I started the course in June 2022 and had about two months left for my GMAT. I had to figure out a way to manage my preparation and to be consistent.
The way the course is structured is just superb. It help you understand the course to the most minute detail and the PACE feature also helps you time your prep. The analytics dashboard is a must have for any student and e-GMAT seems to have cracked the code. You will get a summary of your strengths and weaknesses from the dashboard along with tailored quizzes to help you level up.

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Initially, I was quite apprehensive to take any course for GMAT preparation as I was seeing all the questions and materials available on GMATClub. But when I started my preparation, I soon realized my preparation was going directionless and I was not able to track my progress properly. Sharing this problem with one of my friends, I was recommended to take the e-GMAT course.
I checked out the course and I started by giving the first Sigma-x-Mock. I secured a 650 score. Being a non-native speaker and not good at literature subject, I knew I will have a steep learning curve. I was confident that starting it would not be a great challenge. But later when I started the course slowly, I realized my gaps.
The e-GMAT course is very comprehensive and covers a very good depth when it comes to both sections. The approaches suggested are very convenient to apply, but we have to be patient enough to make the approaches intuitive to ourselves and keep trusting the process.
As suggested by e-GMAT, I divided my preparation into 3 stages- Concept, Cementing (working on application), and Mocks. During my first phase of preparation, I was not regular and didn’t revise well, this led to spending more time making my concept clear.
Meanwhile, I was hitting roadblocks during my preparation and was sometimes demotivated. I reached out to the strategy team at e-GMAT. I was assigned with Rashmi for help. She helped me to identify the problems and gave me action items to solve my problems. Sometimes the action items seemed to be too much, but it was very helpful to progress during my preparation. Rashmi also made sure that I give regular updates about my preparation which helped me be accountable to someone during my preparation.
After going through the course at e-GMAT and giving my first attempt, I feel I have more scope for improvement in my scores and now I know where exactly I need to work. Hence, with some support from e-GMAT, I am planning to give it one more shot at GMAT. 😊

Tips for the people who are starting their preparation
I want to keep the crisp.
1. You must be very discipline with your preparation. It is not much to ask for if you want to be in top 3 percentile throughout the world.
2. The basics should be on your fingertips.
3. Revise and reflect.
4. Have patience and trust the process.
Please take some time to let the above pointers to sink in 😊
Hope this helps, especially the one who are starting their GMAT preparation journey.
Thank You.

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There are a multitude of online test-prep options for GMAT, but what separates e-GMAT from the rest is not just the pedagogy, course content and the Scholaranium platform, but also the committed set of strategy mentors, who are always there to guide, mentor and motivate you.

Having read so many reviews and after watching so many success stories, I was sure there must be something that e-GMAT has and others don't. Initially, I was thrilled by the amount of granularity that the Scholaranium platform had to offer and I immediately signed up for the course. After signing-up, the first activity I did was to take a diagnostic mock to ascertain my level. I scored a 610 (Q48, V26) and it was a no brainer that Verbal needed a lot of work.
So, I got started with the Master Comprehension course - a module that is extremely important for all the subsections. This module consists of nuances such as strategic pause points, which come in handy when one is reading long sentences. Thereafter, I did the Sentence Correction module and I could see the change in my approach to the SC questions. The meaning-based approach is a game-changer. Of course, the grammar rules taught in the course are as important as the methodical approach to each SC question, but the meaning-based approach will take you from a 70 percentile to a 90+ percentile. And I can say that because it helped me score a 98 percentile on my actual attempt.

Just like the meaning-based approach in SC, the pre-thinking approach is a game-changer in CR, and I didn't notice it until I actually started using it. Of course, it requires a conscious effort initially, but once you get used to it, it starts happening sub-consciously and saves you a lot of time. Add to this approach, the specific step-by-step methodology required to tackle each question type, and this is true even for the RC module. With that being said, the essence of the course is in strengthening your basics and making you become process-oriented. If one can stick to the process and believe in the e-GMAT processes for all types of questions across sub-sections in the Verbal section, success on the GMAT is inevitable. And I was successful, when I took a mock after completing the Verbal score, scoring a V35 - a 9-point improvement in less than 2 months. Gradually I got better and even scored a V41 on one of my mocks later.

