Forum Home > GMAT > Quantitative > Problem Solving (PS)
All Reviews > Older and Non-Verified Reviews > Magoosh Reviews |
With a little less than three weeks prep time for the GMAT, I happened upon Magoosh. I watched a couple of their free videos and found them very easy to understand. Based on that I signed up for their premium product.
They promise a 50 point score increase. They delivered. The quality of their lessons and their practice questions questions--especially in the math, helped me put it all together--and quickly. I improved my score from 570 to a 620. Yeah, it's not a great score, but with my lack of math skills and limited time to prepare for and take the test--all while still working--they got me the score I need to get into the program I want. Thank you very much Magoosh!
The Magoosh system is working wonderfully for me. This is my second time attempting the GMAT and Magoosh offers an eclectic mix of content, practice problems and helpful answer explanations.
Each section is broken doth verbal vs math and from there there are significant drill downs into each subject type. The available problems also allow for adjustment from easy to difficult to adaptive allowing one to adjust their level with additional understanding of the material
In addition, each time I've reached out the the staff they've been remarkably helpful. I recommend Magoosh for those second-timers like myself or someone with a great base who needs a wealth of wonderful questions to choose from.
After first attempting the GMAT last year and receiving a score of 530 with especially weak math, I knew that I had to change my study plan. I had been using study guides and question banks but it evidently was not helping. I discovered Magoosh by looking for a GMAT preparatory site that had difficulty rankings for each question so that I could see where my strengths were.
As I had missed my choice school’s MBA application deadline I did not use Magoosh for several months. This was not an issue as Magoosh extended my access for a year at no extra charge.
The Magoosh lessons are extremely informative and provide examples for every situation you may encounter on the GMAT. They also provide tips and tricks to tackle every question that can arise on test day. The questions are of high quality and I found some of them to be harder than anything I faced when I wrote my test. Having a range of easy, medium, and tough questions allows Magoosh to be beneficial to anyone, no matter what their target score is.
Everything on their site is very intuitive, and you can make custom study plans from any mix of question types (data sufficiency, critical reasoning, etc). You can also limit the questions being given to you to either a random selection, adaptive questions, questions you previously got incorrect, or questions you flagged the last time you saw them. The site also allows users to set time limits, question limits, and the ability to see detailed solutions at the end of every question or at the end of a study period.
To prepare I studied the lessons and went through all of the quantitative questions. I flagged any questions I could not answer easily, and kept reviewing them until I could answer them all with relative ease. This helped develop my skills and improved my confidence and time management.
I cannot recommend Magoosh highly enough. I previously studied using well-known guides and failed, but with the resources provided by Magoosh and hard work I have been able to achieve my final score of 730.
I had an idea of what the GMAT would be like. I remember distinctly taking the GRE (with minimal prep) for my previous masters program and I did NOT want to be that unprepared! I signed up for a GMAT prep course at the local university that included access to Magoosh. It worked out well, because I had used a trial of Magoosh and had already planned to extend my subscription.
The videos were great! They were broken down enough that I didn't feel overwhelmed. I was able to review specific areas without having to go through things I didn't need. The questions were helpful, especially the explanations. I loved the overall layout of the website. It was very user-friendly.
I wish I had utilized it more, but I didn't give myself enough time before I took the GMAT (only 2 months and working full-time); however, Magoosh supplemented my other study materials and course perfectly and further clarified some of the trickier problems. I scored a 680, which I know could have been higher with additional prep, but I'm happy with that and recommend Magoosh to anyone wanting to acheive their goal score.
I have been using a combination of study materials, but out of all of them I have to say the Magoosh Premium is the best of them all. the pros of this amazing prep course I've seen include the following:
-ability to use the software anywhere, whether it be on a PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone, or any other device with internet connection
- breakdown of the topics in the tutorial section
- ability to filter specific topics to work on in the practice section
-being able to track problems answered incorrectly, correctly, and track progress
-the option to flag specific problems in order to take another look at it later
-tutorial videos that were related to the problem after you complete each problem if you feel you need another lesson on that specific topic. tip of advice for watching video; right click on lesson video below the explanation of how to solve the problem and choose option to open in new tab.I found this to be very helpful.
-good stimulator of the real GMAT through the practice portion
A friend of mine who was studying for the GRE recommended Magoosh, and I couldn't be happier with their service. The reason I found Magoosh so helpful is that the GMAT is all about tips and tricks: without Magoosh, I would never have felt as comfortable with the format of the test and the themes of the questions. The GMAT is unlike any test I have taken before. I just graduated college, so although I will be taking the GMAT again with more math training, Magoosh helped give me a lot of confidence because of the strategies the lessons taught me. Magoosh helped me focus on what was important so I spent more time studying the right areas, and calmed me down so that I spent less time worrying and more time studying.
Recently, I purchased the Magoosh online Premium course. I cannot spend ample time in reading the books and main intension was to get the videos instead reading all the content from the books. I did lot research in analyzing the courses and I found Magoosh to be very reasonable in all the factors like Price, topics covered and practice questions.
Till now, I found the videos very useful and more or less it covers all the topics which are there in MGMAT books.
I cut down a single rating because I think they still can improve on their practice questions.
Magoosh's video resources are amazing... All topics covered on the GMAT are also covered in the videos and broken down into categories. From Data sufficiency to sentence correction there is a huge database of videos to help! Moreover, Magoosh has a test bank that is one of the best I have seen. Not only does it gauge your performance, it compares you to other people who have also done the same question... It will give information on your time compared to other users as well. What is more, each and every question comes with a text and video explanation! This is a great starting resource for anyone interested in taking the GMAT!
Magoosh does a really good job of giving you hundreds of practice questions that you can tailor to your needs (only get hard questions, only get questions on a specific subject,etc) Which is really nice if you already know your weaknesses. It also keeps track of everything for you, so you can filter through and see what percent you are getting correct based on subject or difficulty. I really enjoyed it as a practice tool, but the lessons they had were not as interactive as Kaplan or Knewton online lessons.
I am non native speaker and my verbal was very poor. I joined Magoosh keeping in mind that it would improve my score and I was RIGHT.
I improved my score by 150 marks after joining this course. The course is beautifully designed to give you all the ingredient of success. You can ask questions in help section at any time and customer care really cares for the users.
With more than 700 questions you have more than enough questions to practice and recently they have added chapters also to review. I would suggest this course to anyone who lacks quant skills. For verbal section you need more practice than listen to the answers. Go for it if you wanna succeed in GMAT.
That's great! I have the challenge of studying in the right areas...I need help with that