I am sharing this from my personal experience as even after 2 months of preparation with Manhattan books and solving all the OG questions my verbal score only improved from V25 to V29. SC was the area where I was faltering most at. A friend recommended me e-gmat to help me improve my score. After coming across so many reviews I felt confident and decided to invest in e-gmat. It was truly the best investment I had ever made. You do not even need OG books if you enroll for e-gmat. I found their SC course to be the most helpful along with their pre-thinking skills for CR. Their math is also really good if you are aiming for that high score as they help you strengthen your math base with really tricky questions. Particularly, E-gmat helped me alot as just two weeks before my exam I contracted the COVID-19 virus and I was bedridden for 10 days. They helped me develop a personal study plan and I was able to give my exam just two weeks after recovering. Dhananjay was really helpful as he helped me devise a plan for when to take mocks and how to review my key areas. The main thing after learning concepts comes down to strategically reviewing the areas you falter at. Scholararium by e-gmat helps you do that as it is the most advanced analytical tool I have ever come across in the education sector. It provides you with a detailed analysis on each topic and areas you are constantly faltering at. All in all I would highly recommend e-gmat to all those who are stuck with their gmat preparation. Check out their success stories on youtube which helped me motivate a lot during my preparation.

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I started preparing for GMAT in June 2020. I started studying from the OG. After few months, I realized that OG was necessary but not sufficient. I started looking for an appropriate course and came across EGMAT. Since, I needed the most attention in Verbal , I decided to join the EGMAT Verbal course.

SC: I found this section to be the best. The meaning based approach and the 3 step strategy to answer the question was just the kind of approach i was looking for.

CR: The emphasis on the pre-thinking approach was the highlight of this section. This approach made me realize the importance of taking a moment to think about the probable answers first and then proceeding with the answer choices.

RC: I found this section to be the most basic yet the most effective. The emphasis on taking a couple of seconds extra to "Comprehend" is the forte of this section. I was surprised to see my accuracy shoot up by just applying the strategies covered in this section.

Scholaranium: This is the forte of EGMAT. It is surely one of the most well structured interface to practice and assess the GMAT like questions. Kudos to the EGMAT team for designing this unique platform. It is surely a game changer.

To all those who are looking for a structured way to prepare for GMAT , I would highly recommend EGMAT to you all.

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I enrolled for the e-GMAT Verbal Online course solely to improve my verbal score. I reached out to e-GMAT experts who responded to all my emails but also put together a structure that helped me improve.

Though my overall GMAT score did not improve more than 30 points, I ended up with a score of 39 in the Verbal section - most of its credit goes to the e-GMAT verbal course.

I really liked the SC modules focusing on meaning-based methodological approach which really helps in 700+ level questions. All the concept and practice quizzes in between modules really helped me to fine-polish the specific concepts.

Overall, really good course for folks who wish to improve their Verbal score.

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E-gmat offers one of the best verbal online courses right now.
Everything from videos to quizzes are very well curated to mimic the actual exam questions.
There question bank, scholaranium, is exceptionally great, as it provides useful insights into our weak and strong areas, helps design further quizzes to work on the critical areas, and offers precise explanations for all questions.
Thier mock exams are slightly tougher than the actual exam.
Best part is that, these guys put in all the efforts to make themselves a companion in your journey of the exam. You wont feel alone and confused midway.

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Background: I am a married 32-year-old individual working in India’s biggest manufacturing enterprise in the energy sector for 10+ years. I was completely out of touch with exam preparation. I started with a score of 560( Q46 & V21) in the eGMAT SigmaX mock. I would recommend that you try eGMAT for its data-driven analysis.
Preparation:
1. Quant: I started with a score of 46 and always scored above 49 in all the mocks after going through the basics. (except some GMAT club practice tests). Please take my advice in this context.
· Resources: Inline with commandments of Slingfox (https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmatclubbing-administered-770-50q-45v-86239.html) build a very solid foundation in GMAT centric maths. Even if you have a very solid background in Maths, it is worthwhile to refer to Manhattan GMAT Maths books and refresh your basics. These guides are enough to reach a score of 48/49. For more advanced concepts, refer to GMAT MATH BOOK in downloadable PDF format by Bunuel and be grateful. I would refer Manhattan Advanced GMAT Quant for cementing the score of 50/51.

· Practice: I solved all the OG questions using the GMAT club error log (very important to use a timer). If you are looking for Q50/51 score, solve the most difficult questions of any source on GMAT club with error log & timer.

· Practice Test: Build your Math Muscles with GMATClub Tests. DO NOT TRY THIS BEFORE FINISHING THE BASICS. These are one of the hardest questions available on quant. Initially try to solve without a timer and don’t get disheartened if you cannot solve questions even in 10-15 minutes. I found most of the questions much harder than Official prep questions.

· Actual Exam: I found actual GMAT Online quant questions were much lengthier and harder than official questions. It served me very well that I had attempted almost 20 GMAT club quant tests.

