I took my first GMAT in March 2016 and scored a 660 (Q49, V31). Since I am a non-native speaker, verbal was/is my weakest point. However, I had some changes in my career, so until the end of 2017 I did not start a new GMAT preparation. When I started considering taking the GMAT again, I decided to devise a good preparation plan first with an emphasis on Verbal part. My next GMAT is scheduled for beg of July 2018, and I will share my experience with the test afterwards.
For my 1st preparation which took ~3 months, I used only Manhattan SC, CR, and RC; and OG resources. This time I decided to change my strategy and I was reviewing different courses to understand which one would give me the best possible outcome. In the end, I decided to take E-GMAT VERBAL ONLINE, since it had very good overviews and it also provided an access to GMATCLUB tests. The price was also very reasonable to me.
After having used the course for ~6 months of interrupted preparation (due to job schedule) here is what I can say about the course:
- SC is really brilliant. I firmly believe that this is the single resource you need to master your SC. I became very confident with SC after about 2 months devoting my time only to this part of the course.
- CR and RC are also great. Every type of question is taught in a very structured and logical approach. First, the structure of an argument is explained, so that you can quickly segregate it into premises and conclusion parts. After that, for each type of question you are presented with a right approach to solve such type.
- What makes the course really strong is its structure in presenting the materials. All concepts are followed by quizzes and OG questions, and such approach makes you learn the concept very deeply both in terms of theory and immediate practice. You don’t need to create any plan as to how to approach the materials – you just follow the schedule step-by-step to cover all concepts.
- The course is abundant with very hard questions, especially in CR. I believe it is very useful to solve questions of hard level in order to feel comfortable in the test setting. The Scholaranium section provides a very high quality questions bank.
Overall, if you are searching for a single resource for Verbal part, I can say that e-gmat is a great choice and it worth every dollar of the price.

Wish you all the best!

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Last year, I took GMAT and got 550 points but I need higher scores in both parts, quant and verbal. Therefore, I searched the online courses in the internet and found some interesting courses. After I tried those courses in free trial, I decided to subscribed e-gmat and it is worth trying.

My favorite part in E-GMAT is its new platform . It is very convenient and friendly-user because it is easy to track what you have learned. It tells how much time you have spend on each sections and after study in each sections, there are some applications, which are in gmat-like style to test whether you totally understand the lessons and apply to gmat or not.
In addition, E-GMAT provides a very strong concept of each parts from the foundation to advanced level. Before I took the courses, I lacked some basic concepts and made me miss some points on the tricky questions. This course enables me to close this gap and to get the higher scores.
Finally, the scholaranium in the course gives me lots of practices to get used to gmat questions and let me see what sections are my weakness or strength.

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“How much time is required to prepare for GMAT”. with this question in mind I started my preparation for GMAT. I asked friends and they told me just one Month maximum is required that too if you are weak in English. I took their suggestion and started with MGMAT Sentence Correction, I tried to assimilate the jargons of English grammar. Then I gave MGMAT mocks and did not do well in the exam. I found that although I knew the rules of grammar , I was clueless about the applying it on the question. About CR and RC, I was totally clueless and all options seems to be correct for me. Then one of my friend recommended me to go through the free session of E-Gmat. I studied all the free session of verbal, and really liked their methodlogy of teaching. I, then enrolled for the verbal online e-gmat course. I liked the course because firstly it was in audio visual form, which makes my mind fully occupied, and Secondly course has quizzes after each concepts. Moreover, this course taught me to breakdown the sentence in to parts and then identify the errors . This approach initially took took time but then with practice it got internalized. Few of the concepts of modifier such as Verb-ing , Verb-ed modifier and Noun + Noun modifier are clearly explained in this course. I cemented my most of the concepts of grammar through this course.
Coming to the RC and CR, this course taught me “How to approach each type of CR and RC questions and how to eliminate each answer”. I learnt the reading strategy and which helped me to improve my comprehensions of passage.
Scholaranium is verbal quiz bank of E-gmat which comes along with the verbal online. Scholaranium quizzes has advance analytics which helped me to know my weak areas and through this I practiced more questions in my weak areas. Questions in Scholaranium are quite similar to the GMAT which helped me to train my mind for the GMAT like test.

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I subscribed to E-gmat Verbal online course and I must say that it was totally worth every penny.
I was not good at the verbal section. I attended the free SC and RC sessions by e-GMAT and did not think twice to order the Verbal course, since verbal was my pain area. And as per the plan suggested in e-GMAT, I started with SC.

