My GMAT score was stuck between 640-660 from last three years. I had taken the egmat subscription earlier , but i did not utilize it fully that time because of my overconfidence.

After my 6th attempt in Dec-2020, I was completely devastated. I was not able to figure out what was lacking in my prep. I thought to give up on GMAT. Luckily, while searching for GMAT debriefs I came across one of the egmat’s debrief with title "730 on 6th Attempt” by Vinayak. Had I not seen that 1 hour debrief, I would not have attempted GMAT again. After seeing the debrief, I realised that I need expert’s advice. So I reached out to egmat team for the first time for help.

The detailed ESR analysis and feedback by DJ- gave me a ray of hope. Without further delay, I enrolled for the course again and this time with a "BEGINNER'S MIND"

How egmat changed my entire study approach and utimately my verbal ability for my last attempt?

1. Verbal course content - "TO GET THE CONCEPTS CORRECT AND MITIGATE APPLICATION GAPS"

Example-

a) SC- Meaning based approach improved my SC accuracy and the timing to solve question was reduced.
Egmat verbal expert Shraddha'S SC videos are just great!! It gave me right approach for SC. I always used to listen her in-detail analysis of SC Questions.

b) CR- I never knew before that mastering assumption type question is key to other kinds of CR questions(Evaluate/Strenghten/Weaken)
Prethink - helped me to comprehend and visualise the passage clearly
C) RC- Para summary and linking the para contents.
Egmat verbal expert Harshavardhan's video solutions were very helpful for me to correct my approach for CR/RC questions and for prethinking.

2. Scholaranium and Questions forum- "TO GAUGE PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSE WEAK AREAS"

There are three kinds of quiz : Cementing, Custom and Ability quiz.
I used cementing quiz to strengthen the topics i was weak at. Custom quiz - for when I wanted to do mixed set of question types.

Scholaranium 2.0 also had great features like statistics of my performance. For instance- after each quiz I got a review list( with comparsion between recommended and actual time u took).It was much easier to pick the questions for review.

The main advantages of practising questions in Scholaranium were :I got detailed solutions and systematic approach from egmat-experts to solve each question; if i had doubts i used to go through all the past queries from different students ; Many a times i had posted my own queries and the replies from Verbal experts-Harshavardhan/Bikramjit/Stacey/Aarthi were to the point and cleared my concepts.

3. Egmat strategy support team - " TO SEEK IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND FEEDBACK"

At one point i felt even after completing the intense verbal course my scores in scholarnium were not up to the mark.So,I reached out to the egmat support team for help.

The most important advice I got was from Archit(Egmat strategy team member) . I am just copying his words as is “Identify Root cause –Strategically review the last 30 questions you have d one in CR(any quiz taken). This is non-negotiable. Create an error log, make notes and revise both."
I started to see patterns in my mistakes. Slowly, I was able to see that I was making similar kind of mistakes repeteadly. I followed the same approach for all verbal and quant sub-sections.For a particular section/subsection, I revised all my previous error logs (even 4 months old error logs) before my next study session/quiz . My main aim during the process was “NOT TO REPEAT ANY MISTAKE”. I followed this method deligently and it worked like magic for me :)

I strategically reviewed two types of questions as suggested by Nava and Archit(Egmat strategy team members)

i)Incorrect ones - What was the root cause that I made this mistake
ii)Correct questions solved in more than recommended time(TAKT time) - Why did I take more time? Was it the comprehension issue? Or Options visualisation issue? or something else

4. Egmat Bookmark and Notes features - " TO REVISE FREQUENTLY"

5. Egmat Webinars - "TO LISTEN FROM EGMAT EXPERTS, GET A GROUP STUDY FEELING AND KEEP THE MOMENTUM OF STUDY"
The weekly webinars by egmat team are just a great initiative to engage students. Through those webinars i got more insights about certain concepts and strategies.

