I believe the interactive module structure of e-gmat course is the best way to test prior knowledge, familiarise oneself with the course contents, and practise extensively. As many other reviews already mention, the verbal course was very easy to follow and has helped me a lot in my preparation. Supplementing the prep with scholaranium question bank was sufficient practice to ace the mock tests. Although I had used various mock test modules, the primary source of preparation has been e-gmat. I advise anyone who is just getting started to begin the preparation with e-gmat and test the skills on as many decent mock tests as possible.

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I started my GMAT journey in 2018. I did self-study for three weeks and went for the test just before Christmas in 2018. Scored 630 (Q44, V32). Disappointed, but with a full-time finance job that required me to work over 65 hours per week, I decided to divert my attention back to work. I have paused my MBA plan until early this year. I started self-prep again in mid-Jan. I tried out GMAT official mocks after studying for a month and scored 700 in both attempts. Not convinced by my mock scores, especially my inconsistent performance in the verbal section, I decided to sign up for a course specialized in verbal. The reviews on gmatclub for e-GMAT gave me a lot of confidence. Therefore, I decided to sign up for the full course, not only for verbal.

*Verbal Section*
SC: great for building fundamentals, but the course is very lengthy. The meaning-based approach, unfortunately, does not always work in the actual test. I would strongly advise against relying solely on e-GMAT to prepare for verbal. The sentence structures of some of the SC questions created by them are also quite bizarre. It is easy to see that the non-native speakers wrote those sentences.
CR: Sorry to be blunt, but the lectures created by them are quite useless. Using their approach, I guarantee most would not be able to solve the questions within 2.5 minutes. Their explanations are way too long. For those official questions, I could understand the official explanations better than their lengthy solutions.
RC: Ancient materials. Not worth the time.

*Quant*
Overall: only for building fundamentals. If you are below Q40, you can use that to learn the concepts then utilize their quizzes to identify weak areas. Once you hit Q45 or above in mock, DO NOT rely solely on e-GMAT anymore. I realized a big mistake I made was not checking out other test prep companies' courses. I have almost completed all e-GMAT quant quizzes before my official tests. When I signed up for a trial of another test prep company lately, I found out many of the concepts were not taught on e-GMAT. I was only able to encounter those concepts in one or two of those e-GMAT quizzes.

Quant Scholaranium: A great portal to identify weak areas. Really accurate because it correctly identified my weakest spot being number properties - my accuracy on number properties was only 50%; In contrast, the rest were all 85-100% in the M-H level questions in my official GMAT test. But their questions are unnecessarily long. When I did my official GMAT test recently, none of the items are THAT LONG. Even for word problems! The average time I spent on solving official quant questions are less than 1.5 minute, but e-GMAT questions could take up to 3 -4 minutes to solve! I voiced my frustration to my e-GMAT coach who followed up with my weekly progress. He asked me to give him some examples of questions that required longer than 2.5 minutes to solve. I could give him a whole list of 50+ questions honestly. But I gave him three examples. He said he would show me how to solve in 2 minutes - but guess what - he did not follow up on that! I m 100% sure no one can do that. I attempted the questions again a few times following their approach - I could even remember the approach by heart - and I still could not solve in 2 minutes. And the statistics of students who had solved these questions correctly also showed that they had to spend over 3 minutes! I am so upset by the time wasted on solving problems that do not represent the actual styles of GMAT questions.

In summary, I utterly regret wasting time on this course. I might have been able to progress faster by taking the courses of other test prep companies. As someone who started with 700 in official mock, I feel incredibly frustrated with the zero improvements after having spent MORE THAN four months on this. The zoom calls with the coach were pointless, too - all I get is some simple advice that I can give it to myself, like reading the economists/ keeping track of time at regular intervals. I m not someone starting at 500ish. And I had been doing those things even before signing on E-GMAT.

What stunned me the most is I scored 710, and 740 in the official mocks before my official test but ended up with 640 (in test center) then 660 (online GMAT).

I never slacked off on any day despite my demanding job- I kept error logs, reviewed mistakes kept on practicing, and followed their advice.

With such an unfortunate result after four months of dedicated work, I could only pin down to the following problems with e-GMAT:
1) not all essential quant concepts are covered in their "concept files"/ "practice files"/ "application files"
2) CR techniques completely not applicable in actual tests
3) SC meaningful approach does not always work
4) Lectures are only useful for those starting with 500-650 in official mocks. Cannot help breakthrough 700 barrier, unless someone is already proficient in quant (scoring Q50-51) and only need to polish verbal a bit.

I m sure e-GMAT might work for some, but if you are short on time, e-GMAT is not the course for you to boost the score from 600 sth to 700 or above in 1-3 months. And DO NOT rely on it to learn all concepts. Take its SC/ CR approach with a grain of salt. I have learned from pain.

I never really want to write such a review - but I find it necessary to tell my story. These four months were incredibly crucial to me, and the time wasted could have significant repercussions on my MBA applications.

