'Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did"

These words above are in brief the story of my GMAT journey which spans across 3.5+ years and 5 attempts (excl. one failed GMAT online attempt).

Disappointed after getting another sub-par score in Aug 2020, I spoke to an e-GMAT mentor and enrolled for both verbal and quant course i.e. e-GMAT online course.

On my enrollment, I was advised to take a mock to understand my level of understanding from previous attempts. Based on the score in mock, I was enrolled to a mentorship program. At the time of buying the course I was not aware of any such program and didn't realize how important it will be for my preparation. This mentorship program and the scholaranium were the key factors for my 160 point score improvement and 20 point improvement in verbal section.

The mentorship program provided the customized touch for the students and encouraged students to perform better with right strategy and focus. This human touch to the prep was what I needed after 4 failed attempts. I worked with Dhananjay (DJ) during my preparation and he was the constant motivator for me as he knew that I not high on confidence after failed attempts. He provided an initial strategy to go through the course. After I have gone through the content, I was provided a plan to build my ability through the ability quizzes. As I moved closed to my exam date, DJ provided a 15 day exam readiness plan to prepare me for the exam day. This exam readiness plan helped me work on my timing strategy that I used during the exam. DJ was very reachable during the entire course and helped me achieve my target score.

Scholaranium provided insights into the type of questions that I was getting wrong. This data driven approach helped me identify gaps in my preparation and guided me to concepts or process that I needed to revise or needed to get polished to it right in exam.

In terms of content of the course, verbal course is one of the best that I came across during my preparation. The focus on getting the process right for solving each type of question led me to use a structured approach (3 stage process) for each question. This provided clarity during the exam as I was not left on my own to find the right approach and also led me to reduce the time required to solve each question. Moving on to the quant course, it is one of the most comprehensive course. It covered all concepts that are tested on GMAT. The course is structured in such a way to develop a good memory of concepts on topics such as number properties or geometry. The quant course pushed my quant score from 49 to 50.

I will be happy to address any further queries. Please drop a message on LinkedIn.

Apologies for the inadvertent typos

Sandeep Jain

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Saying that signing up for e-GMAT was the best investment decision I had taken in the last year, would be an understatement. I had heard great things about the platform so decided to invest in e-GMAT's online course to get to my target score as quickly as possible. Firstly, I was blown away by the personalised attention I was able to receive on an "Online platform"! My queries on email were resolved within 24 hours and I was provided a well-detailed strategy to get to my target score. Secondly, I did not have to think too much about working with multiple sources and questions since the strategy laid out by the e-GMAT team and the scholaranium platform's ability to diagnose one's weaknesses to the dot is unparalleled. This saved me several hundred hours of my time which I would have otherwise spent refining areas which would not have impacted me much. Finally, I would like to thank Rajat and the entire e-GMAT team for being personally invested in the success of the users on the platform and going beyond their duties to provide an amazing experience to them. This is something I cannot imagine any other platform every providing. If you wish to score well on the GMAT on the first attempt, do not think twice- e-GMAT is the way to go!!

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I had a 710 gmat score and i wanted to improve my score, so i signed up for egmat since it is marketed as the best online gmat course on gmatclub.

Below are my reviews on each section of the Egmat course.

Sentence Correction: I would rate it as average since there isn't anything extraordinary thing in this section.

Critical reasoning: Average

RC: Poor. There are just few videos and RC passages in the course.

Quant: It is just a waste of time and money. If you follow the strategy that is taught in the course, you will be unable to solve any question on the test day in under 2 mins.

After studying for approx 5 months from egmat, I scored 700 that is 10 points less than my earlier attempt.

The best part of Egmat is its marketing team. Hats off to them. Other prep companies must learn from Egmat's marketing team.

At the time of sign up, Egmat team might offer you a discount of 50% on official mocks, but later they wouldn't hold onto that commitment.