6. Last Week unexpected help from egmat- just 1 week before my GMAT date. They invited me for the egmat milestone program, and even though only 1 week was left for my exam I enrolled for it ( because this time I wanted all the help I can get). Atreya Roy was my mentor. He analysed my last mock and provided me 1 week improvement plan and sequence of execution for topics to study. This last minute help gave a extra confidence for the actual GMAT day.

I would not have achieved 700+ without egmat’s extended support.

I have learnt that it's important to seek help and learn from other’s mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

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E-GMAT provides courses which provide crystal clear clarity on what the GMAT exam entails and what approach should adopted to excel in the exam. The main USP of the course structure is its focus on meaning based approach and learning from the problems solved. In the GMAT preparation, probably the most vital step is hard work in the right direction, and for me E-GMAT was that partner for me.

I will strongly recommend this course for everyone planning to give the GMAT.

I will also like to give a special mention to Archit, he was there guiding me throughout and played a significant role in my score improvement of 90 points.

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E-GMAT has helped me with prep work very well. After a couple months of prep I had plateaued at a score of 680-690. Although I was scoring well on Quants, Verbal was a major issue. I was struggling to cross 32-34 range. I had borrowed some other prep work and practiced OG questions but nothing seemed to help. I came across E-GMAT and then thought of taking the 1 week trial. I liked the feedback points that they give and try to drill the solution method in every module that you do. I personally saw a lot of benefit with the structured approach that E-GMAT teaches.
The analysis on which topics to target and the AI based study plan were good starting points.
I had only taken the coursework for about 4 weeks before focusing on the Mock tests, and was not able to use the quant prep as much. However, I would surely suggest this course if you are looking for 90+ percentile scores on verbal at the very least.
Overall, if you are struggling to target the right weakness, I would strongly suggest E-GMAT.

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So My journey with GMAT started in Feb when I bought the E-Gmat subscription as suggested by a friend. It took me around 3-4 months to give my first attempt on GMAT and score a 720 (V38 Q50). I had given one official GMATPrep Mock before starting my preparation and scored a 670 (V31Q49). So that shall give you an idea where I was before beginning my attempt. I used only the E-Gmat course and Official Guides for my preparation. Apart from these 2 I used to practice GMATClub practice question banks occasionally as well but I seriously do not think they helped me much.

I will talk about how the course helped me:

SC: This was my weakest area in verbal, but I think E-Gmat's course is as fundamental as one needs to build his/her grammatical concepts. The way the course starts from the most basic blocks and build on most complicated concepts like modifiers is great. I do not think one needs to supplement this course with anything else. Once you have learnt all the fundamentals from this course, what is left is just how well you apply those fundamentals. There again E-GMAT does a great job in laying out a process for you to follow. Meaning is super important in GMAT SC and I have learned this the hard way. If you can develop a knack of comprehending the intending meaning early on, as the E-Gmat course teaches, applying grammatical concepts will become way easier. I suggest taking this aspect super seriously from the first sentence you read in your prep. Once you have built a habit of rushing through the meaning analysis part, it is very tough to train your mind to go the other way round. I still struggle with that just because I was complacent about this aspect in the beginning.

The questions scholoranium provides for SC encompasses all fundamental concepts of grammar application. If you do all of them and get 100% learning from their explanations, you will rarely learn anything new on SC. The only area of improvement I see here is that meaning based or rather hard meaning based questions in E-GMAT are a little less and those get tested heavily in GMAT.

CR: The CR course again is super conceptual. The way the course covers each question type is great and can help anyone learn from the scratch. The best take away from E-GMAT's CR course was Pre-Thinking. Though the term gets used in the GMAT world like a scientific concept, but it is not. It is a super elegant/simple way of solving CR problems. It is because of this simplicity that many students just ignore its importance (like me). I learnt from E-GMAT how important it is to read the question stem slowly and carefully and plan your line of attack. The E-Gmat course stresses on reading the stimulus as thoroughly as possible and I do not think there is any better advice possible for CR questions. I still fail on questions but only when I rush through the stimulus or through prethinking. Pre-Thinking becomes natural after a while, so you may need a little patience there. I don't think one needs to anticipate an answer in prethinking, planning a line of attack is just fine. Once you are sure about your line of attack, irrelevant options/ trap options would be visible to you. Thanks to this approach, by the end of my Prep CR had been my strongest suit.

