My GMAT journey started in the Spring of 2020. Like most other GMAT candidates, I started by studying from books by a big brand test prep company and the Official Guides. I familiarized myself with all the stuff that is tested on the GMAT and studied for three months, thinking that was enough time. I took a few mock tests in that period, but my score was never consistent. My best score was 670(Q48, V34), but I was never able to get that score again and was never able to break the threshold. After three months of prep, I took a break from the GMAT. Demoralized and frustrated, I thought that the GMAT wasn’t for me.
Months passed, but I was not happy with myself. I always thought to myself “What if I was just following the wrong strategy until now?” Finally, at the beginning of 2020, I committed to preparing for the GMAT again but decided to change my approach this time. After a lot of research, I decided to sign up for the e-GMAT verbal course. I heard about the company several times on the GMAT Club forum, and watched some of their live sessions on YouTube, but I finally decided to give them a try. After spending a little over two months on the e-GMAT course, I can definitely see the improvement in my verbal score. I was able to go from low 30’s to high 30’s and even a 40 one time on the mocks. Below are some of the reasons why the e-GMAT verbal course stood out to me:
For SC, the e-GMAT meaning based approach is a game changer. I had gotten decent at eliminating wrong answers by noticing splits in the answer choices, but sometimes ended up with two answers to choose from and ended up guessing between those two. The verbs module was the most helpful and the content was delivered in a way that made it easy to visualize the timeline of events happening in a sentence.
For CR, the structure-based approach helped me break down the passage and understand it better. I had studied the negation technique for solving assumption questions earlier but was never quite able to apply that well in an argument. The e-GMAT approach to pre-thinking falsification questions helped me apply the negation technique in a better way, and this approach helped me improve my CR accuracy.
The RC section of verbal has been the trickiest for me. It’s something that you can’t guess on entirely and it can be the most time-consuming portion of the verbal section. I am not a fast reader and don’t comprehend well what I read. My biggest fear in the verbal section is getting two RC passages back-to-back, and then getting derailed for the rest of the test. The submersion technique taught by e-GMAT helped me get involved in the passage and this definitely helped me do better on RC.
I found the e-GMAT’s scholaranium to be a great source for verbal questions. After exhausting the OG, I didn’t have a good repository of questions to practice from, but I was surprised by the level of questions that scholaranium has. The analytics provided by the e-GMAT tool is also great. It really helps you analyze your weak areas and helps measure accuracy. Also, the kind of support provided by the e-GMAT team is great. Though I didn’t ask a lot of questions on the forum, as the thread below each question had detailed discussions between students, who had similar doubts, and the mentors, the few times that I did ask a question, I got a prompt response from Kanupriya.
Looking back, I think the e-GMAT verbal course added the most value to my GMAT prep journey. I would highly recommend it.

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In a nutshell, E gmat is definitely worth every penny invested.
I chose it after going through several reviews on gmat club and going through their videos on youtube. The platform is really well designed and organized. There are numerous modules which covers every aspect tested on the gmat.

I was particularly weak in CR and my initial ability was in the 40th percentile. At the end of my prep, i was at the 85th percentile. The SC course is really comprehensive and beautifully planned out. It can help improve anybodys ability tremendously if the instructions and methodology taught is religiously followed. Overall, the Verbal module was incredible and is a huge strength on the platform.

The new Quant 2.0 is amazing and really clean. It teaches the necessary skills required to tackle pretty much any kind of question tested on the gmat. I have used both the previous version and the new one and there is a significant difference in terms of the approach for the exam. The modules are systematic and the questions are of all difficulties to give you a flavor of what the exam will feel like.

Scholaranium is an absolutely amazing tool and question bank that gives you pin point details about the ability in various topics and subtopics and helps identify weak spots and rectify them. The attention to detail and the world class quality o fthe questions really gives you a good feel of the type of questions youd see in the exam. If leveraged right, this can save a ton of time during prep.

The sigma mocks are by far the closest mocks apart from the official mocks that i have written which resembles the actual gmat exam. The insights that the sigma mocks offer are so so valuable. Even the official mocks dont give this much data about timings and weaknesses. It is an absolute necessity to gauge progress from time to time and validate your ability.

Lastly, the mentorship program that I was invited to be a part of was the icing on the cake. DJ has been a fantastic mentor and has guided me throughout the process. His key insights into my progress from time to time gave me a clear direction to move in. It adds a lot of value to the preparation. Making a structured plan and identifying my weaknesses. Video analyses of the performance of my mock gave me a new perspective of my performance and what I needed to do to overcome those minor challenges.

