E-GMAT - Online 360 course (GMAT Focus Test)

Strengths:

1. Adaptive preparation based on your strengths
2. lets you plan your time and schedule better - Especially for working professional
3. Structured approach for Verbal (ensures Conviction in marking answers)
4. Good focus on details in DI and Quants
4. Cementing phase - E-GMAT's Cementing (intermediate tests at topic level) and Error Logs
5. Sectional Mock
6. Final Mock Papers - You get 5 mock papers.

Would make the product better:

Could increase the number of Mock test papers from existing 5 to 10 papers.

I had purchased E-GMAT online 360. It had a time window of 4 months (you get option for 2 months or 6 months as well, based on your preference). There is also an option to extend your access in case you are not able to finish the course in the given time (with reasonable additional fees).
This course is a complete self learning course, without any live instructor. However, E-GMAT organises some of the live chat sessions with the instructors, to discuss some of the general matters around GMAT test prep.

Some of the key plus points are as follows:
1. Adaptive based on your strengths - Lets you skip the content in case you demonstrate 90%+ as starting capabilities in that topic. Saves lot of time along with maintaining the thorough approach.

2. Plan your time better - Good option where the work timings are not fixed. It gives you flexibility to manage your time. It also gave a proper study plan breaking down the topics and created day wise schedule for me to follow.

After signing in, I gave a starting capabilities mock paper and scored 435. Then, I started for the prep. Few key strengths that i can list down based on my experience are:

1. Structured approach for Verbal (ensures Conviction in marking answers) - Read carefully + Full understanding + Pre-think before looking at answer choices + focus on details + Evaluate and visualise answer choices. E-GMAT's this approach formed a pillar on getting answers right with full conviction.

2. Good focus on details - DI and Quant content makes you focus on small details / constraints. I started focussing on smaller hints / constraints / key words based on E-GMAT guidance. This helped me avoid lot of errors.

3. Cementing phase - These are intermediate tests at topic level. Re-call value for a learned topic increases significantly after doing cementing tests. There is enough pool of questions from which you get the questions in your cementing phase. So each time you give a cementing test, you encounter a different question, pushing you to use your brain in different ways.

4. Sectional Mock - Section mocks helped out in providing good base to analyse the topics where additional efforts were required. You get more than 10 sectional mocks for each section.

5. Building up Error Logs- E-GMAT gave detailed guidance on how to analyse the mistakes including evaluating correct but guessed answers. Building Error logs helped in last day revision of your mistakes and gives a closure before exam.

6. Final Mock Papers - You get 5 mock papers. Although, this felt to be low since you would want to take mock papers during your preparation as well. I had to eventually buy Mock Papers from Official GMAT (gave 4 tests for Official GMAT as well). E-GMAT's Mocks test in real stimulation. Difficulty levels of the questions are more or less in line with final GMAT exam.

This overall helped me achieve a 695 in final GMAT Focus Test. V85, Q87 and DI82. Thanks.