Coming to the Quant section, I must say that this is an underrated course. First of all, the PACE enabled course lets you go through only those concepts that you’re required to go through, thereby helping you save time. Then, the sheer clarity with which the concepts are presented, followed by the concept quizzes and practice quizzes strengthen your basics so well that one can easily tackle the sub-600 and 600-700 level questions on the GMAT. And for the 700-level questions, you have the Scholaranium platform. The types of questions on the Scholaranium platform help you get better at taking care of the traps that one usually gets into on the trickier questions on the actual GMAT. Add to that the granular level analysis provided by the Scholaranium data, which helps you identify your improvement areas. I truly believe that if you leverage the Quant course well, a Q50+ is definitely attainable. And I'm saying it because I hardly practiced 40% of the questions, due to time constraints.

Now coming to the most important factor that differentiates e-GMAT from many others and in fact, any other test-prep company is the support it offers to the students through its dedicated mentors. As a part of the mentorship, which is offered along with the course, one always gets a personalized approach and expert guidance throughout the preparation. I got a chance to work with three different mentors throughout my journey, and their contribution to my success is as much as the contribution of the course. When I started working with Harsha, as a part of the Last mile push program, I was faltering in the CR and RC sub-sections. To understand the exact issues with my approach, Harsha was generous enough to get on a 1:1 session with me, first for the CR sub-section and subsequently, for the RC section. And after these sessions, I was able to course correct the behavioral issues, performing well across subsections subsequently. Harsha is undoubtedly the best Verbal subject matter expert I’ve ever come across. Combine that with his ever motivating nature. There were times during my preparation when I felt dejected, but Harsha always made sure I was looking at things positively. His contribution to my score is significant. As is the contribution made by Kunal and Rida. After my previous failed attempt, in which I managed a 660, Kunal shared with me the improvement plans for all the subsections and he kept track of my performance, not just in terms of accuracy, but also in terms of time management. He constantly kept sharing feedback and corrective measure plans for the areas I was faltering in and made sure I was always on the right path. Towards the end, but the most important leg of my preparation, Rida helped me analyze and take lessons from my mock scores and even when I performed terribly on my last mock before the actual test, she motivated me by keeping me in the positive frame of mind and by sharing the last-minute-tips that proved to be extremely helpful.

The contributions by the mentors become especially important when I look back at my journey and realize how their suggestions to make some small tweaks to my behavior and approach made a significant impact on my final score. I still remember Harsha telling me to “enjoy reading the CR arguments / passages” while solving CR questions and that made a lot of difference to my subsequent accuracy in the subsection. Similarly, Kunal told me to not just focus on the accuracy but also the timing aspect. He made me work on the timing aspect and that helped me finish both my sections on the actual test in time. Likewise, Rida’s suggestion to breathe after every question helped me immensely on the test day, especially considering the fact that I’m an anxious test-taker.

To sum it up, I’ve no second thoughts in claiming that if you stick to the e-GMAT process and do everything diligently, there cannot be a better option for your GMAT prep. Thank you, e-GMAT!

