When I decided to pursue an MBA, I started to prepare for GMAT exam. I am a quant guy, so an area of my focus was the verbal part (especially taking into account that I am a non-native speaker). As I am self-disciplined person, I was preparing solely myself. Having done several mock tests from the official website I in most cases ended up with 700+ score. That made me feel that I am ready to take the real one.
I took my first shot in November 2021 and I found out that the real verbal part was much more difficult than I saw at the mock tests. I got 630 (Q49, V27).
I took a rest in GMAT and started to prepare to IELTS. After successfully passing my IELTS exam, I came back to GMAT in couple of months and bought an E-GMAT course to increase my verbal score.
I really would like to thank the E-GMAT team for that course because before, in verbal part, I was mostly relying on my intuition, I was not paying much attention to the meaning, especially in Sentence Correction section, where meaning of sentence has much more weight than grammatical structure (nevertheless, it also should be correct). Scholaranium helped me to identify my weak spots and to work on them.
Finally, after couple of months I have passed my exam and got 700 (Q48, V38). Due to some logistical problems (I was only able to take the test in another country) I have decided that I am going to apply to BS with this score.
So, if you are a non-native speaker and you are struggling with the verbal part I recommend to participate in E-GMAT course. Good luck for everyone!

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Last Mile Push Review and Support:
I reached out to e-GMAT when I was not able to get my target score on my first attempt. Overall, I am satisfied with my experience with e-GMAT prep even though I was not able to get the target score improvement.
The first thing I would highlight is my e-GMAT mentor Rashmi's support throughout my prep. She was always approachable, provided me with detailed guidance on my focus areas, and drew up comprehensive test-readiness programs which prepared me for the GMAT. Her encouraging words and attitude kept me focused on the prep and GMAT.

e-GMAT's platform is also very user-friendly. I appreciated the ability to review the questions I got wrong or struggled with, and the prompt analytics which gave me immediate feedback on my areas of improvement.

On the course itself:
Quant:
I liked the quant course. I would rate it a little harder than the actual exam, as though I struggled with some hard questions on e-GMAT, my ability on the test was significantly better. That said, I like the in-depth approach to the topics, the PACE alternative to skip over the courses I was comfortable with, and I can say it really helped me improve my Algebra and Geometry ability.

Verbal
The verbal course was comprehensive and made me master CR and SC. I definitely came away from the course with a better clarity on how to approach the CR , SC and RC sections as the GMAT is a lot about test taking ability rather than pure understanding sometimes. That said, I would rate the verbal course to be easier than the actual attempt. Caveat is my limited experience, but I scored 42+ consistently on the course and was unable to convert this on actual test day.

Areas of improvement:
I feel the verbal course can be improved, especially on RC and SC.

Overall, keep up the good work! And thanks for the help.

