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Strengths:
- Number and Variety of Questions available.
- And more importantly covering all the topics in detail.
- Quick and efficient clarification of doubts from the support team.
- Mentorship for identifying and strengthening your weak areas.
Would make the product better:
- Some of the word problems are challenging and lengthy, requiring a significant amount of time to solve. This seems to discourage the students.
When I first considered preparing for the GMAT, I was concerned about the significant time and effort it would require, especially while working. However, a friend recommended the E-GMAT course and gave me confidence that it was achievable.
After enrolling in their basic course on June 2024, I gave a mock test to gauge my current level, scoring 555. Since then, I didn’t need to use any other materials or question banks for preparation. The amount of material and questions provided was more than enough. After 2.5 months, I was able to complete all the concept modules (Stage 1) and achieve the threshold scores in their cementing quizzes (Stage 2). This gave me the confidence to move on to the test readiness quizzes (Stage 3).
In the Test Readiness stage, my scores began to decline, and I struggled to identify my weak areas. I reached out to the E-GMAT support team for assistance, and Dhruv guided me throughout the process, helping me strengthen my weak areas. He also helped me in choosing an Exam Date as per my performance. Then came the final stage: Mock tests. Initially, I scored well (665 and 695), but some personal matters distracted me, and I lost my momentum with the subsequent attempts. As the exam date approached, I found more time for practice and got back on track. My final mock attempt scored 695, which really boosted my confidence.
I would like to sincerely thank the E-GMAT team for providing such an excellent platform to learn with utmost ease.
Strengths:
The curriculum design and flow. The 3 stages of learning approach.
Would make the product better:
I think Question quality can be improved for Critical Reasoning. I found some answer choices to be ambiguous and so did several other subscribers.
Overall I would recommend this product especially for someone looking for major improvement in Verbal. They have excellent content on Sentence Correction and RC.
The Quant content is also good but I was not very happy with Quant questions and curriculum because I found some of them not to be of GMAT type and I have given GMAT 6 times so I have a sense of the type of questions. Their support team is excellent and responsive. Their Mocks are very good and are a close approximate of the real GMAT.
Overall, a good option considering the price, quality of content and support.
Strengths:
1. Pedagogy
2. Structured Approach
3. Vast Question Bank
4. Data Analytics
Would make the product better:
Interaction with SMEs
I used e-gmat.com to prepare for the GMAT and was incredibly impressed with the quality of their content and the effectiveness of their approach. The Verbal section specially had a very methodical approach, with clear strategies and techniques for tackling each type of question. This helped me approach the questions with more confidence and ultimately improve my performance. The pedagogy for solving SC questions were extremely effective, meaning based approach to each sentence correction really makes a lot of difference while solving medium to hard questions. The core skills such as identifying grammatical errors, understanding meaning, and answer choices analysis got firmly built due to the course. The CR part was excellent in terms of understanding the different parts of an argument, the different kinds of questions that can be asked and mainly getting to know the traps involved in official GMAT questions. eGMAT gave me an altogether different strategy in for tackling CR: “Pre thinking”, this approach has worked wonders for me. From starting with very low accuracy right to getting all of them right has been an incredible experience. The RC course was good for learning the way to understand any given passage, and increasing retention while reading anything.
I also used EGMAT for Quant, since I have been out of the academics for a long time, I needed to brush up my concepts and do the necessary practice to ensure that I am ready for the exam. The Quant section helped me immensely for enhancing my skillset and clearing my concepts on different topics.
Last but not the least, the best past of Egmat is its Scholaranium. This is an extremely welldesigned platform which provides numerous questions within each section, along with amazing data analytics which helped me improve my abilities.
Overall, I am extremely satisfied with eEgmat it helped to reach my target score at my very 1st attempt. I would definitely recommend the course to the future aspirants.
Dear SM17,
Congratulations on scoring a 700!!
