"I studied on my own for a month and got 760" - after hearing my sister's GMAT debrief, I thought genes would work equally well for me and I would be able to ace this test without any external help. I thought, if not 1 month maybe 4 months would do and if not 760 a 730+ would do.

After preparing on my own through OG (+ Q & V Review) and MGMAT books for over 4 months, I was pretty confident that I was steering in the right direction. I did everything which a prudent GMAT aspirant would do - diligently practicing the OG, spending time on explanations, paying attention to timing, and giving several mocks (scored between 730-760 in all 6 official mocks, Expert's Global mocks, Princeton and Vertias mocks). After my first attempt in November 2020, I was shocked to see a 670 (Q49 V31). I knew that my verbal was weak but never did I expect (nor get in any mock) a V31.

Heartbroken and disappointed, I booked another retest for the next available date, thinking that my concepts are strong but my luck was bad. I made a plan to practice harder this time, solve OG Advanced and also study for long hours so that my mind is under enough stress to perform well on the test day.

Off-topic: I found out that my mind went into "hot cognition" during the exam and that is why I couldn't make sense of any verbal question. I just wasn't able to understand the meaning of any two sentences.

Anyway, I made sure that I have a disciplined routine and that I follow Mohammad Ali's advice on "not quitting when you're tired".

I was on practicing on GMAT Club when I found out that I did not know much about "-ing modifiers" in SC. I read a beautiful explanation by Payal Tandon from e-GMAT. I had heard the name of this company a lot of times (read both positive and negative reviews - which is why I never opted for it earlier). After reading the explanation I went to E-GMAT's website and signed up for a free trial to understand more about modifiers. I felt that the way their videos explain things and the way they make you practice every little thing in various phases might just work for a student like me.

I booked a video call with one of the E-GMAT representatives (Dhruv) the next day and I explained to him my ordeal. I also showed him my ESR which clearly indicated that RC and CR were super weak in verbal. He explained a few things and suggested trying the E-GMAT course and extending my exam date because he felt I wasn't ready.

I was torn between spending on the E-GMAT course and applying the same strategy which I have been applying. I thought to myself - if I do the same thing again and again, I cannot expect the same result. After sleeping over it, I made up my mind to purchase the Quant and Verbal GMAT Online course.

After spending considerable time and energy on this course, I can tell you the exact pros and cons of this course so that you can make a decision based on what fits your bill:

Pros:

1. Dhananjay Lowe's mentorship.

Excellent mentor. Helped me out with the most important strategy questions like timing, plateau, etc. He has experience of dealing with all kinds of students and you're probably one of the types - so he will know how to steer you in the right direction. He will also not hesitate to tell you that you have conceptual gaps even when you think you are good with concepts (and mostly he was right).

Before enrolling I was skeptical about one thing - E-GMAT does not give phone numbers or do video calls for students when they have conceptual or strategy doubts. How am I going to work with that? But I was pleasantly surprised to see that their email system works quite well. DJ himself used to reply within 1-2 days whenever I had any issues. I remember the biggest help he gave was regarding my timing improvement on CR (brought down from 3 mins to 1.5 mins).

2. Their 3 Stage learning approach

At first, I thought this is just a marketing gimmick (just to show that they do have some system in place). But when I ardently followed the preparation through all stages, I realized that it's very methodical and reasoned. Basically, they will first assess what stage of learning you are currently on (for each subsection in V & Q) and then they will ask you to start from the appropriate stage. For example, I did not need to start with Stage 1 (learning concepts) in most Q subsections because I was doing well with concepts.

3. Verbal course

It's one of the best. No doubts. I've tried almost every other course but their verbal course is the best thing ever.

4. New Quant course

Their new quant course is much better than their previous one. Earlier their course was not as good as their verbal course but the new course is promising. Especially the "Process Skills", "GMAT Skills" and "Application" files are fantastic.

Cons:

1. Old Quant Course

Their old quant course was a bit too tough to comprehend easily. Also, it had certain topics that were stressed more than required. I am comparing because they gave me an upgrade to the new course between my preparation.

2. Difficulty of Q in mocks

Their SIGMA-X mocks are although fantastic when it comes to measuring your subsectional abilities and finding out your weak area if I were you, I would not take their Quant score in their mocks by heart. In each mock, I scored ~Q45 although I knew I was hovering around Q49.