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I started my preparation for GMAT in June 2021 when I had taken some other classes and gave my first attempt of GMAT, scoring a 650 (Q45 and V34). I knew that I had certain conceptual gaps and felt the lack of application skills required to solve questions in the most efficient manner in a timed environment. I took a break from GMAT and started preparing again in May 2022. This time around I tried the free lectures on the e-GMAT website and instantly loved how structured and comprehensive the course was.
Verbal Course: With e-GMAT’s Master Comprehension course and meaning based approach, I really understood the pause points, reading strategies, importance of contextual words, structure of sentences and most importantly visualisation of sentences which helped me to tackle the daunting long sentences, not only in Sentence Correction but also in Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. Critical reasoning being my weak point needed a lot of work. Earlier in my preparation I felt that I was falling for the trap answer choices. However, with a consistent application of the pre-thinking approach, I started identifying a pattern in most questions which improved my accuracy and ability to solve Medium-Hard level questions for Critical Reasoning.
Quants Course: Similarly in Quants, while I was fairly comfortable with the concepts, understanding and application of e-GMAT’s “Process skills” such as Infer, Translate, Simplify, Manipulate, Visualise, All cases, Apply constraints was a real game changer for me. Each module in the Quants course is comprehensive and gives an opportunity not only to learn the concepts and skills but also to apply them to similar questions immediately which boosts your confidence to tackle similar kind of 650-720 level questions. Further, e-GMAT’s PACE function, diagnostic quizzes and analytics tools shortened my preparation time significantly for topics I was confident about and ensured that I had a targeted focus on other topics.
Cementing and Error logs: Cementing of the modules, strategic review of each question and logging of the mistakes with corrective actions/ learnings in the error logs made me identify the areas which needed work and helped me bridge the gaps in my conceptual understanding and application skills. The error log entries along with made revision of the entire course really quick and ensured that I made a conscious effort not to repeat the same mistakes again. Further, the discussions available on the expert forum and the quick responses from the e-GMAT team helped in timely addressing my doubts, line of reasoning, understanding the trap answer choices, etc.
Mocks and strategy experts: The SigmaX mocks on e-GMAT are excellent in their questions and gives a detailed review of your performance. For instance, the time spent on each question and each block, whether it was adequate, in excess or too low and also how you progresses throughout the mock. I worked with Rida Shafeek, one of the mentors and strategy expert at e-GMAT. She analysed each of my mock in depth and gave me hyper-intensive feedback on the weak areas, ideal time to be spent in both the Verbal and Quant sections including the subsections and various blocks of the exam. Between each mock, she gave me test readiness packs to solve. I could see an improvement in my time management in each subsequent mock and scored a 690 in the first mock and a 750 on the last.
I scored a 730 on the test (Q50 and V39).
Overall, I had an amazing experience with e-GMAT and truly grateful for their efforts and their support in my preparation. I would recommend e-GMAT for their well-structured course and Scholaranium which has ample of good Hard level questions to solidify your concepts.
Happy Learning!

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I started my GMAT preparation with e-GMAT on March 2021. Prior to that, I bought the OG and practiced the questions directly, and subsequently gave an official mock test where I scored only 660. I felt that I lacked structural preparation, especially in Verbal section. I researched a few courses, and found that e-GMAT was more structured and more pocket friendly than other courses .


I started with quant section, which was pretty good. I went through the course in quick time, and cementing quizzes helped me brush up my concepts. The way to solve the DS questions was especially noteworthy, as I never had previously solved those questions with such ease.

Coming to verbal, the introductory module about the sentence comprehension was really helpful. The SC module was also excellent. A new meaning based approach was introduced, and the specific way to solve GMAT SC questions by dividing sentences into chunks was really helpful.
I thought that as I solved RC before in my school days, it would be a little easy to me.

However in CR, I was completely faltering in pre-thinking, and drawing inferences from each sentence of argument. Somehow, I went through the section with a half baked knowledge, and really could not understand the explanation given at that time. I somehow completed that section in haste and then went for test readiness at which point I contacted the e-GMAT customer care. They assigned Kanupriya Maam as my mentor. She designed a strategy plan, in which I failed to cross the benchmarks in CR and RC(specially in humanities and Finance passages). I was frustrated and solved a lot of questions from RC and CR, exhausting the Scholaranium Question Bank, but I could not cross the benchmark.

I reverted back to Kanupriya Maam, and she helped me to pre-think properly, and draw inferences, through a zoom video session. She also helped with RC passages which I was not solving properly by sending a prerecorded video where she showed how to draw inferences and summarize the passages in proper way. After that, she again devised a new plan, and I went through it, but this time I was failed badly in SC and RC. This time, I knew that I was going wrong in not maintaining the error log, the most important thing in learning process. Also the analytics showed that fixation on wrong questions took a lot of time. I felt that SC is my strong suit , and that I need to strengthen it more. So I started going back to previous incorrect questions in SC and took a manual error log (not recommended, instead should do with each cementing quiz as discussed in CQ video). I found the modules in which I made the most mistakes, and started working on them.

