Structured Prep helped me achieve 740

I started my GMAT journey in May 2019 and I joined a coaching centre in New Delhi. After 2 months of classes, I gave the first official mock and scored a 590. Demotivated by the score, I eventually stopped studying and gave up the idea of writing the exam. Fast forward to August 2020 when I decided to start my prep again. I picked up the material I had from my classes and started doing random topics. After 15 days I realized that this kind of unstructured prep will not lead to anything. I started searching for online courses and I stumbled upon GMATWhiz. I set up a call with Piyush and decided to try the free trial. The free trial gives you access to enough course material to be able to make up your mind about buying the subscription. Following were the pros and cons of GMATWhiz for me:

Pros:

1. The schedule made by the platform really gives your entire preparation a well-defined structure and ensures that you spend appropriate time on every topic and that you do not leave out any topic.
2. The AI constantly recommends adding or removing topics from your preparation depending on your performance in practice quizzes.
3. The modules and the practice questions help you to understand the various tricks employed by the test-makers in the actual exam.
4. The topic-wise OG questions are mentioned at the end of each module.
5. You are assigned a mentor from the very start of your preparation. Saquib (my assigned mentor) provided constant Guidance backed by AI data and it really helped me in identifying my weak areas. Saquib was a great mentor and gave the right guidance at every step of my prep.
6. The practice question bank (QWizard) has around 700 and 400 questions for quant and verbal respectively and the questions cover almost everything you can possibly be tested on in the actual exam. You can use a variety of filters to create timed custom quizzes as per your requirement.
7. If you have any doubt in any question, you can ask on the forum for that question and you will get a reply from the experts within a few hours. (Most of the doubts which may arise have been asked and answered in the forum already.)
8. You can adjust the speed of the video modules as per your preference.
9. The entire website is user-friendly and easy to navigate.

Cons:

1. I wanted to study verbal and quant together, but the AI structured my prep to finish the entire verbal module first and then start with quant. (Now there is an option to allocate your time between quant and verbal according to your preference.)
2. I had to refer to some external sources for Work-Rate, Time-Speed-Distance, and PnC to gain a deeper understanding of the topics.
3. No provision of adaptive mocks.
4. I found the time mentioned against each module to be too high. It took me approximately 60% of the time mentioned to complete the modules.