Strengths:

Master Comprehension and meaning based approach in SC
Prethinking in CR
Process skills based approach in Quant

IF I CAN, YOU CAN TOO…

If you have never taken a standardized test before and are worried about how you will fare in the GMAT, read on..
If you are dealing with issues such as nervousness and anxiety in your prep for GMAT, read on..
If you think you are out of touch with your studies and too old now to get a decent score in the GMAT, read on..

The Beginning
It all started with the decision to switch careers after 20 years. An MBA from a prestigious institution appeared to be the most appropriate bridge from government service to corporate. Hence taking the GMAT seemed to be the most logical step. After searching the internet for resources I subscribed to a particular test prep company to start with. I took their online classes for 3 months, in which they taught me the basics of quant and verbal. Having never taken a standardized test or anything that tested my quantitative and verbal abilities, I found this to be a good start. It was only during these three months that I came across gmatclub.com.
As per the suggestion of the test prep company, after completion of their course, I revised the syllabus and took the first official mock test as a Diagnostic test. I was hoping to be somewhere between 650 and 680 at that stage. And with another 2 months of preparation, I hoped to reach my target of 700 +. However, I was in for a rude shock as I scored only a 540. Nevertheless, I prepared for another two months all the while using resources of the test prep company and GMAT club. After another two and half months, i.e. sometime in September, I took another mock test (free) from another test prep company and scored a 600. Needless to say, I was depressed by this. My abilities in verbal never gave me confidence that I could score above a v33. I kept preparing all through October on my own and took another mock test (free) this time on the egmat portal. I again scored a 600.
I was undecided for some time whether I should continue preparing on my own using gmatclub resources or seek some other professional help. I decided to reach out to egmat this time. They give me a specific plan after having analysed my performance in their free SigmaX mock test. They told me my weaknesses and strengths and accordingly suggested me a study plan. This is what I was looking for. Somebody to tell me exactly what to do, since I had no clue how to proceed, and did not want to waste time in figuring that out.

New Beginning
I subscribed to egmat and my journey with them started in the first week of November 2022. I was assigned a mentor (Abha) who told me exactly where to start. To my surprise she told me that as per my performance in the mock test, I am already at an 89 percentile in SC, and so I could skip the SC module. However, I was suggested to go through the Master Comprehension module before taking the cementing quizzes in Sentence Correction. The master comprehension module of egmat was a game changer for me. Never ever had I been taught to read, the way Master Comprehension taught me. I realised reading and understanding are two different things. And in verbal on the GMAT, if you read a single word without understanding it in the overall context, you are doomed. Using the process that I learned in the Master Comprehension module and applying the ‘meaning-based approach’, I completed the cementing phase in Sentence Correction in good time and went on to CR. In CR, the ‘pre-thinking’ approach really helped me. I did use it earlier, but now I was doing it better, even in Inference questions – something, I earlier thought, did not need pre-thinking. I did take some time to clear the cementing phases in CR and likewise in RC.

Quant, in Egmat, is ‘PACE’ enabled, I was told, and that would save me time by skipping modules in which I am comfortable. I started going through the sub sections, however, I could not clear all the cementing phases in one go. During such difficulties, Abha kept guiding me at every step. As I was going through cementing in various subsections, Abha told me to keep taking the ability quizzes to remain in touch with the subsections I had already covered. The most important part in quant is the process skills that egmat teaches you and their relentless pursuit and insistence on the same. To be honest it took me some time to realise that these process skills will make a big difference in the end. I always used to wonder how can someone decide what approach to take while dealing with high-difficulty problems and even solve them correctly within 2 minutes. I thought I could never be able to do so. But by following the process skills egmat taught me, I developed the confidence to do so. I was doing well in Number properties and Inequalities / Absolute Values – topics that appeared very difficult to me earlier. Every time I had difficulty in crossing the cementing stage, Abha would analyse my performance and if need be she would refer my case to a subject matter expert, who would then suggest improvements in the process I follow.

