as recently launched by Egmat looks promising
The strategy team also helped by offering timely study schedule and mapping progress timely. The support the team provided was commendable
Highly recommend this course for GMAT verbal prep irrespective if anyone is starting or is retaking the exam

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E-gmat has been very helpful throughout my prep to reach my target score of 760. Starting off with a well tailored plan structured according to my schedule, which gave me a very realistic preparation timeline, I was able to pace the journey at my own time. The conceptual videos especially for verbal section really helped me understand the core concepts and customized quizzes on Scholaranium helped me perfectly brush up my concepts before moving on. The support provided by the team throughout my prep really helped me feel secure and confident. I did not even buy an OG and that's how comprehensive the materials are. Mock analysis tools helped me improve with each mock and when combined with Scholaranium, helped me focus and direct my efforts on the areas that needed work. So thankful!

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I started preparing for GMAT 2.5 months back. With a full-time job, I used to find 2 hours a day on weekdays and 4-5 hrs on weekends for test preparation. I started by taking a diagnostic test by Manhattan Prep in which I scored 640. I completed OG verbal and quant first and then gave another Manhattan Prep test in which I again scored a 640. I realised that there were gaps in my preparation and I needed to get a strong hold on fundamental concepts first. I used the study materials available on GMAT club for all Quant and Verbal topics and made notes on all the concepts. I found Manhattan GMAT study material quite helpful for verbal. For quant, I focussed on solving more and more questions and building my approach by reviewing solutions. And this is where my Quant strategy did not improve at all!

I gave the Free Sigma Mock Test available on EGMAT and found myself scoring a 43 on Quant and a 43 on verbal. After weeks of practice, this score led me to seek support in understanding gaps in my preparation. I reached out to Dhananjay Lowe, an expert with EGMAT. He helped me analyze my Sigma Mock Test and devised a preparation strategy that could cement my work thus far. My exam was exactly a month away. And how EGMAT works is that they analyze your latest mock (only MBA.com mocks or Sigma Mocks btw!) and highlight gap areas to you. In my case, my preparation was at varying stages in different topics. For e.g., I needed a stage 1 (conceptual and process skill development) training in Algebra and Geometry whereas Stage 2 (Cementing Quizzes) in NP, Word Problems and Advanced topics. Similarly in verbal, I needed to go through Stage 1 again (Concepts and Process development) in CR and Stage 2 in RC and SC.

What is amazing about EGMAT is that it is very logical and structural in approach. It won't let you leave things to chance. Payal's videos on Quant helped me improve my techniques drastically. After practicing quizzes in concept files and scholaranium, my confidence went up a lot and I found my test anxiety also going away.

If I were to do it all over again, I would honestly start my preparations with EGMAT (not an exaggeration). They help you save time, get your approach right and get a strong grasp on fundamentals.

Oh, and please don't forget to check out their new Quant course. The section on "GMAT skills" is amazing! If you take that up, you are going to seal a great score.

I do feel that if I had more time in hand, my preparations given all the study material and quizzes available on EGMAT could have been better and I would have gotten Q50 on the D-Day which I really hoped for. :-P

Thank you DJ, Rajat and Payal for helping me out at the right time with the right strategy.

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Highly recommended for "learning” the concepts. I would suggest going for the entire thing which includes Quant and Verbal. It covers exceptionally important yet often overlooked skills such as reading (in its Master Comprehension tutorials) that are absolutely critical on all the GMAT sections and helps you hone specific skills with its endlessly customizable quiz builder (Scholaranium). It's easily the most well thought-out and one of the most comprehensive online courses out there and is well worth the investment.
One of the amazing things that e-GMAT did was get me into a habit of following their 3-step process to answer a question and maintain an error log.
The prompt doubt solving and the sigma mocks were simply amazing. Ask anything you want on the forum and you'd get an apt and detailed reply within the day. It never took me longer than that to reach them for any issues I had. The interactive user experience is one of the bests I've seen and it would facilitate your learning for sure!

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I discovered e-gmat through GMAT Club.

During April 2020, I took about 7-8 free tests (2 tests every weekend) from various portals and scored between 580-640. Then I decided that if I wanted to improve my score, I needed to get serious and commit my time for a solid preparation. After using the free trial from e-gmat for about a month, I registered for its full online course during the first week of May 2020.

