This is Akash. I scored a 740 (Q51 V38) on the GMAT with the help structured preparation from GMATwhiz.

After getting a 680 on my GMAT, I knew I had to work on my approach to solve the questions and also fine tune the concepts. That's when I came across GMATwhiz and after taking a call with Piyush I subscribed to its 2 month plan. I really liked how the AI gauged my abilities and helped me work on my weak areas in an efficient manner. The meaning based approach helped me reach 90% accuracy in SC. The 3 step GMATwhiz process used to solve CR and RC really helped me improve my verbal score by a massive 7 point. Again the AI powered quiz platform with its pinpoint accuracy helped me work only on concerned areas in Quant and accelerated me to a Q51.

Apart from this, the mentor support from GMATwhiz is amazing. Saquib analyzed my attempts really well and gave me accurate areas to work on. Maintaining an error log for RC helped improve my accuracy a lot.

Another thing that really impressed me about GMATwhiz was its mocks. The mocks predicted my score with an accuracy of 10 points. Even the adaptive platform that GMATwhiz uses guessed my score in the range of 730-750, which reflected in the actual GMAT.

The quality of questions in the whizquiz platform is another impressive feature. The questions prepare us well enough to easily handle the 700+ questions in the real GMAT, especially in RC. The analysis provided by GMATwhiz for each question does a pretty good job too. It not only explains why the answer is right but also explains why other options are wrong.

So, I can definitely say GMATwhiz is a perfect blend of AI and mentorship that guides you in the right path to achieve your dream GMAT score. I would recommend it to everyone aiming 700+.

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I started my prep at V31, and I struggled with Sentence Correction a lot. The meaning-based approach to Sentence Correction has really changed the game for me. I improved to a V41 and more importantly 98th Percentile in Sentence Correction. The mentorship that I got from experts is the best part. My mentor assessed my performance and gave me personalized insights. When my scores plateaued and I was wondering where to look, the advice from the mentor really helped. She even gave me last-minute tips and resources! I connected with Piyush post my attempt and he gave me a clear game plan after looking at my ESRs. I will be taking another shot at GMAT. I will keep you guys posted on the outcome! Hoping to reach 750. :)

If you are looking for a GMAT course that has it all, Don't look beyond GMATWhiz! I had my reservations while I was signing up but after going through their course, interacting with mentors, and looking at the outcome, I'm 100% confident to recommend this to anyone looking for the best scores on their GMAT!!

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Initially I was using free resources and various question banks in order to prepare by myself for the GMAT. Since I am a working professional, I never felt tutoring the right way to go in order to keep a flexible schedule. When I hit a hard plateau at 690 with a V35 (inspite of solving most OG, Verbal, and Manhattan problems), I started searching for alternative approaches when I came across GMATWhiz course through Piyush's webinar on verbal.

With hardly 10 days to the next GMAT exam, I must say that GMATWhiz Verbal Course completely changed my approach to solving problems. Their video lessons for verbal are tooo good! They have really drilled into concepts and put the effort to identify the subtle pain points that students would face while solving. I was surprised when some of my issues (which I used to dismissing as reading error or inconsequential ones) were literally explained to the point in the video.

Right from their first verbal video, I understood that buying the verbal course along with Sunita ma'am's 1-1 sessions was an incredible decision. I finally scored a 710 (Q49, V38) which is huge, considering the plateau I was stuck at and the constricted timeframe available before the GMAT.