Overcoming Difficulties

Having completed both Verbal and Quant modules, Abha then guided me towards the test readiness phase. I had some difficulty during this phase too, as I could not deal with my nervousness and anxiety during the tests. I was making silly mistakes too often and also falling short of time. I realised the importance of meditation sometime in February and practiced it daily. I believe it definitely helped me. In Feb 2023, my job required me to go out of station for two and a half months, affecting my preparation. But I made an effort not to lose touch as I had read experts’ views on gmatclub that big time gaps in preparation can put you back by several notches. (Regular studies for however small study-hours are better than long study hours interspersed with big gaps). This difficulty and the delay in cementing phases and thereafter in the test readiness phase were taking a toll on me as I was stretching the limits of my deadline for taking the final test. I returned to my base on 20 April and again started my preparation in full swing. It is during this time I realized that I am stressing myself way too much. I thought lack of sleep or rather lack of good quality sleep was a major contributor to my silly mistakes and nervousness and anxiety. Also as a result of sleep deprivation, I was not having quality in my study. I was just clocking hours without improving my abilities. At this point in time, I decided to start getting at least 7 hours of sleep at night and in fact, started sleeping without an alarm. Having completed the last module of Quant (Permutations, Combinations & Probability) sometime in the 1st week of May, I took two weeks to thoroughly revise all subsections from the start. Thereafter, I revised all subsections for the second time taking around one week. During these revision cycles, I was solving Quizzes on egmat’s portal for validation and trying to cross their specified levels, sometimes failing to do so, sometimes succeeding. All through I was also taking validation quizzes for Verbal. One painful exercise all throughout was maintaining an error log. But I did maintain one, in excel initially as per egmat’s format and in my own format during the revision phases. What was important was to revise these error logs periodically.
I decided to take the test on the 24th of June 2023 and accordingly took a mock test on egmat portal on the 18th June 23. (Too late to start taking Mocks but circumstances were such). I scored a 650 and was obviously dismayed. Having analysed the incorrect questions I realized a lot of them were silly mistakes. Abha suggested that I delay my test by at least two weeks while she works on my test-taking abilities. I did so and kept going through the actions that Abha suggested. In the meanwhile, I had to take leave and move to my hometown to tend to some unavoidable personal commitments. (That was the reason I planned to finish taking the test by 24th of June in the first place, but then one needs to adapt to changing situations). I took my second mock test on egmat portal on the 3rd of July and yet again scored a 660. After this, my anxiety was at its peak. I started doubting myself and was thinking that the last 7 months were a waste of time. Abha kept telling me that the problem is not in my quant or verbal abilities but in my ability to focus and concentrate and that is what I should work on. I believed her. I knew my abilities in quant and verbal had developed significantly. The only thing that could stop me from reaching my target score was my anxiety and nervousness. I needed to manage those feelings. An important point to note here is that I could never reach beyond the 27th question in Quant and 30th or 31st question in Verbal. So I had to guess the remaining questions. I needed to work on my time plan. I did read a few articles on timing strategies. But Abha was point blank. She gave me exact times when to bail out in Quant questions, SC CR and RC. To be able to follow those timings was the issue.
At this point I spoke to my family and realised that I need to change my approach. I changed the way I meditated. But I still had doubts about whether I should delay the test by another two weeks. Eventually, I booked a test for 11 July considering that there will always be another chance that I could take. I took my last mock test on the Egmat portal on the 8th of July and again scored a dismal 670. After having analysed my mistakes in the test Abha again flagged the main issue which was my focus. 90% of the mistakes that I was making were related to my lack of focus. There was no problem that I could not do within 2 minutes when I used to solve it later on. Yet I was making mistakes on the test. I could feel the nervous energy building up in me prior to the test, clouding my ability to follow all the process skills. And that was making all the difference. While I could follow all the process skills when I was not taking a test in the test environment, I was unable to do so in test environment.
Since I had already booked my test for the 11th of July I went ahead with the plan. Instead of fighting my anxiety and nervousness, I decided to take the test with those feelings. Accepting that these feelings will be there and I need to coexist with them on the test. In the last couple of days I did not take any timed quizzes or tests. I went through my notes, certain questions that I was repeatedly getting wrong, and some formulae that needed to be remembered. An important aspect that struck me during this time when I was reviewing a particularly difficult question (I got it wrong four times, in spite of reviewing it every time!) was the relevance of patterns. (Bit late in the day, but then as they say, “it's never too late to learn something”). Since the GMAT is a standardized test, it follows a definite pattern. The difference between the brilliant and the otherwise is that the former are good at recognizing patterns quickly and using that knowledge to their advantage. For example; a question that has only one linear equation with two variables is generally not enough data to get values of both variables. But if there is any constraint imposed by the question, such as both variables being integers or any other such limitation, the data might be enough. Explore that possibility before marking ‘E’. Having understood this concept, one should be able to apply it to other situations also. For eg; when there are 3 variables x, y, and z, and the number of equations is only two, and there are no other constraints then one cannot find the values of x, y, and z. However, if the question asks the ratio of x and the sum of x, y, and z, or just the sum of three variables then the data is likely to be sufficient! In such problems, it is critical to recognize what the question is testing and proceed accordingly. These are just a couple of examples. If one can recognize this and other such patterns and apply the relevant process skills, any GMAT problem can be solved in 2 minutes.

