I initially practiced from OG, while skimming through Manahattan Prep books. Then I took one official mock and a free Sigma X-mock from e-GMAT. The scores were a pleasant surprise and I decided that I should polish a few weak areas and should give the GMAT online within a month.

The Sigma-X mock's detailed report was in line with my own assessment and helped me identify that SC was a weak area for me and I needed to further polish my Quant ability to give my best shot. Post a strategy consultation, the e-GMAT team offered me with a special one-month subscription (basis my actual GMAT date, the team happily and promptly extended this for 2 more days). I began with SC, which was my Achilles' and where e-GMAT course helped me the most. After completing that I wasn't sure how to utilize the program as I was already at a reasonably advanced level and did not plan to study other topics from scratch. I then arranged a call with an e-GMAT mentor, Dhananjay (DJ) and he provided me with a customized plan. Further, he even scheduled regular follow-ups, which were quite helpful to track my progress and adapting the plan as needed. The discussions with Dhananjay gave me a good framework for how to structure my preparation and helped me understand how to make most of the e-GMAT course.

As for the actual course content: In verbal, I found the SC course and Scholaranium quite useful. I didn't refer at all to CR and RC concepts; for practicing these I did try Scholaranium but I felt certain CR questions were not in line with official questions and hence shifted to the Verbal OG. As for Quant, e-GMAT's questions are significantly tougher than that of OG. But if done with the right mindset, they can help you expand your approach and understanding of concepts, but one has to ensure that they don't get demoralized given that the accuracy can be lower while time taken per question would be higher.

Overall, I think the course is very detailed and would be very useful for someone who starts from scratch and invests more time. For me, the concepts felt lengthy and at times primitive. But this is where the support from the e-GMAT mentor was integral as it helped me customize the course to my needs and extract the most out of it.

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I bought e-GMAT online on 2020 January 15. I've just had done a GMAT test at December 17, an I got a score of 600. I had to run against time, as I had another GMAT test scheduled for February 8. Through the e-GMAT I was able to study in a intensive way to review all verbal sections. I found the sentence correction section incredible, as it is very interactive and it explains in a manner that is very easy to understand and learn the concepts. By studying about 3 week with e-GMAT I was able to improve my score in 50 points, from 32 to 36 in the verbal section. However I did not had time to review the quant section. If you have more time to spend studying through e-GMAT I recommend you do so, because all content available is awesome. I believe that if I had more time I could improve even more my score.

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I started using the E-Gmat online course and realized that with the video content, I need some guidance to proceed on this journey. To my benefit, Egmat reached out to us for the mentorship program looking at the account history and that I have always reached out to the support team for help.
It was one of the best decisions to enroll with E-gmat for the mentorship program as while preparing, you constantly need to know whether the efforts you are putting are going in the right direction or not and the next step from there on. The mentorship program has been highly beneficial for me because of various reasons. Firstly, every week there is a day wise milestone plan made with your mentor basis your current performance and your goal. Having daily milestones is very effective as consistency is the biggest key while preparing for the Gmat exam.
Next, constant feedback is given on every quiz and every test taken. The biggest benefit for me was Dhananjay helping me out analyze my mock tests and point out error on timing, accuracy and sub sections, post analysis of performance of the previous week, the next week plan was chalked out.
Interactions with the cohort and peer learning has been another benefit. With the conducive environment created by Dhananjay, we were all able to share our experiences and help each other out. We also used to have weekly training sessions on different topics to solve common problems such as managing time, mental health, consistency etc.
Finally, Dhananjay was available to guide me all the time. I could reach out to him anytime of the day and he would just ask me to set up a zoom call and connect! For me, the biggest problem while studying GMAT is stress management. My performance throughout the study was excellent but there was always a problem on the test day due to anxiety issues while giving the test. Dhananjay helped me overcome this by making me give tests in harsh conditions (Lesser time for more difficult questions) so that I practice overcoming the panic situations as well.
On the test day, I could see a huge difference in the way I was handling questions and managing time. The idea to focus on meaning based approach in SC and the pre-thinking on CR really helped me solve the questions. I could see a huge difference in my level of preparation and confidence from the previous exam taken. Only because of getting one complete RC passage incorrect in the end, I could not score well on my Verbal section. Nonetheless, Dhananjay helped me start again by focusing only on the weak areas and improving my score further. I am all set now to appear for another exam very soon.

