I started preparing for the GMAT with a diagnostic test and knew it straightaway that the verbal section will be a decider for me. I took the e-GMAT coursework to help myself with the verbal section and i could see changes in my thought process to eliminate two or three close choices. The meaning based approach for SC questions did in fact come a long way in tackling difficult questions in which grammar played little or no role. For CR questions pre-thinking approach helps one create a situation in which one has an edge with the structure of the argument, even when one is not able to exactly figure out the assumption or pre-think the exact answer choice. For RC, I practiced a lot to overcome the fear of non-familiarity with the topic.

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Hello all,

I gave my second GMAT on Aug26 and scored Q50 V35. My first attempt - Q50 V31. As a working professional I somehow managed time and researched a lot on what does push my verbal to a perfect score. I literally went through almost all free sample verbal courses and its resources available online. I finally took a strategy session with E-gmat and understood this could help me. Below are my takeaways.

Pros:

1. Content - Solid content on whole verbal section especially in SC. One could actually say its the most comprehensive solution for "SC". It's SC is divided into 9 topics - 1 of which is on "Meaning" - this tells us how strong is the content in SC.
The same goes for RC and CR too. The learning videos might be a bit long but getting a good verbal score do need that prep and e-gmat has done excellent job in getting the content solidified.

2. Scholaranium : It has the most equivalent verbal questions in comparision with offical gmat especially in easy and medium difficulty level. It has almost 800+ Verbal questions to practice with the count growing everyday .

3. Analytics : It's analytics is all we need to assess ourselves on where we are lagging and guides us we need to go back to learning phase. It is very intuitive and much needed if we dont know where is the specific lagging in Verbal section.

Cons :

Expert reply : The only thing that bothered me through out the course is while the explanation they give covers all the possible scenario's. In several cases when we reach out to them for the doubts - their replies are not convincing .
Also when users ask question in relevant scenario's the reply from e-gmat experts is "As per e-gmat rules , we cannot answer questions that is not in e-gmat official curriculum or their question bank" - this is something should be addressed being a leader in verbal courses.

Conclusion : E-gmat verbal content is super strong, however its customer reply service is frustrating at times and needs to be addressed by its management.

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I started using E-GMAT's verbal course about a month before my exam. I wasn't sure that I would learn a lot in a month, but because I was panicking about my SC prospects I started the course nonetheless. So here's my experience:

1. Even though I had already trained myself on SC topics, and had done quite a few official questions, EGMAT's SC course still had a lot for me to learn.

2.Each topic is broken down into smaller consumable parts and explained with great amount of detail. In fact I thought that they were very thorough in anticipating doubts that a reader might have.

3. Overall the questions of a certain difficulty level, especially in the question bank SCHOLARANIUM, are more difficult than the official ones of a corresponding difficulty level. And this I think is a GREAT thing. As you are forced to read and comprehend longer sentences and pay attention to complicated details. By the time you are done with Scholaranium, you will most likely cruise through official questions (at least most of them).

4. Ofcourse as you solve official questions you will also encounter errors that you haven't come across in E-GMAT. But you will, for most parts, be able to wrap your head around them by making connections to concepts that you would have learnt through E-GMAT.

5. Don't expect to get all official questions right by doing a E-GMAT course (that's true for any course). There will always always be questions that will stump you. And therefore I think one should be realistic. Rather focus on consistently getting the easier and medium level questions correct. If you do them well, you will most likely crack enough hard level questions to reach V40 and above.

7. Scholaranium has great analytics too. So you can actually find out pretty precisely the topics that you might need to work on.

6. I didn't have time to complete their RC and CR modules so I cannot comment on them.

8. Overall, if you aren't very very very confident about SC, and are struggling to find a good source on which you can put your faith in, then I recommend you try E-GMAT. I know that it is difficult to make a decision on what to trust, given that there are so many products in the market. I went through the same dilemma. But ultimately I think I made the right choice for SC.

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This review is specifically for the Sentence Correction part of the e-GMAT verbal online course.
I was not going anywhere in terms of improving my skills in the SC section and I was struggling with the approach to be taken for tackling the section when my friend suggested this course.
It is a self-paced course with a great number of interactive elements. All topics start off with a pre-concept quiz to test your knowledge, followed by the course content in the form of short videos and ending with a post concept quiz to check the improvement in understanding.
The best part about this course is its division of concepts into small videos with short exercises at the beginning and at the end. It gets easy to maintain focus in short spurts. And most importantly, the concepts are put to use almost immediately after learning them.

Another highlight of this course is its logical approach towards language skills. All concept and practice questions are approached using a fixed framework that surprisingly fits well in all kinds of questions and aids in improving speed/accuracy.

I would strongly recommend this course, especially to Indian Engineers.

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