As the test day approached, I told myself that a 680 seems doable and it may be enough to get admission to a decent Business school given my work experience. That was just my way of trying to lower my own expectations. After all, all the anxiety and nervousness were an interplay between my expectations and reality. The wider the gap between these, the greater the anxiety, nervousness and depression. On the test day, as I had read on gmatclub, I tried to keep every part of my daily schedule the same. Had a slightly early dinner hoping to sleep earlier. But I couldn’t. I had imagined this would happen and did not let it affect me. I tried to sleep, meditate, sleep, meditate, and so on till I finally fell asleep. My exam slot was at 0945hrs so I woke up at 0600 hrs. Had a light breakfast. Abha had advised me to carry a banana or an energy bar to recharge during the break. I got the essence of the advice and carried a protein shake instead. The BCAAs have helped me maintain energy levels in the Gym in pretty quick time and I hoped they would do the same here. I reached the exam hall at 0900 hrs. As the exam hall procedures began I started chatting with another aspirant, a young chap just 2 years out of college. I asked him about his mocks and he said he was scoring consistently between 700 and 740. Wished him luck and chatted some more. The Procter then guided us to the cubicles and I commenced with the much-awaited exam process. I had not decided which colleges I would select to send my scores to. I kept searching for ISB and it just wouldn’t appear in the menu. Selected the ones that appeared after searching for them - LBS, MIT Sloan and Michigan Ross. Then I tried searching for IIMs. They appeared. I then scrolled down to find ISB and selected it. This process took me quite a long time and the candidates in the next cubicles had already commenced their exam. I bring this up because such a delay could affect your state of mind negatively. But I had conditioned my mind adequately to not get bothered by such things. I was expecting hiccups and deviations from normalcy. I started the exam with the sequence I had planned for, Quant - Verbal - IR/AWA. I had developed a habit to look at the timer only after every 7 to 8 questions and had the block timings in mind. I was doing well on the timing part till the 2nd block (16th question with little over half the time remaining). As I approached the last 3 questions I had a good 6 minutes remaining - perfect. The 30th question was a typical geometry question (Area of a rectangle given with two variables in length and breadth) that I had solved many times. So I realized it's going to end up in a quadratic equation. As has happened many times during practice quizzes, I could not get the break up of the quadratic equation in a decent time. I did not waste time and took an educated guess and moved on with 2 minutes for the last question. The verbal part also went in a similar fashion as far as the timings were concerned. The last RC passage was short but savage – couldn’t make head or tail out of it. Took educated guesses and moved on – had a good 2 minutes for the last CR question. All in all, both the Quant and Verbal sections had gone in an unprecedented manner for me – completing them in perfect time. IR and AWA were my sore points as I had not practiced them at all. One should practice for IR at least a little bit. I missed out on attempting the last question in IR, but could complete AWA. Having completed that part, something came up on the screen. I realized this might be the score sheet. It was quite bland – I was expecting a colorful graphical display as one has often seen in the ESRs. Nevertheless, in all the typed matter in a small font, a particular number caught my attention. It said 730. Before I could grasp it, the Procter had sneaked in behind me and asked me if I wanted to accept my score. Yes! Click ‘Accept’, pick up the passport and walk out slowly he said. While I was thinking about what had just happened, the Procter printed out a page and gave it to me. It was true – a 730 (Q49, V41). A certain numbness and disbelief that I felt continues to affect me in varying degrees till date….

Key Takeaways.
Choose the right resources for your preparation. The money spent in preparation will be only a small fraction of your MBA journey.
Abilities such as analytical reasoning, and critical reasoning come naturally to some, but others can develop these abilities through practice and following due process. If I can, you can too. I cannot overemphasize the importance of following process skills taught by Egmat. Payal’s (Payal Tandon) voice asking me to do so every now and then reverberates in my head even now.
Error logs are important. Find a way that suits you to maintain one. Revise it periodically.
Make notes of important and frequently appearing concepts and revise them regularly. Revision is the keyword here.
It makes sense to follow your mentor even when you do not understand how a particular action is going to help you. A mentor like Abha, and others in Egmat team would have coached many students like you. They know what they are doing, and where they are taking you.
Patterns – try to recognize patterns. You may not succeed immediately, but keep trying and you will. It will surely help you in more than one ways, it certainly did help me in Q No 30 of Quant section (at least) in my final exam.
Official Guide questions are precious, especially in Verbal. Do not use them to learn concepts. Use them only to validate your skill level after you’ve learned the concept. LSAT questions in CR and RC are good for learning concepts – there is no dearth of them on Gmatclub.
Meditation helps – it works slowly but surely. Start practicing it now! Anxiety, panic and nervousness are feelings you can’t wish away. Try managing and co-existing with them rather than fighting them. You may not realise when they have stopped bothering you.
Build test readiness and test taking abilities by taking 10 questions quizzes initially, then progressing to 15, 25, and 31, and so on. Egmat gets this done nicely.
Official Mock tests can give a better assessment of your preparation level. I couldn’t take any Official mock test in the run up to my final exam due shortage of time imposed by unforeseen circumstances. I could’ve delayed my test further but I wasn’t sure if things would necessarily turn favourable later on. Nevertheless, since I was guessing all of the last 4 to 5 questions in Quant and a couple more than that in Verbal of the egmat mock tests, I guess the mock scores couldn’t have been better.