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Hello Reader,
This is my review of e-GMAT. Spoiler alert, this is a positive review ( I know there are already too many positive reviews for e-GMAT, but what to say, they are efficient and effective ). I decided to prepare using e-GMAT after watching a couple of e-GMAT SC videos on YouTube. I took their first mock, which is free, and scored 710. I got excited thinking that I could score really well on the actual test if I prepared well, so I enrolled with e-GMAT for 2 months starting June 22, 2022. I skipped master comprehension and directly went to the SC section. It is really well planned and delivered, with pre and post-quizzes in most sections of every module. The meaning-based approach used by them is amazing. It really makes life easier while attempting SC questions. After completing the SC section, I attempted another mock and scored 650. I was shocked, but nevertheless, I kept on going. I completed half of the CR section and around 10% of the RC section. My scores in the rest of the 3 mocks were 730, 680, and 720. I constantly kept getting better in quant (48, 49, 50, 50, 51). However, my verbal score varied like a cosine curve ( 39, 30, 39, 32, 37 ). I couldn’t understand the reason behind it, so I ignored it. After my subscription ended, I started practising from GMAT club as I wasn’t confident in my verbal ability. I solved around 200 SC questions on GMAT club ( getting most of them wrong but never trying to address the core reason ). I thought that after giving 6 mocks ( 5 e-GMAT, 1 official: 680 ), and practising so many questions, I should be able to handle the actual test easily. I booked the test for September 3rd. A lot of things happened that day, but even if they didn't, I would’ve still scored nowhere near my target (740). I ended up getting 620 (Q49, V26). Disappointed and tired, I couldn’t think of the next step.
The next day, I emailed e-GMAT and asked for help. Rashmi replied after analysing my ESR. She asked me to extend the course and work with her to bridge the conceptual gaps, especially in verbal. Last time I took a lot of things for granted, didn't complete either the CR or the RC section and didn’t do any cementing at all. This time I tried to follow her instruction to the point. I saw considerable improvement across every verbal section. I finally started using the meaning-based approach for SC and pre-thinking for CR questions. Eliminating the wrong options in SC became much easier, and my timing also improved significantly. I scored 720 (Q50, V37) and 740 (Q50, V38) in official mocks 3 and 4 respectively. All of this was possible because Rashmi showed confidence in me right from the beginning of my preparation for the second attempt, gave great feedback and suggestions, and helped me understand all my shortcomings and conceptual gaps. She has been a great mentor and helped me throughout my preparation for the second attempt.
I attempted the GMAT again on October 19th and scored a 730 (Q50, V38).
PS: I hate reading and have read no more than 2 books in my lifetime. Whatever English grammar I know is through daily conversations, Netflix, and Amazon Prime :p . So if I can get V38 then anyone can.
There are certain things that I liked about the course and the eGMAT experience:
(a) It is a well-structured course with quality material.
(b) The verbal section was really helpful in improving my verbal score through the application of the meaning-based approach in SC and the pre-thinking approach in CR.
(c) For SC and CR this is one of the best courses that are available.
(d) Questions on Scholaranium are of great help after learning concepts and applications. For verbal, the variety of questions helps cover most of the patterns observed in the actual test. For quant, the questions on scholaranium are actually tougher than the questions in official mocks or the actual exam, but that helps to get your concepts cemented.
(e) The support team answers all the queries quite quickly (within 12–18 hours), which really helps to move on, and motivates you to ask questions freely on the forum.
(f) Mentorship support during the preparation helped me with a structured approach to preparation as opposed to the haphazard way in which I was doing it
(g) For mocks, I feel that nothing can compare to the official mocks in setting a benchmark for the expected score. Nevertheless, e-GMAT has done a great job of making the mocks as authentic as possible.

Things to learn from my experience :
• Follow a structured approach.
• A meaning-based approach to SC is the only way to GMAT SC.
• Focus more on incorrect questions, spending sufficient time on understanding why you got that question wrong, rather than solving 300 questions. Solve 100 but know the reason behind accepting or rejecting an answer choice.
• Even if you’re decent at quant practice a few questions daily to keep your mind sharp.
• GMAT is not CAT, so do not focus on giving a lot of mocks, rather give 3-4 but analyze them in a detailed manner. ( Trust me, this works )
• Join e-GMAT if you want all of the above in one place.
• If you’re an Indian student, then do not forget to take your passport with you to the exam center.

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I had started my GMAT prep quite clueless, thinking that just solving multiple questions would enable me to ace the exam with a respectable score. Still, even after attempting official practice tests, my score was stagnant at 680. This was when I discovered gmatclub and learned about e-GMAT's online course.

After going through several positive reviews, I decided to go with it and was instantly impressed with the high-quality resources they provided. The course never made me feel incomplete, from interactive videos to video solutions for each practice question. Also, the Verbal Scholaranium and Sigma-X Mock questions were very helpful in assessing my performace and returned insightful statistics upon completion.

To top it all off, I was offered access to their LMP program towards the end of my course, wherein a mentor guided me every day on the tests to take and topics to revise.

I would recommend this course to anyone without a second thought. I plan on attempting the GMAT again as I didn't achieve my desired score on the test day, and would surely go with e-GMAT again in a heartbeat.

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My background and my score before purchasing e-GMAT course-
I am non-native English speaker and I did my primary and secondary education in my mother tongue – Marathi. So, I was not much accurate with English grammar, lengthy sentences and big passages. I come from engineering background. Before starting my GMAT preparation, I took a mock to see what my starting score is. I searched on Google for a mock test. Coincidently, I gave e-GMAT sigma-X mock. My score was 520 (Q44 V19). So, there was long way to my target score of 700+. By the way, e-GMAT gives excellent analysis of all sigma-X test result.

