Hey people I'm Sushanth.
I always thought that breaking the 700 score barrier on the GMAT wasn't something that I would be able to, but thankfully I was wrong.
As you people will notice in the details that I have mentioned as a part of this review, I had already given the GMAT once before taking up E-GMAT's Verbal Online course. I scored a 640 on my first attempt, way below what I had initially expected. The break-up was Q-48 and V-30 IR-2.
Post this, I wrote an e-mail to the E-GMAT team and decided to try their Verbal online course. A point that I was able to infer, was with respect to my performance in the critical reasoning and reading comp sections. I had performed pretty badly and hence decided to hone my verbal skills for the second attempt. I scored 710 on the second attempt,
the breakup mentioned here:- Q-50 V-36 IR-5.

Now coming to the actual crux of the matter, the E-GMAT Verbal Online Course is actually pretty good. In fact, after reading lots of negative reviews online I decided not to go for it, but post the first attempt I figured I didn't have anything to lose. The course ended up being very detailed, interactive, and well designed. It has lots of inputs and details that are really useful. I didn't really use it for SC, as I was decent with that, but instead used it to work on CR and RC. The scholaranium is a nice place to test out your comprehension of the concepts. It is customizable and has really nice questions of varying difficulty. The cementing quizzes are pretty cool too.
All of the separate SC, CR, and RC sections have concept and application files, which are really well-designed. There are pre-quizzes and post-quizzes that help you assess your comprehension of the intended concept as well.
Also, FYI I wrote the Online GMAT on my second attempt. (The Online GMAT is really nice, i.e. you don't have to go out and write the test in an environment you're not accustomed to.)
P.S.- Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the GMAT, E-GMAT's Verbal Online Course,etc.
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Hi Reader,

I took the e-gmat course and found it to be extremely helpful for my gmat preparation. I first took the verbal course and then took the quant course as well. E-gmat's structured approach really helped me a lot.
1) Scholaranium: I found scholaranium and the data analytics behind it quite useful. The ability and custom quizes were quite useful in addressing the gaps in my preparation
2) Theory / Modules: I also found the modules, practice and concept quizes quite useful they helped me build a good understanding of the subject and have a strucutred approach. Sentence correction was particularly useful. Also, the ability to refer back to the modules as and when needed further helped in my practise.
3) I think e-gmat is a very good course, good value for money and the e-gmat team is always quite supportive. After my first attempt their team personally evaluated my ESR and then provided me with a strategy to improve my score. Overall I recommend e-gmat course without any reservations.

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An exam in which the abundance of resources and lack of clarity regarding the syllabus often confuses the aspirants about their study plan, EGMAT becomes the perfect guide. Not only is the course very well structured, but is also crafted precisely for GMAT. While my overall experience with the course was phenomenal, the Verbal section in particular exceeded my expectations. On top of that, the course has a very quick response time (within 24 hours) to any of your queries. The live sessions offer an ever better insight into the hurdles that the test makers throw at the test takers, further making the GMAT journey even simpler for its students.

To sum up the pros:
1. Well structured;
2. Detailed and exhaustive;
3. Affordable;
4. Quick response

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I might fail to keep this short because I really want everyone to know how great a job has eGMAT done. I have tried a lot of platforms to prepare for GMAT.

1.eGMAT is different in the sense that it understands the process better than anyone else. It is difficult to excel in GMAT based on intuition, eGMAT builds a whole narrative to help you approach a problem. Right from how to read a sentence to help effectively attain a step by step process to actually arrive at the right answer and reject all others on the strong ground.

2. eGMAT has done an excellent job in that their special scholarium portal not only focusses on the questions answered incorrectly but also why one spent those extra seconds even if they answered it correctly. It is a rigorous process that ultimately leads you to solve any question in a structured manner and eliminate the answer choices. 

3. The analytics is massive, you will know exactly where you need to focus and there will be a personalized email to follow these 2-3 steps to get a stronghold in your weaker sections.

4. The mock tests are beautiful. They are probably the closest to the actual GMAT.

In all, it is a brilliant package especially for people who struggle in Verbal. eGMAT's Verbal Section, Scholarium, and the Mock test series are hands down the best in the businesses out there. 

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GMAT Club has really helped me in clearing majority of my doubts. It is an apt platform where you can read about a variety of explanations and methods to understand the solution. Since GMAT Club provides the option of attempting the questions first and then reading the answer, it also acts as a very useful tool for practice. In Quant, the step by step explanation of answers always with the detailed concept aids in a huge way to grasp on the learnings in a better manner. The question bank of GMAT is extremely abundant. I have rarely seen any questions which are not on GMAT Club.