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Strengths:

The course material, which includes study material, scholaranium, and sigma x mocks, is excellent. On top of that, I loved their service and help over email. I believe that their consultant's genuine interest in my improvement was a big factor in my score improvement

Would make the product better:

Their slide presentation is extremely slow. I don't remember how many times I would have lost my concentration and start to look at my phone because of the slow presentation. I think a speed change button will be helpful.

As an aspiring MBA student, I embarked on the challenging journey of preparing for the GMAT exam. While I initially scored a respectable 690 on my practice test, I knew I needed to take my skills to the next level to secure admission into my dream business school. That's when I stumbled upon an online course that turned out to be an absolute game-changer – it single-handedly propelled my score from 690 to an impressive 730!
The course that proved to be my secret weapon was none other than E-GMAT. Here, I will share my experience and insights, highlighting the key factors that contributed to my remarkable improvement:
1. Comprehensive Content: The course was an all-encompassing GMAT preparation package. From the foundational concepts to the most advanced strategies, the content was exceptionally well-structured and thoroughly covered all sections of the GMAT exam. Whether it was Quantitative, Verbal, or Integrated Reasoning, the materials were top-notch and tailored to suit all learning styles.
2. Adaptive Learning: One of the course's standout features in Quant section was its adaptive learning platform. Adaptive learning analyzed my performance and tailored subsequent lessons based on my strengths and weaknesses. This personalized approach ensured that I focused on areas where I needed improvement the most, making my study sessions efficient and productive.
3. Extensive Practice Material: Practice makes perfect, and this course left no stone unturned when it came to providing ample practice material. The vast array of practice questions, mock tests, and timed quizzes helped me build my confidence and test-taking stamina, ultimately refining my approach to each section of the GMAT exam.
In conclusion, I can confidently say that E-GMAT was the turning point in my GMAT preparation. The remarkable increase in my score from 690 to 730 speaks volumes about the effectiveness of the course. I am now well on my way to fulfilling my dream of attending a top-notch business school, and I owe a significant portion of my success to this exceptional online course.
If you're serious about excelling in the GMAT exam and unlocking your true potential, I wholeheartedly recommend E-GMAT. The investment will undoubtedly pay off, and you'll find yourself closer to your academic and career goals than you ever imagined.

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Strengths:

Strong Pointers of e-Gmat:
Video Modules:
As a noob to mba exam preparation, I wasn't very sure about where does my verbal skills lie on the GMAT Verbal measuring scale .With one month of preparation by just going through the questions led me to a terrible score. Then I started with video modules and within a short span of time I realised not visiting those lectures was my biggest mistake.

Would make the product better:

The course extension options can be improved. More mock tests can be added.

I would like to highly promote Scholaranium questions.
These are the true reflection of GMAT like questions and help you decide the areas to be worked upon. The course structure is one thing I heavily relied on.
I would just like to conclude that anyone, even with no cognizance of how GMAT exam looks like, can be the one scoring higher than 90 percentile, if they enroll with e-Gmat. So if you are willing to achieve new highs in your GMAT exam, I strongly recommend to be a part of e-Gmat.
Finally, if anyone has even 1% faith on the above words, please go for e-Gmat if you are truly focussed on the exam. Not gonna regret!

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Hello everyone there!

After a long journey, I’d like to share with you a debrief of my journey in the preparation in the GMAT. This have been a tough process with a lot of ups and downs

I started preparing on December 2021, so it’s been almost 1 year and a half until I got my final score. This probably doesn’t fit with everyone else’s timeframe in the forum, but probably there are some non-native speakers (Latinos like me) who will find this insightful for their preparation

Let me tell you a little bit about me: I’m from Peru, majored in Industrial Engineering and nowadays working as a Product Owner in Retail Banking for SME (my career is really versatile here and it’s not weird finding industrial engineers in every working field such as consulting, finance, consumer products, technology, manufacturing and nonprofit/government)

I have a special interest with Entrepreneurship and it was in the last years of my career where I decided to dive deeper on this. That’s when I started to look at role models in that specialty. I found that USA was a good place to find what I was looking for and that’s how I met some Peruvians in Silicon Valley. I asked them what they did in order to get closer to that entrepreneurial environment and every response had something in common: a prestigious MBA and the importance of the GMAT in this goal. By then, my outlook had become clear.