I highly recommend EGMAT to anyone who is serious about their MBA and who really want to achieve a high score. It is worth the money.

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After studying on my own for about 3 months, I managed to score a 680 (Q47, V36). Disappointed, I began trying to figure out how to improve my score and stumbled upon e-gmat. After using their program for my second attempt, I can say for sure that if you are on the fence about signing up with e-gmat then- GO FOR IT!.
Verbal
1. SC- One of the best section with foundation building concept videos. I think this is the best module prepared by them. Meaning based approach is really great.
2. CR & RC- Entire approach was around understanding the passages and thinking critically with out of box solutions.
PS: No mugging up (most imp :) )

Quant
Their Quant course gives all the concepts required for the test and trains us on the process which makes solving difficult questions in less than two minutes easier. E-GMAT’s quant question bank is very comprehensive and difficulty level of the questions is higher than that of the ones in the official guide or GMAT prep. Once we get used to solving harder questions, quant in the actual test turns out to be much easier.
Another good feature that helped me the most is their doubt forum- it has so many already solved doubts that it'll only help you learn more.Go through the already solved doubts of a tough question and you will see different approaches and why the provided solution is the best one. Their courses need no introduction, their verbal and quant will prepare you for everything that will be thrown at you during test day, the scholaranium will help you improve your accuracy and the sigma x mocks will help you fine tune your strategy for D-day.I wish they had more mocks.Their support has always solved my doubts within a day, If you need help ,email them, they WILL help you in any way they can.Ill highly recommend them for any serious aspirant.

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I highly recommend the E-gmat course. I had been struggling alot with the verbal section before subscribing to the E-gmat course but the the way their verbal section is structured is just amazing. If you follow it as they you'll definitely see an improvement in your ability within 10 days. The prethinking skill in CR section is just amazing. Once you get the hang of it, it works like magic. You just have to be patient while preparing for the course. Initially when I subscribed I did not like the quant section as much but later on they have moved on to a new platform for quant known as "expert" which gives you rigorous practice and just embeds the concepts in your head. The strategy team is always ready to help you and you can mail them anytime and they will book a strategy session for you. The scholaranium of E-gmat if used efficiently is a gem. Their are so many doubts related to every single question answered over there that you can clear all your doubts from there if any and you can also learn from other people's mistakes. I would like to thank the E-gmat team for helping me in my Gmat prep.

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Hi Everyone,
I decided to prep for the GMAT in January 2019 and booked my GMAT exam for the 31st of March, 2019.
I thought three months will be enough for me to ace the paper and get a 700+ score. I did join an institute in New Delhi the institute had given me access to approximately 10 mock tests on its portal.
I gave my first attempt and I got a 620. I was very surprised to see my score as I was doing pretty well in the mock tests given by this institute I had joined.

I decided to start the Egmat course immediately after my first attempt and spent quite a lot of time on the verbal section. The online lectures really helped me out and made me feel extremely confident. After a month or so, I started solving questions on the EGMAT scholaranium and I was able to improve my accuracy each passing day. I again gave the GMAT in August 2019. This time I ended up scoring a 610.
I was taken aback but I was still determined to get a better score.
I decided to refer other online material in order to widen my horizon and get exposed to more number of questions. I gave my next attempt in October 2019. I ended up scoring a 620 again.

It was only then that I decided to share the enhanced score reports with the Egmat team so that I could get some clarity on why I was getting such poor scores even after putting in so much effort.

I was advised to just concentrate on the time I was spending on each question. Thats about all. I was advised to create tests on my scholaranium account and time them well.

I gave my 4th attempt on December 9th, 2019. I finally scored a 710. The only reason why I was able to score a 710 was because of the little change I had made in my approach courtesy the advice given by the Egmat team.

I was still determined to do much better in the test. It was in the month of September 2020 that I again sent out a mail to egmat asking for more help. Nava Dehingia from Egmat replied on the mail and set up a zoom call with me for about half an hour.
He had asked me to send all my ESRs and he thoroughly went through my scholaranium account to understand my pain points.

So, it was on that call that Nava made me realise the importance of analysing the questions I was getting wrong. All this while, I was focussing on getting the accuracy up. But I wasn't focusing on my weak points. Nava took me through each of the three sections in Verbal and each of the two sections in quant and asked me to go through my weak areas. Very methodically he asked me to prepare smaller tests focusing ONLY on my weak areas.