RC: Even though I considered SC my weakest area, it turned out that RC was as weak as SC for me. Somewhere it still is weak. I was neither a voracious nor a fast reader. All my life I had read just simple texts. Even the books I used to read before GMAT Prep were mostly non fiction and had very simplistic language. E-GMAT course again offered the best advice of reading slowly upfront and understanding the passage thoroughly before going to questions. You may find other techniques such as reading passages in 2.5- 3 mins with 70% understanding and then rereading information each question asks but I strongly feel those strategies work only for people who already are good readers, who would anyways do good on RC. I tried all the approaches and worked super hard on RCs but the only approach that worked for me was one suggested by E-GMAT: Read the passage thoroughly in 4+ mins and then go to questions.

Quant: Overall the course teaches even the most fundamental things, I was already at 49 when I started quant so I kind of skimmed through the course but the way it has been made, it is good to raise quant score from any level. I believe the course fundamentals are explained in as simple ways as possible but the questions are tricky and lengthy. If speed is your problem on quant, E-GMAT can help as it throws super lengthy calculations at you at times. Even the explanations given by E-GMAT usually involved the theoretic approach of solving mathematics. This is a place where I feel E-GMAT Quant can do better. I find it doesn't teach you many smart ways of getting to the solution quickly.

Scholoranium: This is a great tool and by far the best I have seen so far in GMAT Prep. It gives you insights at so many levels that tracking your progress becomes super easy. It can even tell you what your accuracies are in each subsection such as Modifiers, Verbs etc. This just makes your prep more focussed. At last, the best value add of scholoranium is its explanations of each and every question. Even if you have a doubt you can just raise it to experts and they will answer that in a day. In most of the cases you will find most of your queries have already been answered in the doubts forum as some other student would have already raised it. Takt Time (and my struggles with it) was the most useful metric for me during my whole Prep.

Mentorship from DJ: For me, this was the most valuable part of the course. I was constantly in touch with DJ (E-GMAT's mentorship team member) over emails and I think this was the most valuable addition to my prep Yes course material and all helps but a guide there to help you charter out your whole path is of worth unexplainable. By the end, I had more than 100 emails in my email conversation with DJ. When to attempt questions, how to analyze a quiz, when to do revisions, when to give and not give mocks, how to track your progress are only a few of the aspects DJ helped me address. I never used to bother about revisions but I think that is one thing DJ used to stress a lot on and it does wonders many people like me did not expect.
I think at the end of the day you have to back your plan with data and given the sheer amount of data mentors on an E-GMAT team would have, they can clearly tell you what generally works and what doesn't. I always made it a point to validate my plans with DJ and that was very helpful.

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I had given my first attempt and even after scoring 700 in the mocks, I got a 610 on the actual exam.I wrote a mail to e-gmat support and DJ then started mentoring me through the process. He analysed my ECR report and gave me a to-do list. Once I used to complete it, he used to give me the next steps and this is how it progressed.
My earlier score was Q47 and V28. So my major weak point was verbal and thats what he made me target. The SC and CR files are especially helpful. They made the answer analysis almost automatic.
The CR prethinking files help you in understanding how the argument needs to be analysed.
The quant files take you from the basics to the advanced files and help in revision too.
Now, I am coming to the part which helped me the most. The scholaranium. The ability and cementing quizzes give you a correct estimate of your current ability in each topic.And later one can practice the custom quizzes. The scholaranium mocks give you the most accurate score that you might get in the actual exam with deviation of 10-20 points.
I used to also attend their sessions on youtube also which were very helpful.
Now with the Scholaranium 2.0, its just going to become more helpful.