Meanwhile, I had been reading/watching several success and failure stories on the GMAT Club’s forum. The last time I gave any “competitive exam” was over 10 years ago and I was running low on confidence and high on insecurity of failing to score above 700 in the first attempt.

I studied about 3-5 hrs every day and completed the verbal and the quant section within 3 weeks. On May 20, I took my second Sigma-Mock test and scored 740. I was happy with the progress and continued to practice questions in Scholaranium. However, after 2 weeks, I took the 3rd Sigma test and managed to score only 690. This got me worried and for the first time I contacted e-gmat. They responded quickly and told me how to use Scholarinium efficiently for better results.

Ten days later, I gave the 4th test and scored 700. I had solved almost all the questions in Scholarinium and even after over a month of preparation, I felt stuck. I wrote to e-gmat again and they gave me the much-needed encouragement to keep practicing. They told me that if I could score 700 in their tests, I could comfortably score above 700 in the final exam.

I realized that I was good with my concepts but I would usually experience a fatigue midway during the verbal section. The first time I scored 740 in the practice test, I answered the Verbal section first and then Quant. But because of the new rules of GMAT Online, I had to take Quant first and then Verbal. This resulted in me making mistakes in the Verbal section. Sometimes, I would mess up SC and then sometimes CR. I needed something to do to improve my consistency.

6 weeks into the preparation, I started solving GMAT OG questions through e-gmat. I felt that I needed more practice sitting for 3 hrs and giving the exam in one go. So, I bought a 7-test package from Veritas and 4 tests from official GMAT website. For the next 2 weeks, I took practice tests almost every day. Though my results did not improve a lot, since the score moved between 690-730, it definitely improved my test taking stamina.

Finally, I gave my final Sigma mock test on June 22 and scored 760. After 7-8 weeks of preparation and taking over 25 practice tests, I felt I was ready and booked the exam on 2nd July.

Everything was going well but when the examiner was about to release the exam, my laptop screen froze. I got a call from GMAT but my phone was in the other room and I couldn’t receive it. I restarted my laptop and did the whole verification process again. Finally, after 20 mins delay, I started the exam. I was really pissed at my luck and was definitely not in an “ideal” state to give the exam. But somehow, all my practice paid off. All I remember is that I had a sharp focus and I was in “the zone”. I finished the exam but I was so focused that I didn’t realize if it went good or bad. I felt that I gave my best and was satisfied with the effort.

After 19 days of delay, I received the score in the morning. During the whole preparation phase, my target was 740 and sometimes I would dare and dream of scoring 760. But when I saw 770 on the screen, it was something unexpected. I thanked God and went out for a morning walk.

I would like to thank e-gmat for their support and their excellent study material. I was good in Quant but e-gmat made it possible for me to consistently score Q50 in the practice tests and the final exam. I was not too good with the Verbal section. I would score around V27-28 for the first month of my prep. I struggled with SC the most but e-gmat’s SC study material is amazing. After going through their material, I improved enough to love solving SC questions. CR was the hardest for me to improve. Even until the final exam, I was not feeling too good about CR. E-gmat talks about “pre-thinking” to solve CR questions, but honestly, it never clicked for me until the very end. 3-4 days before the final exam, I went through all the practice tests that I had taken and that is when it all came together. I started seeing a pattern with CR questions. I did not practice much for RC. Overall, e-gmat has an excellent collection of quality questions and if one takes time to practice all of them, I am confident that one can face GMAT questions better.

Once again, I would like to thank e-gmat and I would recommend e-gmat to anyone looking for a good preparation course. They have easy to understand study material and they make it very easy to follow your progress. They are quick to respond to your query. Once I did not agree with their solution for a CR question and I wrote them a little angry post about how their “pre-thinking” was kinda BS and it only worked if you already knew the answer (I guess I was not in a good mood after failing to get any right answers that evening). The last post on that question was made over a year ago and I was not expecting any reply to a rather rude post. But to my surprise and delight, I got a response the next day and it was very helpful.

Finally, I would like to conclude by saying that GMAT is an interesting exam. It doesn’t take a lot of book-knowledge to score over 740. A few wrong answers can make a difference between a 770 and a 700. One needs to have complete focus and composure during the final exam and it can be achieved through honest practice and a little bit of faith.

Faith is a powerful tool that can get you through anything. Keep faith and trust God.

This week I received the admission letter from my desired MS Finance program and I feel happy. I have much more to talk about but for now I will end here. Maybe next year when I start my studies, I will revisit this post and write about the importance of faith when preparing for GMAT!