For the next 25 days, I just followed Nava's advice. I did nothing else. I just strengthened my weak areas and kept going through the things I was getting wrong.

On 1st October, 2021 I gave my final attempt and I got a 740 - V40 Q 50.

My score would not have been possible had I not been determined enough to keep at it. But more importantly, the question bank, which EGmat provides was the game changer for me. I struggled for 1.5 years to get a good score. I went through so much online material. But nothing comes close to the OG and the Scholaranium questions.
And not to forget, I truly owe the 740 to Nava. His advice changed my approach drastically. Had it not been for him, I probably would have still been giving the GMAT.

Thanks EGMAT for the prompt replies and unconditional support. @Nava, you are GODSEND. Thank you so much for everything you did to ensure I get a 740.

All the best guys. Please feel free to reach out in case you need any help.

Satwikk Trehan

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I got 710 (V39, Q47) on my GMAT after studying with E-GMAT for about 3 months. Here is a detailed review:

- VALUE/PRICE: A Brazilian friend of mine told me that E-GMAT had a great solution with a fair price and after reviewing other players in the market, I got to the same conclusion and signed up for it. I suggest taking both Verbal/Quant courses in a bundle because that will be enough for you to crack the GMAT and it has a good price.
- VERBAL: This is their main strength. There is a lot of content out there teaching you the WHAT (the concepts), but the thing about GMAT is that you must master the HOW to solve the questions. That's exactly the E-GMAT's value proposition and once you master the methods for SC, RC, CR it's impossible for you to forget. The concepts are well taught too, but the methods are the best part of it.
- QUANT: There is a detailed explanation of all the concepts throughout the course and they are mixed with diagnostic and quizzes, making sure one fully understands it. One suggestion I'd like to make is that I feel the Verbal course is superior to Quant because of its focus on the methods. Even though there are methods in Quant, there are just too many of them compared to Verbal.
- ANALYTICS: It doesn't matter if you study 8 hours in a day if you don't get the results you need, so you need to be smart about it. The best way for that is using data to understand what you don't know yet. E-GMAT does exactly that. Their practice questions (Scholaranium) is fantastic and it will allow you not to fool yourself and focus on what you need to. You will see your scores per VERBAL/QUANT accordingly to each topic requested on the GMAT.

If you are Brazilian, don't go for the local solutions. E-GMAT is great, it has an amazing price for what it offers and it will help you in your journey.

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When I attempted GMAT 3 years back, I scored 660, with a decent quant score but a dismal verbal score. I started preparing for GMAT again around October 2020, with an aim to score 700+. I initially relied on questions from GMATClub and OG, and after a few months of practice gave my first official mock test, scoring a 660. Again, I noticed a stark contrast between my quant and verbal scores. Realizing that I needed serious help with verbal, I decided to opt for e-GMAT.

The video lectures offered by e-GMAT for verbal are unparalleled in terms of quality. The lectures start with explaining the basics, and then show how questions are solved by breaking down each option and eliminating options one by one. I learned a lot of strategies to solve various types of questions, such as placement of verb-ing words for SC questions, negation strategy for CR questions, summarizing RC paragraphs, etc.

e-GMAT Scholaranium provides plenty of questions. You get to apply the strategies learned from video lectures on questions of varying difficulties (Easy, Medium, Hard). Scholaranium comes with a dashboard to help you understand the areas/types of questions that need improvement. Apart from the video lectures and Scholaranium, e-GMAT also provides a myriad of helpful articles on their website, and I often found myself going back to these articles again and again to refresh my memory.

In conclusion, e-GMAT helped me overcome the verbal score plateau, and I would recommend their verbal course to everyone aiming to score 700+ on GMAT.

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I decided to take the GMAT a few months back I was exploring web for test preps. I am an engineer and people I know around me do not take GMAT that often, so web search was the best option I had to find the right course for me. Initially I got some books from another leading test prep service provider and I just realised that the verbal section was not doing it for me. People on GMAT Club say that it is easier to improve on SC, whereas no matter how much I tried, my growth in SC was stuck! So in my search for course for SC, I found some reviews of e-GMAT on GC and I decided to give it a try. Now, looking back, I am glad that I did!

Here are my thoughts on the overall course prep-

1. For verbal, e-GMAT is probably the most effective course prep for someone who is not a grammar nazi. Their meaning based approach actually works- its not just another jargon created by the test prep providers. The quality of questions are comparable to OG and the real exam, and the difficulty of the questions made me comfortable in facing any surprises in the verbal. Their focus on grammar is limited to absolute essential and the structured steps suggested in the course got ingrained into me as I moved ahead with the course. The pre-thinking approach they teach in CR seems long and counter-intuitive initially but it works like magic once you get a grasp on it.