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I was referred to e-gmat by a friend who himself scored a 750 with e-gmat and it was indeed a great choice. The course package has everything one needs - detailed and simple video lectures to practice sets and mocks. I want to point out the amazing course structure which focuses on testing and improving yourself at every step. The whole verbal section is methodically divided into sub-sections with intro quiz to know your understanding, followed by detailed videos on concepts and it ends with a practice set to master your learning. The Scholaranium is perfectly designed to cater to one's needs as it is highly customizable to practice on sections one wants to focus on. The Sigma x mocks are the final step. They give a great experience on what to expect on exam day. But more importantly the detailed analysis is just amazing. it's everything one needs to understand what's not working and fix those points before exam.

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After preparing randomly for a couple of months, I decided that it was time to get organised. That is when I cam across e-GMAT and the fact that they are considered to be the best at Verbal. I had a call with Vaibhav from e-GMAT who detailed me about the benefits that the GMAT Online course had to offer.

The verbal course overall is structured in an amazing way starting all the way from Master Comprehension. The detail with which the Sentence Correction concepts are explained is unparalleled. The Pre-thinking approach in CR just changes the game altogether. Before understanding the approach, I used to have a lot of difficulty, but going through the CR course made it probably my strongest suit in Verbal. As for RC, I always used to have trouble staying concentrated throughout the passage, but the reading strategies helped immeasurably.

It was not just the quality of the course that was amazing, but the guidance and strategy by DJ were also equally great. He himself used to spend time analyzing my errors and devising a strategy for the future. He even helped outside the course by providing my resources to help me concentrate. Ever since I completed the course once, he helped every step of the way.

I believe one of the biggest differentiating factors is the new Scholaranium 2.0. The detail down to which it helps you identify weaknesses is incredibly helpful. Another thing that helped me a lot were the strategic review guides. They helped pin-point the type of error I was making and what was the ideal corrective action for that error type.

The accuracy of the Sigma-X mocks was probably another feature that not many other course providers can manage.

All in all, anyone who is looking to either structure their preparation, I would recommend e-GMAT's GMAT online hands-down any day.

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After one month of studying with one of the most traditional programs, I was feeling that my preparation for the GMAT was taking me nowhere. I had taken 3 mocks and my score in the last 2 was flat. In spite of putting in the required hours to study, I felt that I lacked a solid strategy to help me identify and improve my weaknesses. At this point, I came across the E-Gmat platform in Google and decided to give a try to the free materials. I liked them so much, that I immediately scheduled a call with one of the experts and he gave me the confidence that E-Gmat was right for me... And he was absolutely right. Simply put: it was a total game changer, since it gave me a structured plan to follow, constant support as I followed that plan, and the most awesome testing and analytics tools to train and track progress.

1. The process

The team at E-Gmat has come up with a very structured plan in three stages that really helps you build solid foundations to tackle every single question and then practice, cement your knowledge and improve your ability to answer hard questions. The plan is really easy to follow and you don't have to invent the wheel: they guide you step by step so that you always know what comes next and can track your progress along the way. You just have to put in the hours and a learning attitude and you will certainly improve in every area that is testen in the GMAT.

2. The constant support

The E-Gmat team is very responsive via email. I reached out to them several times during the process and always received an answer within hours. I also loved that the answers they gave me were always customized: they took the time to review my progress on the platform, identify very specific opportunities for improvement and give me a detailed action plan. Most of the time, the answers also included explanatory videos that helped clarify certain things. They really make you feel like you are not alone on the process and they've got you covered. Therefore, the day I actually took the test, I felt confident about my preparation process. I still remember my first conversation with Dhruv and the confidence I felt that my target GMAT score was within my reach. Now that I actually took the test, I am super thankfull to him, DJ, Archit and the rest of the team for making me feel supported during my GMAT prep time.

3. The tools

One of the most amazing features of E-Gmat is their testing and practice platform called Scholaranium. It is a very structured platform where you can find lots of practice questions of all topics and difficulty level. But they not only give you questions, they give you a tool to build your own custom quizzes according to your needs and then give you comprehensive analytics to evaluate your performance and identify plans for improvement. After each quiz, they help you identify the set of questions that require a strategic review, and they teach you a review technique so that you actually learn from your mistakes and do better next time. Moreover, in Sholaranium you can keep track of your progress over time not only in accuracy but also in timing matters. That way you can easily identify your strengths and weakneses. Additionally, E-Gmat also gives you access to 5 mock tests with very detailed results analysis and step by step explanations for every question. The tests are so realistic that when I took the real GMAT, I felt my score was really predictable, according to what I had seen on the E-Gmat platform.