Finally, the exam day came (I even fell sick 3 days before the exam and thought that this is the end of the world). I got boosted on some coffee this time (I love coffee but I didn’t have it in my first attempt). I made sure I did some warm-up questions 1 hour before the exam.

Verbal seemed better this time. Quant was the same (easy in the beginning but a tad bit difficult towards the end). I wasn’t expecting more than 740 but I think my effort and stars were aligned on that day - I got a 750 (Q49 V44).

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I took trial calls with almost all test prep companies and then finally decided on e-GMAT because of the analytics they provide. But I am going to talk about my mentor - Dhananjay. He is an absolute gem of a person to work with. He is supersonic in terms of his replying time. The plans he gave were super customised and extremely action oriented. I used to get back to him after completing the action steps and he used to create a video in which he used to analyse my progress, this really helped me understanding my improvement areas. He truly was reachable at any point, whether weekdays or weekends or holidays. It was an immense pleasure to work with him and I will always recommend working with him. Thanks a ton, DJ!

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Let's talk about e-GMAT's practice to allure prospective students into buying their packages.
They have a lecture for QR where they will assess your level and then recommend you a path you should follow to improve. In that lecture, the standard of questions used is so far from actual questions that appear on GMAT exams that that exam can never be a fine predictor of where you're at. The questions in e-GMAT's test are purposefully constructed to waste your time, making it absolutely difficult for students to write that exam well and in time. Well, even if I'm wrong about the malice in their intent, that exam would mean that e-GMAT absolutely incompetent in predicting what kind of help a student needs. Anyway, the result is that students feel knackered, and end up purchasing their online course. This is what exactly happened with me at least.

Even their sigma-X mock exams follow a similar pattern. Their SC questions only try to increase the difficulty level by increasing the length of almost every SC question, a situation that would never occur on real GMAT exam.

My point is, e-GMAT's course is so far away from what would appear on a real GMAT that it can't be a great estimation of your score, and their course can't take a student in the right direction. My scores in Sigma-X under standard conditions were 610 and 580.

One final point, a nonnative who has studied courses throughout their life in English should never purchase their study materials to prepare for Verbal. The reading comprehension course does nothing to add to abilities of such students.

Someone might argue that I got a 610 in sigma-X and 610 on real GMAT. I could talk at length on why I failed miserably in my first GMAT attempt, but in nut-shell, it had nothing to do with e-GMAT. I did fairly well in my second attempt, and it definitely did not have anything to do with e-GMAT. I simply left using their materials after assessing the quality of their questions.

Their course is not reflective of reality, so take anything they advertise with a grain of salt.


If you see this e-GMAT, please don't write that I did not complete your modules to actually benefit from them, just like you respond to other negative reviews. I was in a good position to assess that your courses were not taking me anywhere in my GMAT saga.
And I agree I'm venting out my frustration because I feel this is the worst way I could have spent $299.

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Kudos to the revamped quant online program of eGMAT and like to extend due credit for a Q50 on the exam. Didn't hear initially much about the eGMAT quant, as the hype has typically been around the Verbal side. However, I took the integrated package and was positively surprised by the quality of content and customization based on existing skill level in the Quant section.

A diagnostic test at the beginning of each module ensures that one is only addressing problem areas without wasting time on already strong sections. This helped me focus on algebra and NP basics, which were the key pain-points in my case. Question difficulty at par or slightly higher than actual GMAT.

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I recommend this course to everyone trying to decide between the abundance of options . I had personally enrolled for 3 different courses when I came across EGMAT and found it to great. They teach you everything right from the basics in both quant and verbal. The scholaranium - i.e a practice tool with abundance of questions for you to keep testing your progress across specific topics and with great solutions given for every question. You can also use their planner to make a schedule for yourself and track your progress . Overall I found it to be very informative and useful. I started with a 640 and got a 710 in my test.

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I started my GMAT Prep journey in Sep'20. Although I was confident in the Quant and RC section, I knew I had to score well in SC and CR as well to achieve my target score of 720+. I started researching about verbal courses through the internet and interacting with friends/seniors. This is where E-Gmat came into the picture.

