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I have been preparing for the GMAT since 9 months now, while my Quant has always been strong, but somehow i have not been able to score above 44 in any of the practice tests, i always wonder what is the issue. Am i too confident or overconfident for Quant.
After lot of introspection and research finally i got the answer it is all about basics . Since childhood been taught Zero is a number but first time in my life got to know that zero is not a number. A friend of mine who's currently working in Canada after completing his MBA's from there asked me to visit E-GMAT and since then all changed in my way of thinking and solving questions. I took the GMAT online course and now with last 5 months of study in detail, i am able to score 51 easily in Quant, and 44 too when the hardest of 37 question set is thrown .
The Quant scholaranium is a place to test your skills in detail where basics are tested to a level which makes you comfortable to solve the toughest of question easily. For a person like me an Engineering egoist Math wiz (presumably) who was made to understand difference between Math and Quant, the E-GMAT has done wonder.
My baiscs are sound, the question set in Scholaranium is amazing, with every Question type covered and the solutions provided would give you an insight what went wrong in the way of thinking. I was able to chart my weakness easily and in detail.
I am confident enough to score Q 51 on October 17th when i have D day dates finally. Hope to score as i am doing now and write a review again putting my insights about the the questions.
I would highly recommend the E-GMAT course for every GMAT applicant who wants to score good and fly high.
Thank you E-GMAT. All the best to everyone.
A non native speaker who never thought could achieve 91percentile in SC did it , that too when her first gmat take had a score of meager 40 Percentile in SC. When I completed the egmat SC course i was confident of having learned the finer nuances but scholaranium was the best thing that happened to me during my prep journey. Right from the explanations to the drill down approach of each individual section ie if I was lagging behind in Parallelism or Pronouns made me strengthen my strategies and in fact it was the egmat scholarium score of RC SC and CR which was almost near close to my real score. A real treasure for the gmat prep.
e-GMAT Scholaranium offers a very comprehensive question bank for one to practise and test their abilities across SC, CR and RC. There is a healthy mix of Easy, Medium and Hard difficulty level GMAT like questions to practise from and detailed analytics are provided at the end of each session. One should make use of this to analyze his/her weak areas and then focus on improving that area. Scholaranium gives a very accurate picture of one's ability levels and one should definitly use this as a postive to improve further.
I am presently using scholaranium to practice for my upcoming GMAT exam and I already feel more confident about doing well in it compared to how I was feeling before my previous GMAT attempt. I strongly recommend the e-GMAT Verbal Online and Schloalanium to anyone who is serious about GMAT.
I had given my GMAT 2 years ago (610- V28, Q47) and my critical reasoning was disastrous. i was jus giving a fluke in SC and i used to get some right and some wrong.my math was not that good , but always knew that i could pick up math in the last minute. i was from engineering background and was good at the basics in math. i was doing good at mocks, especially math section.
Then, i happened to read about e-gmat in gmatclub. Tried enquiring about the course through my friends and everybody had a good feedback.i did not want to go by the herd. decided to take a demo session by e-gmat. i fell for it in the first session itself.the session was about sentence correction and the way you approach in e-gmat is different. The way a question is broke up into clauses and then analysed. the way primary empahsis is given on the meaning etc.. i decided to go for it.
The CR videos were really helpful. the concept of pre-thinking made things easier for me. the strategy to attack each and every type of CR questions are clearly explained in the e-gmat course. the videos are desinged in such a way that i never felt as though i was preparing for gmat.watching the videos were fun and the learning used to happen simultaneously. short excercise after each topic also helped a lot in recollecting.
The strategies for RC were just the best in e-gmat. it helped me in boosting my confidence.the strategies seem time consuming in the beginning but eventually i picked up and mastered RC.
The best thing about e-gmat is the SC. the way each sentence is split into clauses and understandig the meaning of the given sentence is the just outstanding.
When I submitted the test, I saw my score report in which I had just one (Hard) question wrong out of a total of 4 RC passages. This was my biggest confidence booster and I was sure that my GMAT would go well this time, which it did!
I finished by Quant section 10 minutes in advance and my Verbal section 15 minutes in advance and landed up with a V39, Q48 and a total of 710. so i have my target score and nothing more to think about.
Thank you e-GMAT and hope this serves as motivation to everyone.
All the best to you all !!
SC - Video lectures covered even the most minute concepts in detail, maintaining the interest at the same time.
CR & RC - Video lectures might tend to be boring because of too much emphasis on theory part.
Other plus points:
- Practice exercise after each and every concept is taught.
- Detailed answer analysis of each practice question.
- Difficulty level of questions is explicitly stated, so you can choose between 500, 600 and 700 level questions.
- Topic wise segregated questions from OG are also available.
With eGMAT course, you would never feel shortage of questions. The scholaranium section has about 30-40 questions from each concept.
The verbal package also comes with limited edition of Quant Scholaranium, having about 150 questions.
Other add ons :
- 5 full length tests from 800.com - Not very helpful
- Complete package of GMATclub.com, comprising of 30 Quant & 8 Verbal sectional tests. - They are good.
In all eGMAT package is the most comprehensive package for GMAT preparation.
I have taken my GMAT recently and Scored 710 (Q50, V36, IR8). Much of its credit goes to e-GMAT Verbal Scholaranium. I improved my verbal score from V26 to V36.