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In November 2019, I took the GMAT and obtained a score of 700 (49Q,39V). Even though I had received a good score, I felt as though I could score higher. However, I realized I would benefit from an online course that would structure my learning and highlight my weak areas. I saw that e-GMAT was the most reviewed course on GMAT Club, so I did the 7-day free trial to test the course. I really liked the videos that taught the concepts since I am a visual learner. The 5 free mock exams were definitely a plus since I wouldn't have to buy practice CATs from another test prep company. As I was taking the course, I appreciated that every question on Scholarium (e-GMAT's question bank) had essentially a comments section where students asked their questions and each question had a response from an e-GMAT verified instructor. So whenever I would review my incorrect answers, I would look at the comments section and would always find my question answered. At the beginning of my course, the e-GMAT team provided me with a course strategy that would also tell me if I had truly mastered a concept or if I needed to review it. The course taught me to look at meaning in sentence correction (something I never considered) and provided me a framework for assumption, evaluate, weaken, and strengthen questions in critical reasoning. Following e-GMAT's instruction and the online course, I completed the online course by around May 2020. From there I spent about a month doing the e-GMAT mock exams and OG GMAT exams. I took the online GMAT exam at the beginning of June (before a Physical whiteboard was allowed) and scored a 720 (50Q,38V). I was slightly disappointed that I had only scored a 720 but I was glad it was better than the 700. When I informed the e-GMAT team about my 720 score, Ashutosh (from e-GMAT Customer Strategy) gave me a call. After reviewing my scores on my e-GMAT mock exams, he realized that I was capable of scoring higher than a 720. He made it clear that I should definitely retake it and that instead of studying for another few months, he came up with a tailored 10-day plan that would target my weak areas. This tailored plan was to build my stamina throughout the exam and improve my accuracy on hard level problems. After going through those 10 days of several different types of quizzes, I retook the online GMAT exam (I also had a physical whiteboard this time). Seven days later I received my score report and saw that I scored a 740 (49Q,41V). I was really happy because the hard work since November 2019 paid off. I definitely appreciate the help from e-GMAT and do recommend the course to whoever. I believe it is best to get the full course covering both Quant and Verbal so that you can also get access to the mock exams.

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The e-GMAT strategy team laid out a clear step-by-step plan after analyzing my mock and my strengths and weaknesses. I also had an initial call with their team to understand the course offerings and I was impressed by the scholaranium, detailed mock analytics (NA on official mocks) and in-depth course material. They were supportive throughout the prep journey and would be quick to respond on email to any queries, issues I faced, etc.

DJ (e-gMAT mentor) was extremely helpful and supportive in my prep. He would analyze my mocks, section tests and highlight key improvement areas. I was taking time for CR and SC questions, which he helped me address. Additionally, he helped me understand the scoring algorithm, pacing and timing strategies for success.

The detailed plan for last few days shared by DJ definitely helped me improve verbal score, especially to increase accuracy while reducing time taken for CR/SC, while keeping quant score stable.

The calls with DJ were great because he clearly pointed out areas of improvement so that I would not get complacent, even if a mock went really well. He had a mentality of constant improvement and efficiency, which is what you need to eventually score well. (even if a question is correct, how can you do it faster, more efficiently, etc)

The warm-up strategy to do a few questions before a mock is a great tactic to get your brain working without taxing it. To sum up, thanks to DJ and e-GMAT team for their help and support!

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I believe the interactive module structure of e-gmat course is the best way to test prior knowledge, familiarise oneself with the course contents, and practise extensively. As many other reviews already mention, the verbal course was very easy to follow and has helped me a lot in my preparation. Supplementing the prep with scholaranium question bank was sufficient practice to ace the mock tests. Although I had used various mock test modules, the primary source of preparation has been e-gmat. I advise anyone who is just getting started to begin the preparation with e-gmat and test the skills on as many decent mock tests as possible.

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I started my GMAT journey in 2018. I did self-study for three weeks and went for the test just before Christmas in 2018. Scored 630 (Q44, V32). Disappointed, but with a full-time finance job that required me to work over 65 hours per week, I decided to divert my attention back to work. I have paused my MBA plan until early this year. I started self-prep again in mid-Jan. I tried out GMAT official mocks after studying for a month and scored 700 in both attempts. Not convinced by my mock scores, especially my inconsistent performance in the verbal section, I decided to sign up for a course specialized in verbal. The reviews on gmatclub for e-GMAT gave me a lot of confidence. Therefore, I decided to sign up for the full course, not only for verbal.

