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The GMAT Pill Method is like having your own private tutor online - but for a fraction of the cost. You'll learn how to think efficiently so you can quickly narrow down your answer choices and arrive at the correct one - sometimes without even reading the entire answer choice. 

Includes  the Practice Pill Platform - an interactive online question bank (800+) with GMAT Pill video explanations and community discussion, a complete mobile solution for your on-the-go GMAT prep needs (iPhone+ Android+ iPad), core course frameworks for all SC, CR, RC, DS, PS, and yes--even IR, 24/7 Email Support, full length computer adaptive practice test (CAT) with performance and time analytics, & OG13 Online Tracker.  Browse special deals available on GMAT Pill...

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Zeke, you are a GENIUS! The free CR Pill Upgrade Rocks !!
July 21 | 2012

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       By reaganyee97 joined: July 21, 2012 | 0 | 0 | non-native speaker
Improvement: 70 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
I sent this email to Zeke thanking him for the major upgrade to the Critical Reasoning Pill.

I had been bugging GMAT Pill to release it sooner - and they did - but more a week!

He asked if I could post what I emailed to him here so I copy and pasted!

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Hello Zeke!

Thank you so much for rushing it out! The Table Top Frameworks for Critical Reasoning came at the PERFECT time! I am 90% through it!

The new upgraded section is just AWESOME!

Now i can visualize in my mind and as what you said, 'package' it into the Table-Top Framework!

Zeke, you are a GENIUS!

You know, there have been many instances where i just couldnt understand the OG explanation, for example- The Vernland TV Assemblers [A depends on what assumption type of question].
When i applied the concept you put across, everything just clicks into place now!

My task now is to apply whatever you taught in this new section onto questions, and if my memory doesnt fail me, whatever that you have covered is quite a good representative of the types of questions that i have seen so far in the OG!

This upgrade really BOOSTED my confidence now, since CR is the last section that i am reviewing for Verbal!

I am looking forward to future upgrades in Quant pills! Are there any?? ;)

Woohoo!!! V45 Q50 Here i come!!!

Reagan
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Thanks GMAT Pill - I made it to Oxford MBA!
July 16 | 2012

2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful
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       By kentlui240 joined: July 16, 2012 | 0 | 0 | non-native speaker
Improvement: 90 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
I had been studying GMAT for a grueling 2 years. I tried everything including Manhattan GMAT's two week intensive course, private lessons, Bell Curves, etc--even got a PhD in linguistics to help me on verbal. All of these resources were good, but I still bombed the test.

I was about to give up but then I heard about GMAT Pill and considered it my last chance before I officially give up and run out of money.

Turns out signing up for the GMAT Pill program was the best thing I ever did. Actually, I should have done that first.

The so-called past perfect, present perfect terms that MGMAT taught me were really unnecessary. After seeing things the GMAT Pill way, I was surprised how easy some of the concepts actually are compared to how frightening they used to seem.

I basically had GMAT Pill almost as a tutor anywhere and anytime. With tutoring, it was hard to get a tutor to come in at 9pm on a weekend. But with this program, I had access to Zeke at any time. If I had a question, I would post it and get a response. You can also see they've responded to tons of other questions in a timely manner.

I didn't get a chance to use the GMAT Pill HD iPad app before my exam, but from what I've heard, it's pretty neat. Wish I had a chance to use it before my test but given my results, I'm quite happy.

I made it to Oxford for my MBA afterall!
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The main reason for my improvement
July 16 | 2012

1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful
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       By sameerprakash82 joined: July 16, 2012 | 0 | 0 | non-native speaker
Improvement: 70 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
I've been trying different GMAT materials and have to admit GMAT Pill is realllllly gooooood!!

Here are a few things I was able to do:

- watch videos and use their interactive question platform on any device - including PC/Macs, tablets, smartphones. They even have an iPad app - it's relatively new - but you can download videos and watch them WITHOUT an internet connection. I thought this was super cool.

- Post questions and get responses. They're actually pretty responsive and you can see comments or questions that other people post as well as GMAT Pill's responses.

- Online workbook to automatically keep track of questions you got right or wrong. You can also favorite/flag specific questions for review later. This was helpful for me to review my mistakes.

- Really good Integrated Reasoning videos. I couldn't find much on IR elsewhere and GMAT Pill seems to be the only one that has such a great resource that actually mimics the test interface.

