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I had taken the GMAT previously and scored a V38. I decided to appear again for GMAT and took Sunita's help in improving my verbal score. Sunita is an excellent teacher. Unlike other teachers, she did not waste my time. She asked me to solve problems on each sub-section in each class session and analyzed common mistakes. She also directed me to the GMATWhiz Verbal course which I wished I had discovered sooner. The SC and CR content covers all topics asked on GMAT and the OG explanations are very detailed too. Even after my sessions were over, Sunita would drop in messages and follow-up on my progress. Will highly recommend GMATWhiz for Verbal (cannot say for quants as I did not use the quant resources).
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I took private mentoring sessions of Arvind sir who is associated with GMAT whiz for quants section . In my previous GMAT attempts I could never score more than 46. He was very supportive and my maths concepts got crystal clear within short span of 2 months . With One to one mentoring sessions, I was able to work on my weak topics in a structured manner . He was readily available for clearing my doubts at any point of time and was quite flexible in his overall approach . I was able to learn different methodologies of solving a quants question by putting in less time. His approach was quite practical rather than methodical and theoretical. I was able to improve my score in quants from 46 to 50 with the help of his teaching methodology.
I would like to strongly recommend him for GMAT quants for private mentoring sessions if one wants to improve his/her quants score . Prior to him, I took coaching from various renowned quants faculties but could not achieve the desired results .He is the best quants faculty , I ever came across during my entire GMAT preparation phase
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710 Q50 V36 (Online)
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Hi Everyone, I am an Entrepreneur from India. I am married and a father of a beautiful 2.5 yr old daughter who is the sole inspiration for me and my wife.
I am writing this review after getting an admit from IESE Barcelona and ESADE Barcelona. During my prep I used GMATWhiz for GMAT preparations as well as admissions consulting.
You can watch my review of both on the video link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1U2CQBhhJE&t=641s
PS: At the time of this video I had gotten admit only from Esade.
Those who like to read, I am just giving the review of GMAT prep course. Admissions consulting review will come later.
My Profile:
I graduated from IIT Roorkee and moved to work in Germany, India and Malaysia for an MNC. I currently work as the Director in Central India's biggest Water Resource Management company where we help cities solve water shortages by developing infrastructure.
I am also working on my startup which is focussed on sustainability where my target is to improve people's and planet's health for better future of our kids. In this journey, my wife and I have launched about 40+ FMCG and medicinal products which are organic and ecofriendly.
My MBA Journey
My MBA journey began from May 25th 2021. I started with giving a free GMAC Mock exam and scored 540 in it with Q42 and V26. I knew that I needed to work on Verbal to get a good 700+ score. To improve my Verbal, I looked at several leading solutions such as GMATWhiz, Egmat etc. and finalised GMATWhiz on the basis of the following factors:
1. The reviews on the GMAT Club which were excellent.
2. The free trial that lets you try out the course
3. AI driven personalized and adaptive study plan – which was really important as I was working full time, running 2 businesses at the same time. Therefore, I needed a solution that would help me Laser Target the weak areas in minimum time. The AI helped a lot in that.
I gave the exam on 27th July 2021 and receive 710 as the final score.
After having gone through with the lectures and the practice questions, here is my feedback
Pros:
1. The AI works perfect. Just trust the system and you will get the results
2. The adaptive study plan was a great help. It not only analysed my weak areas but also helped me improve them specifically.
3. The structure and meaning based approach of solving Verbal questions helped me understand the right answer in a very simple way
4. The order of learning is also RIGHT. You start with Sentence Correction, then go to Critical Reasoning and by the time you are done with these 2 modules, Reading Comprehension just becomes so easy.
5. The Do’s and Don’ts are mentioned specifically for each question type.
6. There is framework for each type of question in Critical Reasoning that works
7. The videos are not long or hard to understand. The content is taught in simple plain English which is easy to grasp.
8. They develop a way of pre thinking which helps a lot in eliminating wrong answer choices well in advance.
Cons:
1. The program may feel a bit too long for people who want to complete it in a short time like me. It’s just very comprehensive. To speed up things, once you understand the pre-thinking method, the course becomes relatively easy to do.
Other than that there is nothing missing from the program.