2. Quant was already a stronger area for me because of my background but I felt that their quant section has a very good step by step approach to getting to harder level questions for someone for whom quant is a problem area.

3. Scholaranium is the platform that they use to develop test taking ability. Obviously the quizzes customisable by topic/difficulty, but on top of that they have adaptive ability quizzes to each of the area in verbal and quant to develop test taking ability. The metrics that they provide has a lot of data that can can be used to identify any weak area with concept, timing or difficulty and work on it.

4. The Sigma-X mocks that the course offers are very closely comparable to the real thing. My exam score very closely matches with my Sigma-X mock scores. In my opinion, the quality and difficulty of the questions are very much in line with the real thing.

5. Most importantly, the e-GMAT team is very approachable in every way. They arrange weekly webinars on various topics which are extremely effective. Plus, whenever I wrote to them for guidance, they have reverted quick with extremely valuable inputs on strategy, identifying weak areas and even helped me plan study routines at times. A couple of weeks before the exam, when I reached out to them, they actually helped me plan the full weeks leading up to the exam day! Honestly, this was not something I was even looking for when I subscribed to the course!

I am writing this review because I felt that the reviews I've read on GC helped me when I was exploring course to choose from and I believe my experience should help someone else too. I think if you are planning on taking the GMAT exam, you can't go wrong with e-GMAT. Period.

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Being a non- native candidate, verbal was always tedious and difficult to master for me. With about 6 months of self-preparation and hopping on & off from random contents of preparation from online resources, I realized that GMAT requires a structural approach than some random tricks.

I stumbled upon e-GMAT through reviews on GMAT Club and other forums. I was already scoring Q49 to 50 on mock tests but was scoring V25 to V28 on verbal section. I gave their sigmaX mock and got 640 with similar results in quant and verbal section. I reached out to e-GMAT for help in only verbal section. Thereafter, the journey has been great.
Module-wise review -
1. SC- One of the best section with foundation building concept videos. I think this is the best module prepared by them. Meaning based approach is really great.
2. CR & RC- Entire approach was around understanding the passages and thinking critically with out of box solutions.
PS: No mugging up (most imp :) )
I think for all the students whose basics are not on line. e-GMAT is the only platform which can help you.

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I initially started off at a very low score [470] in my first mock test [before I started my GMAT preparation]. I was very disappointed to know that my basics were pretty weak and that I needed to study a lot to be test-ready for the GMAT.
After reading multiple satisfied reviews about e-gmat on gmatclub, I decided to purchase the online course. I think this is the best course out there because of the following key reasons-
Quant 2.0 course -
1. Quant 2.0 course has covered all topics that are tested on the exam.
2. It is very well structured and you are 80% test ready by the time you have gone through the concept files and the practice tests in the module.
3. Quant Scholaranium takes care of the remaining 20% preparation. The question bank is very comprehensive and there are no similar questions. So the more amount of time you spend on Quant Scholaranium the better you get.
Verbal course -
1. Verbal course is very seamless. After going through the Master comprehension module I could make sense of any sentence structure very easily.
2. The SC concepts seem very logical. The meaning-based approach is taught throughout the course, this approach comes to great aid while solving Hard SC questions.
3. In CR - Pre-thinking approach, taught in the course, helps to tackle every CR question and improves your accuracy.
4. RC - Concepts taught in SC and Master comprehension module helps a lot in understanding a long passage, and with sufficient practice on Verbal scholaranium, reading skills improve.
5. Verbal Scholaranium again has a very comprehensive question bank and the solution explanations are the best one can find on the internet.

One of the unique points about the e-gmat course is the graphical data that is available to you at all times.
How much of a module you have completed, What is your accuracy in different practice tests/ quizzes/ different level questions, How much time you are taking in different question types? It's all there. And it really helps when you are following a strict timeline.

The support from the e-gmat support team is also pretty amazing. I have received some amazing responses from DJ [Dhananjay] whenever I mailed him. His insights really helped.
The subject matter experts are very quick to respond and they write out very detailed explanations, clarifying your doubts at all times. Detailed explanations from Stacey, Vipul, Shraddha really helped in clearing a lot of my doubts.

Overall, I would highly recommend this course to anyone.

All the best for your preparation!!

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