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I was studying for GMAT through GMAT club but I was lacking confidence in many sections of verbal and some parts of quant.
Then I found about GMAT WHIZ while watching one of the rc solving strategy session on YouTube.
I searched more about it and it's ai based module fascinated me a lot.
I joined the 4 month program in May and the structure was so smooth that it just guided me when and what to do.
It highlighted the sections in which I need to focus more and concept booster questions helped to in solidifying my concepts.
Mocks provided were totally upto GMAT standard and ESR analysis helped me in identifying my weak points.
Tracking of studying hours on daily and weekly basis with AI helped me a lot as it gets very difficult to monitor your progress along with a hectic job schedule.
The mentor provided to me helped me in identifying the loop holes and helped me in all possible ways to increase my score.
The quality of both verbal and quant section is top notch and it completes all sections in an efficient manner.
The course structure helped me to increase my score by 80 points from my initial mock score. It developed the confidence in me which I was lacking the most in beginning.
With the exceptional course structure and guidence, I was able to get 660 in my first attempt. I could have gotten more if quant section which was my stronger part did not went bad that day.
Since I have a strong work profile, this was a good score for me and helped me in getting considered in some of the best colleges across European countries.
One can totally trust GMAT WHIZ platform for cracking GMAT and GMAT WHIZ can surely help you get your dream 700+ score.

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Update: I have determined that GMATWhiz plagiarized RC text from multiple online sources! Read this for more: https://gmatclub.com/forum/plagarism-or-inspiration-387692.html

TL;DR: Limited material for quant, the worst possible material for verbal, slapped onto a user-antagonistic platform. Question bank consists of bad original questions and poor derivatives of official questions which leads to a misprediction of your strengths and weaknesses. I’ve wasted more money, time, and effort undoing the damage. Look elsewhere.


My background is in machine learning research, particularly in natural language processing/generation in English. Your mileage may vary. I will reproduce relevant portions of questions in my review, covered under fair use law.


GMATWhiz is a relatively new course prep provider, and it shows. The platform lacks the polish of other competitors – the user interface looks slick, but the user experience can’t be much worse. I shouldn’t have to pay to struggle with a buggy platform while trying to study for an important exam. With that in mind, let’s go through the good, bad, and ugly for verbal, quant, and the platform.


Verbal: I can’t find anything good to say about verbal. I started on the platform with a mock verbal score of 37 and it plummeted to a 34 and 32 after finishing the course. Can’t make this up even if I tried. The coursework for RC reuses the same few passages to the point of tedium, and there’s little learning that can be done when the passage has been over-analyzed. The coursework for CR in general just dumps a (non-exhaustive) list of definitions and synonyms on you, _surely_ you can figure out the rest yourself.


The GMATWhiz’s approach for SC is probably the worst that I’ve seen. They advocate a painfully drawn-out method to evaluate the meaning of a sentence, promising that with time and practice, the pain will be alleviated. I argue that an ineffective approach is just that, ineffective. Learning how to make an ineffective approach faster (and god know I’ve tried) doesn’t magically make it better. It wasn’t until I’ve consulted a tutor that I understood the full extent of the damage that their SC approach has done. I had to spend considerably more time, money (more than 5x their course fees) and effort to undo it. The questions provided aren’t much better either. There is a huge variance in quality and most questions are nothing like what you will encounter in the actual exam. This also leads to the completely undesirable (albeit interesting) misprediction of your strengths and weaknesses. The SC questions are so bad that I’ve caught typos in option A (which is supposed to be a verbatim copy of the underlined portion). There are questions with no appropriate answers according to official GMAT instructions. For example, reproduced verbatim, underlined portion in [ square brackets ]:


Q: [Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes which now, researchers can prove wrong] as they have found rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, a "transitional animal," between fish and tetrapod.


A) Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes which now, researchers can prove wrong.

B) Now researchers can prove wrong that Tetrapods which are the first four-legged land animals regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes.

C) Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes, a belief that now researchers can prove wrong. [Correct answer according to GMATWhiz]

D) As the first organisms that had fingers and toes, Tetrapods are regarded as the first four-legged land animals which now researchers can prove wrong,

E) Regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes, Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals which now researchers can prove wrong to be a wrong belief


How on earth is “prove wrong. As they have found rudiments of fingers […]” correct in this scenario? Also, according to the platform, RC is my worst section by far whereas CR and SC is a toss-up. In reality, my ESR from my attempt shows that I got full marks on both CR and RC. If you’re a victim of their verbal course, seek professional help immediately.


If this isn’t enough to discourage you, read on.