I attempted GMAT last year in January after taking coaching of almost 2 months and scored 600 & was disappointed to see such a score. Quant was my strong area and I knew that I can do better on verbal but I was not able to improve my verbal score. I decided to take the subscription of e-GMAT in July after going through the reviews of e-GMAT and completed all the files by Feb 2017. After completing the course, I started practicing with verbal scholaranium and trust me it is one of the best tools in the market for GMAT questions practice. It gives you the flexibility to choose the type of questions you want to practice. After every quiz, you can check how you fared on the quiz and what are your weak areas. On the dashboard, you can see how have you performed on various areas of the verbal section such as parallelism in SC, Strengthen in CR etc. I improved both my accuracy and timing because of this tool. I would recommend this tool to anyone who is looking to improve his/her verbal score.
my friend introduced me to e-GMAT and I cannot thank him enough for having done that. After a year long break, I felt the need to go over SC and CR concepts as well and the videos provided by e-GMAT made them a whole lot of fun. I would stay up till late night, watching the videos, almost like I'd be watching a sitcom. They were light and helped me brush up my concepts very well. I had read someone's review about making handwritten notes while watching videos and then transferring those onto Evernote at the end of each day as that would not only help you revise, but also create a handy notebook for you to skim through while you're on the move. This tip helped me a lot and I would really recommend it to you all as well. I made my notes nice and colourful and added screenshots and links to them. Going over them later seemed fun because of all the colur I had added. (let me know if you want me to share them with you!)
What really made a difference to me was, however, the Master Comprehension. It really helped me nail the problem. My comprehension of a question was totally dependent on my mood. Master Comprehension really helped me with the right way of comprehending sentences and pausing at the right places, thereby improving my overall comprehension substantially.
I realized I need to do some real work on Verbal as I merely scored V29 on my gmat prep. The problem was that, there are many gmat products out there and I was overwhelmed with choices - naturally I wanted to have the one which would give me maximum impact. Upon reading a lot of reviews online, I decided to give e-GMAT a go.
What I particularly like about e-GMAT Scholarium was that it provided me the tool to analyze my strengths and weaknesses. Once these had been identified, I zoomed in and focused on my key weaknesses. e-GMAT Scholarium provided key statistics of my score on every Verbal areas/topics, as well as breakdown of timing and difficulty level. This surgical approach was what helped me to narrow down my focus area.
This structured approach was what helped me to improve my Verbal from V29 in gmat prep to V34 in actual GMAT
I have always considered myself more of a verbal wizz, rather than quant, simply because i can speak 3 languages in a fluent manner. I know that i have grammar problems here and there, but i thought it was nothing serious...until i started my GMAT preparation and got to the verbal section. You all know the specifics of SC, CR and RC so i won't dive into that, but boy was i surprised when i got v28 after my first attempt at GMAT. I was upset, but i knew my mistakes. I had some prior knowledge that helped me get to that score, but that was about it. I had no specific approach, didn't know what should i pay attention to when answering CR questions, or a logic behind SC, and the texts in RC seemed way out of my league. But that all changed when i discovered e-GMAT's course and their method of approaching verbal questions.
Once you complete their course and build up the base of the knowledge required, you jump into Scholaranium, a place where you polish and strengthen all that you learnt.
Scholaranium offers you this awesome way of targeting your weak areas and improving them. Scholaranium ability quizzes don't just show your accuracy, but also pinpoint where you need to focus. Once you go through ability quiz, you can make your own custom quiz, in which you can answer questions one by one, reading detailed explanations and paying attention to a time it took you to answer that question. I really liked the explanations and structural approach, they help you better visualize what is going on in the argument or a sentence. And a very important thing about Scholaranium is that it teaches you to pay attention to details and logic used in arguments and sentences. There are more than enough questions in its bank to help you understand verbal section specifics and how to approach them. As for the difficulty, all the sections are almost identical to GMAC style, some might seem a bit harder, but they surely test how good you are at spotting various concepts being tested. The interface is also very comfortable to work with.
All in all Scholaranium is a great tool that helps you improve. But remember, that it is best used when you have solid base in concepts that e-GMAT teaches you, without the base one cannot build a house.
I started my preparation for GMAT in the month of December'16. By the end of December, I had completed most of the verbal study material and had built my concepts in SC, CR and RC. I was doing quite well at SC as it is based on clarity of certain rules, meaning and grammar and finally, their repeated application to different questions. I was also doing a decent job at RC by scoring somewhere around 80% of the questions correctly. The only area that pained me the most was CR. After a certain point, I had given up and was not able to understand how to improve on this particular section. Also, a challenge that GMAT throws at students is that there is a limited set of official questions available and once those questions are exhausted, you remember the logics behind most of them. My confidence was getting even lower because I had not started timing my practice sessions since I wanted to reach a minimum accuracy level in all the three sections before putting my skills to test while sitting on a time bomb.
That's when I felt the need to buy a good practice source for more such quality CR questions(and by quality I mean as close to official questions as possible). I read e-gmat Scholarnium's reviews on the GMAT club forum, Quora and certain other forums and also attended a webinar around the same. I felt the product to be fairly helpful to most of its buyers. And I couldn't thank those people more as I found the whole experience to be extremely relevant and conducive to improve my critical reasoning skills. I started with the lecture videos and practiced the quiz questions that followed after the lessons. Those 5-10 questions based on specific types will help you categorize the question type and start thinking on the lines of that specific question.
More than the concepts, the 200 problems with different difficulty levels definitely help you define a certain level of accuracy for the CR section when the questions are of all the difficulty levels(as asked during the actual test). I did create some custom quizzes towards the end of the preparation and reviewed all the questions properly. An advice to all the GMAT aspirants would be to put enormous time on building concepts and skills rather than rushing for the timed practice/mock tests. 10 mock tests(40 hours) won't help you gain as much as 40 hours of practice and reviews. Scholarnium is a brilliant tool to understand concepts and improve their application to problems. I can surely recommend this product to anyone who wants to practice more and improve at verbal.
I scored a 730 on the actual test
Breakup; V39 and Q50
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