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Last Mile Push Review and Support:
I reached out to e-GMAT when I was not able to get my target score on my first attempt. Overall, I am satisfied with my experience with e-GMAT prep even though I was not able to get the target score improvement.
The first thing I would highlight is my e-GMAT mentor Rashmi's support throughout my prep. She was always approachable, provided me with detailed guidance on my focus areas, and drew up comprehensive test-readiness programs which prepared me for the GMAT. Her encouraging words and attitude kept me focused on the prep and GMAT.
e-GMAT's platform is also very user-friendly. I appreciated the ability to review the questions I got wrong or struggled with, and the prompt analytics which gave me immediate feedback on my areas of improvement.
On the course itself:
Quant:
I liked the quant course. I would rate it a little harder than the actual exam, as though I struggled with some hard questions on e-GMAT, my ability on the test was significantly better. That said, I like the in-depth approach to the topics, the PACE alternative to skip over the courses I was comfortable with, and I can say it really helped me improve my Algebra and Geometry ability.
Verbal
The verbal course was comprehensive and made me master CR and SC. I definitely came away from the course with a better clarity on how to approach the CR , SC and RC sections as the GMAT is a lot about test taking ability rather than pure understanding sometimes. That said, I would rate the verbal course to be easier than the actual attempt. Caveat is my limited experience, but I scored 42+ consistently on the course and was unable to convert this on actual test day.
Areas of improvement:
I feel the verbal course can be improved, especially on RC and SC.
Overall, keep up the good work! And thanks for the help.
I was struggling to find right direction. Even after putting hours of work, I could not improve my score before joining e-GMAT. The process that is taught in the videos makes the results consistent and repeatable. Just knowing the theory isn't enough, if you are looking to score 700+. Additionally, Rida's mentorship in e-GMAT's LMP really helped me in getting into the mindset of the exam. Platform's exhaustive content and application modules prepared me to deal with exam stress, leading to a 730. On top of that, e-GMAT also has IR modules, which are really help you to be thorough with your preparation. Also, my RC performance improved by 30-40% just by having a 2-hr session with Harsha. e-GMAT provided me support throughout my journey for which I am very grateful. I hope that this review helps people make a more informed decision.
Joined: Dec 25, 2021
Posts: 7
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Verified GMAT Classic score:
740 Q51 V38 (Online)
The Egmat course is an extremely useful tool to approach the GMAT exam. It is a very structured course with great walkthroughs and pointers throughout. The Scholaranium 2.0 tool is very convenient for practice and allows for rapid improvement with its range of questions and explanations. The meaning based approach for SC questions in verbal is great but still feel the actual test is more inclined towards testing idiomatic structure. The mentorship programme too is a great part of Egmat as you are guided in a very focused manner towards the examination by experts personally. The best parts of the course are the comprehensive analysis it throws at you at each stage, the variety of topics and questions and some fairly accurate mocks. All in all after being exposed to few other popular Gmat preparation programmes I would personally reccomend the Egmat platform.
After taking GMAT for the first time in December2022, I was a bit disappointed at not meeting my target score. The first short at GMAT was given after 4 months of preparation. Since my applications deadline was nearing, I had to give the next exam within a month's time. My key concern was that I didn't know where my strengths and weaknesses lie. I was in need of an expert guidance.
I started browsing in internet and found out about E-gmat. I sent and email to them and Manas (an e-gmat mentor) got in touch with me immediately. As instructed by him, I took a mock exam available in the e-gmat course. The diagnosis he gave post my attempt was an eye opener. The main attraction was the analytics. It gave me clear idea on topics I was lagging behind. Then and there I decided to take the E-gmat course
The biggest advantage of E-gmat is that it is really comprehensive. They don't leave you with half hearted answer. There was logic behind every explanation. Even with topics like idioms (Which I had thought clearly favoured the native speakers), there was proper explanation. Each module is followed by quizzes which help you in cementing the topics that you learn
Quant too was pretty comprehensive. One of the main problems I had faced was lack of time for preparation. The PACE application in E-gmat helped me in tackling this issue. With PACE, I was able to skip those modules which i was confident about . This helped in saving a lot of time
The final booster was the Last mile push programme. I was mentored by DJ, who helped me with the guidance on what to do after each step. Thanks to his expert diagnosis, I was able to realize which areas I was lagging behind, which helped in improving my score.