It was on December 2021 when I decided to finally put hands on and started to look for options to prepare. That’s when I realized that there were not many options in Peru: 2 academies dominate the market share and neither of them offer a choice I feel comfortable with (they are mostly focused on shortcuts and hacks to ace GMAT). After some days of research, my co-worker who got 690 told me that he had good results in Verbal in an online course called E-GMAT. I was skeptical that an online course could help me towards my goal, but I decided to give it a chance.

I was in awe after taking the Master Comprehension course. It was a total different approach in every section of Verbal. They were focused on – indeed- comprehend and understand what the question was asking for. I knew at that moment that GMAT was not going to be an easy exam, but rather a marathon. So, I took my first Sigma-X Mock to have a baseline and ended up with a 470

Overview of the course:
Completing the course took me longer than expected principally because my English foundations were not good. Happily, the course included every aspect for a non-native speaker. It is incredible how detailed the topics are and the quantity of exercises you can find there. Let me highlight how useful the feedbacks of the E-GMAT forum are too! (thanks Harsha, Stacey an Shraddha). I left TONS of question in their forum and every one of them got answered with a depth of detail. Taking an online course instead of a “live” one was never a problem.

In the math side, even though I had more foundations in numbers, I felt that GMAT Quant questions needed a total different strategy. Apart from that, it was my first time solving problems in English. Never had I focused before on solving math problems focusing on the details of the statement and trying to no get “caught” on those classic GMAT traps (for example: not evaluating all the scenarios). E-GMAT made my life easier by setting an approach for every type of question. This was really helpful for me in order to not “review” the problems in ALL the different angles possible but maintaining a fixed strategy and perfectioning it. Finally, it was amazing getting to know stats of my performance in a really precise way in each area. This made evident where I needed to invest more hours!

To sum it up, I’m really happy that this course had everything I needed in order to ace the GMAT. It covers every aspect of the topics in a holistic manner. Not only do the E-GMAT team focus on the quality of the questions, but also they have created a process in order to gain proficiency (cementing, ability quizzes, test readiness and their owns mocks are part of this). Having this depth of content was awesome for someone with my profile who needed to learn every topic.

About Scholaranium:
You can’t imagine the amount of effort I invested to succeed taking the cementing quizzes. These questions are TOUGH and really INSIGHTFUL in your preparation. But be sure about this: if you handle these cementing quizzes, you CAN surely move forward to the next topic.

I loved Scholaranium from E-GMAT (even though it gave me sleepless nights hahaha). The quality of the questions from the experts is amazing. That’s not something you are going to see on other platforms where they mostly “adequate” OG questions.

Last Mile Push:
On March 2023, I decided to finally schedule my GMAT. After taking 4 consecutive mocks in Kaplan and scoring 680 consistently I felt frustrated for not being able 700. That’s when I decided to wrote to Rajat Sadana from E-GMAT. He answered really fast and assigned Rida Shafeek to guide me in this road.

Rida is amazing. She landed a first plan for including these points:

• Refining Math Topics (GEO, Probabilities, Combination, Permutations)
• Ensuring Test Readiness in every topic with a plan of exercises for every week (this helped in getting used to solve mixed questions in a timed environment)
• Specific tips in every sub-section where my performance was not good in the Sigma X-Mocks

This plan encouraged me to practice in a more structured way to gain more test readiness and build stamina. That approach helped me to gain that muscle to solve mixed topic questions and to practice time management. She suggested increasing the number of questions solved every day (and practicing verbal and quant in the same day). This helped simulating the GMAT experience a lot. Once the day of the exam arrived, it felt really natural for me to solve 60+ questions in 2 hours.

Sadly, my first official exam was not good. I ended up with 630 (Q49 V26). I was totally discouraged here. All the time invested felt useless and I started doubting about my abilities (“probably I was not good enough for this exam?” – the kind of questions that arrived in my head). I noticed Rida with this score and she did help me a lot trying to identify the flaws of my exam. We were both at shock since my last 2 Sigma X-Mocks gave me in average a score of 680. I found that I need more guidance in CR as well as improving strategy in the day of my exam regarding time management.

There were 3 principal areas to focus for my next attempt:

1. Critical Reasoning
2. Time Management
3. Aggression in the first section (without compromising accuracy)

Time management was the key in my last month of preparation. Rida identified some bad practices in my mocks and she suggested me to change my strategy by using a time matrix. It worked!