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Indian GEM here.
Overall, egmat is a very good product for the price point.
Verbal content ( i.e teaching methodology/ solution approach) is top-notch and helps anyone with average English excel in the Verbal section. Sharaddha (Verbal Expert) is just awesome for the fact that she answers all your queries succinctly.
Quants has good content (I didn't extensively use the video lessons).
The Scholaranium (question bank) is a must have. It helps one master the Quants section (if you practice all questions at least twice!).
Questions are GMAT quality.
Sigma-X (Mocks) truly reveals once potential.
The last week support/ strategy by Dhananjay helped pierce the 700 barrier!

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Whether you're starting to get into GMAT prep or you've been at it for a while, you might be struggling with figuring out which learning path to follow, how to improve your score in less time or how to prevent repeating mistakes.

After a year of trying to prepare for the GMAT aimlessly, I was pretty frustrated with all the material out there. Why wasn't there anything that took me from point A to point B without so many detours in the middle?

I found out about e-GMAT on gmatclub, and I bought the GMAT Online (Quant + Verbal) course.

I wasn't expecting much. My first GMAT mock score was 560, so I'd more or less accepted that I wasn't made for standardised tests.

E-gmat has a feature that lets you make a study plan, so I kind of let the software take the reins and tell me what to do.

It's a game changer. There's finally a map you can use to navigate GMAT prep.

The GMAT journey isn't easy, no matter what test prep company you choose, but after trying so many resources, I found that e-gmat was the best at removing vagueness around the preparation process.

Seriously, if you have a phobia of standardised tests like me, e-gmat is great at guiding you.

If you look at questions in the OG and then you look at the solution and you think, "Well, how am I supposed to know that I have to use this approach?" then take e-gmat's free trial. I'm pretty sure you'll be hooked.

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For my first attempt, I used Manhattan’s books (mainly verbal) for the theory part and Original Guide for practicing questions. I wrote several mocks in two months of preparation and my score ranged from 650 to 700. I wrote my GMAT and was deeply shocked to get a 600 Q47, V25.

I could clearly see verbal was my weak link. I checked reviews of different study materials on gmatclub and decided to go for e-gmat.

I started with SC, the concept files were detailed and focused from the basics. I found the e-gmat’s 3-step process to be very useful for me, in terms of improving my timing and accuracy. Earlier, I used to hover over question stem and answer options multiple times, taking close to 2 minutes to answer a question. Now, I was able to do a sentence correction question in under 1 and a half minutes. Those precious minutes I saved on SC questions, I was able to dedicate to RC section and improve my accuracy.

CR – the section has detailed concepts on identifying Premise, Conclusion, etc. It is a must-do, leaves no scope for confusion while attempting questions. I was able to improve my performance from the 45th percentile to the 94th percentile.

Overall, the course turned out to be very useful to me. I highly recommend it to someone who is facing challenges with the basics.

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Hi, my name is Gary. I am 25 years old and I have 3 years working experience in a retail company in Indonesia as a Business Analyst. First time I studied GMAT was in September 2019. I studied hard by myself through free resources for 4 months until I took my first GMAT test in December 2019, scoring 550 (Q42,V24). This score was not enough for me to apply to any business schools I want. After that, I studied for TOEFL and got a good score in January 2020. In February 2020, I decided to deal with GMAT again but with a different strategy. I searched for the best online preparation platform in the internet and I chose e-gmat and here was the beginning of my journey.

The most astonishing part of e-gmat platform was the step-by-step approach strategy to finish a question. I realized that the failure of my previous test was due to lack of strategical approach to answer the questions. I only used brute force and pure logical thinking to answer each question. GMAT will give you a hard time if you just using pure logic to answer the questions. Yes it is true that what is tested in GMAT is our logic, but with a right method, we can answer many more questions with much higher accuracy. The strategies taught by e-gmat was easy to understand and applicable in each question, and was served in an interactive videos. We just need to simply follow the sequences given my e-gmat. The team has already designed the courses in the best way a student can learn.

Another highlight features of e-gmat was the Scholaranium, Mock Test, and Course Correction. The Scholaranium helps the students to cement the methods learned, thus we can practice our newly learned process in this bank of questions. We can track our progress, determine our strong and weak areas, and review each questions with complete explanations. After we finish practicing in Scholaranium, we can move to Mock Test, a simulation of the real GMAT Test. In this part, we can get the summary of our performances, which is very important for our evaluation and track record to reach the target score. Lastly, the free course correction by Mr. Deepak was so beneficial for me. He helped me to analyze my Mock Test, determined my weak areas, and gave me the solutions step by step for me to follow.

Actually I want to take GMAT test in late April, but because of Covid-19 situation, I took GMAT on June. I could not take Online GMAT because of technical issues (failed twice). After several months grinding, I finally took my GMAT Test on 10th June 2020 and guess what? I got 660 (Q48, V34)!!!

My weak area is surely Verbal part, and I spend a lot of time refining my Verbal skills in e-gmat. Surely e-gmat has a very great verbal section so that I can improve from V24 to V34. Finally, I want to give my biggest thanks for Mr. Deepak and the rest of e-gmat team because finally I reach my target score.
Good luck to all of you for the GMAT Test!

