I took the Verbal Online Prep, in Aug 2017 when I was restarting my preparation for the GMAT. The Verbal Course is phenomenal and truly helps a non-native English speaker understand the core rules of spoken and written English. The course is very well structured and divided into easy-to-do sections. I took up the Gmat preparation after 5 years in service and the course got me up to speed with the format of the GMAT, the structure of the questions and the quickest methods to solve SC/CR and RC questions. In the next couple of sections, I will explain what worked for me in the Verbal Online Prep

Verbal-Online

Background
I am an engineer with an Oil and Gas E&P Company in India and I have been working since 2012. As with any regular engineer in my country, I was pretty decent on my Quant and average on my Verbal. Since I manage operations in my company, my work is pretty dynamic and I spend anywhere close 9-10 hours a day working, sometimes even on weekends. I started my GMAT preparation back in Nov 2015 but achieved my desired results Jan 2018. Over the years I sampled almost all the test prep products in the Market and I can safely say that the E-GMAT course is the best strategy and test prep course on the market.

Before I started with the E-GMAT. I had tried Classroom Coaching, which I never felt was as helpful as the E-GMAT course. After realising that my classroom prep was insufficient, I started doing self-study. The highest score that I got on Verbal was a V34. However, I was always aiming > V40 score on the GMAT. By July 2017, I had given multiple GMAT attempts and was out of ideas as to how to increase my score. A friend introduced me to the E-GMAT Verbal Prep. Since the test prep module was online, I was skeptical whether I would be able to clarify my doubts on the E-GMAT platform because the online course follows a fixed structure. I thought I would miss the attempt to speak to someone and get my doubts clarified. However, my skepticism was unfounded. The E-GMAT answer forums are a Gold-mine of information and there were days when I just went thru the Forum to understand how people think about, how do they deconstruct the questions.

Course Structure
The Course Structure is very straightforward. You start off with the Strategy and the Master Comprehension Module. Both these modules are essential to kick-start your preparation. The Strategy Module will help you prepare a strategy to get to your desired score. The Master-Comprehension Module was an eye-opener. The Module introduces the meaning based approach and gives you a complete low-down on how to effectively apply the meaning based approach.
After going thru the basic modules, the real action starts on the individual section modules. The Section modules are fun and I gleaned a lot of information, ideas and methods to solve the Verbal Questions. Mind you, by this time I had already given the GMAT thrice and I thought I already knew quite a lot about verbal section on the GMAT. The E-GMAT Verbal Online Prep changed that notion. Daily I was learning about new things that I had not read and found during my self-preparation.

Course Concepts

The course breaks down tough concepts into easy to understand videos and slides. Before starting the course, I knew I had trouble with SC and RC. The SC course started with the meaning based-approach to solve the questions and the approach was carried on to CR and RC question solving as well. All the 3 sections are nicely done and they give you a feel of complete control of the Verbal Section. One of the best things about each of the sections is that each section starts from the basics and then keeps building up towards tougher questions. Further, the concepts that you learn in SC are useful for both CR and RC.

Scholaranium

Scholaranium is the best tool for analysis and rectification. The Verbal online Scholaranium is quite detailed and really gives you an idea about your weaknesses and helps you prepare by practising more questions of a certain type. The scholaranium has the option of letting you choose between Easy, Medium, Hard questions. The Easy, Medium and Hard Categories are true representations of the Questions on the GMAT. The hard questions of all the 3 sections are fantastic. For the attempt in which I scored 740 (Q49/V41), I figured thru scholaranium that even though I was doing the questions correctly, but I was taking a lot more time to do the questions. My timing was way above the "takt" time and this timing issue was causing me all sorts of problems on the real test. Once I figured out in which sections I had the worst timings, I started to work on the questions selectively and kept on improving my timings. Another benefit of the platform is that it provides detailed solutions with a great forum discussion topic and an ability to bookmark and review the questions.

Verbal Workshops
The Verbal workshops are tests conducted by the E-Gmat team. These tests give you a detailed feedback on your strengths and weaknesses. This is a must-try for anyone who is looking to improve his/her score. In my first attempt I got a score ~ 69 percent in the Verbal Workshop and in my Final attempt I got a score ~ 89 %. Once I checked the scores, I knew I was ready for the real test.

Overall, I wholeheartedly recommend the course to students. The course is flexible enough to adapt the different requirements and will truly help you understand the areas of improvement. The course is really great for new test-takers as well as seasoned test-takers.

For further details on my experience of testing multiple time on the GMAT you could also read my debrief at https://gmatclub.com/forum/a-lifetime-journey-gmat-259969.html

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I completed all the sections of the verbal Online Course, in the exact manner as recommended. I contacted one of e-gmat's executiive based out of delhi, and seeked his help to design my detailed study plan. The executive was very helpful and flexible. He helped me identify my weaknesses by evaluating the ESR of my first GMAT test, and then guided me how the verbal online course can help. I went through all the videos and discovered that there were so many new concepts that I had not understood before. The course is really a must for everyone preparing for GMAT.

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I think egmat course specially for verbal section is the best specially for sentence correction. I was really poor in sentence correction i hardly able to make it correct because i don't know any grammar rules. So i heard from my friend about egmat and read its reviews and we 3 friends purchased the whole course of egmat but not live one. I read or saw every single videos of Sentence correction and solve their quiz. It took 2 months to saw every single video but after that my sentence correction get 90% accuracy and i was able to understand explanation on various sentence correction question but i will not recommend this course for mathematics as its of no use.