Quant:
The good: - All relevant material is covered, some extra material too. - The instructor derives some of the commonly used magic values, which can be helpful if you forget them during the exam.


The bad: GMATWhiz advocates one way to do things. If you like having more than one tool in your belt, you’re out of luck. This is extremely bad for topics such as sets and inequalities, forcing me to supplement my learning with materials from other sources.


The ugly: The quality and variety of the questions are sorely lacking. Word problems often become a verbal exercise where I spend more time trying to figure out what the question is truly trying to say. There are questions in which students are “giving exam[s]” (To who? If you assume they give to the same entity, the answer you arrive at is different from if you assume that they gave it to each other); [some person] “bought 35 more ponies and horses” (35 more ponies and 35 more horses? 35 more (ponies + horses)?). Many questions are clones of each other with some numbers tweaked, an example on mixtures will be given later. This inflates their question count, and more likely than not, your accuracy which in turn leads to poor estimate of your actual capabilities.


The unforgivable: - The platform claims to have AI-powered technology, but it just serves you more questions in the areas that you’re weak in. It’s supposed to be helpful but the follow up questions are so similar to the ones that you’ve gotten wrong that reinforcement learning simply doesn’t take place. I wasn’t challenged to apply the concept; I was forced to regurgitate. For example, I got this question wrong:


There are two bottles of milk-water solutions with different concentrations of milk in them. The first bottle contains 6 litres and the second bottle contains 12 litres of milk-water solution. If equal amount of solution is taken from each bottle. The solution taken from the first bottle is added to the second bottle and the solution taken from the second is added to the first. If on doing so, the milk-water concentration becomes the same in both the bottles, then how many litres of solution was taken from each bottle?


and was immediately served with this question as a “concept booster”:


There are two solutions of water and spirit of different concentrations. Solution 1 is of 30L and solution 2 is of 10L. If same amount of solution is taken from each of the solutions and added to other solutions, the concentration of both the solutions becomes same. Find the amount taken from each solutions? It doesn’t take a genius to realize that these two questions are just simple value swaps. Also note the poor grammar and phrasing, it’s a recurring theme. Maybe you benefit from rote learning, but I certainly don’t. Most importantly, I don’t think GMAT rewards rote learning. - The platform artificially inflates its bank of questions by providing poor copies of official questions. The deleterious effects that these questions can have on your prep cannot be understated. I quote @IanSteward [https://gmatclub.com/forum/plagarism-or-inspiration-387692.html#p3003453] from our discussion about plagiarism (which I encourage you to read for insights from other esteemed members): " - for the test taker who will study official questions (which every test taker should do), it’s just a waste of that person’s time to study inferior prep company copies of those same questions; - test takers can get a false sense of security, if they fly through the OG because they’ve seen variations on the same questions in advance. But on test day, not one question will be a copy of something you’ve studied before, and the whole psychological experience of test day will feel completely different from the experience you had during your preparation; - when companies copy GMATPrep test questions, test takers can get vastly inflated scores on their diagnostic tests, and then, because test takers might then think they’re more prepared than they really are, they can make bad decisions about when to book a real test. The official diagnostic tests are the only reliable assessment tool test takers have, and any company that compromises their usefulness is doing test takers more harm than good."


An example of such a derivative question: OG CR question: Sparrow Airlines is planning to reduce its costs by cleaning its planes’ engines once a month, rather than the industry standard of every six months. With cleaner engines, Sparrow can postpone engine overhauls, which take planes out of service for up to 18 months. Furthermore, cleaning an engine reduces its fuel consumption by roughly 1.2 percent.


OG answer: B. the cost of monthly cleaning of an airplane’s engines is not significantly greater in the long run than is the cost of an engine overhaul.


GMATWhiz question: The Great Eastern Hotel is fully covered by wall to wall carpeting which the hotel normally pressure cleans twice a year. With the intention of reducing its costs, the hotel now plans to pressure clean the carpets every two months. With frequent cleaning, the hotel can delay the complete replacement of old carpets by new ones, a process which requires the hotel to close business for a week. Moreover, frequent pressure cleaning of carpets increases their durability and longevity.