Rida and the E-GMAT team also helped me scheduling a session with one of their verbal experts: Harshavardhan (Harsha) because - even after practicing CR – I was struggling with the questions. We had call of more than 1 hour where he deep dived on my approach towards CR. This session was mind-blowing. It’s amazing having the opportunity to talk with an expert on a topic like him. He made it evident where I need to focus the majority of time with a really detailed diagnosis. Until that session, I didn't know my mental process doing CR exercise could be split in 7 parts (for example: visualizing, understanding, details, falsification question, pre-think scenarios, analyzing options). Only after noticing that my biggest flaw was at analyzing options, then I could focus on a more intentional way on that side. He recommended to practice this in untimed manner and, only after feeling more comfortable with process, then I could go back with a timed environment. It worked!

From a personal and mental perspective, it was awesome having that mentorship support during the last stage of my preparation. GMAT has been a tough exam for me (a total rollercoaster) and Rida helped me in not giving up in these last moments when I started to feel frustrated, stuck and discouraged. Mental attitude and confidence play a big role in the day of your exam.

Let me share with you the results of my mocks and official exams in a chronological way:

470, Q30 V26 - Dec 7th 2021 (Sigma X-Mock)
620, Q41 V34 - Apr 7th 2023 (Sigma X-Mock)
710, Q48 V39 - Apr 9th 2023 (Sigma X-Mock)
660, Q46 V34 - Apr 15th 2023 (Sigma X-Mock)

630, Q49 V26 - Apr 16th 2023 (GMAT Official Exam)

660, Q48 V32 - Jun 11th 2023 (Sigma X-Mock)
680, Q49 V32 - Jun 18th 2023 (mba.com Mock)
690, Q48 V37 - Jun 25th 2023 (mba.com Mock)

700, Q49 V36 - Jun 26th 2023 (GMAT Official Exam)


Ok, this went longer than I expected. If you are still here, I hope this debrief could help on your journey. Thanks to the E-GMAT team for creating such a wonderful product in the market. I hope to contact you soon with more news about my MBA Journey.

Sincerely,
Kevin

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Strengths:

For me, the Strength of this product is SC for sure.
I really like the way that there's no shortcut is introduced, rather a very detailed meaning based approach is introduced to students.
Further, I really liked the Support of Mentors on each step.
They are always just an email away to help you with the doubts and what not.

I would highly recommend E-GMAT to non-native speakers especially for SC course.
With E-GMAT, I have improved my scores by 90 points.
Prior to E-Gmat course, for me the approach before was to read the question and mark the answers based on either intuition or "sounds good" rule.
With the help of E-Gmat I was able to make the meaning-based approach as the second nature to solve really complex SC questions.
I really appreciate the detailed videos and exam type questions for practice in order to prepare you for the exam day.
Last but not least, I would like to thank Harsha and Abha for their constant support and Help.
Harsha’s explanation and approach to solve the question really changed my perspective towards the Verbal and Abha’s consistent push helped me to Score 680.
Further, though there’s an improvement, I am looking forward to retaking the GMAT to aim higher score.

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Strengths:

-Detailed Course Modules
- Scholaranium Questions
- Data Driven Insights
- Mentor Support

I first went through the overwhelming process of researching multiple GMAT prep courses, reading reviews and watching demos. After signing up for a free trial of the e-GMAT course, I chose to go ahead with the same for the following reasons.
The course modules are comprehensive and well-structured with detailed focus on each sub-topic. All modules start with the basic concepts, building a strong foundation and then move on to developing the application skills needed to solve actual GMAT questions.
The structured approach given in the quant solutions helped me achieve speed and accuracy. Such an approach with focus on question statement analysis and inference was particularly useful to me while solving Data Sufficiency questions, in which I previously struggled.
The Verbal course starts off with a Master Comprehension Module and though basic, the reading strategies taught helped me avoid re-reading sentences and understand the given meaning. Such a skill obviously helps in all the verbal sections.
e-GMAT's Scholaranium, an exceptional and vast question bank, offered immense value in my preparation. Its custom quiz feature allowed me to focus on specific areas and gradually work on my progress. The detailed statistics pointed out my weaknesses, enabling me to work on them.
And while I initially thought the Quant questions to be more difficult than the OG questions, I am glad my mentor encouraged me to keep solving those questions since I found my actual exam at a similar difficulty level. I would not have been able to achieve a Q49 otherwise.
Lastly my mentor, Dhruv Joshi who provided me 1:1 support as part of the Last Mile Program, was a constant source of discipline and encouragement. He drafted personalized study plans depending on my progress and pointed out various other improvements in areas such as my stamina and time management techniques.
With a prompt customer support team and dedicated mentors, the e-GMAT course is a boon to all aspiring GMAT test takers. Look no further for your preparatory needs!