I started giving mocks there after with this strategy and the scores increased by 20 points each time, which increased my confidence. I saw that the remaining time counter really had a positive effect on me (due to not fixating on CR questions, and drawing the inferences correctly,). The Subsequently, I booked my GMAT date and went for the exam and achieved my target score.

Overall, the e-GMAT is a very wonderfully structured program, and the Scholaranium Analytics and the personalized mentors (Kanupriya Maam in my case) are some the best features it offers to which I am grateful. I surely recommend this for online GMAT preparation.

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I used e-gmat online course that included both verbal and quant. I must say, the verbal explanations are by far the best I have seen. I only rely on 2 sources for detailed verbal explanations- egmat shraddha and GMAT intensive. You won't find explanations using the words awkward at all because that is not a genuine reason to reject an answer. I love their approach although it's very long and tedious and one can master the timing using that approach only through a lot of practice. The team is fantastic. They helped me even after my access expired and that too within 24 hrs. Although I did not score well, that was totally my mistake ( I panicked so much) and my inability to utilize the course fully.

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My GMAT journey started in 2018, at that point of time I tried various platforms, such as Offline Coaching, GMAT Club question sets, Manhattan Test Series, e-GMAT etc., for my preparations. I spent around 6 months on preparations and gave 3 attempts back to back. Needless to mention my performance was dismal and I ended up with:
• 680 on Ist attempt
• 640 on IInd attempt (Score Cancelled)
• 630 on IIIrd attempt (Score Cancelled)
With this score I couldn’t get into any B School of my choice, and finally gave up on my MBA dream. Fast forward 5 yrs, I got married and am doing good in my career but couldn’t really stop thinking about MBA and the momentum it provides to the career.
So, I decided to write GMAT one last final time. Because of my previous experience, e-GMAT was my obvious first choice. I started my preps in Dec’21 and religiously followed the course structure recommended by them. During the course of preparation, I made following mistakes, which I realized later and ultimately had to spend more time, later, to correct them:
• Skipping the Master Comprehension part. Supposing that it is not required, since it is not evaluated on exam.
• Skipping the videos of certain topics that I believed I knew.
• Not viewing the solution video. Cause solution generally tend to be of 10+ minutes, so I either played the video on 2x speed or didn’t view it entirely.
• Being overconfident about Quant – supposing that I knew all the concepts and hence spent only 6-8 hrs in entire quant preparation.
• Not maintaining the error log properly.
• Focusing on attempting more and more no. of questions.
Because of these things I ultimately ended up re-doing the modules and ultimately adding few more months to the timeline.
What I liked about e-GMAT:
• Structured modules – Each section of e-GMAT is structured in such a way that you can actually implement the learnings of one in another. Moreover, the structuring of Practice Quiz & Application files helps to learn and implement the concepts in a much handy way.
• Analytics: Whether it be analytics around time spent in a particular module or around the Scholaranium, it helped in providing extremely helpful insights about the weaker sections. Moreover, the analysis of the time spent in a particular question helped me to drastically reduce the time taken in RC & CR. It also helped me identify the weaker areas in SC and do a targeted practice around the same.
• Error Log: I think it is the most undervalued thing in the whole preparation :D. At first, I was not maintaining it religiously but learnt its importance, the harder way. It is extremely important as in the last phases of your preparation, when you’ve attempted 100+ questions, it is very important to understand and not repeat your mistakes. The key is not to practice more and more questions, but to learn and not repeat the same mistake.
• Support from e-GMAT experts: As a student when you’ve been preparing for 6+ months, one tends to lose patience, overlook the obvious signs of un-preparedness, and schedule an appointment in a hurry. The same happened with me. After 2 sigma mock tests, I was like I should take a date for next week.
Fortunately for me, all through my journey I had been actively writing to the support team and seeking their suggestion. In the end when I was restless and impatient to schedule an appointment, it was Support team who analyzed my performance and helped me identify the areas that needed more practice and improvement. Though the exercise took me 1 more months but it helped me be more confident in Verbal and Quant.

