My journey with E-GMAT started on May'22.

I fell in love with the platform immediately. The platform is super easy to navigate and use. e-GMAT's Scholaranium question bank is one of the best. The platform saves a lot of your time. Maintaining and revising error logs became very convenient.

The platform helped me identify my weak areas and the time I took in each section by providing analysis of all my quizzes.
This analysis was important to me as it gave me new insights and helped me identify where I had to focus more.

e-GMAT's meaning based approach for solving SC questions is the best

I used to take 1minute 45 seconds to 2 minutes to solve an SC question and my accuracy was also not high, but after going through e-GMAT's meaning based approach the average time I took to solve an SC question came down to 1 minute 15 seconds to 1 and half minute and my accuracy also improved a lot across both medium and hard level difficulty questions.

Apart from the course the thing that most impressed me is the support and encouragement they gave.

I requested for a personalized study plan and I was assigned Ms. Rashmi as my mentor.

She gave my preparation a direction and helped me get out of my comfort zone.

She was really concerned about my preparation and kept pushing me to be consistent with my preparation.

Her pep talk and last minute tips before the exam helped me calm my nerves and helped me do well on the exam.

I want to genuinely thank e-GMAT and Ms. Rashmi for being a part of my GMAT journey.

Happy Learning!

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Having scored a 640 (Q48, V28) in my first attempt at GMAT after preparing on my own, I knew that I needed to take some preparation course that would set me on the right track and help me achieve my target GMAT score and that’s when E-GMAT came into the picture.

When I was preparing for my first attempt, I thought that the official guides were enough to help me reach the 700 mark. So, I just solved the questions from the OGs and would sometimes randomly look up certain topics on YouTube where some of the top videos that would come up were from E-GMAT. From there, I understood that E-GMAT is a trusted source. Anyway, I wanted to take my first attempt without any external help, and I scored a 640 then.

After that, I explored a bit more about E-GMAT and it seemed like everything I had wanted for GMAT. So I signed up for the course. The things that I liked the most about the course were the personalized approach and the expert guidance that I got throughout my preparation. Every step of the way I was getting constant feedback and corrective measure plans for the areas I was faltering in. Abha Mohan (one of the E-GMAT experts) who was mentoring me made sure that I was not leaving any stone unturned and constantly motivated me to push further.

I also want to break down my learning experience in various sections/subsections:
Sentence Correction: I think I can safely say that this course changed the way I read sentences. The meaning-based approach that E-GMAT teaches compels me to understand the logic behind every sentence.
Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension: These courses taught me to read between the lines and get as much information as can be extracted from a set of sentences.
Quant Section: Starting from the very basics of mathematics to teaching how to tackle difficult and tricky questions, the quant section is divided into various subsections and teaches in a way that does not involve any memorization or shortcuts.

Scholaranium (the E-GMAT question bank) is an extremely resourceful tool that offers carefully selected questions (resembling those that are asked on the real test) that can be accessed through various types of quizzes. The cementing quizzes that are ought to be done after completing each subsection helped me retain my learnings while moving on to the next subsection.

So after preparing for two and a half months, I started with the mocks. And even though I did not perform well on the first 2 mocks and felt demotivated, Abha was there as always to my rescue; she helped me gain my confidence and provided a corrective plan, setting me on the 700+ track.

Then I booked my test date 10 days in advance and just practiced with the already solved questions in the last few days. Through the entire preparation period, I solved 850+ questions from both Verbal and Quant with more than 60% overall accuracy in hard questions. On the test day, I was confident and calm, and as I clicked on the next button to see the final scores I kind of already knew that my hard work had paid off. I scored a 710 with a Q49 and a V38.

All in all I can say that E-GMAT was the best choice I made in my GMAT journey. I had a wonderful experience. I really want to thank Abha Mohan (my mentor) and the whole E-GMAT team for tremendously helping me achieve my target score. I highly recommend E-GMAT to anyone who is looking for a preparation course for GMAT.

Additionally, I would advise that once you take up the course and if you have sufficient time, then don’t rush through the learning part. That’s the most crucial segment and if you do that right you won’t face many problems with the questions later. I wasted a lot of time coming back to certain files again and again. And also make full use of the discussion forum. I wish all the best to anybody who is reading this post. Thank You.

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Great course.
Verbal-
The frameworks in CR and RC are instrumental. The sentence correction course structure was fantastic. The way the concept quizzes were created ensured that you would get similar questions of increasing difficulty levels, making it easier to identify areas of improvement. The strategies adopted by egmat are effective and well explained.