2. Verbal: I started with an ability of 16% in Sentence Correction, 16% in RC, and 63% in CR as per eGMAT Sigma X mock. Harshit recommended me the e-GMAT course for verbal and I cannot thank him enough.

· Course: eGMAT Online Verbal course is very structured and comprehensive. I religiously followed the order in which I needed to study the individual sections. I believe that it is the best course for SC. I devoted 2 months totally to the Sentence Correction module. The animated modules of eGMAT improve upon the efficiency of a student and for this reason, the retention ability remains on a higher side. The success of Sentence Correction is your ability to understand the meaning, logic and learn core skills. The 3-step approach to SC is extremely helpful. eGMAT sentence correction course takes the journey from basic concepts to advanced skills very smoothly.

In CR, Structure and pre-thinking steps gives a solid understanding of the argument. In RC, the solution technique for Inference questions was best. In my opinion and as in my case, you will have to practice a lot (I limited my practice to official questions of GMAT only on GMAT club). You can also attempt LSAT questions.

The team at e-GMAT is extremely helpful. Payal always promptly responded and helped me. The eGMAT team is very friendly and really invests in your preparation.

I owe an increase of 15 points in my verbal score (from my mock score to actual score) solely to e-GMAT. The process and structure of the course really helped me improve my skills. The way the concepts are taught, I am sure I will carry this knowledge throughout my MBA as well.

· Practice: Practice on Scholaranium. The quality of the explanations is very high. The level of data insights on your accuracy & ability is pure gold.

3. AWA: Like me if are not good at writing and you are happy with a score of 5 or 5.5, just go to this page 1 or 2 days before the actual exam and write one AWA answer based on these templates (https://gmatclub.com/forum/how-to-get-6-0-awa-my-guide-64327.html).

4. My Story: I started my preparation in Sep’20. After 3 months of preparation was ready to book the exam in Dec’20/Jan’21, but fate had some other plans for me. I got Covid-19 in December and it took me one and half months to recover and regain my strength.

I started preparing for GMAT again from the last week of Jan’21. In Feb and March, my work schedule went crazy. I could hardly study for 1 hour or less during this time. With a proper study of 4-5 hours in April & May, I booked the GMAT exam on 17th June at Hyderabad Test Centre. One week before the scheduled exam, my scheduled test was canceled by Test Centre without providing any reason (I assumed that it must be owing to Covid-19).

I immediately scheduled the test again on 23rd June and it was canceled again by the Test Centre.

I really wanted to finish off the exam when I was scoring high in official GMAT prep. I was exploring the option of the GMAT Online Exam. I read a lot about the online experience on GMAT club and it helped.

GMAT Online Exam Requirement:
Physical Whiteboard: I ordered one physical whiteboard from amazon but the quality was average and I received a damaged product You must order very good quality fine-tip marker.

Duster: I struggled a lot for getting a good quality duster and could not get a good quality duster. I ordered and checked these dusters. They were useless. I tried other dusters too from a local shop. I stuck a bundle of cotton cloth on three dusters and used them. In quant, I am a step by step solver kind of person, so I write a lot, it was not supposed to be an issue at the test center, but it became an issue in GMAT online exam. As I had limited space of whiteboard to write and I had to erase many times during Quant section, non-availability of good quality duster did cost me at least 2-3 minutes in the quant and 1-2 minutes in verbal section.

Backup wifi connection: Arrange for a good wifi connection as the primary connection. I would suggest that you arrange for a backup connection too. I arranged one backup jiofi device (4G Hotspot device in India). It is better to be prepared with backup wifi or a Hotspot device. I did not need a backup connection during the actual exam. I showed the backup device to the instructor online and he had no issues with it.

GMAT Online Experience: The experience was good but not great. The exam started smoothly. I went for both scheduled breaks after Quant and Verbal.
· Difficulty Level: I felt that Quant was super difficult compared to GMAT official prep questions. However, the GMAT Online exam was forgiving and I scored 50.
Verbal was also very difficult for me. I had improved my RC accuracy to 90% and solved most of the 700+ RC official passages on the GMAT club, but I was stumped by the difficulty level of RC. I got short but very convoluted RC passages and questions were very difficult too. It was very difficult to eliminate even 2/3 answer choices. CR & SC were difficult too.

· System Hanging Issue: This was one teething problem throughout the exam - the system was hanging for a few seconds whenever I clicked the answer or submitted the answer. I was using a Lenovo legion 8 GB Intel i-5 laptop with Windows 10. I lost approximately 2-3 minutes on each section due to this issue. It was very frustrating.

During AWA also, the system was hanging and I lost more than 2-3 minutes. It did not matter that I lost time in AWA but it was frustrating to wait for few seconds for the text to appear on screen after typing.

Overall, the experience of GMAT Online was average. Finally, I completed the exam and a score of 720 appeared. I breathed a sigh of relief!! I was expecting a lower score!!