Many of us feel shy to reach out to Support team, thinking that they might not respond or may take long to reply. But believe me, always reach out to people, seek their support, and make them a part of your journey. People do respond. And the same was true for e-GMAT support team also.


Lastly I would like to add that GMAT is a game of patience. Plz keep your mind cool and don’t let the monotony or self-inflicted deadlines make you go in a hurry.

May the force be with you, All the best 

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Prior to e-GMAT, I had no other strategy besides continuously working on questions, believing that by working on many different problems, I will cover all the question types that I might encounter during the exam. Also, I was not structured in my study approach, often jumping from one topic / section to another without fully grasping the techniques required to excel in the test, especially in the verbal section. Come test day, it was not a surprise that I only managed score a V34 in the test, with my total score amounting to a 710 (Q50, V34, IR 7, AWA 6.0), even after 2+ months of preparation.
I actually stumbled upon the e-GMAT course 3 days prior to my 710 attempt. When going through the free version of the platform, I thought that the materials were very succinct and informative (essentially a one-stop shop for everything GMAT), with Scholaranium, in particular, serving as the perfect companion to ensure I put into practice what I have learn from the platform. So, upon receiving my results, it was a no brainer for me to immediately sign up for the full version e-GMAT as I wish to take my next attempt exactly a month later.
With the help of the e-GMAT platform, I was able to be more focus and structured in my preparation especially in my weaker areas in the verbal section. The lessons I learned during my preparation are as listed below:
SC
- Understanding the key message the author is trying to convey is utmost important. It is the essence of the sentence.
- Meaning > Grammar. The are times where sentences are grammatically correct but conveys a different meaning to the original sentence.
- Often, grammar errors can be identified using logic. Equipped with the meaning-based approach and a strong arsenal of grammatical knowledge, the wrong answers can frequently be viewed as illogical.
CR
- Pre-thinking the answers for yourself goes a long way in not only building your ability to solve higher difficulty questions, but also your ability to do so within a short amount of time.
- Identifying the purpose of each sentence within the argument will help in ensuring you do not deviate from the main focus of the argument.
- Refrain from looking at the answer choices first for you will be immediately attached to it, stifling your ability to pre-think effectively.
RC
- Be engaged while reading the passage. There is a reason the section is called “Reading Comprehension” and not just “Reading”.
- Take short notes while reading to identify the message behind each paragraph. It will help in solving questions relatively quickly, especially for questions that require one to make an inference.
Equipped with knowledge and lessons above, I was able to improve my score to a 740. (Q49, V41, IR 8, AWA 6.0)

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e-GMAT is one of the best things that could have happened to me during my GMAT journey. I started looking for different courses backing August last year and then I came across the e-GMAT platform. I saw videos and testimonies of different students who were not good at verbal or even some specific sections of verbal and how e-GMAT's content and the people at e-GMAT helped them acheieve the score they wanted.
e-GMAT has the highest success rate of all the courses that I have come across and they update their content to make sure they are relevant and keep helping more and more students acheive the 700+ score.
For me personally, I started with a Mock score of 610 and verbal was very weak back then since I was already at Q49 in my first mock. e-GMAT has specific and detailed videos for each sections of verbal and that helped me understand the process that needs to be followed to achieve a great score in verbal. After my first attempt (where I scored a 650), I was very demotivated but people at e-GMAT were right there besides me ready to help me to get that 700+ score and help me achieve my target of 750. Rajat (CEO of e-GMAT) himself send me a video the next day after my first attempt to tell me what could be the issues in my process and what I am missing. In the next 40 days, I followed that process dilligently and got the results. Even in the last 2 weeks, Harsha (one of the e-GMAT experts) kept in touch with me to make sure I select the right date for my GMAT and I am completely ready for it.
Honestly, anyone thinking of GMAT should definitely consider e-GMAT and I assure you that if you follow their process and methods dilligently, you will see the desired results.