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I started my GMAT Prep early in Jan of 2020, I used to solve some questions here and there from the OG textbooks. After understanding the whole structure of GMAT and getting a 630 on a baseline mock test, I decided to look for a verbal course to help me do better on Verbal.
After a week of research on GMATClub and just general google searches, I decided to take a chance with the eGMAT free trial mainly due to 2 reasons; their GMAT Online package of Quant + Verbal was reasonably priced in comparison to other offerings on the market and they had the most number of reviews on GMATClub, that too highly rated.
Within 2 days of starting the 7 day free trial, I was able to understand the value of the course. Not only was I learning new concepts in the Verbal section, I was learning new strategies and new ways to tackle Quant questions. This was eye opening and convinced me to take the full GMAT online course instead of just the Verbal.
That was a great decision in hindsight since I enjoyed the Quant portion thoroughly and enjoyed learning new topics and getting challenged by the hard scholaranium questions. e-GMAT also helped me approach Verbal section with much more strategy and meaning based approach. Instead of just choosing the answer that sounds right, I was follwing the 3 step process, and pre thinking to get to the right answers.
After finishing all the concepts I was able to judge my ability by taking ability quizzes on the scholaranium platform and also pinpoint my weaker areas with the quality analytics that the scholaranium platform provides.
When I was done with all the concepts I used the Sigma-Mocks to test my preparation and was able to practice with real questions like the GMAT with the adaptive nature of the mocks. I ended up scoring the same on the GMAT as I did on my best mock - so it is pretty relaible.

I would thank the e-GMAT team for making a great product, that I was able to use at any time I needed, and setting up great modules and lectures for test takers. A big part of my 90 point increase in 3 months is thanks to e-GMAT. I recommend it to everyone.

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Hi all,

I took my GMAT exam on 18th Feb 2021 and received a score of 660 (Q48, V33). I know this is not a great score but, I had reached a plateau of 610 and was not improving at all. My previous score was 610 (Q48, V25). I had an SC percentile score of 24.

I took the e-GMAT course and worked hard on the sentence correction course. The result? I got a 79 percentile on SC. That's a huge improvement for me. I could have done a lot better if I had a little more time to finish the course.

If I plan to take the GMAT again, I would, without any doubt, take the e-GMAT course again.

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I did my GMAT in June 2020, but on an unlucky moment in another country (due to COVID) and got a 560 score. I started the E-GMAT course in November 2020. The course is very good, well structured and complete. It helped a lot to boost my levels but I found I could not get into the 700 region (which was my target). Although my general score improved a lot (to 680 on different mock tests), it did not get me over 700, due to my verbal scores which were stuck on V35.

I took the intense mentoring the last 5 days to get a final push, although good tips, sadly I could not enjoy any benefits on test day. Perhaps I was unlucky, because I liked the final push tips they gave.

All by all, really good course, worth its money!

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e-GMAT's 'GMAT Online' offering is a great course to get you started with your GMAT Prep. Before purchasing this course, I had already explored a few other free offerings from other prep companies and was yet stuck at a score between 610-630 in mocks. After attending one of Rajat's RC webinars and applying the concepts in OG questions, I saw an increase in my accuracy. This prompted me to try out the free version of e-GMAT and I absolutely loved this limited version of the course. So much so that I decided to go ahead and try out the full-fledged version of GMAT Online after getting a decent discount 😊

I started my preparation in June 2020 in the midst of the pandemic despite working 50+ hours a week. I landed a 570 in my first sigma mock. I reached out to the e-GMAT Support Team and requested them to help me with the next steps. The team created a customized study plan for me which I used until my first GMAT attempt in October 2020. Until a week prior to this attempt I was still scoring a 680 in sigma mocks. I was confident that I would be able to score somewhere in the vicinity of a 700. However, I got a 630 (Q48 V35) in my first GMAT (online) attempt. Upon performing a post-test analysis, I realized that my timing strategy for Verbal was not on point due to losing out time on harder RC questions. Post this attempt I again reached out to e-GMAT’s Strategy Team for help. I was suggested to follow a strict plan which involved using a mix of tools such as timed custom quizzes, strategic review of errors and GMAT Club mocks. By the end of November, I was scoring between 680-690 in both GMAT Club mocks and the GMAC Official mock. Thus, I decided to attempt the GMAT (Online) exam again in December. I secured a 680 (Q48 V35) in this attempt and this was a good enough score for me to apply to my target B-schools (I also secured admits to 2 of the 3 top IIMs in India with this score)

To summarize, I would highly recommend e-GMAT’s ‘GMAT Online’ course to those looking to build a solid foundation in both Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning. From GMAT Online’s Quant course, one can learn quite a lot of tips and tricks which can help solve even the hardest quant problems on the GMAT. Apart from the core content, the UI of the portal/application is very smooth and easy to use. If you are looking for a GMAT prep course with great customer support apart from great content, e-GMAT is what you should go for!