Quant-
I went through only a few topics I had faced difficulty with earlier. The EGMAT course helped me clear my doubts and cover all concepts. Also, the PACE feature enables you to trim your course prep to only those topics you have issues with, determined by the diagnostic quiz at the beginning of the module. I used to not tune into quant modules because I used to feel slowed down. Still, the PACE feature helped me focus only on the relevant portions, thereby ensuring I could cover topics faster without the fear of missing concepts.

Mocks- The Mock's UI was similar to the actual GMAT exam, which helped me immensely on the test day. The questions are also well balanced. While I did not score very high on mock tests, those were more because of the gaps in preparations and time management than the EGMAT mocks being unrepresentative of GMAT.

In my opinion, the EGMAT course's outstanding feature is its Scholarinium analytics. The Scholarinium product is data-driven, and I felt that they kept throwing up questions in which my understanding was suspect earlier. The questions are on the tougher side, especially the Hard questions, which help you formulate your concept application strategy. I would recommend everyone to use the dashboard analytically, and when used in tandem with your error log, it can help you dig deeper into your preparation.

All the best on your GMAT preps !!!

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I bought the EGMAT online focused course which gives you 2 months' access. Very comprehensive and quite reasonably priced, would strongly recommend this, especially for people who prefer interactive videos to reading off a book.

For quant, EGMAT does a great job of dealing with bite-sized basics and the concurrent practice quizzes help you test yourself on individual concepts in an incredibly precise manner. I followed the course from top to bottom.

For SC, I went through the EGMAT course (~30 hours) - covers everything - verbs, pronouns, modifiers, comparisons, parallelism, and idioms. EGMAT keeps things simple and easy to comprehend, avoiding any unnecessary grammar jargon (which GMAT does not expect you to know either).

I found EGMAT mocks' difficulty level to be quite close to the actual exam.

I've put up a slightly more detailed debrief as a post.

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I started my GMAT journey June 2021, yup it took me more than 1 year and four attempt to score a 730.

First attempt in August 2022 : 670
Second Attempt in October 2021 : 700
Third Attempt in March 2022 : 680 :(
Fourth Attempt in July 2022 : 730 :)

So EGMAT technically helped me improve my score by 50 points, I was struggling with SC a lot but EGMAT helped me work on my SC skills, the meaning based approach is perfect. In none of the question I looked at options until I know what the sentence was trying to say and this approach became wired me in mind, I was hitting 90-100% accuracy on SC questions.

CR again I was facing a lot of issues and the questions I used to solve were always repeated since by my third attempt I have solved almost all the official question. EGMAT with its scholarium product brought 100s of new questions and helped me build my brain muscle to understand the CR passage and follow a right path while eliminating the wrong choices.

RC and Quant I didn't use much of EGMAT since I was already at 90th percentile.

I would say go for EGMAT and a tip make sure to connect with a strategic partner and no matter what make sure to share with them your daily progress.

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I took my first attempt at GMAT in 2016 when I could score only 670 after 3 months of preparation. This year I wanted to get a really good score with the help of a proper guidance, and I decided to go for eGMAT. I knew about eGMAT from my own research but I got convinced to take this course once I got recommendations from a couple of my friends.

The experience with eGMAT has been really great. Starting from the foundation course in both verbal and quant section to the advanced topics, they have captured every topic in a very detailed and structured manner. I personally needed a lot of improvement in the verbal section and I absolutely loved the way the verbal course is crafted, and the way they have created strategies to solve each SC, CR and RC question along with their subsections is amazing. They also make sure that they provide enough practice questions for these strategies so that we eventually get used to them and start using them subconsciously going-forward. The quant section is also pretty well structured, with enough practice questions for both PS and DS. I needed improvement primarily in the DS section and the strategy they offer for it is foolproof if applied correctly.

The two best things about eGMAT apart from the course is the analytics section and the personal coaching. The analytics sections provides all the details of each subsection and gives us a better view to select specific questions based on our performance in these subsections, so that we can target our weak areas and not just keep practising question from our strong areas.
The personal coaching came into picture after my second attempt at GMAT when I scored a 710. Payal personally reached out to me after analysing my performance on eGMAT and convinced me to take another attempt at it to get a better score. This time she helped me connect with one of their consultants, Rashmi who talked to me regularly to plan my next steps within the month, focusing specifically on my weak areas. She kept me pushing and motivated throughout the journey and it felt really good to know that the counsellors in eGMAT are very much invested in our journey to make sure we reach our target.

Even though I scored a 710 in my official GMAT, the scores in my eGMAT and OG mocks ranged between 730 to 780, and this exemplifies the kind of impact this course has on me, irrespective of my final score which could be because of my unfortunate luck on that day.

