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September 08, 2026
shivamar0ra

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Verified GMAT Focus score:
655 Q87 V80 DI80

GMAT 655 (V80, Q87, DI80), from a 575 first mock, with e-GMAT

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Verbal is strong element which lets us pre-think

Would make the product better:

portal glitches in between, improvement in backend structure as well as in UI

My final practice mock handed me a 90 in Quant and a 695 overall, the 98th percentile, taken with the screen locking up every few questions. Thirteen days before that, the same exam had given me an 84 in Quant. Nothing about my algebra changed in between. What changed was how I spent minutes.

If you know the feeling of a respectable score that ought to be higher, a ceiling nobody has explained, and a worry that you are drilling the wrong difficulty without knowing it, that was me for two months. e-GMAT is built around exactly that failure. Its Personalized Study Plan turns a goal, a deadline and your honest weekly hours into a sequence, and it triages: PACE runs ahead of each topic as a short diagnostic quiz that tells you which lessons you can skip.

Scholaranium is what finally located my plateau. Its topic analytics showed medium reading questions running at 65 with the timer loosened, against 52 once standard timing was on. Same difficulty, same pool. Thirteen points from the clock alone. Two months of misdiagnosis died on that one comparison.

Neuron supplied official-style questions with fully worked solutions, and once I held myself to eight hard ones a sitting and twenty minutes apiece writing down what had made each wrong answer attractive, reading solutions became repairing myself. Cementing quizzes shut each topic with a short exam-level check carrying a pass bar. And the sectional mocks are why Quant is the part I am proudest of. The maths was never the issue, but repeatedly sitting an entire timed section converts a method into execution, and it carried my Quant from 84 to a ceiling score of 90. That is where e-GMAT is genuinely ahead, and it has nothing to do with pool size: questions pitched at real exam difficulty, and analytics that name the leaking sub-area.

My clearest wrong-to-right shift came on assumption questions. Reading quickly, a hole in an argument used to set me building a story that rescued some indefensible option. One lesson in the verbal course swapped the story for a test: does this bridge what the passage says to the writer's conclusion, without a single step I supplied myself? Questions I used to miss began falling quickly, and my verbal section scores went 78, 80, 82, 83, 84.

The Last Mile Push held the final fortnight together. It is closing-stage mentorship: someone reads your dashboard and names the habit capping you, and does not issue more syllabus. Thirteen days out I wrote to Jagadish saying the target was out of reach. He answered with a sum proving that every section score I needed already sat in my history, just never on one day.

Fair warning: the error log that mattered most is labour nobody performs for you, and there were weeks I resented it.

If your fundamentals are real, your plateau unexplained, and you suspect you are practising the wrong things, buy this one.

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