I took the e-GMAT course in June 2021 after I had taken an attempt in early June. I had prepared a fair bit and did well on the mocks however the main exam made me realise some fundamental gaps.

I lacked a process to solve the questions and also lacked section specific guidance to improve on my ability. e-gmat and Dhananjay came in and helped me improve my ability a fair bit. I improved from a 38 to a 40 in verbal within 10 days of starting work with egmat.

What I love about e-gmat:
Fantastic portal that gives you excellent insight. You do not waste time analysing, you only learn, cement and perform

The exercises are built methodically after completing each section I could see an improvement in my ability.

The personalized support that the team offers. They peer through your performance and give you sectionwise analysis on what to focus on. DJ offered me his personal number. I continuously kept in touch and troubled him for doubts. This is super helpful for a scattered person like me.

The sigma X mocks are fantastic

The methodologies that e-gmat have pioneered - pre-thinking, meaning based SC and critical reading skills. (I was able to get 98th and 91st percentile in SC and CR respectively)

I think e-gmat is the best solution out there for retakers. I am now working with the team to get a better score than what i have landed. I am sure I should be able to achieve it with their help and guidance. I keep wishing I had started the prep with e-gmat many months ago!

Above all, e-gmat does not judge or make you feel uncomfortable. They are matter of fact and mission driven towards helping us achieve our goal.

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Good quality Quant questions of all difficulties that are overall a little harder to solve than the actual GMAT questions. You only need to ace the advance topics questions if you're looking to score 51.
Great test taking system that recreates the exam environment. Though I didn't have the chance to fully utilize it, the new Scholaranium 2.0 with all its metrics looks promising in terms of performance analysis.
Both these factors helped me warm up for Quant just before taking the GMAT online exam.

On a final note, the quant section has all the study material, questions, practice tests and other sections you need to score 50 or above.

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Quick summary:

GMAT Attempt 1 - 5th November 2020 - Q49, V36 - 700
GMAT Attempt 2 - 30th June 2021 - Q48, V40 - 710
GMAT Attempt 3 - To be given in July 2021 - I'll update my score in this review at the end of this month.

Preparation:

I am an engineer by education and work in the Venture capital industry for the past 4 years. Owing to my engineering background, I had assumed at the beginning that I'll need more preparation in Verbal than in Quant. It turned out to be partially true.

For my first attempt in November 2020, I started preparation seriously in August first week. Before that I had already spent some money on Experts Global course, given 1-2 mock tests with passive preparation, and had acquainted myself with the exam structure etc.

I started my CR prep with Powerscore CR - which was an amazing resource to start with. It was too long a read, because it explains everything in absolute detail, but it was worth it because it cleared my concepts about CR questions and how to approach them. With some practice, I could already see some improvement in CR. I was still not practicing pre-thinking though. Although I had a fair idea of what the right answers could be like.
SC - I started with Manhattan SC book. It was good for grammar basics, but beyond a point, it didn't help much. I think SC is my strongest section today and I give full credit for that to GMAT Club community. I practiced a lot of SC Questions and analyzed every choice for every error in both the questions that I did right and wrong. Over time I created a framework for myself and practiced that framework on every question. While reading the sentence itself, I was able to identify the subject, verb, and different clauses in the sentence. Then while scanning for differences in the options, I could choose between the right and wrong options. Until this time, I wasn't absolutely clear about the meaning-based approach.

RC - I will admit, I thought it will be the easiest bit and in the beginning, I didn't pay much attention to it. But by the end, RC is what became the bottleneck. I wasn't writing any notes in my RCs, I was reading the passage and comprehending up to 70% of it before I moved to answer choices. This approach, as I later found out, would not take me to V40+.

Quant - I was foolishly overconfident about this in the beginning. I thought that with little practice, I could get to Q50 and I wouldn't settle for anything lesser. But I was so underconfident about my quant preparation in the end that I got nervous in the exam. I still don't know how I managed to get even Q49.

