495 to 675 in 4 months around a full-time job — the platform did the heavy liftin

Strengths:

-great platform
-good content
-Good mentors

I’ll keep this honest, because I went into e-GMAT pretty skeptical and came out a believer. I’m in tech — two years at a US Bank side — and I’m doing an MBA to break into finance. My starting score on the platform was a 495, which honestly baffled me, and I finished at 675 (95th percentile) on my first and only attempt, after about four months of prep around a full-time job. So roughly a 180-point jump. Here’s what actually did the work.
The first genuinely useful thing was the PSP (Personalized Study Plan). It read my starting score, saw my Quant was already strong (two years of JEE will do that), and just told me to skip Quant learning and go straight to test readiness — then build Verbal and DI from scratch. That alone saved me weeks. It also asks how much time you realistically have on weekdays vs weekends and builds a plan that’s actually followable, not punishing. My honest advice to anyone starting is just blindly follow the PSP.
Where it really got built was the practice. I learned most of my concepts not from the videos but from doing the hard cementing questions and reading the solutions after. The quality of those questions is high, and the point of them isn’t just solving — it’s solving under 2 minutes, which is the thing that actually trains you for the real timing pressure. DI was my disaster section (4th percentile at the start) because I was brute-forcing everything like Quant; the course showed me a much smarter way to handle Data Sufficiency, and Verbal came down to two or three solid thumb rules per question type. Once I applied them instead of forcing my own way, both moved.
The part I was most cynical about was the “we use machine learning and AI” line — I assumed it was the same buzzword every startup throws around. But when I entered my target score, it predicted my subsection scores — 95 here, 95 here, 85 here — and my real exam came out almost exactly like that. The adaptive mocks are also something I haven’t seen on any other platform beyond the official ones, and they tracked my final exam closely. And as a tech person, I’ll add the UI is clean and I didn’t hit a single bug the whole time.
The last piece was the mentorship. In my final month I got a bit sluggish, and having Shubham as a mentor pulled me through — reachable on WhatsApp, no formal mailing chain, less a “mentor” and more an elder friend who’s already done this. He’d look at my weakest area, tell me exactly what to cement, and push me ahead, and almost every mock after that improved pretty much linearly.
If you’re starting low and juggling a job, my one-line take is: stick to the platform, it covers everything. You just have to start and trust it.