GMATWhiz answer: Whether the long run costs of more frequent pressure cleanings is not significantly greater than the cost of buying new carpets?


While the degree to which the question has been disguised is open to debate, your time can undoubtedly be invested in OG questions for significantly more benefit.


The platform:
The good: GMATWhiz offers a Q&A section that allows you to see previous questions asked by other students as well as get feedback from the platform’s mentors. They usually get back to you within 1-3 working days.


The bad:
- The site misuses tabs and toggles: tabs are for navigation; toggles are for selection. These are not supposed to be interchangeable. This makes it really difficult to find what I needed on their platform as I had to fight the user interface tooth and nail to find what I need.


- The UI straight up doesn’t work on certain screens, for example, in the mock result screen, the menu button doesn’t work at all.


- The platform doesn’t allow deep linking, so if you’re keeping an error log (which you should) and want to link back to an exact question, you’re out of luck. Have fun navigating through ALL the questions to find that one you need.


- The time tracking feature drastically overestimates the time required for each activity. 30 hours as tracked by the platform barely translates to 10 hours real time for me. Good ego boost if you’re into that kind of thing.


- The platform offers you a short quiz (usually just one question per topic) and offers to personalize your course by removing videos covering topics that it has judged you to be proficient in, never mind that one question is not a good test of understanding. If you accept the offer, the videos are removed from your course, and you’ll have to go through multiple screens to find it again (which isn’t easy nor explained anywhere). They could have just marked the videos as skipped and kept them in your course for ease of access but then you won’t have to struggle that much.


- Question options have inconsistent formatting, some options are in a darker/lighter color compared to the rest, exposing the correct answer most of the time. More ego boosting if you benefit from positive reinforcement.


Conclusion: All in all, I’m thoroughly convinced that the GMATWhiz course provides no advantage over other course offerings and in fact has damaged my ability to score. Their subpar question bank cripples their simple algorithm and in turn crippled me. I got my score in spite of GMATWhiz, not because of it.

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Hi Everyone,
I started my GMAT prep journey in Oct, 2021. First 2 months, I did some self-prep from the official guides. After solving the guides, I felt that I was at a stage where although I was able to get some easy or medium questions correct, I was not confident on most of the harder difficulty questions of verbal and hence was getting those questions wrong.

At that point, I decided to go through one of the renowned GMAT-Prep courses. After going through that course, I was a bit more confident on my grammar for SCs, but still I felt that I was not able to solve confidently verbal questions of higher difficulties. Most often than not, I was stuck in between two option choices. Hence, my mock scores were also fluctuating. To work upon and resolve this, I decided to go for another renowned GMAT-Prep course, thinking that this new course might help me to bring my Verbal prep on track. After completing the second course, I was confident enough to book a date for the exam. Scored a 660 (V28, Q50). I somehow knew while attempting the exam that my verbal section has not gone as per my expectation. Appearing the exam, I felt that I am not following a process and going wrong in some way. After some research, I decided that this time around I need someone who will point out my mistake during my prep and who can guide me as to where I was faltering in the verbal section.

Finally, I booked a consultation call with Piyush and decided to go with GMAT Whiz. Already I had attended a seminar of GMAT Whiz by that time. In Sept, 2022, I signed up for the GMAT Whiz Verbal Tutor prep course and started working with Sunita Ma’am. In the very first class I attended, I knew that I had made the right choice as I was able to get where I was faltering. The process that I was not following before was the root cause. Over the next 1 month, we worked hard to unlearn and relearn the question solving process. In every session, she kept pushing me to follow the structure and process to solve the different types of questions. After completing the course, I attempted a couple of mocks and appeared for my 2nd official GMAT attempt. This time, I scored 700 (V35, Q49) – a 40-points improvement in 50 days.

