I started my GMAT prep back in August 2021 and self-prepared with OGs and a few other books and ended up with a score of 640 (V-29, Q-47). While doing the prep, i came across several success story videos of E-gmat and was quite intrigued with the process discussed such as meaning based approach for SC and Pre-thinking for CR. I did go through a couple of webinars of E-gmat for SC and CR and tried to imbibe the process into my prep, but clearly, I had too little time on hand to do justice with it. After the 1st attempt, I was sure that I was going to buy the E-gmat course because the process made logical sense to me, and I needed a structured approach. I took a break from my prep and purchased the E-gmat course in February 2022. The plan was to prepare for 4 months and give the test in June 2022. But due to work commitments, I could not really prepare regularly till mid-May. Coming to the course, to start with, it asks you about your current scores and your target scores and accordingly suggests a plan forward. The most important course to start with is their Master Comprehension course. It literally helps you to master the comprehension. It teaches you the basic structure of a sentence, the pause points, how to break a sentence and how to assimilate the meaning. Post this, I started with my verbal course doing SC, CR, RC in that sequence. Each course comprised of concept files, concept quizzes, practice quizzes and the most important, the application files. The application files teach you, in a guided manner, how to solve a question in a structured way. Post completing all these files for each section, the course suggests you to cement the concepts by taking few cementing quizzes. The cementing quizzes are handpicked questions by the E-gmat experts of medium and hard difficulty. I did the cementing for all the sections (i.e., scoring 70% or above in medium difficulty, and 55% or above in hard). Though it was not easy at first, but post reviewing each of the question I attempted and taking the corrective actions such as going back to the specific concept/application files where I feel there is a gap, I was able to build up an ability to solve questions. Post this, I went on and did OG questions for practice. In between, I attempted my first 2 sigma X mocks (E-gmat mocks) and scored 650 (V35, Q44) and 690 (V40, Q44). I realised that I have built a base ability in verbal and just need to refine some areas to maintain the ability. Post scoring a 690, I was included in the Last Mile Program, a program where a mentor helps you out to get test ready.
My mentor, Abha Mohan, connected with me and helped me out with a plan to refine my rough patches. By looking at my account statistics she figured out that I was struggling with concepts such as modifiers and subject verbs in SC, Evaluate and Strengthen in CR. Hence, I went back to the course, revised few concepts, and reattempted the practice files. Post this, there was a confidence within me in my ability to solve questions within a limited time. Next, she shared a plan with me for my test readiness where I had to give few combined quizzes of 25 questions and 33 questions. I scored a decent 76% on both the quizzes for verbal and around 60%-70% in quants. I gave my last official mock before the test and scored 710 with a V37 and Q49. Finally, went ahead with exam and ended up scoring a 700 (V35, Q49). The test day was not a great experience because of lack of sleep and some bad decisions during the test. As I was struggling with time in Verbal section during the end, I made the most terrible mistake to not finish my Verbal section and ended up getting a 3-point penalty, which was evident in my ESR where my average Verbal score was a 38. It was my bad decision which may have cost me about 10-20 points in my overall score.
To conclude, few important things that the course emphasis on are: 1. Just because you have completed the course, that doesn’t mean you will not have to go back again and again to the specific concepts. Revising the concepts is going to refine what you have already built. 2. One should strategically review each question that he/she has solved and in that review each of the options are to be reviewed. One should have absolute clarity as to what was correct in the correct choice, and what was incorrect in the other four. Unless you do this process with diligence on all the questions that you solve, the improvement will not be visible. 3. Maintaining an error log is as important, if not more, as solving questions. If you do not maintain it, it will be difficult to understand and accept where exactly you lack or what mistakes do you make. 4. The solutions to each of the questions, be it verbal or quants, are detailed and follow the structure which has been taught in the concepts. If there are still any doubts left post reviewing the solution, there are forums below each question where there are several questions asked by previous students and these have been responded to by the E-gmat experts. These forums helped me significantly in getting clarity over every aspect of the question. The final thing to note is that just buying the course alone will not guarantee success. One must imbibe the process and be diligent to really make use of this excellent course. Have patience and trust the process.

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Having experimented with the free trials of various prep providers, I decided to go for e-GMAT considering its simple interface and highly structured prep plan.

I simply followed the order in which the entire course was laid out by e-GMAT - the order of concepts and the order in which every concept was structured (pre-concept quizzes, concept learning files, post concept quizzes, cementing quizzes and ability quizzes). This helped me methodically deep dive into concepts, cement my understanding and build test taking EQ at the same time.

I found both verbal and quants basics course to be very effective as building block tools, specially for students who aren't strong in either. Specific e-GMAT strategies such as pre-thinking in verbal and process skills in quant are game changers. Constant AI-assisted analytics insights throughout the course were very helpful in managing time efficiently - I focused more on my weak areas and kept nourishing the strong ones.