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e-Gmat is a great platform to prepare for GMAT verbal. Specially, for preparation of sentence correction and RC, e-gmat is of great help.
It helps in strengthen the necessary concepts for sentences corrections. The course is designed in scientific manner. For non native students its the ultimate solution. Course explains all the necessary sentence correction concepts.
The RC videos were helpful as well. e-GMAT provides you a number of key strategies that you must keep in mind while reading through RCs.
The best part is that, they have a standard GMAT question bank that consists actual CAT standard questions. One can form timed tests from that. Question solutions are also explained properly.

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Being a non-native speaker, I was literally struggling in verbal and my score remained stagnant for quite some time. After analysing mock tests, I have realised that SC was my pain point. Looking desperately for help, I came across e-GMAT's Verbal online course and went ahead with it.

I religiously followed the SC approach explained in the concept files and within no time, my Verbal score increased significantly. e-GMAT has helped me structure my approach towards verbal and played a huge role in improving both accuracy and speed.

I will recommend e-GMAT's verbal online course 11 out of 10 times if you are struggling in verbal (especially sentence correction).

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After almost a 10 year break from academia, I wanted a course that could really help me develop a solid foundation for my verbal skills. Also the fact that I had not been using English as a primary language for conversation in all these years made things even more difficult for me. After a lot of deliberation and attending a lot of free webinars from e-GMAT, I finally decided on e-GMAT verbal online course. And honestly, I was not disappointed at all. The online course did help me create sound basics and strategies to tackle different types of questions. The webinars and personalized doubt solving sessions complemented the course content very well. The practice questions and explanations provided in the scholaranium are of great quality and the inbuilt analytics help you identify and focus on your weak areas.
I scored a 570 on my first mock test before the course, and by the time i finished the course and practice from scholaranium i scored a 700 on a GMAT prep 2 on the day before my actual test (my first attempt on which i scored a 690). In the end I was pretty satisfied with my score in the first attempt and of course it took a lot more practice from various other materials to reach my target score of 740 in my third attempt. The foundation set by e-GMAT in my early days did help me throughout my GMAT journey.

So in short for eGMAT:

"The content is great but what makes it even better is the way it is delivered. I highly recommend it to everyone looking to develop strong foundations for the verbal part of the test"

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I subscribed to E-gmat Verbal online course and I must say that it was totally worth every penny.
The subject presentation is very enticing. Learning grammar rules is a piece of cake of cake using E-gmat's interactive modules.

If you are not an pro in English and looking for a course that provides you wholesome material, this is what you are looking for.

Later on. I purchased Quant online module as well. The Quant Online course is also good but not that necessary for Engineers or someone who's good in aptitude. But it definitely helps in practicing GMAT style questions.

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(The following review is an honest, unpaid and unbiased assessment of e-GMAT's Verbal Live Prep course as a satisfied user.)

I signed up for e-GMAT on July 27, went through their general instructions, and went straight to the SC concept files. I discovered that the concept files provided very good explanations of the fundamental rules of grammar and sentence construction that are most relevant to the actual GMAT test.

The quizzes at the end of each concept file allowed me to test and solidify my understanding of the lessons I had just completed.

I also found the explanatory notes at the end of every answer quite comprehensive, precise and easy to understand. These explanations showed that any question can be attempted by sincerely following the approach laid out in the concept files.

I didn’t always score well in the quizzes that followed the concept files. However, I followed e-GMAT’s suggestion to flag the incorrect or trickier questions and return to them as often as required, until I began to answer them correctly. Gaining complete clarity on e-GMAT questions in this way proved to be the game-changer for me, because those questions seem to be designed to closely resemble actual GMAT questions.

I scored relatively lower on most RC and CR quizzes for quite some time. The breakthrough happened when I began to patiently apply pre-thinking steps and started to zero in on the correct solutions faster and with significantly better accuracy.

My suggestion to anyone who signs up for e-GMAT -

Pay attention to the instructions and try not to deviate from the suggested way of using e-GMAT.
Try to stick to the order in which concept files are presented.
Don’t skip the quizzes at the end of the concept files.
Don’t get discouraged if you cannot score well on the quizzes in your first, second or even fifth attempt. Just read the explanatory notes carefully, flag the question, and come back to them.
e-GMAT’s RC and CR questions can be intimidating, but that's only to prepare you better for the actual GMAT. The trick lies in perseverance and practice.

- Anupriya

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I was not good at the verbal section. In my first attempt I scored 21 in verbal, which was really very bad. I got 49 in maths. But ended up in a low score because of verbal. In my first attempt I prepared mainly through Manhattan books and CATs. Manhattan SC is a really good book to understand the basics. But it is not good enough to score high marks.

While, preparing for 2nd attempt I purchased egmat. SC is really of gold standard. No doubt about it. It will teach you many concepts and make you feel very confident at the end of the course. I won't rate CR and RC in the same level of SC. But it is good to go. My verbal score improved from 21 to 29. I believe in RC no course can improve your score. It depends on your prior reading habits. But CR and SC any one can improve if they get good guidance. For SC I would rate it 9/10. For CR I would say 7/10. I would recommend this course specially to any non-english natives.

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I always felt GMAT is a simple test but which is difficult to master. Initially, i relied on only test questions and practice tests to prepare for the test, hoping that i will learn the requisite concepts during those practice sessions. Those tests were helpful, however they did not translate into the scores that i was targeting- something above 730. Then i came across e-GMAT's online course and attended a free seminar. I liked the verbal course offerings (my quant was sorted anyways!) and hence i decided to give it a try. Plus, the 40 point improvement guarantee was a reassurance for me. The things that stood out for me were the meaning based approach to SC questions and the way the scholaranium questions were designed to test not only the rules but also the understanding of the meaning. So, when i retook the exam, i had a method to my reasoning - this resulted in more confidence and clarity in eliminating the wrong choices.No wonders i saw a significant improvement in my verbal score the second time around and ended up with a 740(V38,Q51).

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