*Verbal Section*
SC: great for building fundamentals, but the course is very lengthy. The meaning-based approach, unfortunately, does not always work in the actual test. I would strongly advise against relying solely on e-GMAT to prepare for verbal. The sentence structures of some of the SC questions created by them are also quite bizarre. It is easy to see that the non-native speakers wrote those sentences.
CR: Sorry to be blunt, but the lectures created by them are quite useless. Using their approach, I guarantee most would not be able to solve the questions within 2.5 minutes. Their explanations are way too long. For those official questions, I could understand the official explanations better than their lengthy solutions.
RC: Ancient materials. Not worth the time.

*Quant*
Overall: only for building fundamentals. If you are below Q40, you can use that to learn the concepts then utilize their quizzes to identify weak areas. Once you hit Q45 or above in mock, DO NOT rely solely on e-GMAT anymore. I realized a big mistake I made was not checking out other test prep companies' courses. I have almost completed all e-GMAT quant quizzes before my official tests. When I signed up for a trial of another test prep company lately, I found out many of the concepts were not taught on e-GMAT. I was only able to encounter those concepts in one or two of those e-GMAT quizzes.

Quant Scholaranium: A great portal to identify weak areas. Really accurate because it correctly identified my weakest spot being number properties - my accuracy on number properties was only 50%; In contrast, the rest were all 85-100% in the M-H level questions in my official GMAT test. But their questions are unnecessarily long. When I did my official GMAT test recently, none of the items are THAT LONG. Even for word problems! The average time I spent on solving official quant questions are less than 1.5 minute, but e-GMAT questions could take up to 3 -4 minutes to solve! I voiced my frustration to my e-GMAT coach who followed up with my weekly progress. He asked me to give him some examples of questions that required longer than 2.5 minutes to solve. I could give him a whole list of 50+ questions honestly. But I gave him three examples. He said he would show me how to solve in 2 minutes - but guess what - he did not follow up on that! I m 100% sure no one can do that. I attempted the questions again a few times following their approach - I could even remember the approach by heart - and I still could not solve in 2 minutes. And the statistics of students who had solved these questions correctly also showed that they had to spend over 3 minutes! I am so upset by the time wasted on solving problems that do not represent the actual styles of GMAT questions.

In summary, I utterly regret wasting time on this course. I might have been able to progress faster by taking the courses of other test prep companies. As someone who started with 700 in official mock, I feel incredibly frustrated with the zero improvements after having spent MORE THAN four months on this. The zoom calls with the coach were pointless, too - all I get is some simple advice that I can give it to myself, like reading the economists/ keeping track of time at regular intervals. I m not someone starting at 500ish. And I had been doing those things even before signing on E-GMAT.

What stunned me the most is I scored 710, and 740 in the official mocks before my official test but ended up with 640 (in test center) then 660 (online GMAT).

I never slacked off on any day despite my demanding job- I kept error logs, reviewed mistakes kept on practicing, and followed their advice.

With such an unfortunate result after four months of dedicated work, I could only pin down to the following problems with e-GMAT:
1) not all essential quant concepts are covered in their "concept files"/ "practice files"/ "application files"
2) CR techniques completely not applicable in actual tests
3) SC meaningful approach does not always work
4) Lectures are only useful for those starting with 500-650 in official mocks. Cannot help breakthrough 700 barrier, unless someone is already proficient in quant (scoring Q50-51) and only need to polish verbal a bit.

I m sure e-GMAT might work for some, but if you are short on time, e-GMAT is not the course for you to boost the score from 600 sth to 700 or above in 1-3 months. And DO NOT rely on it to learn all concepts. Take its SC/ CR approach with a grain of salt. I have learned from pain.

I never really want to write such a review - but I find it necessary to tell my story. These four months were incredibly crucial to me, and the time wasted could have significant repercussions on my MBA applications.

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Indian GEM here.
Overall, egmat is a very good product for the price point.
Verbal content ( i.e teaching methodology/ solution approach) is top-notch and helps anyone with average English excel in the Verbal section. Sharaddha (Verbal Expert) is just awesome for the fact that she answers all your queries succinctly.
Quants has good content (I didn't extensively use the video lessons).
The Scholaranium (question bank) is a must have. It helps one master the Quants section (if you practice all questions at least twice!).
Questions are GMAT quality.
Sigma-X (Mocks) truly reveals once potential.
The last week support/ strategy by Dhananjay helped pierce the 700 barrier!

