I'm a non-native speaker and English was my third language until higher secondary, although it was the medium of instruction through out. I'm a retaker and first appeared for GMAT in January 2011. My quant score was decent enough (Q48), but verbal was a absolute shocker (v25). Inadequate practice tests, time management, test taking ability, fatigue - all played a role . I knew something was wrong even with my verbal concepts/prep.
I wanted to retake exam in a month or so, but let's just say life happened and I found happiness in a new job, cricket world cup and the likes. Fast forward to June 2014, I started researching on various forums for the right prep material and ordered a bunch of books - MGMAT SC, PowerScore CR & MGMAT RC. Over the next two months or so, I completed reviewing all three books. This task was overwhelming to say the least, considering the fact that the content in these books is too dense with little emphasis on application beyond theory.

So I decided to try something different and after reading so many reviews, I was convinced that if I were to join a course, it'd to be e-GMAT one. I joined e-GMAT Verbal Live Prep course and never looked back or doubted my decision. Every single day I'd learn something new and would be amazed at so many elements of e-GMAT. Their SC course is a gold mine and pretty much covers all aspects of GMAT SC. I found a new meaning for 'meaning' (e-GMATers would relate with me here). CR course promotes 'pre-thinking', which became fundamental in how I approach CR and for that matter even RC. e-GMAT's process is methodical and although it may seem a li'l lengthier, with practice one would see continuous results.

So impressed I was with Verbal live prep that when e-GMAT launched Quant live prep, I quickly jumped on it. It made perfect sense since I got Q48 last time and their quant course provides 2 point guarantee for Q48. e-GMAT's instructors are top notch and are very passionate in making student's successful in their prep. Special mention about e-GMAT support team whose response is always quick, thorough and super helpful. Overall, I'm completely satisfied with both the courses and I hope to return here with my success story.

Update 5/22/16:
I've scored 680 and a 37 on my verbal. Since then I've been working on my Executive MBA applications at top b-schools and got accepted into Kellogg, Booth, Haas to name a few. I'll be joining Booth next month :-) None of this would have been possible without this course and the awesome team at e-gmat!!

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When I started preparing for GMAT, I thought completing Official guide would be sufficient for getting a decent score. However I was proved wrong when I scored a meagre V28 on the GMAT. I have always felt confident in quant but being a non native, Verbal on GMAT has always been my Achilles heel. I was contemplating on taking up formal online coaching and that is when one of my friend directed me to e-gmat. I immediately enrolled into the Verbal Live course and it helped me immensely. I improved from V28 to V34 after I took e-gmat Verbal Live prep course. I have not yet got my desired score and would be writing the GMAT again. I am now using the e-gmat Verbal Live course as a refresher for my revisions and I hope that I can get within the periphery of my target score when I write the GMAT again.

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As an engineer, I was quite confident about quant. But, later realised that it isn’t that simple.
e-GMAT provided a complete refresher of all the concepts along with the various different types of examples
The Quant course offered by eGMAT is very comprehensive and goes into detail on every top that is tested on GMAT Quant. The quizzes and the multitude of questions at the end of each topic are very helpful in understanding how the concepts are tested.

the instructors are very prompt if you address any query. The general quizzes, the test scores are very apt to the GMAT score and to understand your score level and the loop holes while attempting the tests
I would definitely recommend e-GMAT's to everyone

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e-GMAT's Verbal definitely the best verbal prep course I've taken. The analytical approach to verbal questions. e-GMAT's 3 step process is a must, and the videos sessions make it easier for you to learn and remember the concepts. It provides the complete coverage of questions.

The forum is also very useful, any questions are answered within a day and the explanation is very clear and easy to understand

For those of you who are weak in verbal, e-GMAT provides a logical approach which is easy to understand and remember.

I would definitely recommend e-GMAT's course to anyone who wants to ace GMAT verbal

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I had given my GMAT more than a year ago (710- V34, Q50) and at that point of time I used to absolutely dread RCs. I found them really mundane and could never get myself to focus. While my quant was always strong, and CR and SC were average, RCs just didn't come to me naturally. And no, this does not mean that I'm weak at English in general. Infact, I'm among the most annoying grammar nazis that you may across. But each time I would come across an RC in the middle of my mocks, I would feel low and lose time and thereby end up rushing through my SC and CR questions as well.

Then, my friend introduced me to e-GMAT and I cannot thank him enough for having done that. After a year long break, I felt the need to go over SC and CR concepts as well and the videos provided by e-GMAT made them a whole lot of fun. I would stay up till late night, watching the videos, almost like I'd be watching a sitcom. They were light and helped me brush up my concepts very well. I had read someone's review about making handwritten notes while watching videos and then transferring those onto Evernote at the end of each day as that would not only help you revise, but also create a handy notebook for you to skim through while you're on the move. This tip helped me a lot and I would really recommend it to you all as well. I made my notes nice and colourful and added screenshots and links to them. Going over them later seemed fun because of all the colours I had added. (let me know if you want me to share them with you!)

The RC videos were really helpful as well. e-GMAT provides you a number of key strategies that you must keep in mind while reading through RCs. The one strategy that worked wonders for me was "to get immersed". I would literally tell myself at the beginning of each passage that "Oh! this sounds interesting, lets read what happens next!" I even used the note making approach during RCs quite regularly and was thereby able to get ALL my main point and structure questions right. These strategies seem very time consuming in the beginning, but within no time, you start to internalise them.