I would like to de-brief about few of the features of the course:
1. The scholaranium feature is very helpful to identify weaknesses.
2. Course materials are well structured from a learning perspective.
3. Enough questions available for practice that are reflective of GMAT style questions
4. Additional resources are research question to questions: e-GMAT forum, question section on each practice question.
5. E-gmat gives free weekly webinars for on different topics.
6. They respond almost within a day on your queries or doubts.

Till now my experience has been great with the E-gmat.

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I am a typical Indian engineer with strong Quant. Hence, I started my GMAT prep considering no need of any support from any external resources. Because from past many years I was not in touch with quant prep, I was falling in the test makers traps again and again, One of my friend recommended to go with e-Gmat Courses. In which the style of learning I experienced is so good. eGMAT courses don’t teach you tips, tricks or shortcuts, instead the courses teach you the simplest ways of understanding and tackling each quant question. This made me confident to solve any kind of question that comes in my way.

The Course is categorized into 5 sub-sections: Number Properties, Algebra, Geometry, Word Problems and Advanced Topics. Each sub-section has a lot of content and study material along with a lot of Practice and Application Files.

The Scholaranium is where you can take customized quizzes and is a great tool and the way it considers the candidate's performance and does all the planning for the candidate is a big help. It is easy-to-use, versatile and flexible. Now, I am confident that I will be able to hit Q50 or above. It was Q47 in my last attempt.

I would strongly recommend eGMAT online courses. The program is interactive and focuses on your weaknesses, and comes with the Scholaranium which evaluates your strengths and weaknesses. The Support team is very responsive and helpful and give prompt response for all queries.

Addition to this, I am now practicing in Scholaranium along with GMAT Club Tests. Hope I will Achieve my target of Q51 this time and overall Score of >700. Then I will meet all of you with my complete debrief.

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I took my first GMAT in 2015 and scored a 610. I was hugely disatisfied with the score but due to other
personal committments, I did not get a chance to re-take the exam.

So towards the end of last year, I thought I will consider taking the GMAT again and started actively looking for resources.
For my first attempt, I relied mainly on the Manhattan series and Official Guides. I felt that these materials were good to
give me an understanding of the topics tested and to practice the format of the exam.
However, after my analysis on my first attempt I realized what I was missing on was the right strategy.
I figured out that my main issue was not having a proper strategy to tackle the exam. I thought the best way to overcome this was to find a good course which will help me teach me sound strategies to approach GMAT in a better way.

One of my friends introduced me to e-GMAT. She had taken the course and improved by 100 points in her GMAT.
Inspired by her massive improvement, I thought I should give e-GMAT a try. I first started by reading reviews about e-GMAT on GMAT Club and Beat The GMAT forums.
I also started attending some of the free webinars conducted by the e-GMAT team. The webinars were great in understanding more about how e-GMAT courses are structured and also to get to know their teaching style.
After attending the GMAT strategy webinar and a couple of other Sentence Correction and Critical Reasoning webinars, I felt that I should purchase the course.
Hence,I enrolled into the Verbal and Quant online courses.
Needless to say, this was one of the best decisions I could have made!
The videos and materials provided by e-GMAT are amazing and very detailed. The sentence correction videos were very structuredand it walks through how to understand the meaning of a sentence, identifying clauses, subject-verb agreements and identifying
the errors in the sentence. The 3 step process for Sentence Correction was very helpful and easy for me to apply on complex Sentence Correction questions. One of the key strategies for Critical Reasoning was Pre-thinking which also greatly helped me in solving Critical Reasoning Problems. For Reading Comprehension, the importance given to get immersed in the passage was a great tip for a person like me who used to dread long passages. I no longer look at long passages as something which tires me out.
Instead, this strategy has helped me approach RC in a more relaxed manner which in turn has improved my overall accuracy.
One of the key things I like about eGMAT is the Pre-Assessment and Post-Assessment quizzes. These help to track my progress in each module and is a good way to test your knowledge in each sub topic.
I took 2 mock tests after finishing the Verbal course and I saw a 4 points improvement in my Verbal score (from 32 to 36).
The improvement can definitely be attributed to the Verbal online course as I used the approach recommended by the course to tackle the questions.
I also think that the e-GMAT Verbal course is the best among all other resources currently available for non-native speakers.
My GMAT is scheduled in a few weeks time and I am currently focusing on the Quant course. It has been great so far and I hope to see a solid score improvement for Quant as well.
For students looking at course options for GMAT, I would strongly urge you to consider e-GMAT as it is definitely worth
your money and time!