GmaṭWhiz improved my score and my understanding of the questions and approach . The portal is extremely good and the AI helps in providing structural guidance and plans . The verbal section is designed in such a way that all the relevant information is covered up and its super easy to understand. The Quant section has tough sums but from the videos and the tough questions a student will be able to do questions with logic and deep understanding of the variables in play in the question . The Gmat tutor Prep is something I would recommend for all students. The teachers are very experienced .They are focus more on the understanding and approach of the student and very easily dissect the problem and help in using the right approach to a question . And once a student follows this new approach he/she can easily score a high score . The GmatWhiz tutors helped my understand the intended meaning of the question, understand the way a question needs to be addressed and finally teach me the most full proof method of getting answers correct. Their classes and their videos together helped me improve my marks and really dissect the paper and make it approachable .
After wasting 1 year of my life, and 1 GMAT online attempt in which I scored a 590 (Q48 V23), I joined GMATWhiz with a lot of hope. I have been associated with GMATWhiz for over 6 months now, and it has made all the difference. Their course is so well structured, and the modules are so well taught, that anyone who has no idea of Quants/Verbal can also learn and score well in this exam. The AI used is so accurate. It helps you structure your personalized course, with your own pace. The score predictor is wonderful. I haven't seen such an accurate score predictor. The quizzes and mocks are very close to the actual GMAT and the scoring system of GMATWhiz is wonderful.
They assign you to your personal mentor, who keeps a track of your overall performance and timely guides you. I was greatly benefited by the guidance of my mentor, Shreyyash sir. He pointed out all my weak areas, and gave me personal teaching sessions as well in the areas where I was struggling a lot. He also helped me setting a timeline and guided me throughout my journey. Thank you so much Shreyyash sir, I can't be thankful enough. He helped me reach 680 in just few months. I am still in contact with the whole GMATWhiz team, who are helping me to improve further.
I would recommend students to opt for GMATWhiz, which gives you what you are looking for:
1. Great course structure that can teach a newbie
2. Personalized course
3. A personal mentor who guides you throughout your GMAT journey
4. Accurate score predictor and marking scheme
For me, my weak area was verbal (as you can see in my score). I was never able to get any CR question right. And with RC I used to get scared just by reading the passage.
GMATWhiz has a well structured syllabus for Verbal. Their Critical reasoning module gives you all the frameworks which make it very easy to solve any easy/medium/hard level CR questions within 1.5 minutes. The CR module helped me a lot. I was able to see my improvement and it made me so much confident. Also the SC module is very well structure. With all the golden rules they provide you with, it will be hard making any question incorrect. And at last RC module, which is the most dreaded of all, turned out to be the easiest. With GMATWhiz RC course, you get the strategy to deal with every passage and every question.
And if you still have issues, they are always ready to give you a personal one on one session.
In short GMATWhiz makes you well equipped with all the tools you require for the actual exam.
With the verbal course I was able to improve tremendously from V23 to a V36 in less than 4 months. You just have to be patient, and trust the process. They are the gurus, and will definitely help you reach your goal.
Working as a research associate in the venture capital arm of a financial services company, time management was the biggest challenge for me as my work consumes almost 12-14 hours of my daily routine. I barely had enough time to plan things very well. Also, it had been quite a while since I left my education days behind and you know, once you enter your working phase, you hardly come across those quant/verbal logic in your daily life. So, I needed something that would help me from the very basics to the most advanced strategies. And as a full-time working professional, I just did not have time to attend tutoring classes.
For ease of prep, obviously, I started doing my research and used the trial period offered by various test prep companies like E-GMAT, CrackVerbal, etc, and used their free mocks. As a result, what I found was the content that these platforms were offering was quite static, lacked actual personalization, and would require a lot of my personal effort in planning. For a working professional like me, it would have been a very tedious task as I could not afford to give my time in planning, I could only execute. For that, I needed somebody to rely upon completely. Once I gave the GMATWhiz mock and used their free trial, I was amazed by the way their course was designed. The best thing about GMATWhiz was that everything was automated using AI. I did not have to do anything. The system asked me a few questions and basically gave everything to me as per my requirements. Things being in such organized fashion, I was like I have struck gold with them, and I chose to go with it!
Their course addressed every fear and concern I had. Especially with everything being so tech-focused. With covid, and everything going digital these days, it made sense to me, that their course was driven by an AI algorithm which basically told me everything I needed to do and, also told me how to do it! It asks about your weekly commitment and devises a study plan based on your schedule. All I had to do was just log in and see my tasks for the day and I was good to go. Being a working professional who could barely spare 24-26 hours per week, I was greatly benefited by its comprehensive nature.
