After a few months of unstructured prep and no improvements or understanding of my strengths and weaknesses, I came across the one of the eGMAT debriefs on youtube. After going through a few debriefs, I realised that the key component of GMAT prep is structure. While I had initially signed up for eGMAT just to add structure to my prep, the course offered so much more. A lot of which I was totally unaware of.
Key Strength:
I want to start with the strongest suite of the eGMAT course. The Sentence Correction module. It is hands down the best out there with no close second. The SC module is curated so beautifully to get you an in-depth understanding of the concepts of sentence correction while keeping you engaged. I remember when I started the SC module, I spent about 22 hours on it in the first week without even realising it. While a lot of GMAT courses get carried away from the grammar aspect of SC, eGMAT, with its meaning based approach, does a very good job of reminding the students that the verbal section on GMAT is called Verbal REASONING and not GRAMMAR.
Without exaggerating even one bit, It is THE BEST course out there and if you are someone who is struggling with sentence correction, take a leap of faith with eGMAT and you will not regret it one bit.

The CR module, eGMAT does a very good job of making the students go through the Master Comprehension module before delving into the details of the CR and RC course. This acquired skill of UNDERSTANDING what you're reading combined with the eGMAT Pre Thinking approach helped with the really tough CR questions.
The RC course, again my biggest weakness on RC was skimming without understanding the meaning of what I read, The eGMAT application files pushed me to maintain the balance between skimming and over reading, thus helping me save time and improve accuracy on RCs.

The Quant course, being an Engineer, Quant was my strength on the test but after a few mocks, I realised that there were certain conceptual gaps in my preparation. The eGMAT course definitely helped with that. The overall level of eGMAT quant is higher than the actual test so it prepares you for the tougher questions.

Moving on to the strongest suite for TEST READINESS out there, Scholaranium 2.0 with its flexibility to create custom quizzes and its data backed insights is a beautiful platform to improve your ability to test yourself. The quality of explanation for each right as well as wrong answer just add to the perks of the platform.

Sigma X Mocks, On a personal note, I feel the sigma X mocks are the right representation of the actual test, I would even go on to say that the official mocks are a bit easier than the actual exam. The quality of questions on the Sigma X mocks along with the adaptive algorithm do a very good job at simulating the test taking experience.
Having said that, in my GMAT journey the key has been the support that I have received from eGMAT, their Last Mile program gets you in touch with brilliant mentors like Dhananjay (can't thank him enough) who help you with hyper specific feedback, personalised improvement plans and support to just help you maximise your potential on test day.
On that note, I would say my experience with eGMAT was nothing short of amazing and I would strongly recommend every test taker out there to go for the course.

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After scoring a disappointing 610 (Q47V27) on my first attempt, I identified 3 key areas on which I had to work on to improve my GMAT score.

1) Verbal, as I scored very low on it and I knew I was having conceptual gaps.
2) Speed, I was not able to finish any of the sections and simply had to guess the last 3-4 questions in each section.
3) Stamina, I was exhausted halfway through the verbal section which was my second section.

To overcome the above, I knew I had to give mock tests and need to get a verbal course,

I did my research and e-gmat stood out when it came to verbal preparation, so I planned to enrolled to the Verbal course of e-gmat, however, I ended up enrolling to the entire course (Verbal +Quant) after I heard about the scholaranium section of e-gmat because I knew I had to practice quant with time limits setup.

It turned out to be quite a good decision as I was able to increase my score by 80 points to 690 (Q47V39) with a massive improvement of 12 points in the verbal section.

Using e-gmat, I attacked the 3 key areas I had identified.

1) Verbal: The modules for SC and CR are exceptional, they really helped in understanding the key concepts which I was missing. In terms of RC, I was able to grasp some new concepts in it, however not as much as in the SC and CR section. For RC, I think it's just about being a good reader, so I just worked on improving my reading skills by reading random articles and practicing on E-Gmat scholaranium. The verbal course is very well structured overall, there are concepts videos, quizzes, application quizzes, cementing quizzes and the scholaranium, also the explanation for every question is very thorough. I followed the approach that e-gmat team guided me with and it helped me a lot.

