GMAT 655 - a perfect Q90 and a Verbal turnaround - with e-GMAT

Strengths:

My most recent attempt came back 655 with a Q90, a perfect Quant. But the number I actually want to lead with is 20 percent, because that is what my first hard Critical Reasoning cementing quizzes scored, and Verbal was the section that turned around hardest. I went from that 20 percent to 85 in a single attempt, and I am sitting at 81 now, with the dip down to 81 being a completion penalty rather than a concept gap. Before e-GMAT I was self-studying from the Official Guide, and the problem was not effort. I was grinding through problem after problem without grasping the underlying concepts, because there was no framework to hang any of it on. If that description fits you, this is written for you. A friend of mine, Sarthak, who had used e-GMAT himself, recommended it for its in-depth orientation and its pre-thinking approach, and the sequenced study plan the course builds for you meant I stopped having to decide every morning what to work on next.

Would make the product better:

Scholaranium and Neuron were my go-to tools for pushing accuracy up, because that is where I could see concretely which concepts and question types I was still weak on and drill them directly. The pattern that worked was practising a specific type on Neuron and then re-testing it with a cementing quiz, and Two Part Analysis is the clearest example: it went from 40 percent to 90 percent that way. Graphics Interpretation I ran through the same loop with one change, analysing every question I had got wrong before touching another quiz, and the focused set after that closed at 80 percent. Multi Source Reasoning needed mapping the sources up front instead of re-reading all three each time, and that practice set landed at 80 percent as well. Verbal moved the same way underneath: my hard CR accuracy went from 45 to 70 and my sectionals went past 82 to 84 and 90. This is where e-GMAT is genuinely different from working out of a book. A book tells you the answer. This tells you which question type, at which difficulty, is costing you the points, and then hands you the practice to close it.

The honest part is that none of it happened quickly. The toughest stretch was about a month of grinding through Verbal, question after question, with no movement in the results at all, and that kind of plateau is genuinely frustrating. What broke it was the LMP support and the mentor conversations. Before those I was not consistent; after them I started showing up daily. That mattered more for me than it might for most people, because I am based in a remote part of Odisha with no peer group to discuss prep with, so having someone there to encourage me whenever things were not moving was huge. It was one of the biggest reasons I kept going. So my recommendation is specific rather than general. If you are self-studying without a framework, or you are somewhere remote with nobody around you preparing for the same exam, e-GMAT and the LMP program can be a game changer, because of how extensive and well built the course is.