I must say that the course content and the method of teaching has exceeded my expectations. The course has been designed elegantly with a perfect mix of concepts, theory, examples, application, and tests. The best thing is that they never tell you to mug up rules, instead, they will tell you how to answer questions through logic and meaning. This approach assisted me a lot while attempting tricky questions. Also, the pre-thinking approach in CR helped me develop an overall thought process by which I could eliminate 2-3 options directly. The scholaranium, with its vast question pool and analytics system, helped me to improve on my timing while attempting the questions and enabled me to identify and learn from my mistakes. The instructors were quick to respond to questions, although I just sent them a couple of them as most of my questions were already answered in the inbuilt forum.

I would firmly recommend E-GMAT verbal course to anyone who's looking for improving their score in the verbal section.

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I started the E-Gmat course to only improve the verbal section of GMAT before a month, Though my exam didn't go as good as i had thought , one thing i particularly want to appreciate is the mentor's understanding of the weaknesses and the support they give by personal preparation plan, there is no doubt that these guys are dedicated and they actually really know where things can go wrong in exam. Like in my case, Dhananjay was my mentor, he just saw my scholranium, asked me few questions and immediately understood i was weak in RC , accordingly he made plan for my final week before exam, though it didn't go good, but the reason is definitely not related to e-gmat. The second thing is the mock tests and the detailed analysis that we get after them, this really helps knowing where exactly we went wrong and what are the weak topics of each section, understanding these can considerably help save time in preparation. Now I am preparing again and hope this time i reach my target score with the help of my mentor.

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I would like to thank e-gmat for their marvelous verbal module. When I got a dismal score of 610(Q 49 V 25), my friend referred e-gmat to me. I enrolled immediately and began my journey. Prior to taking e-gmat course I was struggling a lot in verbal, especially with sentence correction. But the e-gmat's sentence correction module was really ground breaking and my ability in SC improved leaps& bounds. Their structured approach to Sentence correction is invaluable to get answer tough questions in Sentence correction. Also the method of Pre-thinking the course taught me really helped me to get rid of confusing answer choices in RC and CR. Also the e-gmat mentors cleared all my doubts within 1-2 days. Their explanations were just crisp and to the point.

Now the 2nd part and as important as video lectures is scholararium. It was a complete package and had all type of questions covered. The questions in scholararium were reasonably difficult than those I faced in actual gmat, improving my accuracy and pace of answering while taking actual gmat. I recommend everyone who takes e-gmat course to solve scholararium in complete as you would get exposed to almost all type of questions that gmat has to offer you.

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E-GMAT is a platform that definitely provides the best service in terms of guiding you towards your target score.
For me, in a limited period of time, that was just three weeks, it enabled me to reach my target score through guided mentorship and quality improvement in my concepts.
Dhananjay(E-GMAT mentor) helped me analyse my weak areas and curated a plan specifically focussed for me to achieve my potential GMAT-score and which tackled and cemented my weak areas.
The video analysis of my mocks by Dhananjay was another aspect which helped me analyse my performance and make tweaks in my prep and he provided the much-needed motivation for my success.
The new Quant course helped me achieve clarity in my concepts and helped me understand how to apply those concepts at G-MAT level questions. It also helped me cement the skills I was learning and over-all helped me improve my test-readiness.

I highly recommend E-GMAT to potential test-takers, as their personalized approach and effective tools will really help you achieve your target score!

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The focus on data, analytics and process skills to excel at the GMAT is what led me to the e-GMAT online course.
After my first attempt, I was looking for a course that would help bridge my concept and ability gaps. Though, I was comfortable with Quants initially, after going through the course, I did learned the correct methods to solve higher difficulty level questions. The Quant course is very comprehensive and the Quant 2.0 course helped me identify the exact nuances and traps present in difficult DS questions.

The e-GMAT strategy team was always supportive and helpful with providing concrete next steps throughout my preparation. My call with Dhananjay (DJ) helped me understand where exactly I was faltering and and how to improve on the same. The last minute pro tips were super helpful in building that confidence just before my exam. The video analyses from DJ and Ashutosh were very helpful in understanding the exact areas that I could improve on to reach the score I deserved and kept motivating me to keep working towards achieving my goal.

If you are dedicated towards excelling at the GMAT, then the e-GMAT team would leave no stone unturned to help you realize your potential.

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