2) Speed: From my perspective, the best and most powerful thing about e-gmat is the scholaranium, this tool is a blessing. I used scholaranium to get my timing right, in the scholaranium you can create your custom quiz and give short exams setting up a timing limit, I really found it very very helpful, not only it allowed me to practice and get my timing right but also it allowed me to give quick short exams in between my busy work schedule. They have a huge pool of questions with different difficulty levels, I found the questions slightly more difficult than what I got in actual gmat which was perfect as it made the Gmat test look slightly easier. The dashboard of scholaranium was also very helpful, I was able to identify my weaknesses using it and work on them.

3) Stamina: I got access to 6 adaptive tests which helped me work on my stamina, again the adaptive tests were slightly more difficult than the actual gmat, the highest i scored on e-gmat mock test was 670, on the official gmat mock test i had scored 710 and on the test day I scored 690.

Overall, I am very thankful to the e-gmat team for providing support wherever required, I asked numerous questions on different modules which e-gmat experts replied to and helped me clarify my doubts.

If you are someone who is looking to improve on verbal and who is looking for some practice to improve speed and stamina, I would strongly recommend e-gmat, their verbal course as well as scholaranium has really helped me and I hope it will help you too.

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E-GMAT exceeded my expectations by far. I focused on verbal part of the course to build my sentence correction skills. The course is very student friendly. The explanation of the concepts in videos is helpful to develop a foundation necessary for great verbal score. The questions are also very well formatted and very close to the questions in actual exam. I reviewed the entire sentence correction twice and every time I walked away with something new in terms of learning. I was able to identify my knowledge gap and build on the skills that were lacking. I did questions from algebra part of quant and enjoyed doing those questions too. I got personalized learning plan because I did not have enough time. That personalized plan identified my weaknesses and I was able to correct them to get to my goal score. I am very glad that I did the course. I wold highly recommend the course to anyone preparing for GMAT.

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I came across E-GMAT’s course when I was struggling with CR with just a week to go for my first GMAT attempt. I got to attend a free webinar and I really loved the use of pre-thinking, a concept that I hadn’t come across before. My CR score immediately improved in just 2 days. Unfortunately, I had other skill gaps and ended up scoring only 640(Q44 V34) in my first attempt at GMAT. My prep had been very random, without any structure and I wasn't able to figure out what was going wrong and I decided to give E-GMAT a shot because I liked the way the course was structured.

Within a month of using the platform to learn and practise questions my score improved to 700 and then to 720 in my mocks and stayed there for a while. However, things didn’t go well in my second attempt too as I wasn’t mentally prepared to take the test then and I got a 660 (Q48 V33). My third attempt was just 16 days after this attempt and I was completely down but I religiously followed the strategy laid out by DJ (E-GMAT Mentor). Thankfully, everything went well and I got a 700 (Q49 V35).

Some aspects of the course that really worked for me –

# The Verbal section of the course is really good. E-GMAT emphasizes on the importance of understanding the right approach to solve questions. Whether it is the meaning-based approach in SC or pre-thinking in CR, once you understand and master the approach, the entire process of solving Verbal questions becomes more enjoyable and effective!

# One thing that I loved about their Verbal course was that it became easy to understand why the wrong answer choices were wrong. Every question and answer choice had a detailed explanation and understanding the same made it a lot easier to pick the right answer even though it might seem wrong at first. This is particularly useful when you are stuck with the last two choices, especially in 700-level questions.

# The Quant section was detailed and covered almost all the important topics with an emphasis on conceptual clarity. There are multiple quizzes in every single topic that when you finish a module you would have covered every possible type of question that could be asked and that too in a way that you become super comfortable with the topics. Again, detailed explanations for every question and answer choice helped me a lot as I needed that extra bit of understanding.
I would say that my quant score improved from 44 to 49 only because of the conceptual clarity and variety in terms of practise that I got from the course.

# My favourite part of E-GMAT is SCHOLARANIUM 2.0, their question bank with its precise analytics. It has a wide range of questions in every single topic and for each level of difficulty that enables you to get enough practise and also to get test-ready. It also has multiple types of quizzes with accurate analytics. Just observing the analytics provided there made me understand what kind of mistakes I was doing and what my weak areas were, time and again. It made my practise really easy and effective because I didn’t have to waste time on deciding what material to use, where to hunt for satisfactory explanations, analyse my error-types and weak areas - Scholaranium 2.0 was doing all of this for me. Just one thing here, make sure that you use it effectively – focus on quality over quantity.