Why I chose e-GMAT-
As verbal was my weak area, I was looking for course that shows its effectiveness on verbal. When I analyzed all courses available on Gmatclub, e-GMAT was one that captured my attention the most. After going through free trial, I found the course worth to put my efforts into.

My experience with e-GMAT-
Master comprehension module - At start of verbal section, there is master comprehension module. It taught me some techniques that helped me understand and recollect maximum information from I read. In my view, e-GMAT verbal course is great for non-native speakers.
SC module- 3 step process that SC course suggests is excellent way to solve the SC question. Sentence structure breakdown, meaning-based approach, and asking probe question were the keys to my improvement in SC.
CR and RC module- By following e-GMAT Pre-thinking approach for CR, You understand the argument so thoroughly that choice elimination becomes a lot easier. RC became my very strong area after following the e-GMAT process of getting immersed in the passage.
Cementing process- cementing process of e-GMAT basically made me so much familiar with concept and process of solving both quant and verbal questions that I did not forget what I studied as time passed. Queries that I posted on forum were answered very logically. I was really impressed with analysis that e-GMAT SMEs provided.
Finally, strategy experts did excellent analysis of my mock tests and gave me action plan to improve my weak areas. All plans given were impressive and because of those plans I started scoring 700 on the sigma-X mocks. These plans filled the gaps in my concepts and solving process. After this, I went through official guides, Official advanced question bank and gmatclub quizzes. On the official prep mocks as well, I started scoring 680 to 730. Finally, on test day(6th October 2022) I scored 710 (Q50 V36).


My suggestions to someone who is purchasing the course-
I think it’s the best course. So, you can start your preparation with high energy after this choice. 6 process skills that taught in quant might seem too much in the beginning, but if you follow them, they really contribute to your accuracy. I suggest following process steps very carefully. Initially they might seem time consuming, but after some practice they turn out to be time savers. I suggest taking help of SMEs and strategy experts whenever you are stuck. If you are already very good at quant, then, in my view, you don't need to go through all lessons and quizzes.

All the best for your preparations!
Regards,
Sameer

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The e-GMAT course is an awesome resource to prep for e-GMAT if you wish to self-study and reflect on what is going wrong and improve. If you're a self-starter this course provides amazing insights to improve as you move forward.
The one thing that stood out to me was the verbal section which really helped me to improve my verbal. The verbal section comes with amazing practice exercises which help cement the process and concepts and helps you understand how to attempt any question.
Also, the support from the team on your queries is amazing, and they also reach out to confirm if the resolution made sense or if you wanna follow up to understand better.