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Strengths:

1. The course is taught from the basics.
2. Teaches every skill that GMAT is looking for in the test takers.
3. Cementing and Ability Quizzes.

e-GMAT has the best foundational modules. The course also taught me reading strategies that helped me to avoid re-reading sentences, critical thinking strategies that helped me understand the author’s reasoning and SC strategies that helped me understand the intended meaning and identify the errors. These strategies helped me solve questions faster and gave me an instant boost to 85th percentile, and with some practice, I was able to break the 90 percentile barrier.

The quizzes and mocks gave a very good analysis of my weak areas and helped me spend my already little preparation time wisely. I work 6 days a week and without the analytics given by the platform, I could not have prepared as effectively as I did.

Lastly, I want to thank Rashmi, who, by analyzing my previous score report, gave me a personalized study plan and tons of support and guidance. Her tips helped me stay calm on the exam day.

e-GMAT is a complete package and I highly recommend the course to anyone looking to score above 90%ile.

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Strengths:

-Structured approach
-Strong foundational concepts
-Enormous quality question bank
-Great mentorship support

Would make the product better:

- Quant section can be reduced in quantity. However, they already have the PACE system which allows you to focus only on weaker sections in Quant.

I started preparing for GMAT in January 2021. I tried to approach the GMAT by collecting random information from youtube and Gmatclub. I studied dedicatedly for a few months but I was unable to improve my score from 550s. On my first mock, I had scored a mere 440. After suffering for months and losing hope, I finally decided to sign up for the egmat course which proved to be a total game changer and helped me score a 710.

The course structure of egmat is perfectly aligned for the GMAT exam. All modules of verbal and quant are beautifully crafted and as a student, it was very easy for me to navigate through the course and study smoothly.

The verbal course of e-gmat is a game-changer. The best part about their verbal course is that it focuses on building solid concepts and does not forces you to use any kind of tricks or learn any jargons. The meaning based approach along with the grammar rules in the course are more than enough to excel in SC. The prethinking approach in CR not just helps you to score better in the exam but builds a logical mindset to dive deep into an argument and question it. Overall, the verbal course is well structured and helped my reach V38-V40 in a very efficient way.

The quant course of e-gmat is very detailed and involves a lot of quizzes and question types. Initially, as I did not like to study for quant personally, I moved along the course slowly but when I started realising that these concepts are helping me solve questions with good accuracy, I just completely committed to it. The quality and quantity of questions will make sure that you score atleast a Q49. Extra efforts can make you reach Q50 as well.

The thing that helped me most was e-gmat’s mentorship support. I was working with Abha Mohan, she is not just a good mentor in terms of strategy building and exam approach but she also helps you in regards to mindset approach. I was about to quit my GMAT journey, but she was persistent that I should keep continuing as I have the ability to score good and ultimately, I did score good because of her. Under the last mile program, she helped me with hyper-specific plans and that really changed the game for me.

The entire portal- Scholaranium, is well prepared and helps you build so many variations of quizzes that you don’t have to look anywhere else. The verbal and quant question bank allows you to pick questions from different subsections as well and this really helps when you want to improve a specific subsection. Their analytical approach will definitely help you to understand what is specifically lagging behind.

Finally, the Sigma-X mocks by e-gmat are just a bonus on top of the course. These mocks are well prepared and provide proper analysis as well. Sigma-X mocks along with official mocks are more than enough for GMAT prep. I would definitely recommend the course to anyone who wants a structured approach as well as mentorship support for their gmat journey. I was personally stuck in my GMAT journey for a long time and this course helped me sail through.

Best of luck to all the GMAT aspirants!!

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Strengths:

The following are according to me the areas in which the product stands out ( In the order of importance as per me):
1) Mentor support through the course. This support I think was most important to me as I could discuss all the issues I was facing during my prep and could obtain expert opinion.
2) A huge question bank in the form of scholaranium in both verbal and quant which gives more than ample questions of different difficulty levels. ( Best way to use them I feel is taking a quiz of 10 or 15 questions on a topic . Analysing each question after the mini-test. I recommend that before we go to solutions we should try the incorrect questions again after the test and see if we can solve them. )
3) Third in the rank would be the verbal section with its video lectures , practice quizzes and applications . As a person who knew little about how GMAT verbal works , this section provided me the foundation before jumping to scholaranium to solve questions.
4) The PACE feature in the quant section of eGMAT is also impressive as it identifies the areas where you need to work and which areas you may skip based on your performance in diagnostic tests. For someone who wants to save time on quant or is very thorough with concepts this feature is a boon.
5) Finally in the last mile push program , the mentor assigned to the student helps the student to ensure that his/her preparation level is sound enough to crack the score he is aiming at. The program consists of timelines , daily targets and assessment milestones which cement the learning of the individual and also give him confidence to take on the exam :) .