The question bank is amazing. It is at least 2 levels tougher across all difficulty levels than the actual GMAT, making the actual test sort of a cake walk. Scholaranium is, again, a game changer. Sigma X mocks simulate actual test environment very closely, and post test analytics are superb - they helped me analyze how my speed and accuracy varied as the difficulty kept going up or down. This helped me develop the right EQ for the actual test by consciously tracking the time to determine which questions to attempt or let go.

Overall, I'd highly recommend e-GMAT for GMAT preparations. If used consistently, 2-3 hours a day for 5 months can easily land you 700+.

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My GMAT Journey began in last year, when I took the e-gmat subscription in June 2021. Before attempting the actual GMAT, I gave two official mocks and scored 730 and 710. I was confident to get a score of atleast 700, but to my utter surprise, it turned out to be a 670 (Q50, V30) when I first attempted the GMAT in Aug 2021. I revised all the error logs, scholaranium quizzes and re-attempted the GMAT in Oct 2021, but again failed to get anywhere close to my target score of 730-740. I was completed clueless as to where I am faltering.

My confidence about my abilities took a serious hit and I decided to take a break before re-attempting the GMAT. Moreover, as all B-Schools had their deadlines in early January for Round 2, I decided to take a break till March before starting my GMAT preparation again.

I decided to re-enroll into e-GMAT in Last week of March 2022, only to focus on cementing my test taking abilities. I first revised all my notes which I had made in the previous attempts. Two months into the course, I felt a need for guidance regarding the assessment of my performance so far. That’s when I first wrote to e-GMAT support team and was replied back by Abha, one of the mentors and strategy expert at e-GMAT. Her detailed analysis about my abilities on the scholaranium platform helped me to build up my preparation brick by brick. Abha constantly provided me the stats and details about my weaker areas and created customized quizzes for me, something which helped me strengthen my weaker areas. She constantly showed me the true picture of my abilities and helped me imbibe confidence.
Based upon multiple quizzes suggested by Abha, I came to realise that it was only meaning based approach where I was lacking and I started to work towards it. Specially, in longer sentences, I identified only the subject and the verb pairs and omitted the details in between – an approach that helped me immensely to boost my SC capabilities. In CR, I fumbled upon assumptions questions and adopted a strategy to just focus on the conclusion and see if it breaks down after negating the five answer choices.

After attempting multiple custom quizzes as suggested by Abha, and two official sigma mocks wherein I scored 730 and 740, I finally took an online GMAT date of 12th Sept 2022. However, I was completely shattered to see a 670 on the screen. Totally clueless and feeling absolutely dumb, I approached Abha for her guidance. Though I was doubting my abilities heavily, Abha asked me to book a test date within next 10 days and suggested that all the parameters on the e-GMAT platform suggests that I have a 730-740 ability. I blindly trusted her and booked my test date for 23rd Sept 2022.

In the last 10 days, I figured out the reason why I fumbled in my attempts. It was not because of ability but because of exam readiness that I was faltering. Moreover, the online GMAT didn’t really suit me as the feel of a proctor constantly monitoring you kept ticking me at the back of my mind. In the last 10 days, Abha helped me to get into a mindset of exam readiness and not focus on the end result. She prepared sort of a motivational video wherein she mentioned that she has absolutely no doubt that I had a 740 ability. She asked me to take a sigma mock 2 days before my GMAT and I scored a 740 in the same. I built up the mindset in the last 2 days and went to the test center with only one thing in mind – not at all focus on the score. Just focus on the question and apply a meaning-based approach that I had practiced. Finally, words cant describe the happiness when I finally saw a 720 on the screen. Though it was 10 short of my target score, nonetheless I was more than happy and happily accepted the score. I wholeheartedly thank my GMAT mentor Abha for all the guidance and support - be it strategical, motivational, and emotional. Big thumps from my side!!

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The e-GMAT, popular for their reviews, ratings can get anyone's attention.

I used this course for 6 months but couldn't score more than 620 (V-25).

Positive: They cover SC to the depths. Once I remembered all the rules, exceptions, figuring out any SC error was easy. pre-thinking was good technique.

Negative: I felt bad with their responses as well. Found them little arrogant in dealing with my problems. Sometimes things can't be explained on e-mails, they should learn this. When thinking of course, I was able to connect with them on video call but when I was stuck with same score, there was no one.
RC is not well designed. GMATNinja's video are far better than the RC part of the course.

Overall, it may work for someone or may not but I wouldn't recommend anyone to blindly get trapped in ratings etc game. Do speak to fellow students and figure out.
Applies to all other courses out there.

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I scored a 720, which was a 240-point improvement from my first cold mock.

Here's the stuff eGMAT is doing very well:

1. Concepts are covered right from scratch, assuming the student doesn't know anything about anything. That's a good thing because I used to make a lot of conceptual mistakes in the quant section and an overview helped me iron those out.