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This review is for e-GMAT's full online course priced at $349. I'm a native-born American and a working professional, out of school for 8 years and recently decided to switch careers to pursue MBA. It has been about 10 years since my last standardized test, and when I used to take tests, I usually scored very well without much study. So, I expected the GMAT to be like that.

To my surprise, no matter how hard I studied or how much time I put in, I could not break the low 700's barrier. I consistently scored 690-720 on various practice tests sampled from many GMAT courses. On Dec 8 2020, when I took the real GMAT, I scored a 710. I cancelled my scores (my target was 730) and decided right then that I needed the help of experts.

I enrolled in e-GMAT and in a nutshell, I was overall extremely satisfied with the product they delivered. I adhered to a strict, daily study plan that they provided for 2 months, from Dec 13- Feb 13 culminating in a test on Feb 13, 2021. I scored a 760 V44/Q49, up from the 710 V38/Q49. I spent 6 weeks on Verbal and 2 weeks on Quant. If I had spent 2-3 more weeks on Quant with their material, I have no doubt I would have scored 50 or 51. The week before the test, I had only completed about 40% of the material and so had decided that improving Quant was too late for me.

I want to make this review helpful to any native-born speakers who may be skeptical. e-GMAT may be, at first, difficult to get used to if you are an American, as the company is based in India and all the videos have speakers sporting an unashamed accent. But, if you stick with it and make no excuses for yourself, you will learn a lot. You do have to swallow your pride and realize you don't know much about English. I went from V38 to 44, and I could not have done it without learning the concepts and the processes provided by e-GMAT.

I would attribute a big reason for my improvement to active participation in Scholaranium (their question and quiz bank). Although I wish they had more questions in the question bank (you can easily run out of questions and need to budget well), I believe they restrict the # of questions because of the importance of reviewing your past questions.

Never have I ever reviewed my own mistakes as in-depth as before. When I would review incorrect choices in the past, I would usually think "ah, I was very close, I just won't be so careless next time!" But e-GMAT stresses the importance of revision and to understand not only why you selected the wrong answer but also rejected the correct answer. Therefore, I started to understand the test-makers' thought processes and to spot subtle, detailed traps.

I found myself frequently battling it out in their solutions forum, arguing why my solution was the correct choice. Sometimes, I would come across certain SC questions and think that the correct choice was so awkward... In the real world, native speakers would not think that this is a good English sentence! I would write passionately why e-GMAT's solution was wrong, or how the question/sentence was not clear or awkward. But always in the end, I would indignantly realize that the correct answer choice was slightly a better choice than mine, or that my thought process had logical gaps.

I was lucky, half way through my study (around 40 days before the test) to have been enrolled in their Last Mile Push, where I was assigned a mentor (shoutout to Ashutosh) who would tell me what sections to study or what scores I needed to get on certain quizzes. This helped me not make excuses for myself (for example, if the target score was 70% and I got a 65% I would think that it was close enough. But my mentor would say that I failed and needed to redo that section).

Last Mile Push also made me realize I was not studying enough, and to commit to 3 hours a day of studying and 6 hours a day on the weekends. This was the most insane amount of time I've dedicated to studying but I stuck with it.

I did not take any of the SigmaX Mock tests (e-GMAT's practice tests) from Dec 13 until Jan 30, a full 6 weeks after I started my journey with e-GMAT. During this 2 week period before the real test, I took 3 different mocks, scoring 740, 700 and 720. It turns out that the Sigma Mock Tests are a lot harder than the real GMAT, as on test day, I found myself wondering why the test seemed so easy.

The rest is history and I would like to say props to e-GMAT for sharing their process in such a clear, consistent and rigorous manner. Though sometimes it was not intuitive for me to know how to follow the study plan, their support stuff was always on standby to answer any questions or evaluate my results for me.

Their newly revamped Quant course has a new style of teaching, boasting variety of activities. I would definitely say that it helped me solidify my number properties understanding. However, I did not spend enough time on their Quant section to give a detailed review, as I was still in the "re-learning" process of Quant when I took the test.