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The moment I logged into the e-GMAT course work I fell in love with the interface and the way the course work is structured. The first thing I did was complete their two-hour master comprehension module and it just changed the way I did verbal thereafter. I felt I was learning something new, content that I could use in my day to day life and it was fun. I decided to consume the material the way they recommended and did not skip even a single section. I went from not understanding what I was doing to being totally confident in my verbal ability/concepts.

The Scholaranium platform is a perfect tool to practise and to keep a check on your performance. It helped me immensely. You don't need to step outside of e-GMAT in search of material or concepts, an activity that would otherwise make you get lost with endless material which is available on the internet.

I definitely recommend e-GMAT to anyone who is struggling with the verbal section of the GMAT.

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Just like others, I also started my preparation by solving OG (which is of course not the right way to start) and I soon realized that I am not improving. Since I was not planning to apply to B-schools this year, I was not consistent with my prep and hence decided to invest in preparation for becoming serious.

After doing a lot of research, I finally decided to go ahead with e-gmat. I can surely say that it’s a no brainer decision to go ahead with e-gmat if you are targeting a high score.

The e-gmat course is very structured and comes with support from e-gmat strategy team. I was fortunate enough to get support from Dhananjay. I was under the impression that studying GMAT verbal is going to be a subjective experience but his 1st email opened my eyes and explained a structured approach to ace the GMAT.

He worked with me very closely and created a customized plan for me after analyzing my mocks and highlighted my weakness in managing time and low accuracy in SC questions.

He was even available on the weekends to answer questions and resolve my doubts. (Though that should not be the expectation :) )

I genuinely appreciate his dedication and he is really an expert in helping people ace the GMAT.

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The course is very carefully designed taking into consideration the exact type of questions that get asked in the exam.
1. Sentence Correction - The course presented only the topics / concepts that are relevant from the exam point of view. This helped save a lot of time. Although, I followed a slightly different approach while attempting the questions, the concepts were very well explained.
2. Critical Reasoning - I tried following the pre-thinking concept. Although, I was not successful in pre-thinking at all the times, yet it helped me get to the right answer a lot of times. The concepts helped me develop a thought process that is needed to attempt the questions correctly.
3. Reading Comprehension - I just practiced RC questions from the Scholaranium. Did not see all the video lectures.
4. Scholaranium - This is a true TREASURE. The number of questions are more than sufficient to ace the exams. I re-attempted a lot of questions. The best part was that I had the flexibility to choose the number of questions and the time that I want to allocate. I
5. Forum - Was really helpful in addressing a lot of my doubts that were not addressed through the solutions. Kudos to the entire support team for addressing all the doubts so patiently and quickly !

In all, the course provided a very structured way of studying. Was really happy with the course till the very end.

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Very helpful for verbal section, especially the SC content. EGMAT's mock tests are also very close to main GMAT, even on the scoring front.

I used EGMAT's verbal online resource for SC preparation and it helped me achieve good accuracy.

Prethinking also helped in CR.

Would recommend EGMAT for anyone looking to take their verbal score to 40+

Have also heard good things about their Quant resource but I personally didn't use it.

One of the good features was revising concepts using concept specific questions, by skipping the concepts.

The analytics provided is also helpful to understand where you are going wrong

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You can't go wrong with e-GMAT. The course is comprehensive, the analysis tools are highly useful, and the questions are great at highlighting where your weaknesses lie when you get them wrong.

The quant course is pretty much perfect. It's comprehensive, has extensive material and practice questions on all relevant topics, and the difficulty levels are pretty much the same as those of the real GMAT. On top of that, the analysis tools time every question individually and collect data for average and benchmark times, so if you think you might have trouble with timing on the real GMAT, the quant course is perfect for you. I went from 44 (48%) to 50 (86%), and probably would have scored 51 if I hadn't misread a I II III question in a hurry (those questions are my bane, on one of my real GMAT attempts I identified the correct answer to be "2 only", but chose "II only" before remembering to check what those statements actually said).

The verbal course is very good. The only imperfection is that the writing style is a little bit different from the GMAT's, but that can be easily remedied by doing only official questions after you've learned all the material in the course and have about a week before your exam. I didn't actually improve my official score at all in verbal after having done the course, because I apparently screwed up a bunch of critical reasoning questions (the verbal question type I have the most performance variability with), but I nonetheless think the course is great for verbal because I was scoring 45 and 47 on 5 official practice tests before the real exam (4 of which I had done more than a month and a half before, 1 of which I had never done and then scored 47 on), whereas I had been scoring consistently less than 43 on all practice exams I took before taking the course.

If you're still unsure, do the free trial. The audio quality kind of sucked the when I did it, but the format suited me and the practice questions were very useful. The audio and the rest of the media in the real course turned out to be clean and sophisticated anyway, so don't worry about that.

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