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After spending 3 months completing a big-name prep company’s online course, I scored 660 (Q47 V35 IR6) in my first GMAT attempt. Disappointed but not disheartened, I knew I need to level up my game, but how? I remembered what Albert Einstein once said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." I decided to find a new approach to GMAT preparation.

e-GMAT first caught my eyes through its helpful articles and thoughtful solutions posted on the GMAT Club. After signing up, I was impressed by two things:
【1. Its systematic problem-solving approach, which is thoroughly explained in its engaging video content】
Right off the bat, the Master Comprehension course taught me how to read and understand GMAT passages more effectively, a foundation necessary to succeed in not only RC, but also SC and RC. Its meaning-based SC approach was a game changer for me: I’m no longer held hostage by countless grammar rules and obscure idioms—meaning-based approach did wonders for me, allowing me to achieve a 96%ile score in the SC sub-section (as per the ESR of my second GMAT attempt, in which I got a 720). RC was my weakest spot, but e-GMAT’s pre-thinking helped me gain the clarity of mind needed to excel in seemly convoluted questions, achieving an 88%ile score in the RC sub-section.
【2. Its data-driven exam prep process, which is embedded in each element of its course】
From working with machine learning (ML) models at work, I came to appreciate the beautiful God-given human brain and its powerful neural networks that can brilliantly learn, an ability that distinguishes us from other species. A ML model’s job is to teach a machine to discern patterns in a massive amount of data; however, not all ML algorithms are created equal—some are more effective than others in generalizing (i.e., predicting/scoring with new data). The best algorithms tend to be the ones that have rapid “feedback loops” to help the models incrementally improve.
Rapid feedback loops and incremental improvement are exactly what e-GMAT team has built. From the quizzes integrated in lectures, Scholaranium practice platform, and analytics-packed Sigma-X Mock Exams, e-GMAT provides tremendous amount of quantitative feedback to help learners know how well they are internalizing the concepts, so they can improve before moving onto another sub-section or concept. If this is not a beautifully efficient learning process, what is?

After relearning GMAT with e-GMAT for 3 months and one week before my 2nd attempt, I got an email saying I was selected to partake in the e-GMAT Mentorship Program (still a myth to me how they select students to join this unadvertised program? Does anyone know? I’m curious.). Although I got the invitation one week before my exam, I figured to give it a try since it’s a complimentary service. I thought there isn’t much I could do at this point, but my mentor, DJ, proved me wrong.

Although working from a different time zone and already had a packed calendar, DJ went out of his way to meet with me outside his normal working hours. He thoroughly analyzed my mock exam results and provided me with a 4-day game plan with daily action items, which was designed to help me strengthen my weak areas (timing and knowledge gaps in certain sub-sections). DJ’s encouragement also provided me with a boost of confidence before I stepped into the testing center.

Four days later, I scored 720 (Q47 V42 IR4) on 12/3, a big improvement from my previous 660 received on 7/14, but I know I could do better as I’ve scored 740 & 750 in my recent mock exams. I shared with DJ that I hope to give it another shot to achieve my full potential. DJ gladly offered to analyze my ESR and create a 2-week game plan to help me achieve my goal.

I’m grateful to have received help from e-GMAT experts such as DJ. I'm excited and looking forward to meeting him on Sunday to go over his assessment and my 15-day plan. Onward and forward—the journey continues.


【12/23/2020 Update】 I gave GMAT another shot early this week and felt very grateful to have received a 740 (Q49 V41 IR8) this time. In the last two weeks of my prep, I did three things in e-GMAT that really helped:
1) e-GMAT’s Scholaranium custom quizzes (daily) and Sigma-X Mock Exams (2) to practice applying concepts on a timely manner;
2) e-GMAT’s Quant 2.0 (https://e-gmat.com/blogs/gmat-quant-preparation/), a new course recently released. Although only had time to complete ¾ of the new Number Property module, I really liked it. I appreciated how each concept in the module starts with a diagnostic quiz, result of which is used to recommend a learning path unique to the student. Additionally, I was very happy to see that the process skills, such as Consider All Cases and Apply Constraints, are being explicitly taught and tested in the new Quant 2.0 course. e-GMAT's structured approach helped me to make a significant breakthrough in Verbal, so I wish I had access to this new course since Day 1—I probably would have scored higher in Quant.
3) e-GMAT’s IR module, an area I didn’t pay much attention last time, so I quickly went over the key lessons to learn the more efficient process to tackle IR questions.