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I started my GMAT prep back in August 2021 and self-prepared with OGs and a few other books and ended up with a score of 640 (V-29, Q-47). While doing the prep, i came across several success story videos of E-gmat and was quite intrigued with the process discussed such as meaning based approach for SC and Pre-thinking for CR. I did go through a couple of webinars of E-gmat for SC and CR and tried to imbibe the process into my prep, but clearly, I had too little time on hand to do justice with it. After the 1st attempt, I was sure that I was going to buy the E-gmat course because the process made logical sense to me, and I needed a structured approach. I took a break from my prep and purchased the E-gmat course in February 2022. The plan was to prepare for 4 months and give the test in June 2022. But due to work commitments, I could not really prepare regularly till mid-May. Coming to the course, to start with, it asks you about your current scores and your target scores and accordingly suggests a plan forward. The most important course to start with is their Master Comprehension course. It literally helps you to master the comprehension. It teaches you the basic structure of a sentence, the pause points, how to break a sentence and how to assimilate the meaning. Post this, I started with my verbal course doing SC, CR, RC in that sequence. Each course comprised of concept files, concept quizzes, practice quizzes and the most important, the application files. The application files teach you, in a guided manner, how to solve a question in a structured way. Post completing all these files for each section, the course suggests you to cement the concepts by taking few cementing quizzes. The cementing quizzes are handpicked questions by the E-gmat experts of medium and hard difficulty. I did the cementing for all the sections (i.e., scoring 70% or above in medium difficulty, and 55% or above in hard). Though it was not easy at first, but post reviewing each of the question I attempted and taking the corrective actions such as going back to the specific concept/application files where I feel there is a gap, I was able to build up an ability to solve questions. Post this, I went on and did OG questions for practice. In between, I attempted my first 2 sigma X mocks (E-gmat mocks) and scored 650 (V35, Q44) and 690 (V40, Q44). I realised that I have built a base ability in verbal and just need to refine some areas to maintain the ability. Post scoring a 690, I was included in the Last Mile Program, a program where a mentor helps you out to get test ready.
My mentor, Abha Mohan, connected with me and helped me out with a plan to refine my rough patches. By looking at my account statistics she figured out that I was struggling with concepts such as modifiers and subject verbs in SC, Evaluate and Strengthen in CR. Hence, I went back to the course, revised few concepts, and reattempted the practice files. Post this, there was a confidence within me in my ability to solve questions within a limited time. Next, she shared a plan with me for my test readiness where I had to give few combined quizzes of 25 questions and 33 questions. I scored a decent 76% on both the quizzes for verbal and around 60%-70% in quants. I gave my last official mock before the test and scored 710 with a V37 and Q49. Finally, went ahead with exam and ended up scoring a 700 (V35, Q49). The test day was not a great experience because of lack of sleep and some bad decisions during the test. As I was struggling with time in Verbal section during the end, I made the most terrible mistake to not finish my Verbal section and ended up getting a 3-point penalty, which was evident in my ESR where my average Verbal score was a 38. It was my bad decision which may have cost me about 10-20 points in my overall score.
To conclude, few important things that the course emphasis on are: 1. Just because you have completed the course, that doesn’t mean you will not have to go back again and again to the specific concepts. Revising the concepts is going to refine what you have already built. 2. One should strategically review each question that he/she has solved and in that review each of the options are to be reviewed. One should have absolute clarity as to what was correct in the correct choice, and what was incorrect in the other four. Unless you do this process with diligence on all the questions that you solve, the improvement will not be visible. 3. Maintaining an error log is as important, if not more, as solving questions. If you do not maintain it, it will be difficult to understand and accept where exactly you lack or what mistakes do you make. 4. The solutions to each of the questions, be it verbal or quants, are detailed and follow the structure which has been taught in the concepts. If there are still any doubts left post reviewing the solution, there are forums below each question where there are several questions asked by previous students and these have been responded to by the E-gmat experts. These forums helped me significantly in getting clarity over every aspect of the question. The final thing to note is that just buying the course alone will not guarantee success. One must imbibe the process and be diligent to really make use of this excellent course. Have patience and trust the process.

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I started prepping towards GMAT in end Dec 2021. I had been working for the past 10 years and had lost touch with studies, and highly competitive exams like GMAT were an uphill task.
I did my research and enrolled in the eGMAT course. In my initial mock, I got a 640 with a V36. The score boosted my confidence and made me approach the course with my own strategy as opposed to eGMAT's recommended approach. I covered all the topics esp the quant but skipped the verbal and learnt it on my own. I later realized that this was a big mistake.
I studied in this fashion from Jan 22 to Mar 22 and started taking official mocks from Apr 22. My official mock scores improved from 680 to 740 (verbal score in the range of V40 - V42) in this period close to a month. In between I booked my official GMAT for 17 May. However, torrential rains played spoilsport as I reached the exam center late on test day, drenched from head to toe and very anxious.
I went through the exam wet and cold and ended up scoring a 670 (Q49, V32). I was totally disappointed by the score and straight away cancelled it. I assumed that anxiety was the reason for my poor performance and decided to redo the exam soon enough. The very next day I gave the last remaining mock in the eGMAT and scored a 710 with V40. I felt confident about my verbal level and concentrated on quant. Then again after rigorous preparation, on 22 June, I gave my exam again and got a 690 (Q50, V33). I was shocked by my verbal performance, but decided to keep the score.
I realized that I had a serious problem with verbal and I needed to address it. I sent an email to eGMAT seeking help and that’s when Rashmi, a strategy expert and mentor from eGMAT, reached out to me offering help. She prepared a one-month plan to improve my verbal score and reinforce my quant score. I diligently followed the plan and I was evaluated on every step. She also helped me out with the strategy and pointed out the mistakes I did in my prep.
Verbal is all about having a solid strategy, practicing it and putting it to work for the test. But my verbal strategy was loose and it sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t. That was what was affecting my performance on test day. I improved my verbal strategy through eGMAT’s curated course. I revised the quant topics and finally on test day on Jul 27, I returned with a score of 730 (Q49, V40).
These are certain things that I liked about the course and the eGMAT experience: -
(a) It is well-structured course with quality material
(b) The verbal section was really helpful in improving my verbal score through the application of meaning-based approach in SC and pre-thinking approach in CR.
(c) SC is one of the best courses that is available
(d) Questions on scholaranium are a great help after learning concepts and applications and helps master the section
(e) Timely support by the support and strategy team helped me take the right steps and make informed decisions at the right time
(f) Mentorship support during the preparation helped me with a structured approach to preparation as opposed to the haphazard way in which I was doing it
However, I also felt that for quant, the material and questions in eGMAT may be used for studying and not exactly for exam experience or exam practice. It is almost impossible to finish any of the questions in 2 min. Gmatclub tests were very helpful for my quant prep.
Overall I would suggest that if you are opting for the eGMAT course, take help of the strategy expert sooner rather than later as it would help you achieve your desired score asap.