Some quick cons to provide balance for this review:
- the Personalized Study Plan recommended to me through AI was very inconsistent with the one recommended by my mentor. I was lucky to have had a bit more personal guidance on this.
- Scholaranium ran out of questions so I had to practice solving additional questions using GMAT club forum
- the course is intensively concept and process-focused, and no test-taking skills or strategies are provided. If you enroll, be prepared to spend a lot of time to re-program your mind on verbal and quant concepts. You might do worse at first as you are assimilating a new process. For test taking strategies, I had to watch a few videos and read a few blog posts outside of eGMAT to learn some tricks for time management
- I couldn't finish the course in 2 months despite putting in 27 hours a week

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1st GMAT attempt - I started studying for the GMAT in late 2018 using exclusively the Magoosh online course. At the time I studied for approx. 2 months before taking the GMAT in Jan 2019, when I scored 620 (Q47/V29).

2nd GMAT attempt: I was very disappointed with my score and took the test again one month later, still using Magoosh and free material on the GMAC site, and scored 680 (Q47/V37). I felt the online course I was using was not similar to the real test and I couldn't apply proper strategies to address different question types. So I decided to take a break and take the test at a later stage.

3rd GMAT attempt (using e-GMAT): In Sept 2020 I bought the e-GMAT online course and tried to focus on verbal, which was my weakest spot. I went through the SC course and most of CR, and I was impressed on how I was able to apply the e-GMAT process for solving these questions to improve my results in quizzes and mocks in the verbal section. The course is time consuming, but once you master their process you feel more comfortable with the questions & can asnwer them faster. I took the gmat again in Dec/20 and scored 700 (Q49/V37). I was happy to reach the 700-level but still felt that I could do better.

4th (and last!) GMAT attempt: By the end of 2020 I was invited to join the Last Mile Push program with an e-GMAT tutor (Ashutosh) with the goal to score 720+. He provided me with daily tasks, overall focused on Quant, that allowed me to increase the time studying & focus much better on taking the most out of the e-GMAT course. I did the new quant courses (Number Properties & Algebra) and I got much more comfortable with those type of questions. The course helps you build a strong foundation on the concept, learn process skills to solve different question types and then practice GMAT-style questions with more difficult level, similar to those you will take on the test. This 1-month program helped me to focus a lot on my preparation for the test. It still requires you to take the full course (which takes time) but again once you learn their process you get more comfortable with gmat-style questions. Finally, I scored 730 (Q48/V42) and very happy with the final result (especially in verbal that was my weakest spot since the beginning).

I'd like to congratulate e-GMAT for creating such an excellent methodology to help test-takers excel on the GMAT and hope that you continue improving the course to help more and more people over time!

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I decided to apply to HBS about 2 months before the deadline and knew nothing about MBA or GMAT.

Studied for a month (about 80 hours) based on free resources, using weekend mocks to define each week study plan. Felt like I was running after my own tail, scores going down, feeling frustrated. Was probably missing the basics and how to best approach questions.

Decided on August 2nd to hire eGMAT, because all resources were already there and I could set my own pace.
I really liked the comprehensive way each content was organized and I could learn how to identify types of questions and how to best approach them. At first, it might seem you are dedicating much time on one thing, but it does pay off. I had rushed for a month and that did not help me at all.

I took a lot of notes and focused on what was most critical for me, because I had very few time (26 days between hiring eGMAT and test date). I really wish I had had the time to go through the whole content in the platform because it was an enjoyable experience and the more I studied the better my scores got. I stutied about 120 hours during second month.

Here is my track record

Mock 1 July 6th 600 (Q36, V36) - GMAT official (feeling ok)
Mock 2 July 10th 660 (Q44, V36) - Manhatan (feeling happy)
Mock 3 July 25th 660 (Q43,V37) - Manhatan (feeling worried)
Mock 4 August 2nd 620 (Q39, V35) - eGMAT (feeling terrible but still have some time) - this was the day I hired eGMAT
Mock 5 August 9th 620 (Q41, V34) - eGMAT (feeling I'm not gonna make it in time - 19 days before test)
Mock 6 August 16th 720 (Q45, V44) - GMAT official (feeling super happy but why wasnt this the real one)
Mock 7 August 23rd 680 (Q45, V38) -eGMAT (don't like the score but under the impression I do better in GMAT official tests than the courses')
Mock 8 August 26th 700 (Q40, V44) eGMAT
Real thing August 29th 730 (Q48, V 42)

Thank you for your help! I loved the platform and could always reach you via email to ask questions about my study plan, how to use the platform, how to interpret mocks, etc.

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