I would suggest E-gmat to anyone who is interested in taking GMAT. With it's comprehensive modules and in depth analytical data, one would be able to do well in the exams hands down
Dear Thomas,
Thank you for taking the time to write this review amidst your application deadlines. I truly appreciate this gesture 😊 However, your applications will become so much more effective with a 700 score that goes along with them now.
I liked the fact that you mentioned explanations because most students firstly are not diligent to see every explanation and most explanations don’t do justice to questions.
e-GMAT Analytics: https://success.e-gmat.com/Question-Analytics
I am glad you could leverage P.A.C.E. to save time! It has saved more than 2000 hours of student time within a month.
P.A.C.E. time savings: https://success.e-gmat.com/PACE-ALG-Time-Savings
I am glad I could give the “final push” to score a 700 on the GMAT.
All the best!
Regards,
Dhananjay(DJ)
I joined e-gmat in September and was a part of the Last Mile program. Before joining them I had a 690 on Gmat. The courses on verbal were fantastic and gave a structured process to approach a problem. Under the LMP, Atreya Roy gave the personalized support to identify weak areas, made me take a number of quizzes and helped me fix timing issues. He also analysed my sigma-mocks.
Unfortunately, my variance in mocks was something that we could not fix (710-760). Even though I ended up with a score I am not satisfied with and a low verbal I don't think e-gmat's course and support was in anyway lacking.
Hi Dkp,
First of all, congratulations on scoring a 700. I wish you would have gotten to the 730. You were well on the way, and I hoped you will reach there. Nevertheless, let us understand the key takeaways of your journey till now.
Breaking the 700-barrier needs persistence efforts, diligence, and resilience. You had portrayed all the above and hence you were able to get to a 700. From our journey, I found two major highlights:
1) I loved the fact that you completed the course diligently and that translated to your scores in Scholaranium. The screenshot below entails more information.
Course Stats of Dkp: https://success.e-gmat.com/course-and-schol-stats
2) Perfect Test Readiness Scores: You had great scores in your Test Readiness quizzes that laid the path to a 740.
Test Readiness Stats for Dkp: https://success.e-gmat.com/test-readiness-stats-qv
I wish you all the best for the next steps. In case you retake the GMAT, you know whom to dial 😉
Best Wishes and Regards,
Atreya
I spent long time figuring out which GMAT course I wanted to try out. After reading a variety of reviews I decided to go for E-GMAT and I do not regret that decision at all.
E-GMAT's online study course is very good, especially on verbal. I think it got the best SC section of all the courses (I have also seen a few others), leading to my 87th SC percentile score. The SC course is very comprehensive and goes through EVERY RULE you need to know. Scholarium is also great, providing a fantastic learning platform. It breaks down your performance on e.g. verbs, modifiers etc, in which is really great.
I was fortunate to get invited into E-GMAT's last mile programme with Atreya as mentor. He was always positive and provided help when I needed so, for e.g. setting up a tailored study plan. We had meetings over Teams and he gave me tailored videos e.g. going through the ESR, in which was very helpfull, so thanks for that!
Another great thing with the course is that if you have any question you can just send it to customer support or post it on the forum and you receive an answer within 24h. I was in the Last Mile program and sent directly to Atreya, and he always responded in great fashion.
I also tried out the quant course but my focus was on the verbal section as I got Q48/Q49 without much troubles.
I also tried the sigma mock, but only once. It seems to be fairly accurate.
I can really recommend the course, especially if you are struggling with the verbal section. SC/CR/RC section is great both in terms of online videos and questionnaire bank in the Scholarium. It provided you the tools you need to get strong score in verbal.