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I got in touch with DJ towards the end of November, just under a month back. Since then, my GMAT journey has drastically changed (for the better). DJ has been by my side, answering any questions I had. Obviously, regarding content you can always write the GMAT support team, but it was very useful to have someone who could answer any overhauling or general questions which might pop-up when preparing for the GMAT.

After getting a very specific analysis of my first SIGma-X mock (700, Q49, V36), DJ recommended I follow the SC course, which would create a good base for increasing my Verbal score. Upon completing this course I felt a lot more confident answering Verbal questions, it started to become a second nature to me, but noticed that I still had quite some conceptual gaps in the Quant section after taking multiple cementing quizzes. Fortunately, the new Quant course was just published and I was lucky enough to be one of the first to test it. With less than a week to go before my GMAT, I managed to (very efficiently) improve certain conceptual gaps, though due to time constraints didn't manage to go through the entire course. DJ mentored me very carefully throughout the last few days of preparation, which helped me to really get the most out of my time. This included a very specific video-analysis of my most recent mock test which pinpointed the lowest hanging fruits as well as coming with a step-by-step plan for the last 3 days. Unfortunately, my actual GMAT (Online) test didn't go as good as I hoped it would, because of the Quant section (Q42). Nevertheless, I'm really happy with my increase in Verbal (V36 -> V41 within a few weeks). I'm looking forward to taking the new Quant course over the next few weeks and giving the GMAT another shot soon thereafter.

I'd like to thank DJ for his extensive mentoring and look forward to working together towards a 720+ score over the next month!

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My journey with egmat started at the end of October when I had been waitlisted in 2 of my dream schools, and I knew that there was 1 factor in my application that I can change - the GMAT score. Needless to mention, I was already aware of the great work e-gmat had been doing, because I had attended a few of their webinars, and found them very conducive.
The numero uno step was to deduce the right strategy. Because I was already at a 730, getting into the top 1 percent required me to be cognizant of my exact strengths and weaknesses. One call with the e-GMAT GMAT strategist and I was all set. The sigma-x mocks do a wonderful job in simulating the exact areas where you lagged behind, the areas where you spent more amount of time than you should have. And all of these analytics helped me form a base plan to achieve a minimum of 20 point increase in my score within 30 days.
The concept files of Quant and Verbal are amazing, extremely detailed and helped me identify the areas where I wasn't sure of my concepts. The scholaranium is huge, vast and has a number of filters that delve deep into sub-sections and difficulty levels, and allows us to practise exactly the problems that we significantly are weak at. Doubt clearances are all round the clock, and the solutions are extremely detailed.
Overall, the best value for money, and I highly recommend the course to every test taker who wishes to ace the GMAT.

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I cannot thank the E-GMAT team enough for the amount of improvement I made on the Verbal section of GMAT between my 2 attempts.

For my first attempt, I went ahead with a reputed live online coaching program in India. Although, my quant prep was decent, I was struggling badly in verbal. SC, which is by far the easiest section on GMAT verbal, was pulling my score down badly. A month before my first GMAT attempt, I came across e-GMAT's verbal course and took a free sigma mock to gauge my preparation and scored a V26. On the subsequent official test 1 attempt (2 days later), I scored a V33. I thought that the sigma mock was not an actual representation of GMAT verbal section. I trusted my preparation, studied for a month and went ahead with the actual exam, only to receive a reality check (Actual score – 630 – Q49, V27). I realized that the verbal section is the one which is going to make or break my score. I got in touch with Sandeep from e-GMAT and immediately took up its subscription.

The SC, CR and RC modules of e-GMAT course are so designed that their focus lies entirely on mastering a structured process. Trust me, this is the only way to consistently perform and succeed on the GMAT. If you learn to follow a structured approach for any question, nothing will stop you on the D-Day.

The online practice platform – Scholaranium is the best that one can ask for. It helped me identify the gaps in my preparation and I could track my progress on it with ease.

The e-GMAT support staff is great too. They are readily available to handle you doubts over a mail and their response time is less than 24 hours. They also paused my subscription when I needed that owing to work commitments.

All in all, e-GMAT verbal online course is your best bet if you are looking for a great verbal score or are struggling with your verbal preparation.

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