# DJ's Mentorship - I am really thankful for the support that I got throughout my prep period from DJ (Mentor at E-GMAT). He would analyse each of my Sigma-X mocks and give a thorough de-brief of what went right and what went wrong. His suggestions and tips really made me effectively focus on areas that needed improvement. This is something I couldn’t figure out when I was prepping by myself. DJ’s support especially helped me push through the last leg when my score hit a plateau and I lost my motivation. When we figured out that I am not able to perform as effectively on the actual exam as on my mocks, he asked me a lot of questions and finally devised a strategy that would help me during the exam to stay more focused and guess what, it did!
DJ laid out weekly plans that were tailor made for my requirements and following these plans really helped break the frustrating plateau. It honestly helps to have someone guide you this way to inch towards your target score, in my opinion!

Overall, my experience with the course has been great! I used the course to the maximum extent possible and it honestly helped me finally get to 700.

If you are someone who is looking for good conceptual clarity , structure in your prep, a solid question bank with really good analytics, and constant support you can definitely consider E-GMAT.

All the very best :)

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Let me take you through my GMAT preparation journey.

I took my first GMAT attempt without entirely appreciating the depth of the ocean called GMAT and rather unsurprisingly I drowned without getting close to my target.

It was a proper jolt and I quickly realized that I needed help to get over the GMAT hurdle. Thankfully by that time GMAT Club was my trusted guide and going through the GMAT Club community, looking for members who did well on the GMAT and the resources they used, the name that kept popping up was that of e-GMAT.

So I reached out to e-GMAT and my first interaction with the team was the free e-GMAT one-on-one ESR review where I was blown away by the depth of insights that the mentor was able to derive from the ESR. I went ahead and booked my subscription to the e-GMAT platform on the same day.

Thankfully, the platform was all I could hope for and more. Not only did the coursework have a lot of depth, the ample amount of application files and practice files meant that I could cement a lot of the concepts in the first phase of preparation itself.

Talking of specific courses, in Verbal CR was always my Achilles heel and the e-GMAT concepts of pre-thinking and spending more time with the question stem, properly analysing and breaking down every part of it proved to be a gamechanger for me. In addition to this, in SC understanding the meaning-based approach gave me an extra weapon in my arsenal to go along with process of elimination to deal with SC questions with more confidence.

But the most crucial value addition of the e-GMAT platform is in the Scholaranium 2.0 section. From my experience, beyond a point, most people struggle to raise their score or get out of a rut that they are caught in because they aren't able to figure out where they are going wrong and this is because they are unable to perform structured and deep-rooted analysis of their mistakes. This is where Scholaranium 2.0 comes in handy and acts as a personal guide, walking you through every mistake, every block, every topic that needs further work. The interactive charts help you map out your ability improvement across sections and sub-sections as time progresses. It tells you which kind of questions are draining most of your time and how can you go about correcting them. It really makes life as a student very convenient and answers the what and how when it comes to making improvements in prep strategy.

Besides, what sets e-GMAT apart is how responsive the mentors and experts on the platform are in responding to student queries. In my personal experience, I have never had to wait for more than 24 hours to get a response to my queries, and just the mere knowledge that there are experts ready and willing to promptly respond to your doubts and queries leads to a much more relaxed and focused prep.

So to close the loop, I would highly recommend e-GMAT to anyone who is in the GMAT prep journey and is looking for a comprehensive platform to cater to all their prep needs.

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I was given told that e-gmat was the bible for GMAT verbal and it did not disappoint. Since I started my preparation with E-Gmat itself, my verbal concepts were fairly clear. The meaning based approach to sentence correction and the pre-thinking approach to CR questions proved to be an optimal technique to solve GMAT verbal questions.

I used the quant sections to brush up my maths since my undergrad course did not have a math component. It proved to be a boon for students looking to refresh their math concepts from scratch.