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My GMAT story started in October 2019 with my initial score 520 (Manhattan tests). Following the advice of my friend, I started my prep using MGMAT books. Though I thoroughly went through almost all the books in the collection, diligently doing all exercises, by the end of March 2020 I could not score above 540. Along the way, I also solved a ton of OG questions, almost exhausting the question bank in OG, OG Verbal and OG Quant.

Definitely, something was drastically wrong in my prep and I needed professional help. After analyzing most popular courses and reading a number of debriefs, I decided to stay with E-Gmat.

My journey with E-Gmat started with construction of a study plan for the entire course based on my initial score. What I liked about E-gmat plan is that every GMAT area needs to be covered in sequence. I clearly missed this point in my previous prep, and in a single day I could study Sentence Correction and Algebra, the approach that was obviously wrong. My pleasant surprises with E-gmat did not end at this point and I was admitted to E-Gmat mentorship program, which is basically study assistance by professional live GMAT instructor. Along with study plan developed by the E-gmat system, my mentor, Archit, every week was developing for me a detailed plan for the coming week, in which he stated what exact areas I needed to study and how many hours. Such a structured approach is very motivational and pushes you to study consistently with no pauses. What is more valuable is that Archit analyzed my progress and pointed when I needed to return back and to learn a concept again. Doing so, he made sure that I did not leave spaces in my conceptual understanding.

As for the E-gmat course itself, it is very self-sufficient so that you don’t need any other books or materials. For every topic, it has brilliant videos, which teach all the concepts needed for GMAT. But the best thing was that after learning a concept, you watch a video showing how this concept is used in the context of GMAT like questions and how to solve these questions with a step-by-step guide. Finally, you are offered a quiz to cement your knowledge and skills. Only upon successful solving the quiz, you are allowed to move further. Thus, bit by bit, the course builds your GMAT abilities. Going along the way, I understood that I had had a lot of flaws in my conceptual knowledge and totally wrong approach in application of those concepts.

My study plan was designed for 3 months, from April to June, and on June 17 I took my first attempt. Even though my official mocks showed the result of 700-710 (my target score), I could score only 630. I believe the test center experience played a major role in spoiling my score, since I was required to wear face mask and gloves, which brought a lot of discomfort and distractions. As for the questions, there were pretty similar to official mock tests and E-gmat tests, with the exception of RC passages, which turned out to be more complicated and were all from Humanities, my weakest area.

Right after the test, Archit analyzed my ESR report and immediately designed new study plan for the next 20 days, till the next attempt. This time the plan set forth the task of solving quizzes containing only hard questions and diligent work with the error log. No new learning was needed.
On July 9, in my second attempt I scored 680. Even though, I did not hit my target, I still possess very good chances for enrolling my dream business school, which now depend on other criteria. All in all, I could achieve 140 points improvement within 3 months from end of March (540 – Manhattan mock) to beginning of July (680 – real test).

I would like to express my gratitude to all who stand behind E-gmat project and sincerely thank my mentor, Archit, who was very attentive to my progress and provided with priceless advices along the way. I want to thank Rajat and Payal for creating it all and designing brilliant classes and materials. May your project flourish so that you continue to change life of many many students, who previously struggled with GMAT!

Best regards,
Alexander

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Whether you're starting to get into GMAT prep or you've been at it for a while, you might be struggling with figuring out which learning path to follow, how to improve your score in less time or how to prevent repeating mistakes.

After a year of trying to prepare for the GMAT aimlessly, I was pretty frustrated with all the material out there. Why wasn't there anything that took me from point A to point B without so many detours in the middle?

I found out about e-GMAT on gmatclub, and I bought the GMAT Online (Quant + Verbal) course.

I wasn't expecting much. My first GMAT mock score was 560, so I'd more or less accepted that I wasn't made for standardised tests.

E-gmat has a feature that lets you make a study plan, so I kind of let the software take the reins and tell me what to do.

It's a game changer. There's finally a map you can use to navigate GMAT prep.

The GMAT journey isn't easy, no matter what test prep company you choose, but after trying so many resources, I found that e-gmat was the best at removing vagueness around the preparation process.

Seriously, if you have a phobia of standardised tests like me, e-gmat is great at guiding you.

If you look at questions in the OG and then you look at the solution and you think, "Well, how am I supposed to know that I have to use this approach?" then take e-gmat's free trial. I'm pretty sure you'll be hooked.

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