Of course the actual instruction is so much easier to understand than other programs I've looked at. I could easily see the price of this program going up over time. You definitely get a lot more than what you'd expect for the price.
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Thank You GMATPill
July 08 | 2012

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       By Anonymous joined: July 8, 2012 | 0 | 0 | native speaker
Improvement: 170 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
I went all in and got the full discount package because I had already seen GMATPill in action when my friend who had purchased the Verbal pill and showed it to me.

What I liked about the GMATPill is the flexibility it gives me and the simplicity of it all. I hate the idea of wasting the precious little time I have after work with a commute to a classroom location to learn at a pace that has to accommodate others who learn more slowly. The videos here give you what you need to know without the fluff. I like efficiency and GMATPill is as efficient as you can get when it comes to test preps.

This site is obviously a small shop probably run by just a few guys. It may not have all the bells and whistles but it does the job and the almost 200 point improvement in my score was definitely worth the $300+.
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Fantastic iPad app + interactive question platform
July 06 | 2012

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       By remyjazz888 joined: June 9, 2012 | 4 | 0 | native speaker
Improvement: 40 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
At first I thought it was just a collection of online videos, but with the iPad app I can watch videos during my commute to work on the train.

The cool thing about the app is that you can download videos to view later. So since I don't have WiFi on the train, I simply download the videos I need the night before and then when I go to work the next day, I can watch all the GMAT videos on the way to work. My only suggestion here, as I mentioned elsewhere, is to make the videos not autoplay while browisng the menu.

I also checked out the new Practice Pill Platform. I posted a few questions and the GMAT Pill Staff was pretty responsive to my questions.

I was pleasantly surprised with this. I don't think any of the other GMAT providers have these two big features. Of course, even without these two features, you can see hundreds of comments posted by other students - and GMAT Pill answers all of them.

I'm very pleased with the course.
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Not as promised
June 01 | 2012

4 out of 6 people found the following review helpful
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       By mukundakumar joined: April 9, 2012 | 0 | 0 | non-native speaker
Improvement: N/A  |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
After considering several other online courses, I decided on GMATPill. It was decent - I learnt some basic tricks in SC. Zeke has some useful RC techniques. Besides those two, I didn't find the rest of the material very useful. If you are looking to score 690+, I wouldn't recommend this course.

There were student discussions about some of the tough questions but they were not well-organized. Hence, I had to look through all the comments and it was inefficient.

Importantly, the 50 point money-back guarantee comes with a lot of conditions. In fact, I had used their material extensively for my preparation but they mentioned I did not meet their refund eligibility requirements.
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Definitely worth it.
May 16 | 2012

1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful
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       By Anonymous joined: April 14, 2009 | 897 | 218 | native speaker
Improvement: 60 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
Compared to other programs I paid $1500 for - this one was cheaper AND better. I wish I knew about it earlier.

Sure the other programs have more face-to-face interaction but I actually found this method to be a lot more efficient and effective.

GMAT Pill has probably the only good reading comprehension resource on the market. I've used to get lost in reading passages - now, I am able to get 80% correct - and even get some questions correct that I don't even totally understand.

Thank you GMAT Pill. I just wish I knew about it earlier so I didn't have to waste $1500 elsewhere.
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Thanks GMATPill - helped a lot
May 16 | 2012

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       By mikeynyc joined: April 19, 2012 | 5 | 1 | native speaker
Improvement: 100 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
To me, what I found most beneficial about the GMAT Pill study method was the fact that:

1) It was video based

2) Strategies really made sense to me after watching videos (SC Frameworks and reading strategy and visualization for CR). Breaking things down in quant was also helpful - brutal DS helped me see things in a different way. I was already good in Quant but this reinforced some concepts for me.

3) The responsive ongoing support of having Zeke answer questions at any time throughout my studies.

I initially studied the GMAT through traditional methods such as reading the princeton review and barrons study guides. I found this to be remarkably average in terms of engagement and effectiveness. Many times I would be studying after a long day of work and the last thing I wanted to do was to crack open a book and read. I took the GMAT pill and did decently enough.

Then, upon doing my research and asking around (a friend actually had taken GMATPill too), I came across the GMAT pill. I was immediately impressed with the depth and breadth of free resources available on the site. Indeed, I felt as if I had gotten a significant amount of value from the various articles, audio interviews, and videos that are freely available on the site. I thought that if the paid GMAT prep was of a similar quality as the freely available material, that perhaps it may be worth it to give it a shot.