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I started GMAT prep in 2020 during the first covid lockdown. I tried all my ways to improve my concepts. I tried every online free source available but could not improve myself for one long year. After a year of self-study, I attempted for GMAT and scored a 600. I was shocked to see my score and decided to give a break to myself. After that, I started looking out for online programs for the GMAT. I listened to all the webinars and checked all the reviews. I found that while the other options that I explored were more focused on providing short-cuts and so-called smart tricks to ace the GMAT, e-Gmat focussed on mastering concepts and processes, an approach that appealed to me.

How did e-GMAT help me?

1. The verbal course of e-GMAT is the best in class. It starts with Master Comprehension which helps us understand how to comprehend any sentence or problem in Verbal as well as Quant. Moreover, the meaning-based approach emphasised by E-GMAT is the best to solve hard questions, which can never be answered by just knowing the grammatical rules. Earlier, I used to solve verbal questions using short-cuts. However, as soon as I started applying a meaning-based approach, my accuracy started to increase and this led to a major increase in my confidence as well. The meaning-based approach made everything so easy and interesting that I never found it boring ever again. I started enjoying practising SC questions as well. The application quizzes in the verbal course are really helpful in understanding the whole process of solving a question and improving every skill required to master it.
2. Although CR does not have many concepts to master, the pre-thinking approach used by e-GMAT really helped me master CR. It helped me understand the importance of classifying the arguments into conclusions and premises and pre-think all the possible approaches to work on it.
3. RC has been my weakest area throughout. However, the master-comprehension approach and meaning-based approach helped me to read the passages with full understanding. I never had to go back to the passage again if I read it using the master comprehension approach. This really helped me to gain better accuracy and speed in RC.
4. Quant course gives a detailed understanding of all the concepts in quant and it really helps in leaving no concept untouched. Earlier, I used to apply short-cut approaches in quant as well. However, the level of understanding I gained from the e-GMAT helped me solve each and every question with a proper process and understanding. the e-GMAT quant course is really intensive and the Scholoranium 2.0 really helps to diagnose the weak areas and focus on them. The scholoranium 2.0 provides a diagnostic quiz, based on which, you can diagnose the areas where you are weak and require more attention. Moreover, the process and GMAT quizzes are really helpful in attaining the right efficiency for the test day.

The e-GMAT analytics-based portal is truly commendable. All the insights provided by the e-GMAT portal are very useful to work on areas that require the most attention. The portal helps us understand our efficiency in all the topics in both Verbal and Quant. Moreover, it also helps us to track the time of each and every question and helps us achieve optimum efficiency. With the help of this portal, I could focus on my weak areas and track my efficiency throughout. The course also provides the scholoranium, which has n number of questions in both Quant and Verbal. The custom and cementing quizzes based on these scholoranium questions really helped me to improve my performance and track it in every way possible. Moreover, the Sigma-X mock provided by e-GMAT is a real gem. I guess these are the only mocks apart from the official mock that adapts on a real-time basis, just like GMAT, and also contains questions equivalent to the difficulty of the actual GMAT. Moreover, the mock analysis provided at the end is a very very detailed analysis of one’s mock performance. This tracks every question, every block, difficulty level, timing and whatnot. One can get all the required insights to improve their performance based on this mock analysis.

Lastly, the kind of support you get during the entire duration of the course is worth mentioning. I was given the opportunity to enrol on ‘The Last Mile Program’, wherein Rida, one of the e-GMAT experts, helped me during the last stage of the GMAT prep journey. Rida really helped me plan everything. She gave me insights into my performances based on my Scholoranium and Sigma-X performances. She continuously helped me create a plan to improve my weak areas until I was finally ready to give the GMAT. The plans she provided were a real gem at the last moment of my journey and really helped me to upscale my performance. She was always ready to help and used to respond spontaneously too. Overall, I had a wonderful experience with Rida and I would recommend her 10/10.


Summing up, looking for an all-inclusive GMAT package that can help you prepare despite a demanding job? E-GMAT is your answer!

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