All in all, E-Gmat was a really good fit for me and helped me get one step closer to my goal of getting an MBA from a top university. I would totally recommend it to anyone looking to build a solid foundation in Quant and Verbal to take the GMAT full of confidence.

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I took help of e-GMAT after scoring 620 in my first attempt.

I tried e-GMAT's 7-day free session and realized that rather than just focusing on tips and tricks e-GMAT's methodology was based on learning the basics of Verbal first and then moving on. This helped me a lot during my second attempt as I was able to focus on the meaning and structure of the sentence that helped me through my Sentence Correction part. Similarly the Quant 2.0 asses s your current level and then recommends you how to proceed further.

The discussion forums had nearly all my doubts answered and I never even needed to contact any expert for help except once.

Next the Scholaranium really improved my accuracy ,helped me analyze my weak areas and cemented my core concepts. It also helps you to gauge your progress in real time and this could be of great help if you have less time.

I would highly recommend e-GMAT for all the students who are preparing for GMAT. Their customized study plans based on my target score, ESR analysis, time left and an in-depth analysis of my mocks helped me a lot and would help you too.

Kudos to e-gmat team!

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I started my GMAT journey back in 2019 and I joined an offline course (deliberately not mentioning the name) however, I did not felt confident at all specially in Verbal section. I tried few mocks and I observed huge variations in scores. I realised this is probably because I did not had any strategy in mind before attempting the exam and in Verbal section I was spending too much time in CR and RC section.

I postponed my plan as I had to travel to UK for work. I came back in 2020 and I decided to start my preparations afresh. I started looking for the best online courses and everywhere I could see just one name "e-GMAT". I decided to try it out first using the free trial and I really liked the intuitive yet simple structure of the course. I then decided to subscribe for the GMAT online course and not just Verbal as although my Quant concepts were clear, I did not had a good strategy in mind. I was scoring good 700+ in official mocks and e-GMAT mocks but I got nervous on test day in August 2020 and performed badly scoring a 610. I reached out to e-GMAT team to understand what went wrong and Archit helped me with the strategy for next attempt. He sent a detailed plan on how to use Scholaranium to cement my concepts and improve my accuracy. I also watched many youtube videos to prepare a test strategy and tested it in my mocks.
Today, I feel so happy to take that right decision at the right time as I converted both my dream colleges (IIMA and ISB).

What I found most helpful in the course was:

1) SC - Meaning based approach is something that can make your life way easier. I was too afraid in the beginning because I never felt confident with grammar rules no matter how much I revised and practiced them. E-gmat taught me that it is okay to not be 100% versed with all the rules (though there is no harm). What you need most for GMAT SC is logic and understand the meaning behind the sentence. With grammar rules you may be able to eliminate 3 out 5 options but the right answer will test you on meaning.

2) CR – I feel pre-thinking is key to all CR questions in GMAT and this is what e-GMAT CR course was focused on . I really liked how the course does not confuse you with so many types of CR questions that are there in GMAT but instead teaches you basics and organically makes you capable to solve all types of questions with same approach at the end.

3) RC – The best thing about RC course was writing down a short summary while reading the passage. With enough practice it doesn’t take much time and in fact overall I used to spend just 5 minutes at the end for long passage set.

4) Quant – I improved my accuracy a lot using Scholaranium. The team provides different target percent that one should achieve in the practice before moving to next practice set. This helped me a lot in cementing my concepts.

I would highly recommend the e-GMAT course to all GMAT aspirants regardless whether you are starting afresh or have some experience with the exam. The course totally changes your perspective towards the exam. Also, the team is highly responsive I used to get all my doubts clear in the portal almost the same day itself. If you are facing any other challenges (apart from concepts/problems) even then you can reach out to the team and I am sure they will have some solution.

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