I cannot emphasize the contribution and role played by Sunita Ma’am in these 40 points improvements and from a V28 to V35. Thank you, Ma’am, for bearing with my silly questions. It was a short but memorable journey of learning with you 😊

My experience with GMAT is that the structure (to solve questions) is very important in GMAT. If you don’t have a structure or a process to follow for attempting various types of questions, the official exam will make a mockery out of you (which I myself felt in my first attempt and that too after almost 11 months of preparation). Preparing by solving lots of questions won’t help you much, if you haven’t already learned the standard structure and process to attempt questions. First, learn the process and the skills, then go for solving questions, applying the process and your skills in each and every question. Then only in the actual exam, under the exam stress and time pressure, you will be able to follow the process and arrive at the correct answers.

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I had enrolled in GMATWHIZ in the last week of november,2021.I had read good reviews of the course prior to enrollment, so I went with the course.The mentorship provided to me was top notch.Zartaj and saquib were there to assist and guide me in every step.The inbuilt AI engine helped in structuring the study plan to optimize my study time and to pin-point any weakness.
Both the verbal and quant courses are exceptional.The content of GMATWhiz is comprehensive and addresses each GMAT-based question independently in each module of verbal and quant.In verbal, the method on intended meaning and breaking down a sentence really helped me in my SC section.
I would highly recommend this course to any diligent aspirant willing to ace the gmat.

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For me the best feature of the GMATWhiz product was its diagnostic quizzes at the beginning of every module. These diagnostics ensured that I didn’t waste time on areas in which I didn’t need much guidance and hence could utilize my time to get the maximum bang out of my buck.
I must also mention that initially I was too concerned with RC and was sure that I needed to focus on RC to improve my Verbal. However, Piyush suggested me to follow the natural sequence of the course – i.e. first SC, then CR and finally RC. I followed his advice and stuck to the personalized study plan. What I noticed was that my SC and CR foundation was lacking in the first place and GMATWhiz’s learning material definitely helped cement these two areas for me. Post that once I moved on to RC, I no longer felt RC to be a weakness for me.
Finally, the mentorship program was helpful because Saquib and Shreyyash gave me very specific to-dos and laid out the next steps in a well-planned way which definitely helped me improve on my relatively weaker areas. I wish I had taken up their mentorship in my previous attempts as well.

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I have a very hectic schedule since I run a startup. GMATWhiz’s platform was a great fit since it gave me clear guidelines along two areas –
A – Personalized feedback to customize the course as per my skill level. They have diagnostic quizzes for every module based on which the learning material adapts itself to give you the maximum benefit in the least amount of time. You can also override the diagnostic changes made according to your judgement.
B – The program designed a study plan which kept me accountable and set weekly targets for me. As a result, it was easy to visualize the timeline required for me to get close to my target score. This study plan was customizable as per my availability and adapted according to my changing skill level.

Another feature of the offering I found really helpful was its one to one mentorship. My concerns during the progress were addressed timely. It boosted my confidence whenever there were inconsistencies in my performance. A structured quizzing plan, with multiple quiz formats, was formulated and it was instrumental in getting me exam ready. Additionally, the mentor suggested some additional resources meant to uniquely address my weak areas.

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I started with GMATWhiz after trying out a different prep company that was cheaper and had longer course validity. I really appreciated the structure that GMATWhiz provides during the prep. The platform tests your proficiency before starting any sections, and it adapts to your perceived level of proficiency. If you go on to make mistakes in this "proficient section," the platform will automatically add the skipped modules right back up. The meaning-based approach really changed the way I approached verbal.

I think the most underrated perks of this prep course were the mentorship calls I got for free. I was able to evolve my prep strategy many folds with every mentorship call. My mentor wasn't shy about suggesting that I use other free resources on the web, a suggestion that I felt pleasantly surprising. I would recommend GMATWhiz for anyone who is looking to improve their score by a lot (:D) and who needs structure in their prep. And 6-months is plenty of time to finish your prep, and if you can't finish the prep in time, you can extend the course on a monthly subscription, and you won't lose your progress/data.

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