I gave one mock every weekend for 8-9 weeks and I finished all GMAT official mocks, a few free mocks by veritas, manhattan etc. because I didn't want to leave anything before the final exam. I was scoring 710-730 in my mocks. And I was aspiring for 750+. At 700, I rejected the score then and there and decided to give the exam again.

But I took a long break for some personal and work reasons and started the preparation in March end eventually by taking the e-gmat subscription.

Second Attempt -

I started from March end/April beginning. e-gmat team recommended that I give their Sigma-X mock first, so I did and scored 670 on that, I was out of practice after 4-5 months. I wanted to improve my RC in the beginning so I spent 2-3 weeks only on RC. Finished all RC modules that e-gmat had. I was severely lacking in my RC skills which improved only once I started taking notes and practiced e-gmat's method of solving RCs. It was revolutionary for me, and I'm not being paid to say this lol.

I also knew about e-gmat's pre-thinking approach for CR and I wanted to see if it helped. After doing only a few question types with their standard pre-thinking approach, I could feel the difference. The understanding of the question and the answer that you're looking for becomes multifold once you pre-think the answer. It reduces the chances of errors, and improves speed eventually. I also started taking few notes in CR.

After that, I started focusing on my quant too. I did a couple of their modules but frankly, it was taking too much time. I was impatient and always tried to jump the gun by skipping modules here and there. It ensured that I never got the concept right and always faltered in difficult questions in almost every concept. I realized this too late. After consecutively scoring 710-740 in my mocks, I realized that I am in the same situation as the last time, and I sought help from e-gmat. Dhananjay (DJ) from e-gmat got in touch with me, helped me make sense of my scores, and prepared a broad-level plan for me to reach my target of 750. I can say that I tried to follow his plan but I couldn't take the complete value out of that mentorship. I should have reached out to him more when I wasn't getting the desired results. I started giving custom quizzes every day and took a false sense of satisfaction in decent results in them. But the reality is, GMAT is tougher because of the actual exam pressure.

I was confident that my preparation is such that I cannot score below 730. But I did. And for better or worse, I cannot settle at 710, so I will be giving my retest this month. DJ is still helping me with another customized plan and tells me that I have to follow it this time and I can reach my target score. :)

I'll let you guys know how it turns out.

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Working in management consulting, I have received many different recommendations from my colleagues on how to best prepare for my GMAT exam. However, there was one of these recommended paths that most resonated to me: the e-gmat course. After taking the enhanced GMAT online and scoring 780 (Q: 50 V: 48 IR: 8 AWA: 6) I feel that I have to pass these recommendations to all my fellow gmatclubbers.

What I liked the most?
Hyper personalization
I was invited by Archit Bhargava to be part of LMP (Last Mile Program), a program where he would support me as a mentor. I cannot thank Archit enough for his support during my GMAT prep. He analyzed every single part of the Six Sigma X Mocks I took, beginning with my initial diagnosis one, and designed personalized improvement plans for each of the sections of the exam. He helped me understand where I had conceptual gaps, where I had to focus on process skills, and what areas I had already “conquered”. Archit also supported me until my exam day, helping me overcome any fall, to arrive at the GMAT with full confidence. Also, my GMAT study plan was designed so that it worked around my tight schedule of working 11+ hs a day.
Archit designed daily milestones for me to complete, taking into account the time that I had available for studying in the different days of the week.

Approach
e-GMAT has a very structured approach to achieve test readiness. Each of the subtopics of both Quant and Verbal is structured around a three-step learning process: (1) concept, (2) process, (3) GMAT skills. This method allows one to be certain of the readiness to move to the following step, and to calibrate the time dedicated to each subtopic in a very personalized way.

Platform
The Scholaranium 2.0 is a very powerful platform. It provides as many KPIs and metrics as one can imagine to identify the process flaws and knowledge gaps at a very detailed level to know exactly what to do to improve. It keeps track of the results for the different levels of questions. With Scholaranium 2.0, one can design custom quizzes and can even choose the subtopic! For example, one can design a quiz only on hard-level questions on modifiers within the SC section. The explanation of how questions should be resolved is very detailed and allows one to identify what went wrong or to confirm a correct.

