I was struggling a lot with sentence correction in the verbal section of the GMAT. The e-gmat course manages to cover concepts which other courses dont normally cover, and forces you to apply the rules methodically through the e-gmat process (for example, most people dont realize that -ing and -ed modifiers can modify both nouns and verbs!). The CR and RC preparation is also quite good, and in many cases is harder than the real thing (forcing you to prethink/read passages with detail before answering the questions). Would recommend to anyone as part of their preparation to break the V40 barrier.

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Hello everyone. I am here today to share my ongoing GMAT preparation experience with Egmat. I got to know about Egmat through GMAT Club. I particularly liked the way in which information and resources are presented on the site, and I was convinced within minutes to sign up for its verbal course. Egmat is helping me in providing me all the necessary concepts and strategies to be confident with my GMAT preparation. As we all know our success entirely depends on how much time we have on your hands to invest in the goal, but for me it all boils down to how effectively we use our time. From the get-go, I focused mostly on the verbal and started with the absolute basics. Within a couple of weeks things looked better and topics started making sense to me. Earlier I always get the cold feet with the verbal question during the mock, but later I started getting the gut feeling that I know this question.
One strategy I am following diligently in SC that first understand the meaning.In any scenario, I will not look the options before analyzing the original sentence. Similarly, in CR my first stand will be to identify the conclusion and connect it with other pieces in the argument. For RC I am just following the read and solve approach. The video lessons on Egmat are pretty helpful on this count. I am very grateful to Shradhha, Payal, Krishna and Neeti for helping me out with my doubts. Thank you Team

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20 Days before the exam, I still had very low confidence on my accuracy in Sentence Correction.

Even though I had read the Manhattan SC book and learnt some concepts, I was not able to apply these learnings while practicing Official Guide Questions primarily because of its lack of practice questions similar to OG.
I also felt that concepts taught in the Manhattan SC book were a bit easier than those tested in Official Guide, though the explanations were very clear and I felt I learnt a lot from the book.

Confident that my SC prep was not upto the mark, I started searching for online resources.

Trying to save some money, I collected all the SC PDF's available on gmatclub forum. I eventually (2-3 days later) realized that even though the free resources had good material, I found myself reading a new doc every few hours and was unable to focus on one. At the end of 2-3 days, I realized I had not learnt anything concrete.

This was an unnecessary wastage of time and I quickly decided to buy a good course to help me focus on only 1 source of learning. Going through the reviews, it was clear that e-GMAT verbal is amongst the best, and definitely the best for non-natives. Without thinking twice, I subscribed for the Sentence Correction course (which was available individually at that time).

I decided to devote one complete week (of the 18 days remaining) to e-GMAT sentence correction. I found the course extremely helpful. All the concepts were very clearly explained and all the edge cases were covered too. Their 3 step approach helps you in breaking down a long sentence in smaller easy to understand part. This was an extremely helpful technique.

The practice quizzes and questions were really good and of the level of Official Questions.

One word of caution, when I was following the course I was practicing questions topic by topic. Hence they are a bit easy to solve because you know what type of error is going to be in the question. Even thought the course always advises to use the 3 step approach, I felt it is not possible to do this when you are trying to quickly solve these questions ( or maybe I had little time to internalize this approach).

Hence I will advise to keep some time to solve official question, after getting done with the E-gmat course. With the concepts taught, it is possible to get at least 90% accuracy depending on the time and efforts one puts.

Overall, it proved extremely helpful to me, even in the short time span of 3 weeks and helped me get 730 (V:40).

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I found the course content and course structure very well organized and super helpful. Super work!!!

I felt so confident in CR section after going through the e-gmat content that now I can easily solve 11-12 questions correctly out of 13. The SC video explainations are superb and thorough. This is the best staring point in your gmat prep journey.

The scholarium questions are also very good to practice and build on your concepts. They have a good number of questions on all the sections of GMAT. The analytics of the performance also helps in understanding the weak areas.

I would strongly recommend this product to all my friends and Gmatclub friends.

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I have started my GMAT Prep before 7 month.Initially when i was looking for some material to study, however it was really confusing.My initial score was 470 as well.I had a feelng like i cannot improve on my quant score however i was really wondering on RC ,CR and SC with pretty average application skill.

Then, my friend introduced me to e-GMAT and I cannot thank him enough for having done that. After a 6 month long break, I felt the need to go over SC and CR concepts as well and the videos provided by e-GMAT made them a whole lot of fun. I would stay up till late night, watching the videos, almost like I'd be watching movies. They were light and helped me brush up my concepts very well. I had read someone's review about making handwritten notes while watching videos and then transferring those onto notepad at the end of each day as that would not only help you revise, but also create a handy notebook for you to skim through while you're on the move. This tip helped me a lot and I would really recommend it to others as well.

The CR and RC videos were really helpful . e-GMAT provides you a number of key strategies that you must keep in mind while reading through the arguments. The one strategy that worked wonders for me was "to get immersed" in everything. These strategies seem very time consuming in the beginning, but within no time, you start to internalise them.