Would make the product better:

While prepping I saw that in case of some questions on scholaranium and practice questions , there is no video explanation by a SME. Its just a personal opinion that watching a video with a SME explaining how to go about a question helped me absorb all the concepts much better . This area can be looked into.

It was somewhere in November 2022 when I decided to appear for my GMAT. I searched the internet and GMAT club and other such sources. My expectations from the course were that its offerings could help me create a proper foundation on theoretical level ( concepts ) and provide me enough practice material for putting those concepts to practice. An additional concern for me was the cost . eGMAT I felt that was the best fit for me on all these fronts.
After taking the course I started with the verbal part ( SC , CR and RC in that order). The course is so designed that it will guide you step by step in your journey and all you have to do is to follow this guidance with enough sincerity and conviction. I went along the course , gave the practice exams and appeared for the mock tests and eventually I could feel that I was beginning to understand what GMAT expects from me. Yes, I had my falls during the prep but these were more due to my follies than any external factor. For example I exhausted the mocks fairly early when I was not even well prepared with the concepts. So all in all the course has all the elements in it to help one get to his target score. These include robust course material , fantastic practice questions in form of scholaranium , 5 mocks and expert support. IMO anyone who goes through the course with good level of dedication is set up for a good score on the test.
The review would not be complete if I do not reemphasize on how much I benefited from the mentorship support of eGMAT. Rashmi Ma'am has all through guided me in this journey . A simple email such as ' how is your prep going' was a reminder for me to keep on track and not deviate. Further the strategy session with her helped me realize where are stood in terms of prep.
Thank you Rashmi Ma'am , Thank you eGMAT :) A huge part of this 750 is because of the guidance provided by you.

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If you're searching for a top-notch course to help you achieve your target score, I highly recommend giving e-GMAT serious consideration. After trying out several online resources, I can confidently say that e-GMAT is truly exceptional. It stands out not only for its extensive content and comprehensive course material for each topic but also for its dedicated team of mentors.

If you're aiming for a 98 percentile or higher, you may encounter a stage where you've completed the course but find yourself stuck at a plateau score of 700. Progressing beyond this point and achieving even a modest improvement of 10 points can be quite challenging. I personally faced a similar situation.

Before I purchased e-GMAT, I was stuck at a score of 700, relying on a strategy of analyzing mock exams and dedicating a week to practice my weak areas before attempting the next one. I would practice a large number of questions without a clear direction in mind. However, despite my sincere efforts, I couldn't break through the 700 barrier.

Realizing that there was an unidentified issue, I decided to invest in e-GMAT's 2-month online course, primarily for their dedicated mentorship. Luckily, I was assigned Rida Shafeek as my mentor. Rida carefully analyzed my mock exams and provided me with a day-by-day plan to address my weaknesses over the course of a month. I followed Rida's advice diligently, treating it as invaluable guidance.

What kept me motivated throughout the journey was Rida's constant encouragement and belief in my abilities. Even on days when my scores weren't satisfactory, she reassured me that I had a solid grasp of the concepts and emphasized the importance of my energy and self-belief in achieving scores ranging from 670 to 760.
During this process, I came to the realization that I had been focusing on identifying conceptual knowledge gaps or specific application techniques to break through the 700-score plateau, when, in fact, the underlying issue was something entirely different. Surpassing that plateau required nothing more than a boost in my self-confidence and belief in my abilities, and Rida played an instrumental role in helping me achieve that.

I must give full credit to Rida for my improved score. Her unwavering positivity and calm demeanor made all the difference in my journey. Without her dedicated efforts, achieving this score would have remained a distant dream. It is solely due to her guidance that I was able to make a significant improvement of 50 points within a month.

I would also like to express my gratitude to Harsha, the e-GMAT expert in Critical Reasoning (CR). A single one-on-one session with Harsha revealed the power of visualization, which transformed CR into a much more manageable aspect for me.
Some fantastic offerings provided in the e-GMAT course that worked for me (apart from the invaluable mentorship) :
1. e-GMAT’s Scholaranium 2.0 is an unbeatable asset. It helped me tremendously to focus and improve my weak areas while paying attention to the timing as well as the accuracy of questions with different levels of difficulty.
2. The LMP program is a boon for people who have limited time to achieve their desirable score. It offers a day-to-day set of activities for each day so that one can fully and efficiently utilize their each day.

Thanks e-GMAT! :)

Regards,
Ridhi

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