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In first gmat in october 2017, I scored a dismal V23 (overall 590). The score was below par and I knew there was something that went horribly wrong on the D-day, as I was scoring 670-700 in my gmatprep.
After the initial mourning period, I decided to get the ESR and see where the issues were in Verbal. I saw that I got 60% of the questions wrong in the first ten questions. The graph showed that the question level never went above the Medium difficulty leading to the low score. After ESR analysis, I decided to work on verbal and use 'e-gmat' course. The decision to use e-gmat was based on the feedback of other students , plus the fact that I was working full time and didn't had the time to attend any in-person classes . Also, I had used the 'modifier application' section, present in the 'e-gmat' trial version and on the GMAT forum, during the first phase of the study and found the trial version to be of great help. Bought the e-gmat online course and reached out to Rajat/e-gmat team for help. They responded quickly with the steps to be followed.

Before starting with the second phase of the study, I decided to check my verbal ability on e-gmat. The score was 44 percentile. It showed that I had some gaps that had to be filled, before taking second attempt. Over the course of next 2.5 months I religiously followed the e-gmat SC, CR , RC and IR section and saw my verbal ability improve from 44 percentile to 77 percentile, couple of days before second GMAT. SC and CR were the big beneficiary , RC was fluctuating as usual.
During December, My company announced a forced furlough and that was the time, I decided to give the second GMAT. I gave GMAT prep1 repeat (700) and prep 2 (730). then I decided to give my next attempt. In january 2018, I was able to increase my score to 700 score with V38 in verbal.
This wouldn't have been possible with the verbal e-gmat course.

If you are in the same boat as I was, there is no better alternative then e-gmat course.

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Whether you are native or non-native speaker, eGMAT is a great program to use to prepare for the GMAT exam. I am a visual learner so the videos were extremely beneficial to me. They breakdown all the concepts into simple terms and emphasize the importance of finding the underlining meaning.

Scholaranium is essential to improving your score because it pinpoints your weaknesses. It’s also a representation of how much you understand the concepts or not.

Overall, I highly recommend this test prep program. I cannot thank Rajat and his team for their support. You will truly get your desired score if you follow eGMAT’s step-by-step process.

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I gave my first GMAT after a lot of self preparation and scored a dismal 620(Q 49, V 27) and was terribly disheartened as i thought that self study should be fine to tackle the GMAT beast.
As it turned out, its not enough.
I after reading to a lot of reviews attended one of the Saturday courses with Rajat Sadana for CR that was based on the revolutionary approach of CR. I was dumb struck as for the first time I was looking towards mathematical and step wise approach to solve CR questions.
I was sold with the idea that i have to enroll for this course.
very next day i paid for it and took my GMAT test date after exactly 30 days as i wanted to apply in Round 3.
I work for a major oil and gas company in India and the working hours are as demanding as it gets.
Still, I was fascinated by the approach the tutors taught me for S,CR and RC questions.
I couldn't focus much on the course owing to my work demands but was learning a lot of new fundamentals and above all strategic approach for RC, SC and CR questions.
I couldn't study much in the last week before my exam but anyhow decided to go ahead with my score.
I loved the e-gmat course in ways that it taught me that there is a strategic and systematic approach which , if followed, shall guarantee a great score on the GMAT.
Pre-thinking in CR, Error analysis in SC and a logic consequence of the process that you could do through out the passage in RC are a score grabber.
However, due to some serious personal emergencies i missed by GMAT and couldn't appear for it.
After i recovered, I started my preparation again from scratch and appeared for the exam and scored a 660(Q49, V 31).
I know its not a great score but i am happy that i could improve 4 points in verbal, all thanks to the e-GMAT Verbal Online prep course.
I am again planning to write my GMAT again in the month of June-18 and am pretty sure that with the help of e-GMAT course and some serious dedication I shall be able to cross the 720 barrier.
All the best to everyone.
Peace.
May the force be with all of us.
Honneeey

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I started preparing for GMAT July’17. The preparation was on and off as it was difficult to manage it while working full time, 6 days a week. Initially, I didn’t not take any courses and started prepping Verbal using Manhattan books. Things were very new for me. It took a while to get accustomed to it. But even after 3-4 months of prep it seemed like I was where I started, hardly any improvement in Verbal section.
Then, my senior introduced me to e-GMAT and I cannot thank her enough for having done that. Initially I was a little sceptical about joining but then I saw a few free lectures and decided to go aahead. The way and the structure of the lectures made them interesting. The structuring of the course is such that before moving on to another topic we have sufficient practice of the previous ones so that it gets imbibed in our system.
The verbal course is a blessing for everyone and the scholaranium is like a cherry on the top. The scholaranium tests can be customised as per your need and practise.
I started the course with V27. I dreaded SC like anything. Barely managing 20-30% accuracy.
I wouldn't say that a V35 is an awesome score, but for someone like me who dreaded SC to such a large extent, it was definitely an accomplishment, especially since I was now able to answer the questions with logic rather than on a hunch that it sounds right.
Thank you e-GMAT once again.

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