Thank you for such a great review! I am happy that we could contribute to your massive 100-point improvement😊
I must commend you on how, after recognizing that you needed to build your ability from the foundation-up, you set about learning your concepts and internalizing the application skills. With this disciplined approach, you mastered the meaning-based approach in SC that helped you improve to 90th percentile ability in SC as seen in this image: https://success.e-gmat.com/SM17-90-percentile-SC-ability
As you have mentioned, you started with low accuracy in CR. You took this as a challenge and internalised the pre-thinking approach to be able to improve your ability. You used the power of analytics from the Scholaranium platform to further build your ability by identifying and working on your weak areas. See how this helped you not only improve your CR accuracy to 70%+ in hard questions but also helped you bring your overall time in CR down to less than 2 min:
https://success.e-gmat.com/SM17-CR-Ability-vs-Time-Reduction
It is appreciable how in quant, recognising the fact that you have been out of touch for some time, you went through all the files and mastered the application of the process to improve to a Q49.
SM17, you have shown that a structured, methodical approach with a single-minded focus on the end goal will help one achieve what one sets their eyes on!
On behalf of the entire e-GMAT family, I wish you all the best in your future endeavours
Regards,
Rashmi Vaidya
Strengths:
Pedagogy
Interactive UI
Faculty
When I first thought of a course to focus on my GMAT preparation, I skimmed multiple reviews on GMAT Club and some other forums but couldn't figure out one standard course to solve my problems. After some more research I finally decided to try the initial 1 week trial period by EGMAT. From the get go I fell in love with the content, the videos were not long and tedious but short, concise and to the point just as I liked. After finishing up my trial week, I instantly purchased my course to get started with my GMAT prep.
My main pain point was my Verbal section, with my approach not being decisive and most of my solutions specially for SC being based on feel good factor. The pedagogy employed by EGMAT helped me come up with a more sequential strategy to tackle SC questions, the elimination process helped me proceed from one step to the another without complicating the question. Also, while navigating through the Critical Reasoning module the structure to tackle the question and identify the argument helped me save time and look at the important keywords.
This being just a glimpse of what the EGMAT course has offered me, to cut short and provide an honest opinion on the course I can say in a heartbeat that if you struggle with consistency in Verbal or don't have a concrete strategy for the section EGMAT is the place for you.
Dear Gozmit5,
Congratulations on a great score. Only the top 4% of the test takers score a 730 and it is great to see you are one of them.
I am glad that you enjoyed using the platform, and it added value to your preparation. The ‘feel-good’ method for solving questions in GMAT will take you only so far. It is commendable how you recognized this and set about learning the right processes to build your verbal ability.
It is exemplary how through a structured approach you were able to improve your verbal score to a V40.
This image shows how through your consistent and methodical efforts you were able to improve to a 90th%ile ability in CR:
https://success.e-gmat.com/Gozmit5-90-percentile-ability-in-CR
I am sure the qualities that you have demonstrated during your GMAT preparation will help you excel in the new journey that you have set out for yourself.
Wish you all the best,
Regards,
Rashmi Vaidya
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I am glad that I took the e-GMAT course for my preparation since the beginning.
1. Course structure:
The best thing that I personally liked about the course is the structure that is followed. It really helps in not only grasping the concepts but also retaining them. Verbal section was specially the game changer.
2. Course content:
The course has sound content and it covers it in an interconnected manner, enabling better understanding of the concepts as a whole.
3. Mentorship:
This has been the game changer for me after my first attempt. The team was very responsive and supportive till the day of exam. A special mention to my coach Rashmi who really helped me identify & rectify errors, specially in verbal section.
4. Scholaranium:
I think this is has been the heart of the course for me. With diverse range of question (from easy to difficult), there is enough volume of questions to lay your hand on. The best part is the analysis provided on a topic/quiz level, specially the so-called 'takt time' really helped in realising the speed as well as accuracy & necessary focus areas to improve upon.
Dear AdityaS09,
Congratulations on scoring a 720!
This is Rashmi from e-GMAT here. It has been great working with you on this journey toward success.
I would like to commend you on the way you have diligently prepared for the test using the course to get to the top 6% of the test takers.
