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Glad to see your insights.

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1) Both the Verbal and Quant parts are very good and teach the basics concepts and the more advanced ones. To accomplish the goal to become a Gmat assassin, Rich and Max use mini lessons and a lot of different sample exercises, with the explanations. I think that their teaching method is very effective
2) The Quant Part, RC and CR are awesome. There are a lot of very very very effective tricks that they taught me

Does the course provide solutions to all OG questions using the approach taught in video modules
to solidify the same.

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6) Max and Rich were ready to answer (via email) any doubt I had on the exercises.

What was usual response time and was there any limitations on max no of Qs sent per week on mails
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1) SC is not at the same level as the other sections. It is very good, but the others are a step beyond.
Which other course you tried, which you found better for sc?
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Exactly. The course provides the answers to all the questions (or at least almost all ... not so sure about it because I didn't solve all the questions because of time issues) in OG 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 with the same approach (obviously different from section to section).

The response time was always within a day. I asked them 4 different questions on exercises (always in the morning) and they answered me in the afternoon/evening. I think that the answer time could have been much less without any time difference between Italy and the US (Italy is 6 to 9 hours ahead of the US).
I don't know the max number of email you can send, but I think that there's no limit.

I've tried E - Gmat for the verbal part. SC was better in that course, but RC and CR were way better in Empower Gmat.
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Hi Giorgio,

That's FANTASTIC news! Raising a 610 to a 670 is a great achievement (and a Q48 will be much better for your applications than the Q44 that you scored back in January). With some additional study time, you could potentially have scored higher, but with this score you can comfortably apply to each of the Schools that you emailed me about.

Congrats again on all of your successes so far. I hope you keep in touch after you have heard back from each of those Schools.

Another GMAT Assassin has been made!
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Giorgiopagani

Congrats and Thanks for sharing your experience with GMAT and Empower.

I agree with you on the RC and CR part with EmpowerGMAT Course. I started following the RC Ladder technique and i see a lot of improvement in my performance in RC.

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Giorgiopagani congratulations.

Also can you please share if empowergmat has video explanations for OG CR questions. I am looking for a good source where I can find video explanations for CR in a way that it highlights the methodology used to answer the question or more in-depth explanation not just ohh this is out of scope and that’s not irrelevant. I ll appreciate the the input.
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I Think that Empower Gmat has great explanation videos of OG questions. They cover a huge set of answers of the 2015/2016/2017/2018 OGs.
To answer your question, yes, they have a huge number of answers' explanations for CR and they use the teached methodology to answer them.
So, if I were you, I'd give Empower Gmat a chance.

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Congrats on the score. EMPOWERGMAT is a wonderful course . I too took services from them

I improved my score from 640 to 720. I owe the improvement to EMPOWER team
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Giorgiopagani congratulations.

Also can you please share if empowergmat has video explanations for OG CR questions. I am looking for a good source where I can find video explanations for CR in a way that it highlights the methodology used to answer the question or more in-depth explanation not just ohh this is out of scope and that’s not irrelevant. I ll appreciate the the input.

Hi there,

yes, They have video explanation for most of the questions. Their ladder technique is very useful.
They will give feedback for all the options.
Sometimes, the option will be huge out of scope. (in that case, they don't have any choice but to put it as out of scope) :)
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