The other thing that I absolutely loved about the VLP was the scholaranium. Since I knew that RC was my weak point, I had decided to do atleast 4 passages every day, along with 20 SCs and 20 CRs. I used to create a lot of RC Ability quizzes and while I started with a 43% accuracy (with no time left to answer the last one), by the end I had 96% accuracy which was a great achievement for me. Infact, the day before my GMAT, when I sat down to give my RC ability test, I felt I was able to breeze through it easily. I wasn't spending to much time reading and even the answers were coming to me naturally.
When I submitted the test, I saw my score report in which I had just one (Hard) question wrong out of a total of 4 RC passages. This was my biggest confidence booster and I was sure that my GMAT would go well this time, which it did!

Infact, I finished by Quant section 18 minutes in advance and my Verbal section 15 minutes in advance and landed up with a V41, Q50 and a total of 750. I was literally shivering while answering my last few Verbal questions because the difficulty level had gone up which also meant my score was going up.

I wouldn't say that a V41 is a kickass score, but for someone like me who dreaded RCs to such a large extent, it was definitely an accomplishment, specially since I was now able to answer the questions so much faster.

Thank you e-GMAT once again and thanks to all those who read my review till the very end. I hope I was able to motivate a few of you out there like me, who may have totally given up on RC.

All the best to you all !!

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I have been struggling with verbal for a long time. I would always get stuck between the two answer choices. Without a tutor I was finding it very difficult to know why a certain answer choice is incorrect. No matter how thoroughly I read the explanation it would not make much sense to me. However, my verbal understanding has improved dramatically, thanks to E-gmat. The way the tutorials have been broken down, it let's you master a topic at a time, and explains clearly what's the difference between a tempting answer choice and the correct answer choice.
I would 100% recommend the course, if verbal is what are you struggling the most.

For the quant, it's again a great program but more so for the beginners who need to brush up their basics. I use to teach voluntarily to the kids and I can assure you if you really want to strengthen your quant skills Egmat is way to go.

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The e-GMAT Quant Live Prep was just what I was looking for – an online course covering all aspects of the quant part of the GMAT exam. The Quant Live Prep course is well structured and contains On-Demand Sessions, a lot of questions to practice, seven practice CATs and much more.

The best thing about e-GMAT Quant Live Prep is that it teaches you a consistent and reliable process for handling any quant question. The step by step approach explained in each subject gives you clear understanding of the topic you have just studied and build your confidence before you start to practice. This step by step approach improved my quant accuracy rate dramatically. The Scholaranium tool that according to e-GMAT official website contains questions that have been created based on the latest developments in the GMAT world, gave me the option to analyze and to identify my strengths and weakness areas by providing detail statistics, including time spent on each question.

The e-GMAT quant Live Prep is the best quant course you can find online. It’s not a secret that in order to success in the GMAT exam every test taker should build a solid foundation. Not only that the e-GMAT Quant Live Prep offers the most comprehensive preparation materials that you can find, but it also comes with reasonable price and tons of questions to practice.

Without a doubt, the e-GMAT Quant Live Prep along with self-discipline would help everyone who wish to improve his quant skills and to perform its best during the actual GMAT exam.

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My Gmat journey was never easy and was never supposed to be easy, since my method of learning prior to using e-Gmat ressources was completely flawed. Just to put you into perspective I used the official guide as a bible, I read the directions and "grammar" part and started directly practicing the questions. Since I was not aware of that club or the Gmat whole structure (Gmat is a test of pattern ). I thought I was doing ok, I did all questions of the OG, and I believed that I was ready to take the exam. Unfortunately, this was not the case, I scored a V23 and a total score of 480. I wanted so badly to improve my score, so I resolved myself that I needed more than the OG to beat the Gmat. So that's when I came across this awesome website, though which I discovered E-gmat verbal prep and I signed up for the course since it is the best course for non-natives.

Benefits of the course:
I believe the platform that the course is using is very easy to navigate and make life easy for those who prepare the Gmat. In addition to that, the content itself is by far the adapted and tailored to the Gmat. Furthermore, the periodic checkpoints in the form of Gmat questions to ensure concept retention is very useful.
The SC, RC, and CR courses are tailored to non natives who want to score good on the verbal part, they teach you from the grammar basics to the most efficient method to tackle a CR passage.
Moreover, the course can be interactive as well, though the live sessions provided by Rajath and Payal. During these live sessions, you will get to practice 700+ level questions and evaluate your learning curve. These live sessions will increase you confidence, since you will be solving most of the 700+ questions.
As the cherry on the pie, comes the scholaranium which is also a powerful tool provided by e-Gmat to give an exhaustive idea about your strengths and weaknesses. This will help you focus more on your weaknesses and capitalise on your strengths.
After using e-Gmat ressources, I noticed immediately a positive change in my verbal score and I am now much more confident to go and retake the Gmat, I just to share with you my experience with you in order to spare some you the first impression that I had about the Gmat. I truly recommend the e-Gmat verbal course especially to non natives.

Good luck!

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This course is probably one of the best courses out there for GMAT verbal. In Sentence Correction Live Prep Classes, Payal and the team do a very good job of dissecting the sentences and helping the students identify the errors in the sentences correction questions. This method of solving sentence correction courses helped me in answering the sentence correction questions. In tackling critical reasoning questions, pre-thinking has been a very important tool in answering the Critical Reasoning questions. The verbal Scholaranium is a very good tool, which helps solidify the concepts further.

Finally, this course has helped me answer the verbal question of GMAT confidently.

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The Quant course offered by eGMAT is very comprehensive and goes into detail on every top that is tested on GMAT Quant. The quizzes and the multitude of questions at the end of each topic are very helpful in understanding how the concepts are tested. The instructors in the Quant Live Prep classes do a great job of helping students in dissecting the question stem and get the required information to answer the question.

The Quant Scholaranium is a very useful tool and has helped me solidify the concepts further. I consider myself natural at Quant, but the Quant Course and the Quant Scholaranium have helped me take it up a notch.

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