Sigma X Mocks
The Sigma X Mocks very well represent the real exam. The adaptative software makes the experience very similar to that of the GMAT. From my own personal experience, I can say these mock exams even have more difficult questions than the GMAT, which allows one to be confident that when preparing for this hard questions, one is for sure covering the difficulty that will be find in the exam. In my best Sigma X Mock I scored a 750 (Q50 V42) which translated into a 780 (Q50 V48) in the real exam.

My study mentor: Archit
My journey would not have been the same without Archit. He was there to take my phone call at whatever hour each time I felt I would not make it in time, to adapt my study plan around my crazy work schedule, to help me define concrete next steps. Archit was the game changer in my GMAT journey.

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After thinking for long and researching, I took up E-Gmat because I knew I had to work on my verbal as I was consistently scoring high in quant but fluctuated in verbal.
E-gmat has been a game changer for me. Its meaning based approach for SC and pre thinking approach for CR just puts verbal in your favour. Moreover, the master comprehension module just helps getting the base right.
The course is great for anyone starting their prep and wants to get into verbal. It is a very thorough course and along with the OG guides, it's the only prep material I used.
Scholaranium is the best tool available to any GMAT aspirant to judge your performance and find areas of improvement. It has amazing data analytics pointing to your need and area of improvement. If there is one course you should definitely take it is E-gmat.

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I took a diagnostic test from the official GMAT back in August 2020 and scored a 570. I knew I needed a course that will help me with all the aspects of the GMAT. I came across e-gmat and liked the trial version so went ahead and purchased the full course.

The course is great for anyone starting at a similar level. It is a very thorough course and along with the OG guides, it's the only prep material I used.

I think the verbal course is slightly better than the quant only because sometimes my approach to tackle quant was very different from e-gmat's. So I skipped some of the explanations and stuck to what I knew. Perhaps that would explain my Q49 score? Maybe I could have got a 50 or 51 by following the e-gmat approach?

The verbal course, however, is the main reason for me scoring a V44 (from a V27 in my diagnostic). I highly recommend following the approach detailed in the e-gmat videos.

I took my first attempt in May 2021 and scored a 690 (Q46 V39). I reached out to e-gmat for help. The 2 things I didn't do before my first attempt which were game changing was: 1) use the e-gmat scholaranium platform properly. I found the questions to be slightly harder than the official ones so i skipped it. In hindsight this was a bad decision. I think by practicing harder questions, you can really hone your approach to solving different types of questions. Also if you are targeting a high score, it makes sense to tackle the hard questions.

The second thing I didn't do was keep an error log. I was encouraged by my e-gmat tutor to keep one. I initially found it time consuming and didn't see the benefit. However after repeatedly scoring 66% accuracy in CR, I decided to start an error log. I instantly saw my score improve. Obviously, you need to carry out a strategic review of your errors (not just keep one), e-gmat have lots of helpful videos for the error-log which are particularly helpful for the verbal section. I highly recommend.

The 3 weeks between my 2 attempts, I exclusively used e-gmat's resources (scholaranium, error logs, strategic reviews) and this was what helped me increase my score to a 750.

Another thing worth mentioning is e-gmats mentorship program. After my first attempt I was assigned a mentor who guided me with my prep. Aditee (e-gmat mentor) was very patient and helpful with my prep. Sometimes it helps when someone else can view your weaknesses objectively and direct you in the right way.

I highly recommend e-gmat to anyone looking for a good overall prep course.

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E-gmat is definitely the best course for GMAT Prep. After going through lot of courses including Manhattan, I found no increase in my score and ability while giving mocks, Finally I enrolled for the E-gmat online course and started watching all the concept videos diligently .

It helped me in understanding the basics of Verbal and Quant. The course is very informative and the videos help you explain every topic.

Scholaranium is the best tool available to any GMAT aspirant to judge your performance and find areas of improvement.

The questions are very relevant and the concepts tested are very similar to what appeared in my GMAT Exam.

The difficulty level of the material is very good and it helps you tackle higher difficulty level questions with ease..