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Hi all,
Hope your preparations are going well!

I'll just get straight to the points about how e-GMAT helped me
1. The only problem I had was with verbal. I knew the basics of the language but didn't know the exact rules. Doing this course helped fill those knowledge gaps and make a foundation to work upon. This was important when I was down to 2-3 choices and I needed a concrete rule to decide the answer
2. For practice, I used to take pictures of the summary slides and the practice problem that I got wrong. I used to go through these pictures anytime I was free. While revising I used the remember where I went wrong. Since I have the habit of forgetting small rules and points, this practice style helped a lot.
3. Scholaranium really helped to gauge my levels of understanding of different sections. The easy/medium/hard selection for "cementing quiz" is a great way to do this.


4. Having a strong quant background, I didn't use the quant section, so I can't say anything about that. But judging from how well they've made the verbal section, I'd bet the quant section is awesome as well.
5. This might be irrelevant now given that GMAT online has allowed scratchpad - if you plan on using the whiteboard feature, I would advise practicing for at least a week. You can also use the whiteboard to cover the answers before you're done with your pre-thinking (e-GMAT).
6. GMAT online is not as scary as some people think. It went very smoothly. The comfort of the home gives an edge to the test taker. Be prepared for some glitches(in my case the exam window closed for 2-3 minutes before coming back on. NO, O DIDN'T LOSE ANY TIME. IT WAS RESUMED ON THE POINT THE WINDOW GOT CLOSED).
7. I wasn't able to take mock tests after completing the course due to time constraints (i finished my course 4 days before the exam. I used cementing quizzes to target my areas of weakness.) But I did use them 2 times before the course and they are pretty accurate. The analytics also help to understand where exactly is your weakness.

General advice-
a. try to complete the course learning at least 2 weeks before your test date. Give yourself 1 week to work on cementing quizzes then another week for the mocks.
b. BE CONSISTENT. e-GMAT provides a perfect tool for creating a plan for your target score. STICK TO THAT PLAN. If you are ahead of schedule go ahead and do some extra work. Better to have some extra time in the end. Keep in mind that while making the plan exclude the 2 weeks mentioned in the last point for self-testing.

Finally, I would say that GMAT is hard when you don't approach it with a proper strategy. With proper knowledge and practice, good scores are easily achievable.

Good luck with your upcoming exams!
I hope you all achieve high scores!!

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I decided to take GMAT in December 2019 and took a few mocks to gauge my initial level. I scored about 730-740 in most of these but wasn’t really sure about my strengths and weaknesses. Targeting a 750+, I researched about GMAT prep and signed up for e-GMAT. I didn’t use a lot of their course material so I would keep my review limited to their Exam Prep : Scholaranium and list out some tips to use its complete potential.

During the initial days, I had this strong urge to take a lot of practice quizzes (I hear it’s pretty common). However, Payal’s pre-recorded videos were very helpful in planning my schedule. She has created a set of videos which will cater to test takers at different levels of preparedness. And are quite insightful, if one takes the time to review them.

Now about Scholaranium : It essentially is a cluster of questions and tests meant to seal concepts and give a ‘GMAT-like’ experience. It’s important to use the tool while referring to Payal’s videos otherwise one wouldn’t get much out of the preparation. There are ample amount of questions of all possible difficulty levels and e-GMAT helps you set target score thresholds for each. This helps bring about a smooth progress while you seal your 1) concepts and 2) test taking strategy.

Finally, about my actual GMAT experience. In my first attempt I scored a 730 which was an improvement of 0 points from my first e-gmat mock. I would have settled for the score but figured I needed to up it a few notches. It was then that I met Rajat online and his two cents pushed me to re-take in 2 weeks and I ended up with a 760. Rajat has a good amount of experience in test prep and for once I trusted him and took a blind plunge with just about a week of refining my test taking strategy.

Overall, e-GMAT is a holistic support system for test takers if they follow the model with discipline. They have a responsive support group too that folks should leverage more to their benefit.

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I took egmatcourse in November 2019.
egmat paid special emphasis on my verbal ability, especially sentence correction and critical reasoning questions. they have me an insight into how to actually break down the problem and the importance of eliminating each answer option. further, scholoranium questions really helped me expose my self to trickier, out of the box questions that have really expanded my horizon. Further, it was extremely easy to look at detailed analysis, identify my improvement areas and work on solving problems specific to those areas of development. I also recommended 4 of my friends to subscribe to egmat and they were extremely happy as well.

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I took the e-gmat course twice since i was learning slowly.
In my first subscription i opted for Egmat Verbal. The SC portion was really superb. i went to ready each and every element & make a thorough note of the same. The concept quiz & practice quiz really helped solidify my learning. Adding to that the scholarium was as add on.
THe CR portion i found not that great. Frankly speaking, i would prefer CR Bible over Egmat CR, though for beginners the egmat Cr is good.
Quant section: i was already comfortable with this section, so when i received the full egmat subscription as a prize for Game of timers competition of gmat club, i practiced some quant questions as those were also good.

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