Dear Student,
Congratulations on your 700! I am very happy that you could break the 700-barrier after being score stuck at 670 for a long time. It was possible through your diligence and hard work.
Any student who is looking to overcome a score plateau needs to be resilient. You did the course well and that translated in your Scholaranium Statistics. See the screenshot below of your Scholaranium Statistics on how you did Medium Questions.
Screenshot #1: https://success.e-gmat.com/scholaranium-stats-med
All of this, translated in the Hard quizzes where accuracies were particularly good. The Last 20 questions show your Test readiness stats and you have done well. See the Screenshot below.
Screenshot #2: https://success.e-gmat.com/scholaranium-stats-hard
I am very happy for your score and wish you all the success for the next set of steps.
All the best!
Regards,
Atreya
Joined: Aug 29, 2021
Posts: 1
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Verified GMAT Classic score:
700 Q47 V38 (Online)
After a thorough research and speaking to a lot of friends I decided to go with the E-GMAT course for my GMAT prep. And I was not disappointed.
The two things that stood out for me were the comprehensiveness of the course and the amazing mentorship of DJ (who I can’t thank enough). Though initially was lazy to go through every module and skipped through some, DJ made me realise that there is no substitute for diligence. I would highly recommend spending a little more building the foundation, it goes along way.
The Sentence Correct course is the bible. It comprehensively covers all the concepts. Pre-thinking is not only absolute mantra to crack CR but it also helps in RC. Going through E-GMAT CR Module engrains the pre thinking in a manner that it becomes a second nature.
Sincere thanks to DJ and the E-GMAT team!
Hi BlackWidow28,
Thank you for posting your review and appreciating our engagement.
I still think you need to verify your 730, but for all purposes when we first spoke about you improving your score from 700 – I know you felt the need to improve your score to a 94th+ percentile given how competitive applications to the top schools were during this year’s application season.
Thus, we set out on a path to improve your Verbal score whilst you continue to work on your applications. I really appreciate the fact that you took my advice because most high scoring students like doing things their own way and by doing so, I think you understood why you falter on certain CR questions and how to build your ability on SC too. This was visible in your scores in the test readiness phase.
Improvement in Test Readiness: https://success.e-gmat.com/Test-Readiness-Scores-BW
I wish you success for your B-School applications and future.
Regards,
Dhananjay(DJ)
With scores of 680(V-32) and 690(V-34) in GMAT mostly by self study methods, I was in need for guidance to break the 700 barrier. I came in touch with DJ from E-GMAT team and his first step was analysing my ESR(Enhanced Score Report) of my second attempt. The analysis was clear that I was hovering around 65-70 percent ability in all 3 sections of Verbal and work will have to be done in all the three sections. He shared with me a detailed plan for improvement.
I started with the reading exercises shared by DJ to improve my reading/comprehending skills. Further, Master Comprehension course provided by E-GMAT also helped me in gaining the right strategies to handle Reading Comprehension questions.For Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction the webinars conducted by Rajat,Payal from E-GMAT team are really good and gives you the right approach to kick start your preparation in these sections.
DJ emphasised on Pre Thinking approach for Critical Reasoning and using it definitely helped me in boosting my score. Coming up with your own assumptions before jumping into the answer options definitely helps. For Sentence Correction, the meaning based approach(Intended meaning of the sentence) is the only right way to solve medium and hard questions in the given time frame. With trap answer choices all around this strategy definitely works.
The strategy of cementing your learning through scholaranium is gold standard and it raises your ability considerably in that section. One can take multiple quizzes from scholaranium with more than 600+ verbal questions which are on par with the real GMAT questions. There is a detailed analysis available for each question attempted with most of the tougher questions having a video analysis. Scholaranium tool also has an error log which provides useful information like topic wise ability in each sub-section. Key to getting a good GMAT score is to use scholoranium to its potential.
I was able to get the 30 point improvement(V-34 to V-38) in under a month through the E-GMAT score.I would highly rate the E-GMAT online course for the verbal preparation as it is structured and quite easy to navigate. Further you can easily get in touch with E-GMAT mentors like DJ who are always ready to help.