Please do use both the verbal as well as quant section of E-gmat, the approach used in the videos is very innovative and would be highly beneficial.

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E-gmat helped me in understanding the basics of Verbal and Quant. The course is very informative and the videos help you explain every topic. Scholaranium is the best tool to judge your performance. It helps you in making various types of quiz and identify your weak areas. Overall the experience was satisfactory.
Additionally the Rajat and Payal videos on youtube regarding the gmat guidelines and specific section analysis is really helpful. The material is overall on the tougher side but that helps you enable to deal with good gmat score successfully. Please do use the verbal section of E-gmat, the approach used is very useful in exam scenarios.

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I scored 730 in my first GMAT attempt with a Q50 and V39 split. I managed to get a 7/8 in the IR section. I used the E-GMAT online course to study the Verbal and the IR sections of the GMAT exam.

The SC and CR files were the most helpful resources in the verbal module. They made the answer analysis almost automatic. The CR pre-thinking process and the SC meaning-based approach are hands down the real winners of the E-GMAT Verbal course. The Verbal Scholarium section has very good practice questions and the Sigma-X mocks help you evaluate and improve your GMAT score. Their analytics tool is really amazing at tracking your progress. It identifies weak areas and gives good feedback. The IR section helps with some good practice GMAT styled IR questions. Overall, the E-GMAT online course provides you with the appropriate study material, all in one place, required to crack the GMAT exam and get into the top 5percentile. I would recommend the E-GMAT online course to every serious test taker who aims to get a score higher than 720 in their first attempt. This course helps boost your verbal score which is the deal-breaker for a good GMAT score.

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It's my third go at GMAT and I've finally got a score, which falls in my desired bracket. I've scored a 640(Q48 V30) and 670(Q50 V29) in my previous two attempts. I just couldn't fathom my scores, because I did considerably well on the official GMAT mocks. But after a thorough analysis of my ESRs, I understood that the approach I had is not enough to fetch me high scores. After taking around 4 months of break, I again started planning for my third attempt. That's when I've decided to purchase e-gmat's online course.

Some of the best things I've learned while using the e-gmat course:

1. Meaning based approach for solving Sentence Correction problems - Knowing in our mind that meaning is an important aspect in SC while solving the questions is one thing and having an approach which encapsulates that step and makes it a second nature while solving the questions is another thing. I have missed this trick in both of my previous attempts. e-gmat does an amazing job in this aspect and the questions in scholaranium polish our skills in using this approach.

2. Visualisation and Proper understanding of the conclusion for answering Critical Reasoning Questions - I cannot stress this enough. Even if pre-thinking is not feasible for each and every question, if we can visualise the passage well and have a proper understanding of the conclusion, it will open doors to the correct answer.

3. Analytics provided by Scholaranium - Two aspects standout the most with scholaranium. The detailed analysis provided for all the practise you do and the quality of the questions. If you don't have a proper approach, then the questions you solve in scholaranium will let you know that.

4. Mocks - (Note: Unpopular opinion incoming) I am not a huge fan of the official mocks. In my view, the Sigma-X mocks are more closer to the actual exam than the 6 official mocks. I think the official mocks can only get you around maybe 670/680 in the actual exam. I've scored 730-750 in my official mocks, only to score 640 and 670 in both my attempts. But my sigma-X mock scores are around 720-750, which more or less is same as my actual score. The insights you get after the exam will definitely help you identify the weak areas you have and thus make your preparation efficient.

5. LMP - Having a mentor who can guide you down the right path would definitely help you after those 2 horrific experiences. I gotta thank DJ here. He definitely knows what works for a student, and he is quite fast in responding to the mails😌.

Because I am doing well at quant, I didn't do much of the quant courses and focused my preparation mostly on verbal. But the quant quizzes are definitely challenging. Taking a quant quiz once in three days during the prep would definitely keep up your skill-level.

I would like to thank DJ for his efforts and his consistent support. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn't even have the courage to book my exam, thank you for that😄. All in all, I would recommend this course for someone who just hates grammatical-fancy-jargons.

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