The other thing that I absolutely loved about the VLP was the scholaranium. Since I knew that RC and SC was my weak point, I had decided to do atleast 4 passages every day, along with 20 SCs and 20 CRs. I am yet to give my GMAT now which is already scheduled on August 21st. Now I am feeling confident and hope to get a score more that 700 .
Thank you e-GMAT once again and thanks to all those who read my review till the very end. I hope I was able to motivate a few of you out there like me, who may have totally given up on verbal.

All the best to you all !!

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I had taken GMAT in October 2016 and got an overall score of 680(Q50, V32). I must say that the improvement on my score should be attributed to the way e-GMAT kept me confident and comfortable throughout my preparation.
When I took my first mock from GMATPrep, I ended up with a score of 600(Q-50, V-22), which highlighted my weakness at key concepts in SC and CR. While I was able to ace Quant without external preparation, the same can’t be said about Verbal. As a non-native English speaker, I was desperate to push my verbal score by at least 32 in order to reach 700(Q51 V32 can fetch you 700), which was my target score. After going through a myriad of reviews on GMAT Club, I was convinced that I should enroll for e-GMAT Verbal Online course, and I must say it was a great decision in my short journey of preparation.
To begin with, I enjoyed the way e-GMAT covered the fundamentals of Grammar (for SC). Each and every concept in grammar is taught logically aided by relatable illustrations. During my course of preparation, I felt that e-GMAT not only debunked the myths surrounding a lot of concepts but also helped me to unlearn and relearn things that were taught incorrectly at school. Moreover, at the end of each lesson, the concepts are summarized in a nutshell that helped me big time as I am naturally bad at taking notes. Concepts, such as Modifiers and Parallelism, are cleared with ease through the documents that they provide along with the audio/video material.
In addition to SC, I lacked skills in solving hard CR questions especially the ones that are based on Strengtheners and Assumptions. Fortunately, e-GMAT teaches it to you beautifully through a test called Negation that leads you to the assumption. Similarly, e-GMAT brings out different concepts such as pre-thinking and variance analysis in order to get to the understanding in detail. Along with these materials, you have Scholaranium that provides you the flexibility to create custom quizzes (I needed them for SC and CR), which can be used efficiently to track your ability (not just accuracy) throughout your preparation. Moreover, I found that these questions had a high correlation with the questions in GMATPrep, and hence I resorted only to GMATPrep for my Mocks (unlike MGMAT). I scored 660 and 670 in the mocks written days before the exam. I was not moving ahead as my Quant score was stuck at 5o.
During the actual GMAT, I breezed through the Quant section, and in fact, I completed the section with over 15 minutes on my clock. I had even hopes of touching 51 this time. In the verbal, I felt that I was sailing in smooth waters till question number 25. A super-hard RC struck me badly, and I had less than 5 minutes for my last five questions. I rushed through those questions, and I still believe they reduced my score by at least 3 points. When I submitted my exam, I saw 680 flashing on my screen (Q50 V32). Even though I didn’t reach 700, I made a great improvement within a short span of time.
Finally, I would like to thank e-GMAT for pushing my score close to my target. I hope this review would be helpful for non-natives who seek betterment in Verbal. e-GMAT is here for you!
All the very best for your preparations!

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Verbal Prep was great help to improve my score my V34 to V41. The videos and suggested strategies were really helpful! It helped me to improve my score in Verbal. Would suggest follow all the strategies suggested and practice a lot after that. In my first attempt, I only used part e-gmat strategy and part mine in Verbal. It didn’t help. Follow their strategies completely and it really helps. I went through all videos twice before my GMAT and practiced their strategies on all OG questions. Plus, the verbal workshop I attended was also very helpful.
I would highly recommend the course.

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E-gmat offers excellent resources to self-study for the verbal part in GMAT, especially the Sentence Correction section. It really focuses on the important and tricky points that students are often confused and make mistakes. The instructor has an excellent approach to explain grammatical foundation to help students understand and apply the knowledge in answering SC questions. Questions to practice are ok, not too hard, but enough to help students remember grammatical points. Additional practice questions are provided at the end of each module together with Official Guide questions. Scholaranium is ok: some questions are similar but others are more about emphasizing the grammatical points rather than reaching the difficulty level in GMAT exam. I hope to have more practice questions and modules can be made longer. However, I think the SC has covered pretty significant volume of grammar points to review for GMAT.

Great course so far!

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My first attempt at GMAT gave me a 600. I was depressed with the course. My verbal course was pathetic. I prepared using Manhattan SC book, but was not satisfied as my confidence was not great.
I was recommended e-gmat by a friend. I started preparing from verbal online prep and verbal live prep. Within no time, i started gaining confidence and better scores. The Scholarium in the verbal section is the best. I am yet to take my GMAT, but i have recently got 690 in mock prep and i feel its mainly coz of e-gmat. Everything is great with e-gmat. However, kindly be informed that they will charge you if you want to extend your course. I have read in this forum that it will be extended for free. However, i was charged. It seems there is an option to disable the course for some duration if you want to take a break from preparation. Do use it. All the best :)

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I decided to apply for a Top10 B-School long time ago. I was totally aware that to have at least some chance to be admitted I needed to reach a really great score in the GMAT, a quite difficult exam, as long as I had heard by then. So I decided to buy some study material, from some of the most prestigious publishers in the world. I will not name them here, but they are some of the people who have produced really enriching material in the past.