The best part though about the E-GMAT course was the scholaranium that provided insights into my mistakes and provide me actionable steps to improve my performance. I can't thank the E-GMAT enough for their constant encouragement and involvement to improve my score further.

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I purchased the eGMAT course after my 2nd official try, in which I scored a 710 (Q48, V40). I felt I was close to my target score but not quite. After reading reviews online, I settled on eGMAT as the course to help me with my final push on what would eventually be my last official try.

eGMAT shares personalized plans on the basis of an ESR/ most recent mock test and puts you in touch with a mentor (thank you DJ!) who guides you through the process. I got a 2 week plan, with the focus in the 1st week on ironing out some kinks and the focus in the 2nd week on practicing and cementing methods. The meaning based approach in SC is very helpful and the diagnostic quizzes in each Quant module enable one to complete the course at one's pace. In my opinion, the SigmaX mocks are harder than the Official mocks and the Official exam, but it's always a good thing to be prepared for something harder than the actual version.

I got a 30 point improvement in ~2 weeks. If you stick to the plan, know your starting point and your target score, an improvement in a short span of time is possible. However, don't expect the eGMAT team to simply wave a magic wand and help you get your desired result - you will have to put in the team and your timelines to hit your target score will depend on your starting point.

I would recommend eGMAT to individuals who feel like they need external support through the GMAT journey and to those individuals who are at the last hurdle of their GMAT prep and just need to improve some processes to get to the end goal.

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I got introduced to the e-GMAT platform on GMAT Club whilst I was looking for resources to help me improve my score by a couple of points to reach 99th percentile. I had used a few different test prep resources in the past but those test prep resources lacked the structure and analytics that e-GMAT provides. For the same price, e-GMAT’s course is structured in a very methodical manner, with the opportunity to receive direct mentoring and a very specific study plan suited for your target score. I have had the privilege of working directly with DJ (Dhananjay Lowe) from e-GMAT, who has been a great support so far. I remember reaching out to him a couple of months ago and received an immediate response. He laid out my strengths and weaknesses and devised an action plan for me, which made it very easy to for me to track areas I needed to work on and the level of improvement that I should be targeting.

I would also like to highlight the CR technique that is unique to e-GMAT and honestly a game changer. The pre-thinking approach, although slightly tricky to adhere to at first, ensures that your approach to CR questions is very logical and ensures a high level of success. Moreover, the e-GMAT quant course is definitely one of the best out there - the syllabus armours you with enough skills to tackle the hardest level GMAT questions. Although I thought I knew all the concepts in Quant before signing up for e-GMAT, I was surprised at the nuances in techniques and skills for different topics quant that I wasn’t even aware of before going through the e-GMAT course!

Finally, Scholaranium 2.0, e-GMAT’s interactive question bank, is definitely unparalleled when it comes to preparing in timed conditions. The topic by topic split helps you isolate your weaknesses and tackle them. The sheer number of questions and video explanations for almost all the questions show just how much effort has gone into building this and is definitely the best you can find in the market. What I also liked about e-GMAT’s question bank is the flexibility to select the topic you want to focus on that a lot of other test prep companies do not have.

The Sigma-X mocks are also slightly harder than the actual GMAT exam, and hence the perfect prepping tool given the actual Official GMAT test prep mock exams are slightly easier than the actual exam in my experience.

I do hope that more people sign up to e-GMAT as I continue to work with DJ towards my target score.

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E-GMAT is the best way to prepare for GMAT at your pace from the convenience of your home. The course is extremely comprehensive. It starts right from the beginning and helps you build your skills to achieve the score you want to. There are more than enough questions to strengthen your concepts and apply them in each of the sections. One of the best features is that you can post all your doubts online and the team is EGMAT is extremely prompt a clear in their responses. Even the smallest of your queries are answered. Lastly, the SIGMA Mock tests give you a good estimate of where you stand on the GMAT. The detailed analysis of each of those tests is extremely helpful.

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My GMAT score was stuck between 640-660 from last three years. I had taken the egmat subscription earlier , but i did not utilize it fully that time because of my overconfidence.