Final Advice:
1. Value your time and choose the right material/course for yourself: There is a lot of material available for GMAT preparation and research very well before you commit your time. The eGMAT team is very friendly and really invests in your preparation.
Aim high. Track & monitor your performance (Use two types of error logs)
One type of error log to track your ability, accuracy & timing. I used the gmatclub error log
The second type of error log is a simple excel sheet to keep the list of mistakes and learning. This type of error log comes very handy in identifying blind spots and mistake patterns. I cannot recommend this enough.
Persevere – Be ready to hit few bumps along the way. But persevere and Do not lose hope. Book the exam only when you are ready and have already scored at least 20-30 points higher than your target score in the official GMAT prep mock.
Read slingfox Test Day Tips!

Thank you Note: Thank you gmatclub team for managing such a wonderful website and the quality of content is top-notch!

Thank you eGMAT team for one of the best verbal courses! Special thanks to Payal for her prompt response to my queries!

Thank you for reading this long debrief!!

Extra:
Do yourself a favor and visit these pages for the best stories/advice ever:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/best-gmat-stories-period-98512.html?fl=menu
https://medium.com/@sankalpgarg/my-gmat-exam-strategy-f937630f0bbf
https://gmatclub.com/forum/from-520-in-mocks-to-740-in-actual-gmat-282814.html)

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eGMAT verbal course has helped me in improving my grammar a lot. I was able to improve my score by +70. You will understand the contribution of eGMAT in my GMAT prep journey if I give you more context on where I started : when I started the journey I wasn't even aware of Subject - verb agreement rules or correct usage of verbs in a sentence. This course helped me learn the basics and build confidence I need to score my target score. I haven't achieved my target score so I am planning to retake the exam soon. Scholaranium 2.0 is one more product which I will highly recommend. It will help you in identifying your weakness. Unfortunately, I didn't spend enough time on this product. I could see progress I made in CR which reflected in actual exam too. Scholaranium 2.0 helped me in identifying my weakness in some of the SC topics too but I didn't have enough time to improve those. I will recommend you to go through all the concept videos and Scholaranium 2.0 questions to achieve your target score.

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Course overview(Verbal) :
The e-gmat courses on verbal are best suited for people looking for a considerable improvement in their ability in SC, CR and RC. My personal favorite is the SC course with detailed applications for each of the concepts to cement the learning. The approaches provided are really handy and I would recommend this for aspirants with weak SC.

CR and RC for me were majorly about slight improvements here and there and I felt the course structure is straight forward to build your skillset specific to GMAT.

Scholaranium acts as the guiding tool for measuring your ability.
Important tips :
1. Do not jump into scholaranium practice before finishing at least Level 1 of any course. I made that mistake and ended up losing a lot of precious time.
2. Attend the onboarding session which is conducted regularly. This will help structure your preparation. I attended the session by Nava later in the preparation and it helped not lose valuable time.
3. Do go through the comments/questions in each of the lessons, you will end up clarifying most of your doubts.
4. Work with the mentors and create a personalized plan tailor made to your needs. This is really important and can save significant time in your preparation.

While I plan for my retake, I am working with DJ and others for a personalized plan. Hope this review helps aspirants get an overview of the e-gmat course.

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After my second attempt at GMAT, in which I got a 690 (V34, Q49) I was really disappointed to come so close to 700, yet fall short by a small margin. I opted for the Enhanced Score Card which revealed that my SC percentile was 91%, RC was 55% and CR was lagging behind at 24%. It was then that I decided to enroll to a verbal course to enhance my CR skills and got in touch with DJ from the E-GMAT team.

DJ encouraged me go through the CR videos and helped me by finalizing a timing strategy. He asked me to maintain an error log. I sent across the error logs frequently and DJ would closely analyze those and suggest remedial measures. The scholarnium 2.0 platform was really helpful in diagnosing weak areas and keeping a check on timing issues. I also learnt a lot from Stacey's guidance on the SC forum in E-GMAT as well. Finally the Sigma X mocks were really accurate in estimating the current skill levels and provided a realistic measure of the GMAT score. Overall, I believe that investing the E-GMAT verbal online course helped me push past the hurdle of the GMAT exam.

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E Gmat verbal course is really phenomenal when it comes to help any non native speaker get good with the basic concepts . I am greatly benefitted with the SC approach to focus on meaning first and then the process of elimination . There are umpteen questions to practice from verbal scholaranium . I have used it extensively by choosing questions and setting them as short quizzes .The course is exhaustive one as it takes one through each and every concept needed for the preparation so one should allocate good amount of time in going through this course which helps to a great extent

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I purchased the course in 2019. The course is good for getting acquainted with the basics, according to my opinion. I felt that the master comprehension model is a very good and helpful part of the course. Apart from that, I needed additional tutoring from a private verbal tutor after the course. The course is good for beginners who are just starting out on GMAT. Many of my friends also bought the course and didn't report a phenomenal improvement, but that's just my observation. So I would recommend buying the course for just the fundamentals and supplementing it with additional resources.

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