2. The website is flawless. Everything is easy to find and access, subsections are divided in a logical manner, and I don't remember the portal malfunctioning even once in 6 months.

3. There are a lot of people involved in the doubt-clearing process. Every question on the portal has a solution, and there are thousands of questions. Doubts are cleared within 12-24 hours and are on-point most of the time.

4. The cementing process is much more important than it sounds if you're stuck in a subsection and can't seem to get better even after a lot of practice.

5. Verbal preparation is tremendous, especially when you actually follow what they say. The 'meaning-based approach' that eGMAT follows is by far the best way to handle CR questions with 90%+ accuracy.

6. The feedback process is fast and helpful. An analytics engine tracks every single question you've attempted on the portal and assesses your accuracy for you. When you want to find out where you went wrong, not only can you search for subsection errors (SC, CR, ALG), but also subtopic errors (modifier, assumption).

7. The Last Mile Push Program is a godsend for the last few weeks before the final day. If you get selected for it (or buy the thing), you get an expert who accurately analyses where you can improve and creates an action plan for you to follow. Every day.

8. There's a one-month extension option too, which is great for all of us who are bad at managing time :)

There's also some room for improvement.

1. Scholaranium questions could be more accurate, difficulty-wise. I've found that OG questions are a lot easier, especially on a high difficulty level, than the ones on Scholaranium, although this could be by design. I found that I was consistently scoring higher on OG questions than on Scholaranium for both sections.

Overall, I think eGMAT is definitely worth a shot.

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I started my GMAT journey back in 2019 on my own. With the help of official Guide, GMAT club and Veritas mock test, I was able to score 710 on my first attempt. It gave me the confidence that I could score higher with a little extra effort. But after 2 more attempts in 2020 (720 and 710 again), I found myself unable to break the 720 barrier. My 2 biggest problems were: 1) Lack of speed in verbal 2) Consistency in Quant.That's when I decided I needed professional help and I enrolled with e-gmat. E-gmat monitors their student performances with such depth that within the first few weeks,Payal (Co-founder) reached out to assign a mentor (Rashmi) to me. Even though quant was not my weak area, Rashmi advised me to go over the entire Quant course once. While I had my apprehensions, thankfully I trusted the process. As expected, I consistently started scoring 51/51 in all my subsequent mocks/ practice tests.However, the real game changers for me were the test readiness practice tests and customised practice test. It helped me get over the timing issue in verbal. My verbal score shot up and I was much more confident this time.A comprehensive analysis of every practice test helped me identify and iron out a lot of my weaknesses very easily. With a 730, I only wish I had taken up e-gmat sooner. Would highly recommend.

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I am very happy with my result and I am thankful to e-GMAT for helping me achieve this result without spending too much time.
When I decided to study for GMAT, I considered different options such as self-study using books and GMAT Club resources, taking different online courses and hiring a private tutor (this option was too expensive for me). There was overwhelmingly large quantity of resources available, and I had limited time for the preparation, as I work full-time. I heard about e-GMAT from a friend of my friend and decided to check it out. I used free trial and decided to purchase the course because of two reasons: 1) the course has structure which I knew would save me time by helping me focus on relevant areas and 2) I liked how the concepts were explained for each section and that each concept was followed by tests.
I started studying for GMAT in January 2022 and had to stop after two weeks because I was busy at work. I continued my preparation from May and studied for about 10 – 12 hours a week using e-GMAT for four months. e-GMAT helped me a lot with both quant and verbal.
For quant, I needed to remember math concepts that I learned at school and I needed to learn relevant terminology, as I had studied math in my native language at school. Watching e-GMAT’s concept videos was very helpful for me to refresh my knowledge and learn some techniques that school has failed to teach me. After concept videos, e-GMAT offers questions to solve, starting with easy and going to very hard. Video or written solutions are offered for each question. This structure helped me master the skills to solve complicated GMAT questions in time. One of the best skills I developed was solving data sufficiency questions without doing full calculations. e-GMAT also offers cementing process, which is very important for developing confidence in one’s abilities and cementing the skills.
As for verbal, I was good at reading comprehension from the start (I read non-fiction literature in English), however I struggled with critical reasoning and sentence correction initially (I got v31 on GMAT Club’s verbal mock before doing e-GMAT’s sentence correction module). I did those sections on e-GMAT and got v45 on exam as a result (I would have gotten higher mark if I had managed time better). e-GMAT teaches both concepts and the process to apply knowledge in such manner that after I completed the course I was able to easily solve most difficult questions.
I highly recommend e-GMAT course, it is very helpful even if you are starting GMAT preparation from scratch and it is quite inexpensive. I recommend that if you take the course, you follow their instructions and not skip concept videos or cementing part.
p.s. I have not indicated score improvement, as I had not taken mock exam before I began studying on e-GMAT