After my 6th attempt in Dec-2020, I was completely devastated. I was not able to figure out what was lacking in my prep. I thought to give up on GMAT. Luckily, while searching for GMAT debriefs I came across one of the egmat’s debrief with title "730 on 6th Attempt” by Vinayak. Had I not seen that 1 hour debrief, I would not have attempted GMAT again. After seeing the debrief, I realised that I need expert’s advice. So I reached out to egmat team for the first time for help.

The detailed ESR analysis and feedback by DJ- gave me a ray of hope. Without further delay, I enrolled for the course again and this time with a "BEGINNER'S MIND"

How egmat changed my entire study approach and utimately my verbal ability for my last attempt?

1. Verbal course content - "TO GET THE CONCEPTS CORRECT AND MITIGATE APPLICATION GAPS"

Example-

a) SC- Meaning based approach improved my SC accuracy and the timing to solve question was reduced.
Egmat verbal expert Shraddha'S SC videos are just great!! It gave me right approach for SC. I always used to listen her in-detail analysis of SC Questions.

b) CR- I never knew before that mastering assumption type question is key to other kinds of CR questions(Evaluate/Strenghten/Weaken)
Prethink - helped me to comprehend and visualise the passage clearly
C) RC- Para summary and linking the para contents.
Egmat verbal expert Harshavardhan's video solutions were very helpful for me to correct my approach for CR/RC questions and for prethinking.

2. Scholaranium and Questions forum- "TO GAUGE PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSE WEAK AREAS"

There are three kinds of quiz : Cementing, Custom and Ability quiz.
I used cementing quiz to strengthen the topics i was weak at. Custom quiz - for when I wanted to do mixed set of question types.

Scholaranium 2.0 also had great features like statistics of my performance. For instance- after each quiz I got a review list( with comparsion between recommended and actual time u took).It was much easier to pick the questions for review.

The main advantages of practising questions in Scholaranium were :I got detailed solutions and systematic approach from egmat-experts to solve each question; if i had doubts i used to go through all the past queries from different students ; Many a times i had posted my own queries and the replies from Verbal experts-Harshavardhan/Bikramjit/Stacey/Aarthi were to the point and cleared my concepts.

3. Egmat strategy support team - " TO SEEK IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND FEEDBACK"

At one point i felt even after completing the intense verbal course my scores in scholarnium were not up to the mark.So,I reached out to the egmat support team for help.

The most important advice I got was from Archit(Egmat strategy team member) . I am just copying his words as is “Identify Root cause –Strategically review the last 30 questions you have d one in CR(any quiz taken). This is non-negotiable. Create an error log, make notes and revise both."
I started to see patterns in my mistakes. Slowly, I was able to see that I was making similar kind of mistakes repeteadly. I followed the same approach for all verbal and quant sub-sections.For a particular section/subsection, I revised all my previous error logs (even 4 months old error logs) before my next study session/quiz . My main aim during the process was “NOT TO REPEAT ANY MISTAKE”. I followed this method deligently and it worked like magic for me :)

I strategically reviewed two types of questions as suggested by Nava and Archit(Egmat strategy team members)

i)Incorrect ones - What was the root cause that I made this mistake
ii)Correct questions solved in more than recommended time(TAKT time) - Why did I take more time? Was it the comprehension issue? Or Options visualisation issue? or something else

4. Egmat Bookmark and Notes features - " TO REVISE FREQUENTLY"

5. Egmat Webinars - "TO LISTEN FROM EGMAT EXPERTS, GET A GROUP STUDY FEELING AND KEEP THE MOMENTUM OF STUDY"
The weekly webinars by egmat team are just a great initiative to engage students. Through those webinars i got more insights about certain concepts and strategies.

6. Last Week unexpected help from egmat- just 1 week before my GMAT date. They invited me for the egmat milestone program, and even though only 1 week was left for my exam I enrolled for it ( because this time I wanted all the help I can get). Atreya Roy was my mentor. He analysed my last mock and provided me 1 week improvement plan and sequence of execution for topics to study. This last minute help gave a extra confidence for the actual GMAT day.

I would not have achieved 700+ without egmat’s extended support.

I have learnt that it's important to seek help and learn from other’s mistakes. Life is too short to make them all yourself.

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