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While I had heard about e-GMAT from various internet channels, I didn’t believe in its value until recently. My friend told me that she has done full prep course with e-GMAT over couple of months and she scored 760 at her first attempt. By that time, I had already passed GMAT exam after 4 month’s self-study (700 – V38, Q48, IR7, AWA6) and I was planning to prepare application for Columbia Business School Early Decision. The deadline was just 3 weeks away. I checked out e-GMAT’s free trial upon my friend’s advice and felt so much regret that I didn’t study for GMAT with this platform. I immediately understood that e-GMAT offers structured approach for verbal SC and CR, which were my weakest sides as it’s usual for nonnative speakers. While I had just 3 weeks and had to do the application as well, I reached out to Payal, she took my story very personally and immediately returned to me with thoughtful plan and wise advice. Since CBS is accepting EA as well, it was more rational for me to do EA in parallel with application submission process. Needless to mention how much support I received from the whole e-GMAT team on this journey. I registered for e-GMAT’s GMAT Online Focused course on 5th September and received detailed study plan from Rida how to use the course for EA prep. I first tried EA on 11th of September in 6 days after registration to check my starting level EA score without doing the suggested course from Rida, as was mostly focused on essay writing. I scored 156 (V10, IR11, Q15), which is equivalent of approximately 700 in GMAT. Since I already had 700 score in GMAT and I did not want to send application with this score to CBS, I started to study with e-GMAT for EA and in 11 days after the first try, I scored 160 on EA (V13, IR13, Q14). During the one-week study period, I concentrated on verbal and IR. I found IR section especially helpful, as well as cementing quizzes in SC were exactly what I needed. I want to highlight once again, how much motivation and emotional support I have received from Rida and Payal during this journey. That’s another major thing that makes e-GMAT platform incomparable along with its structured approach for studying. I strongly and enthusiastically recommend e-GMAT to anyone who is preparing for GMAT. It’s the best value for money in the least possible time (price is very affordable). I just applied to CBS and waiting for the Early Decision results. In case I’ll need to study for GMAT again, I’m sure e-GMAT will help me in GMAT score improvement- similarly like it helped for EA.

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I signed up for the e-gmat course after hearing good reviews from one of my friend, who had taken the course. After attempting one free official test (in which I scored 570), I realized that I needed to really improve my verbal score. The verbal course material was really comprehensive and made me develop a very logical approach to solving verbal questions. I believe, that one of the most important element that e-gmat taught me in verbal was the section. which helps you to understand, how to read strategically in the verbal section of GMAT. This really helped me to improve my score from 550 to 710 in my first attempt.
From my sigma mock-X scores, Payal reached out to me to tell me that she saw good potential in me and told me that if I needed, she could help me with a personal tutor without any additional cost – Rida, who would help me plan my study in the limited time I had. This really helped me to push the boundaries further and I was scoring in the 750's in official mocks. With the e-gmat team's help, i was further able to push my GMAT score to 730.

I am really great-full to e-gmat team for helping me with my gmat journey. I recommend e-gmat to all the fellow aspirants. e-gmat helps build a logical and structured approach, which really makes the difference and helps you tackle the GMAT with great confidence

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