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I started with my GMAT Journey in May of 2022. I started my preparation by purchasing the eGMAT subscription and for my entire prep I had only and only one source: eGMAT. I completed my GMAT journey in August and few data points of my GMAT prep journey are as follows:
1. Score Improvement
(a) First mock (590) used to create PSP to 700 (Q49, V36)
2. Verbal Prep
a) Completed MC, SC, CR, and RC to bridge certain gaps.( SC summarised notes prepared)
b). Solved 852 verbal questions during cementing and test readiness phases
c) Followed the cementing process and only moved to the next stage on meeting the requisite threshold (Medium level questions- 70% and Hard level questions- 55%)

3. Quant Prep
a) Utilized PACE engine to make Quant preparation efficient, learning only what I was required to learn.( Module wise summarised notes prepared)
b). Solved 900 questions in Quant in Cementing and Test Readiness phases

I started off my verbal prep with Sentence Correction and was not able to meet the threshold level in the cementing quizzes and therefore had to do the entire SC module again. After SC, I completed the CR and RC module and was able to complete the cementing stage with requisite thresholds. Finally I went on to Quant and in the eGMAT Quant every sub topic has a diagnostic test at the very beginning to guide students with different level of abilities- if I was strong in Geometry, the AI driven software would guide me in a way that I only had to study limited content. This helped me save time in my preparation and focus only on my weak areas and keep working towards improvement. After completing every QUANT sub module, I would undergo the process of cementing to ensure that I hit my target abilities in each subsection. Taking these quizzes would enable me to deal with GMAT like questions and strengthen my process abilities. Every eGMAT question provides the students with forum posts related to the doubts and issues faced by the other students. This would allow me to resolve my doubts and also strengthen my conceptual understanding. I could also post fresh doubts that would get resolved within 24 hours by the egmat team. The mentors for Verbal- including Harsha, Kanupriya, Stacey and Shraddha would provide excellent support on the forum. On the quant side also we had Bikramjit, Aditi and Shweta who would provide detailed solutions to each problem. These interactions with the subject matter experts were very helpful for me to increase my understanding of dynamics of GMAT test like problems.


Coming to the test readiness stage- I was assigned a mentor to guide me through my preparation – Abha Mohan The test readiness phase is one of the most important stages of preparation and having Abha’s guidance at every step of the way helped me structure my improvement plan and work on my weak areas after doing a detailed analysis of my Scholaranium account my mentor told me to revisit few modules in SC and Number properties and Word problems. Post my test readiness quizzes I was told to take mocks with a gap of 3 to 4 days between two successive mocks and Abha would help me put together an improvement plan after every mock so that I could work before my next mock. I scored a 660 on my first mock and was completely unhappy with my performance but Abha guided me and helped me with a improvement plan and also did a thorough video analysis of my mock. I scored a 700 and 710 in my next two mocks. However, I scored a 670 on my first official test. I became extremely sad because of the drop in my score but Abha guided me and helped me work on a small improvement plan and in the last 2 days of my preparation guided me with the final day test plan. Her support really helped me regain my confidence and I was able to ensure that I remain calm enough to make it to the exam day. To regain my confidence, Abha suggested that I take a few custom quizzes and I was able to regain some level of calm and composure upon seeing my scores in these custom quizzes. Finally, I scored a 700 in my second attempt with a Q49 and V36 split. I would highly recommend the e GMAT subscription to all those who are looking for a structured approach for their GMAT preparation

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When I decided to take the GMAT, I knew that I needed to put significant effort in verbal, and needed to remove the rustiness in quant. With these requirements clear in my head, I knew that I needed a course which enabled base building, as well as allowed targeted preparation. This is where e-GMAT perfectly fit the bill. It's detailed breakdown of course structure enabled me to personalize my approach where required. Further, its teaching methodology of starting from absolute scratch and steadily increasing the difficulty level is exactly what was needed to build confidence and make sure that the concepts are absorbed properly. Lastly, it's tools and techniques such as pre-thinking, deep analysis of question stem and each answer choice, and the extensiveness of scholaranium (e-GMAT's question bank) were the core advantages of this course. All in all, e-GMAT gave me a study plan, solving my headache of creating a plan of my own, and all I had to do was to execute it diligently.

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I cannot thank Rida at e-GMAT enough for the personalized study plan leading up to my GMAT. This self-paced platform helped me improve my score by 100 points. Both the verbal quant courses helped me solidify my foundational skills in order to gain confidence in Medium and Hard level questions. Their cementing process and analytical approach to practice exams immensely trained me for the actual test day. It took me about a year to complete the GMAT, but if you are diligent and focused for three months, you will definitely succeed and hit your target score! Overall, I would highly recommend this course for anyone looking to improve their GMAT score.

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