The use of AI is tremendous, and it personalizes everything for you. Their course provided everything I needed to study, and I could blindly follow the study plan suggested by the AI as it was so intuitive. I also loved the concept boosters as they allowed me to learn specific concepts and the customized practice quizzes they offered allowed me to work on both my strengths and weaknesses. Quizzes were the best part. They have concept booster quizzes to strengthen the topics that you are good at, quizzes on topics you are struggling with, and time management quizzes too with a couple of questions to help to learn how to manage time. Plus, the approach due to the AI was very efficient. For example, when I took a quiz, my performance was recorded, and the next quiz would be based on my current level while considering the previous quizzes. This way, the quizzes were never repetitive in nature, and I was learning new things every time. I could skip the topics that I was good at and focus only on topics where I lagged. Since I only had a month’s time to prepare, this was a very progressive and logical approach for me.
The AI helped me find my weak areas and work on them. For example, despite being a fast reader, I was weak in RC, and I could not figure out where I was going wrong. RC, being my weak area, the AI helped me understand that I was following the wrong reading strategies. Accordingly, it gave me the guidance to follow certain exercises, focus on what I was doing wrong, and get the improvement required with the help of improvement modules. The approaches being taught for all the sections in Verbal were really helpful. My Verbal score improved from V31 to V41 in a month’s time using the right methods of solving the questions and my overall score improved to 720. I was more than happy!
On the exam day, I managed to finish both the Verbal and Quant sections before time, unlike many aspirants who struggle to finish in time. One thing that I understood from my experience was that if you get the concepts and methods right along with the strategies, time management will never be a problem.
Although the course was so well structured, there was no need for any personal mentor, the role of Piyush and the entire GMATWhiz team has been instrumental in my journey. I feel I was fortunate to have this journey under their guidance and support.
I would recommend my fellow aspirants to try the free trials offered by all other GMAT service providers along with GMATWhiz because only then you will be able to make out the difference that GMATWhiz offers. I am sure you won’t regret it choosing GMATWhiz.
All the best!
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I started my GMAT journey a long while back, but owing to recurrent job promotions and high volume of overseas travel for work, I was not able to devote focused time.
It was always clear that I wanted to pursue an MBA, it was just a matter of finding the right time.
3 GMAT attempts later, I was still not able to achieve the scores I wanted. I knew it wasn’t a problem with the knowledge I had, but more about the execution and mindset. My self confidence took a beating, and a lot of self-doubt naturally crept in.
Thankfully though, the answer came in the form of GMATWhiz.
The 2 key aspects for me - and for working professionals like myself, would be structure and personalization.
I instantly saw a very structured course that gave me direction on how to proceed forward. The personalization in the course was definitely helpful and reassuring. By having that level of targeted feedback and improvement strategies through the use of AI, I knew what I had to do next and where I needed to put in the work to get to my target score. I’d also say that one of the things it helped me the most with was developing the skills required to look at a question confidently and say this is what’s being asked, and this is how I have to solve it.
I also found the material quite helpful and relevant. For instance, let’s take CR in verbal. Even within CR, there were different frameworks that helped me segregate the question types and save time while solving the questions. And in quant, everything that I learnt, was in a very efficient sequence such that you do not move to topic B, until you’ve mastered topic A. So, this kind of methodical approach helps you become competent and develop that confidence.
In addition to all this, I also loved the kind of guidance and support I got. I studied in the mornings before work. And I used to submit any doubts I had into the system before leaving. By the time I was back, the answer was waiting for me, and I knew the right way. And of course, there was the 1 to 1 mentorship which is always like a guiding light when you’re lost.
All in all, I would say, there are a number of things that you need to learn to score well on GMAT, but GMATWhiz definitely helped me with not only the right knowledge and skills, but also the mindset that allowed me to walk into the exam calmly and just focus on doing the job at hand and crack the GMAT 700 barrier! So, whether you’re someone who’s starting your GMAT journey, or someone who’s stuck somewhere in the middle, I highly recommend going for GMATWhiz!
With self-preparation, I was stuck at a 700-710 score. With help from the GMATWhiz course, I was able to push my score to 760.
I decided to enroll with GMATWhiz after going through some of their youtube videos. The great thing about the SC module is that the approach it teaches is very logical as opposed to merely learning grammar rules (a trap that many of us fall into). The video lessons and the concept boosters helped me learn and solidify the concepts quickly. In addition to the video lessons, GMATWhiz also has a large question bank for practice. The questions were very similar to the official GMAT questions in terms of difficulty and testing concepts. Moreover, the detailed solution to each and every question is also impressive. Another great thing about the portal is that it has a personalized dashboard that helps you identify concepts that need further improvement across SC, RC, and CR sections. This is especially helpful for anyone who has already invested significant time on preparation before GMATWhiz and needs to improve the score in a relatively short amount of time.