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My GMAT prep started sometime around Nov ‘21. I gave a mock and scored 670 (Q47V35) which I knew was nowhere close to the target score which I had in mind.
So, I immediately got to work and diligently started preparing everyday for a couple of hours in the morning before I began office work. I started with practicing questions from OG and would select 20 questions each from quant and verbal and test myself in a timed environment. My quant accuracy was good and I gradually got better with time. With Verbal my accuracy was poor and more importantly, I had huge conceptual gaps.

So I decided to start learning verbal concepts and since I tend to do better with video based learning, I started looking for an online course to help me with this. I enrolled in eGMAT based on a recommendation from a friend and because I was impressed with a lot of their answers on GMATClub. What I liked about their answers was the fact that they followed a structured approach for solving SC questions wherein, the first emphasis was on meaning followed by litmus testing the sentence against a fixed set of grammar rules. I found this quite effective because I felt this method was easy to replicate on the exam and left very little to chance.

After completing the course, my verbal score improved to V38 but it was still far from my target verbal score of V42. It was quite puzzling for me because I was solving questions every day but my score wasn’t improving. I reached out to eGMAT for help and they responded to me and gave me a customized plan which targeted my conceptual gaps and addressed issues in my approach. In a very short amount of time(2 weeks), my verbal score jumped from V38 to V42. I booked a test and scored 740(Q49V42).

Here is a list of things which I did that helped me immensely in acing the GMAT.
SC and CR: Knowing the grammatical concepts that the GMAT tests on is crucial. You can learn these concepts from a good test prep provider like eGMAT. Once you master these concepts, start practicing questions everyday in a timed environment and make sure you spend a good amount of time on questions which you failed to answer correctly. Be honest with yourself and introspect on why you got it wrong. Identify whether it is a conceptual gap, time issue, or anything else you might have faced. Once you identify your problem, take corrective actions to fix your mistakes. Making mistakes in GMAT is fine but making the same mistake twice is unacceptable. For CR, what really helped me was pre thinking. It is a practice where you read the question stem and try to prethink the answer that could answer the question. This was helpful to me because it eliminates the need to evaluate and introspect every option in depth because once you’ve prethought the answer, all you need to do is mark the answer choice that is closest to your pre thought assumption.

RC: Being a lifelong reader, I thought RC would be a piece of cake to me. I couldn’t be more wrong. Casual readers tend to skim through content a lot but skimming equals death in the GMAT. You have to understand every sentence clearly before moving on to the next sentence. The two things to always keep in mind when you read a sentence are a. What does this sentence mean? b. What value does this sentence add to the passage as a whole? This can be a bit time taking in the beginning, but with practice it will become second nature and your RC accuracy will soar.

General tips:
Error log: I solved nearly 600 questions before reaching out to eGMAT for help. I solved only 150 questions when working under their tutelage. I’ve learned more from solving those 150 questions than I did from the 600 questions I solved earlier. The differentiating factor was an error log. If you make an error log and regularly refer back to your notes, you’ll make a lot more incremental progress than you would if you simply solved questions without introspection. Quality matters more than quantity when practicing.
Read: Spend at least 15 minutes a day reading good quality content on the internet (The Economist, FT, etc.). Imagine that you are going to be questioned on the essays that you’re reading. Doing this improve your reading comprehension and will work wonders in RC and CR
Use analytics to track performance: eGMAT offers Scholaranium which is an excellent tool that contains 100s of good quality questions and amazing analytical tools to track your performance. You can very easily track your performance and check your accuracy and pace w.r.t topic, difficulty and section. I earlier did this in Excel when I was practicing from OG but it can be quite time taking and having the analytical tools in Scholarinium saved me a lot of time.
Mocks: Take mocks periodically to track your performance. While practicing quizzes regularly helps in improving accuracy and conceptual gaps, mocks help you in learning time management, train your brain to stay active for long hours and help you stay in touch with GMAT’s adaptive algorithm. I did 5 mocks in Scholarinium and I felt that the scoring and quality of questions were quite similar to the actual test.
Stay calm: It is good to push yourself to the limits of your capability but don’t let this affect your mental wellbeing. In the end, GMAT is just an exam. If you crack it, good, if not, life goes on. No big deal.

Happy Learning!

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I started my gmat preparation by solving questions from the official guide and from GMAT club . The questions were very useful for practice but the often contrasting views on a topic on the common forum caused confusion in understanding of concepts.To avoid this confusion, I decided to enroll for an online course which would help me be clear with different concepts. After some search on the web and speaking with some friends I decided to enroll for the egmat online course for 2 months.