1. Your verbal journey is a testament to the concentrated efforts that you have put in –
2. You diligently set about learning concepts and applications through the concept and application files
3. After laying a solid foundation, I appreciate how you mastered your application by solving the questions in Scholaranium
Despite clearing the thresholds, you took that additional step to identify your areas of weakness using the analytics on the Scholaranium through focused efforts were able to improve your verbal score to a V37.
The image below shows how your efforts paid off in CR where not only did you improve to a 90th%ile ability in CR but also reduced the time taken to solve questions (your ‘takt time’)
Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/CR-accuracy-and-timing
Aditya, I am glad that all your efforts have paid off and wish you all the best in your future endeavours on behalf of the entire e-GMAT family.
Regards,
Rashmi Vaidya
My journey started from a score of 600 (Q48, V25). I was consistently getting 680 to 700 in my Gmat Official Mock and I was shocked when I saw a score V25 in my 1st Gmat test. Feeling disheartened, a friend of mine recommended me to join E-GMAT full online course.
Skeptical at first, I decided to enroll for E-GMAT course. It was the best decision that I had taken in my journey of GMAT. I was amazed by their videos. Even the smallest of thing(especially in the verbal section) is very well explained. In no time, I was able to figure out my flaws and able to correct them.
The pre-thinking approach taught in CR is section is undoubtedly the best and most sought after approach in answering the CR questions. I was able to answer around 80% of the CR questions correctly in each and every mock using their Pre-Thinking methodology.
FInally the Scholaranium, set of thousand of good quality GMAT questions. In my final days of preparation, All i did was solve questions from the Scholaranium. The quality of questions on the Scholaranium is by far the best that i have seen amongst all the other platforms. Each question has a well detailed explanation at the end, helping me to identify even the smallest of things that I might have otherwise looked.
Scoring 710 would not be possible without the support of E-GMAT mentors and their material. I would highly recommend anyone preparing for GMAT to enroll for E-GMAT course.
Dear hsoni66,
Congratulations on scoring a 710 on the GMAT! A 110-point improvement is just A.M.A.Z.I.N.G 😊
I am glad we could change a student with a skeptical mind into a true believer. What you said really means a lot to me and the entire team. These are the words we work for.
I want to pick one thing out of your review – the quality of questions. Usually, most students love the number of questions, the explanations, or the data for these questions but let me tell you this, we go through 5-6 intensive rounds before even a single question goes live on Scholaranium. I am glad you noticed the value of this.
Question Snap - https://success.e-gmat.com/Question-Analytics
I wish you all the best in our LM program. Onwards and upwards!
Regards,
Dhananjay(DJ)
Joined: Jun 24, 2021
Posts: 0
Kudos: 5
Verified GMAT Classic score:
650 Q49 V28 (Online)
Verbal is recommended to all especially non native speakers
SC is very good. Meaning based approach to each sentence correction really makes a lot of difference while solving medium to hard questions.
CR was average. I mean some techniques were handy for solving hard questions but in general it was also helpful.
RC was below average. Nothing special was mention here. If you are purchasing this only for RC then I would like to warn you.
Quants was very extensive. For an Indian or Asian test taker you will easily get bored with the repetition of the content. For me It was not that useful. but for test taker with non maths or engineering background it might help.
At the end i would only recommend it for SC and CR, and if you are only buying it for quants then there are many other better alternatives available
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!
Hey Karan0912,
Thank you for posting your review!
This is your mentor, Rida, I really admire your perseverance. Truly, the efforts that you have put into acing the GMAT test are very admirable. I can see that for RC, you took the effort to perfect a methodology that would enable you to achieve repeated success. Your improvement to 83% accuracy is testament to the same.
Image Link https://success.e-gmat.com/Karan0912-RC-Improvement
I am glad that you also enjoyed the SC and Quant courses, and that you were able to replicate the test environment through our mocks.
Thank you for your feedback on the course. This enables us to create better content to help all our students achieve success. I just wanted to let you know that our questions on the platform are modelled after OG questions and go through rigorous testing before being made live to our users. All of our questions test the skills and concepts you need to ace the GMAT.
All the best for your next steps!
Regards,
Rida Shafeek