By that time I was working in the US, a dream I had pursued for the previous two years and hence I wanted to demonstrate my supervisors my commitment with my job and with my company. Therefore, I had no much time left and it was clear that this GMAT thing would take me a while and I would not get my super score overnight. However, I was not aware of how difficult this thing would really be…

I am an engineer, so I supposed that Quantitative wouldn´t be a big deal. So although I studied for it I focused on Verbal. I am a non-native, but I think I have been average good at English all my life, so I felt confident that I would improve quite a lot and would get a high score. So after studying for some months I scheduled my exam within several weeks and, went for it. For whatever reason, I did not do any practice exam in advance (don´t ask me why, probably in my arrogant way of thinking I felt I didn´t need it). I did the exam, feeling fine about it, but I was amazed when the screen said I had just got 570. I was really expecting way higher score than that one, something close to the 700s. That day I realized that GMAT was something to take into account, not just a mere exam like those of college. This is hard stuff.

So I revisited the study material I had, the one from the recognized publisher (I am not using “recognized” ironically, they have really good stuff out there), and did tons of exercises, with not more guide that the one in the books I was using. I studied hard for a year, using each loose hour I had to study (I was travelling a lot for work by that time, I did many of those exercises in planes and hotel rooms), confident that if I put hours and hours on it I would improve my score considerably. That strategy had worked out pretty well all my life, why wouldn´t work with this regards? I was absolutely wrong… I took the exam several more times, but I did not get to the 700s not even close.

I was really upset: I had studied a good amount of hours, gone through my books and repeated the strategies learnt on them. What was going on? No matter how hard I was working on this and how much of my time I was diverting to this, I wasn´t able to surpass a line. I wasn´t being inefficient in my study, I was having hours of study of good quality, but that wasn´t counting. It was like having and upper barrier above me that I was not capable to break. So one Sunday, searching in internet I found GMATClub. I didn´t get into it too much that day (mistake, GMATClub is just amazing, I would like to post another review of them here), but there I was recommended to attend a free webinar by a company I didn´t know about. It was scheduled an hour later and I had nothing better to do that Sunday, so I joined. There was a gent giving a brief explanation about how is GMAT exam organized first, and then describing a feeling that he assured many people experienced when preparing the exam. He was saying that for many people, no matter how hard they study, they were stopped up to a certain level and a certain score. Beyond that level, they weren’t able to pass. By that time, my concentration on the webinar was 1000%, that gent was describing basically what was happening to me! He was saying that there were several reasons for not being able to surpass such barrier, but the most important were not having developed your core skills properly, and probably the way you were absorbing knowledge (in my case, my books from the traditional publishers). He defined that situation of being stuck at one level as “Score Plateau”, which is a very appropriate term, in my opinion. That gent was Rajat Sadana, co-founder of e-GMAT, and he was presenting his e-GMAT Verbal Live Prep course.

I decided to take that course right away and soon I started to realize how misled my study strategy had been. The Verbal Live Prep course changes from top to bottom the way you approach the Verbal section of the GMAT Exam. Rajat, Payal, Krishna and the rest of experts of e-GMAT (whom I am very grateful to) change the way you envision this in both form and content.

Content: because they re-define many of the core concepts that you need to understand previously to master the GMAT: the difference between accuracy and ability, the real definition of an Assumption or how you can truly read a passage with effective Reading Comprehension, for instance; because they provide you with powerful tools to face a question: the Pre-Thinking approach, the Negation Test, the iSWAT choices, the difference between polar opposite and logical opposite, the Variance Analysis, and so many other concepts that help you understand deeply what you are asked; because they have such a good question bank, way better that any other I might have tried, to help you understand the lessons first and master the sections afterwards; because they give you access to practice exams from 800Score and GMATClub, the stepping stones on your way to master the exam, in my opinion.

Form: because they use an online course that is a format significantly more effective than traditional books. Organized intelligently, this course gives you access to related problems, right after a concept is learnt. It is pretty easy to navigate and easier to carry (I do not need to bring my heavy books with me when flying in my work trips). The course does not allow you to keep going if detects that you have not internalized the concepts taught. This gives you the security of not being leaving important stuff behind unwittingly. Besides, each lesson is reinforced with Live Sessions on the weekends, where you not only go over what you have studied, but you also learn some strategic tips to increase your performance when practicing, and can ask all the questions that you have come up with during the week.

I have scheduled my GMAT exams within three weeks from now. My score in my last practice exam, four days ago, was 750. I do not know how well I will perform, but these guys have indeed given me something I lacked before: an enormous confidence on myself and on my knowledge. I will tell you in twenty days…

Good luck to you all.

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