Over the 2 months I accessed only the verbal section and mainly SC and RC as these two topics were my weak areas. The course on both these topics was highly structured and detailed. The practice questions at the end of each concept helped me gain a better understanding of each concept.

The course on SC helped me understand all the different grammer rules. After completing the course I could see significant improvements in topics such as modifiers, parallelism and comparisons. The course also gave a thorough demonstration of the method to be used to arrive at the correct answer while solving questions. This structured methodology was of great help in answering questions on the actual exam.

The course on RC, as the SC course was also very detailed and structured. The reading strategies provided were very useful in understanding how to gain proper understanding of any passage in minimum time. The insights provided on the way to approach a main point and inference question were very useful in solving questions and helped me increase my accuracy in these questions.

Post completion of the theory I began solving questions on the scholaranium section of the course. During this phase I solved a lot of questions through the cementing quizzes on each of the 3 verbal topics. The scholaranium provided me access to lot of questions where I could apply the concepts learned during the course. In addition to providing questions, the detailed solutions of the questions also helped me improve my question solving ability. After I solved some questions on the cementing quizzes I moved to giving the movk tests. Initially I struggled to solve the questions within the stipulated time as I was taking time to adjust to applying a different process of question solving. However, as I kept practicing questions I became better and was able to solve the questions within the stipulated time with a good accuracy. Consequently, my mock score also increased upto 740. Another good feature of the scholaranium was the fact that question used to get added after completion of a mock test. This ensured that I always had sufficient questions for practice. Also the analytics section in the scholaronium section helped me understand my accuracy in different type of questions and gave me an understanding on the topics on which I was supposed to work.

After i felt confident to give the gmat I booked a slot for the exam. I ended up getting a score of 760 with a 41 in the verbal section. The egmat course on SC and RC played an important role in helping me achieve this score.

Overall I would recommend the egmat verbal course for anyone looking for a structured and detailed way of learning. An important point in getting maximum advantage from the course is consistent practive. Consistent practice is very important if one has to gain expertise in solving questions.

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E-Gmat provides the most exhaustive test prep material in the whole industry and I have seen the prep material of Magoosh and Gmat Whiz as well. The quality of course material whether it be of verbal or of quant is excellent and the Scholaranium is a real gold mine. The only thing missing is personalisation. I might not have gotten a great score out of it but I would really recommend it to everyone out there if they really want to gain fundamentals on how to ace GMAT. Their strategy and lectures on algebra are extremely helpful and thus you can absolutely trust on e-gmat for your GMAT prep journey.

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In my first year of undergrad, it was as I was searching for information about what the gmat as an exam entailed, that I stumbled upon a comprehensive explanation of the same on the first website that I clicked.
The egmat website.
The blog post there offered an extremely thorough, easy to understand overview of the exam and its sections, what a percentile score really meant, and why the gmat as an exam might be right for you.
The clarity provided through this post was what I would say, solidified my desire to attempt the exam and piqued my interest in learning more about what egmat as a platform had to offer regarding the same.

The very next day, as I went through the free modules offered, I marveled at how easily a concept such as ' +ing- modifiers' that i had struggled to retain post my elementary school days, was one that I was able to understand through the concept file illustrations and then apply almost immediately after being taught the concept, in an interactive application file quiz.

That very evening, I booked a free strategy consultation with one of their experts and was introduced to Vaibhav, who helped me chart out my gmat goals, taking into consideration my time commitments and strengths and urged me to avail their free sigma x mock test to have a better understanding of where it is that I stood, not just in terms of my cumulative quant and verbal ability, but also in terms of my sectional ability in each of the subsections under verbal and quant.

The fact that egmat offers a sigma x mock test that uses analytics to provide the following information to *everyone* for free is almost akin to a godsend, and I can tell you with complete certainty, that attempting that mock test regardless of where it is that you are at your gmat prep journey or how it is that you are prepping , will be a game changer for you.

What set egmat apart for me was the transparency with which every step of the process was detailed.
The meticulous 3 step approach that is explained to you, the personalised study plan that is offered, that takes into consideration your strengths, commitments and goals, the access to a student forum that allows you to see other queries posted on a topic, ask your own, with the guarantee of receiving a response within 24 hours, and the active involvement of a team of strategy experts that are there for you at every step of the way, were all attributes that I was made aware of on that very first day itself, and is what motivated me to purchase the course.

On my very first mock test, i scored a 520 ( 26th percentile; Q31 , V31) and the analytics for the same was what was used by the egmat testprep company to help chart out an action plan that was tailored specifically for me.