Initially, I did not intend to use the Quant section of the platform, but after practicing Verbal I found the platform very useful especially the personalized dashboard. That was particularly useful to me fine-tune specific topics in Quant to push my score from Q48-49 to Q50.
I would recommend fellow applicants to go for GMATWhiz, you won’t go wrong with this.
I wholeheartedly recommend GMATWhiz for both Quant and Verbal. The course is very well structured and comprehensively covers all the topics with diagnostic quizzes, followed by detailed video lessons, concept solidifiers, concept boosters and finally practice quizzes. Moreover, there are lots of questions for all topics across various difficulty levels to supplement your understanding. GMATWhiz also integrates AI within the course to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses based on your performance in the modules and in the AI-powered Whiz quizzes.
I highly recommend the verbal course, especially for non-native speakers. A lot of prep courses recommend pre-thinking for the CR section but don't explain how to do it. That's where GMATWhiz helped me the most. It helped provide a framework for pre-thinking which helped me approach CR questions methodically. Additionally, for questions based on Inferences, the solutions break the stimulus down and explain what the stimulus expects the student to infer from each sentence. All the RC and SC modules are extremely detailed and have everything you need to do well on test day.
All the people at GMATWhiz are extremely helpful. You can schedule meetings with Mr Piyush Beriwala, the founder of GMATWhiz, or with the other mentors to assess your prep strategy and track your progress. Their constant support, guidance and quick responses to queries undoubtedly played a crucial role in helping me improve from 690 to 740 in one month.
Overall, if you’re looking to attain your target score, then look no further than GMATWhiz.
Hi Everyone,
I started my GMAT prep in Nov’2020. Aiming to achieve 720+, I bought a course from a leading test prep institute and gave my first attempt in May’2021. I scored 630(V28, Q48). I knew I was good in quant, so I was confident of scoring Q50 with little preparation. The bigger problem was verbal, I contributed majority of my time to verbal preparation. I was scoring 700+ in my mocks but in the actual exam I could only score 640(V31, Q49). I was devastated this time. I knew my concepts were clear and that I was lacking in the application of the concepts. I stated looking for an affordable verbal private tutoring course to improve my weak areas and after talking to Piyush, I was convinced that Gmatwhiz is the right platform for me.
1. They emphasize on meaning-based approach in SC. The golden rule framework works wonder in solving the any SC question within time. I was particularly struggling in SC when I took the course, But with the meaning-based approach and by following the right framework, I could solve 700+ questions with high accuracy.
2. In CR, what stood out most for me is that they not only explain the importance of pre-thinking, but they also have laid out a proper framework on how to pre think for different types of arguments in CR that GMAT usually focuses on. This framework helps to come up with at least 2 assumptions before reading the STEM. They have also explained the approach in situations where one couldn’t come up with assumptions during the pre-thinking stage.
3. I found their RC modules difficult compared to the passages in OG. But that really helped me in actual exam as I could solve the RC passages in less than 6 mins. They emphasize on how understanding each line and questioning what the author wants to say give a better understanding of the passage. They also suggest to connect every line to what you have read till now and what role the new piece of information plays in the overall understanding of the passage, this way you have a complete understanding of the passage and can solve each question in less than 45 secs. Initially one might take more time in applying the whole process for solving but trust me with enough practice each passage can be solved in less than 6 mins.
The course is very comprehensive and well structured. The new AI really helps to understand the weak areas and recommends ways to improve the same. They have identified OG questions for each topic and have included these questions for practice at the end of each topic. This really helped me in strengthening my concepts and approach. The personalized quizzes and quizzes recommended by the AI helped me to improve my speed and accuracy. They are also very quick at answering your doubts in the forum. The explanations given are very detailed and one could clearly understand where they went wrong.
I must mention the role my mentor Abhishek played throughout my preparation. He had very good understating of my weak areas and always insisted me on using the right approach. In SC sessions, he would ask me to solve the question and then ask me to explain what I understood, why I chose the answer which I chose and why I didn’t choose the other. This method improved my accuracy and I could confidently choose the right one and confidently eliminate the others. Similarly, in CR and RC our sessions were very interactive with most importance given to the meaning and approach. Whenever I was stuck in any question, he would patiently wait for me to solve the question and then later discuss why I was struggling in the first place. He has been very encouraging throughout my preparation and I feel I couldn’t have asked for a better mentor.
Overall, the GMATWhiz verbal private tutoring helped me in improving my score from V31 to V44. I scored 770(V44, Q51) in my last attempt and I would highly recommend this course.