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I started the e-GMAT online course only with the verbal package. The verbal course is well designed for all the 3 sections. The meaning-based approach for sentence correction and pre-thinking approach for critical reasoning definitely helped enter the 700 score bracket. I opted for the Quant package as well to leverage the Sigma-X mocks. The mocks are quite accurate and give a detailed analysis of the performance in different sections and help identify the weaker sections at a glance.
I joined the mentorship program with Atreya as my mentor. He helped me fine tune the skills by identifying the exact weak topics and chalking out a timeline to achieve them. Having a set timeline and small set of topics to focus on helped a lot. Scholaranium for both verbal and quant is very useful and the fact that you can practice questions not just according to topic but also according to difficulty level and create your own customised tests is very useful.
When I first started my prep for the GMAT, I started in the usual way of buying the OG and solving the questions there. Soon I realised that my accuracy on the OG was high and I wasn’t really learning anything new. To solve this, I started researching about online GMAT prep and came across e-GMAT. The main point for selecting them being the insights provided by Scholaranium and I must say it has exceeded my expectations.
Firstly, my first interaction with e-GMAT started when I requested them for a study plan. They insisted that I go section by section and me beating me I said I’ll do both Quant and Verbal together. In hindsight, I know I could have saved a lot of time and effort if I would have just followed their simple advice. So everyone reading this, trust your mentor !!! They do this day in and day out and know what it takes to get a good GMAT score in a predictable manner.
When it comes to the course, I used to rely heavily on how sentences SOUND before starting this course. But the structured way of teaching me to spot errors and the meaning based approach to understand what the sentence really wants us to communicate have been game changers for Sentence Correction.
When it comes to Quant, the cementing quizzes really do cement the concepts and help you improve in the subsections. Do not repeat my mistake of not doing the cementing quiz immediately after the section. Following the strategy of Learn concepts and then cementing the concepts using timed quizzes will help you reduce the time you spend for your preparations.
Further, Scholaranium and the level of granular data that it provides is what everyone needs for having efficient GMAT prep. It helped me pinpoint my weak areas to as granular as absolute values in Algebra or comparisons in sentence correction and helped me tackle that and improve my score.
Lastly, a special shout out to Atreya Roy who has been guiding me and helping me get a good score on the GMAT. His support and advice has been extremely prompt. My emails to him have always been late in the day and I have always been shocked to receive his response with strategies to improve and focus areas even before I wake up the next day. In my first call itself he said, don’t hesitate to call/text if you need help even on weekends. This really shows the dedication that Atreya and the entire e-GMAT team has for helping you succeed.
Thank you once again !
Regards
Amar
Dear Masters1711,
Thank you for your kind words. A score of 720 with a Q50 and a V38 is a commendable effort to say the least. It puts you in the top 6%ile of the entire 180,000 test-takers. Very few people are able to reach that score. So, our heartiest congratulations to you for that feat!
I loved the fact that you mentioned about enjoying our PACE AI in Quant and how it helped you save time and let you focus on your weaker areas. You followed the suggestions from the PACE AI to the “T”. You saved almost 9 hours of study time, which is almost 33% of the total course duration of 27 hours in Algebra. The same is highlighted in the image below –
Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/Masters1711-PACE-Time-Savings
It was because of your determination that you were able to master SC and CR subsections. Your diligence with the plans translated into exceptional improvement in both the subsections. You not only just improved your accuracy but also maintained your abilities through consistent scores in the quizzes in the last few weeks of preparation. The same can be seen in the image below which shows your accuracy progression in the CR subsection.
Image Link - https://success.e-gmat.com/Masters1711-CR-Accuracy-Progression
We truly appreciate your feedback regarding the Verbal course, and I wanted you to know we continuously strive towards improving our platform to deliver success.
It was a pleasure being a part of your journey and we wish you all the best for your future endeavours. We are sure that you will face everything in your life with the same grit and determination.
Regards,
Rashmi
How much was the charge for the last mile push program and the duration of it