I did and never looked back. I find that I learn much better through audio, and especially video tutorials. Zeke's method combines both audio and video in a unique way. Certainly I found it much more engaging than reading the study guides I had previously. The strategies were definitely helpful - I found that I internalized what Zeke was saying to me - in a way that a book could never do for me. Moreover, whenever I had a question about a specific concept or sticking point, I could email Zeke and he would answer it. This is extremely helpful because I'm busy working and pretty much nobody around me is taking the GMAT - I have to go about studying for this exam on my own. So, this kind of ongoing helpfulness is to me in and of itself worth the price of the product.

I took the test again and did significantly better. I believe that the GMAT Pill study method had a good part in the score improvement. Thanks Zeke!
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GMAT Pill helps me to get into Wharton!
May 07 | 2012

4 out of 5 people found the following review helpful
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       By Anonymous joined: October 9, 2011 | 37 | 0 | native speaker
Improvement: 50 Points |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill - 6 Pill Combo Course | Location:   Online |
I would like to take this opportunity to thank GMAT Pill for helping me getting into Wharton. I learned about GMAT Pill when I was looking for good strategies to improve my reading comprehension section. GMAT Pill absolutely teaches you the best RC strategy among all of the coureses out there. I was able to accurately answer the majority of questions within a very short period of time using GMAT Pill's RC strategy. With a looming GMAT deadline coming, I was able to significantly improve my GMAT score from 640 to 690 in less than 2 weeks and got into Wharton with this score. I have tried multiple GMAT courses, including Manhattan GMAT, Kaplan, Knewton, etc. GMAT Pill definitely stands out, teaches you through an efficient way of thinking and giving you an opportunity to significantly improve your GMAT score in a limited amount of time. I highly recommened GMAT Pill to anyone who is seriously considering getting into a top business schools. I believe this is the course that offers the best value at the best price!
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How GMAT SC Pill Blew My Mind?
April 24 | 2012

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       By brendanbrosnan joined: August 11, 2011 | 0 | 0 | native speaker
Improvement: N/A  |  Verbal:        |  Quant:      
This review is for:  GMAT Pill SC | Location:   Online |
I recently finished The GMAT SC Pill, and would like to share a few things about it here for all to see. Excuse me if this gets a bit emotional but I must say it’s about time someone stood up (Zeke Lee) and simplified the GMAT prep process, started to use simple language, and made easy to remember methodology for attacking the GMAT, especially sentence correction.

The unique study method Zeke has created is ever so important in SC because SC could drive the best of us crazy with the almost countless idioms, expressions, and grammar rules in English. He has come up with a method that is both visual and auditory and I am yet to come across something to match it in my GMAT journey so far.

My experience so far in preparing for GMAT began as a GMAT instructor for Kaplan, and apart from a few basic strategies that I learned there, I can say my score had remained in the 600s. I also studied MGMAT and felt an immediate improvement after going through their guides too but still feel they lack the psychologically stimulating edge that The GMAT Pill provides.

Let me describe how it felt to move from Kaplan to The GMAT Pill for the first time...(This may sound a bit far out there but bear with me:)) It feels like when a person moves from Jakarta to Bali! Trust me, the difference is huge. Your GMAT Pill for Sentence Correction is awesome. Moving from Kaplan's online course to the GMAT SC Pill was an awakening!

Here are just a few of the things I have learned from The GMAT SC Pill:

1.I learned to remember X&Y consistency, and watch for keywords such as “and”. As soon as I see “and” in a sentence now, I immediately focus on whats on the left and what’s on the right to make sure they are consistent.

2.I learned a cool concept that Zeke calls “Laundry Lists and Long Sentences”. By this I mean lists of items, be they nouns, adjectives, phrases etc. The important thing with “laundry lists” is that they are following a parallel structure.

3.I learned to deal with verb tenses better than I used to. One of the most enlightening things in the SC Pill was the lesson on past tense. Zeke showed that if the sentence starts in the past tense, then it’s most likely that if there were other actions in the past tense after that event then the tense to use would be past simple. If the writer wants to emphasize a past before another past then you use the past perfect (had +verb-ed)

4.I learned to use the visual concept of Apples and Oranges, when facing comparison issues, and this helped me greatly in an area that I was kind of less confident about before taking The GMAT SC Pill

In addition to these benefits, I got a feeling of confidence from Zeke’s tutorials that I had not received elsewhere. I guess it’s because Zeke has a very common sense approach to the GMAT, and I think none more so than on sentence correction. He truly believes and proves that anyone can master sentence correction in this cool product. If I had only gotten my hands on this sooner...

Regards and thanks Zeke

Brendan Brosnan
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