By the end of my gmat journey, what i had achieved was a 220 point improvement from my intial score , with my final score of 740 ( 97th percentile ; Q47, V45).


Below, i shall enumerate some of the reasons why EGMAT 'works' :

1. They do not promise you instant miracles. Instead, you are guaranteed 'improvement' over a period of time, provided you follow the plan charted out for you.
I was given reasonable targets at different stages of my gmat journey - to grow from 520 to 570 , 570 to 620, 620 to 650, 650 to 680, 680 to 710, and then 710 to 740+.

2. Stage 1 of each module entails a diagnostic quiz for you to figure out where it is you stand, and on the basis of your performance on that, through the PACE feature of the course, you are told which module files you must work on and what you can skip, effectively saving you time during your prep.

3. Each concept file within a module is followed by a timed test that replicates an online mini exam. So, even for 5 questions, you are given a test that is timed for say 15 minutes, I.e, the amount of time they find you should ideally take to solve those questions.
In addition to this, there are also untimed process and application learning files, where you can take your time solving one question, before being shown a video solution of the same that maps out the process skills to be used and breaks down the steps to solving that question.
Since several of the questions on learning files of this kind are usually gmat style questions of medium-hard difficulty , the approach followed to teach you how to solve these questions is very effective in cementing the method in your mind.

4. SUPPORT + VALIDATION. The gmat journey can often be a lonely one. The impact of the lows felt may sometimes erode one's confidence , and the lack of check-ins at regular intervals may just adversely affect the 'accountability' you may take in your learning process.
Egmat recognises this, and thus, makes it a point to validate not just the final score, but also the effort you put along the way at every level in your journey.
Emails that celebrate your performance on the final application/ practice quizzes of each module are sent when you score greater than 85 percent on them and they serve to affirm to you that you're on the right track in your journey.
In addition to this , the support team of strategy experts are just an email away, there for you to reach out to when things 'Do Not Go According To Plan'. They are quick in their responses, efficient in their communication, and possess the right balance of empathy and firmness as they chart out improvement plans for you.
My strategy expert Harsha was someone i sent extremely lengthy emails too, detailing not just my progress on good days but also the sheer panic i felt when things didn't go according to plan. At one point in time, i think i even sent him my timetable for the day, asking him how i could rework it better! Strategy experts like Harsha, I found, went above and beyond in the role they played - doubling as progress trackers, motivators, problem solvers, and even life coaches!
In addition to this, my subscription, which was set to expire on the 26th of June, was extended free of charge until the 1st of july (the date of my gmat) so I could access the resources and produce optimized results on my final exam.
All of this is indeed something that I will always be indebted to egmat for.

5. Cementing
The cementing approach to strengthen your understanding of not just the concepts learned in stage 1 but also their application in all possible types of gmat style questions, is by far the most life changing aspect of this programme.
You are taught to identify several process skills like I.simplification, ii. Translation, iii. Consider constraints, iv. All cases and so on while learning a concept in stage 1. In stage 2, it is as you are giving your medium and hard level tests on their cementing platform called Scholaranium, that you are taught how to make an error log to efficiently identify your errors, record your learnings and create an effective review system that saves you time down the line in your final revision process.
The error log approach compels you to go beyond the traditional reasoning of a 'silly mistake' or ' took too much time' (in fact, egmat maintains fervently that there is no such thing as a silly mistake) for incorrect questions and delve deeper into which process skill you might have overlooked and pin point exactly which part of the application stage you may have faltered in.
The goal here is to change how you respond to errors - and to encourage you direct your focus from " what went wrong" to identifying " why it went wrong".
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call this the most 'crucial' takeaway for your gmat prep.
I can assure you that this cementing process, when done properly, is what takes your learning to the next level - gets you that 85th percentile and above accuracy and instills in you, unwavering belief in your ability to take on any question posed to yoy on the final day.


6. Other features like a focused approach to work on your TAKT time on questions where you exceed the time it should take to solve a particular question or topic, curated review lists for each test that highlight the questions you may have exceeded time for or rushed through in, with a threshold time offered as information to evaluate your performance against, the ability to bookmark questions so you can review them later by simply clicking on your user profile, and even a forum that allows you to review other student queries posted on a topic and ask your own, are also what sets egmat apart as the perfect learning platform for anyone looking to improve.

Looking back at my gmat journey, for all the learning curves that i did end up experiencing, for the bumps and stumbles, and even the things that I wished i'd done differently along the way, i know that the one decision that i can say with certainty that I will be eternally grateful for making, is choosing egmat.

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