I started with a 540 and managed to score 740 on my first attempt. Though I had used a plethora of resources (Egmat, Manhattan books, etc.), I hit a plateau and my score wasn’t improving beyond a certain point. So, I felt that though all these resources were teaching me concepts, I wasn’t sure how to apply them well. And some of the applications taught were not efficient from the exam perspective.
Eventually, I decided to enroll in GMATWhiz, hoping that their personalized course and mentorship program can help me reach my desired score.
As far as Verbal is concerned, what I really liked was the way they taught us awesome CR frameworks, that can help us pre-think easily. In fact, everyone talks about pre-thinking, but GMATWhiz, also taught us, what to do in case we are not able to pre-think, and I think this makes a big difference since sometimes we end up wasting precious time by focusing too much on pre-thinking. Their SC course was well structured too. Again, the Golden rule framework and other frameworks, helped me find the errors easily! Their RC course was also good. However, it was slightly on the difficult side, which I can think can be helpful. If we can solve those, then it would be easy to solve the ones in the actual exam.
Coming to Quant, believe me when I say that their course is super comprehensive and, at the same time, precise. To help us learn the best way to solve a question, they have something called concept booster, where their detailed solutions actually show us how to “read properly”, “perform pre-analysis”, and finally do the calculation. The pre-analysis approach helped me boost my DS accuracy. GMATWhiz has a decent question pool of 1000+ questions in their question bank and I particularly liked the medium-hard level quant questions on GMATWhiz because they were highly conceptual and strongly illustrative of what the real exam holds.
As far as mentorship is concerned, I was mentored by Shreyyash, which helped me a lot. I used to get on a call with him almost every 10-15 days and he used to constantly guide me and encourage me throughout the journey. This was especially helpful in the final phase of my prep because I was confused about when to take quizzes and mocks. Shreyyash created a plan of action for me and that turned out to be really useful.
I am super happy with my score and would recommend everyone to try it out. Thank you GMATWhiz :D

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Hi everyone,
I start this review after being selected for the september 2022 intake of the HEC Paris MBA. This is a great achievement I would like to share with anyone willing to read it and I am incredibly happy to get this MBA starting. First things first, let's recall all this journey from it's beginning.

My profile :
my name is ilias, I am 29, married and father of a son. I am a nuclear engineer working for a well-known french electricity utilities company since 6 years. I graduated in 2015 and I also have another master degree in International Relations obtained in 2019 and followed online while working.

I started prospecting for MBA's after my last master in 2019. I quickly understood that the biggest working part to get ready to apply would be the GMAT. I bought the OG's and made this typical beginner's mistake : I dived directly into it and started doing questions and questions, trying to understand the philosophy behind this test. After 4 months of such a preparation, I took a first GMAT test in a center. The night before I didn't sleep well and during the same day I poured a liquid on all my OG books while revising last minute. I can recall such a detail because It really made my day worse. At the end of the test I got a poor 520. It was a shock to me and I knew I hade to requestion all my strategy if I wanted to reach a 700+ score. To complete the frame, before this first try, I didn't even know that I can take mocks to prepare, so I took none of it.
I have let this topic on hold for few months and I decided to invest in my prep and started reading reviews about prep websites.
October 2020 I bought an access to Magoosh website and I started my preparation from scratch. I watched every single video and I did all questions possible. I meticulously started an error log book and set a planning to be ready to take the GMAT 3 months later.
After the said months, I took two mocks and I reached a score of 590 and 620 at best. It was clearly insufficient to take the real GMAT.
Same experience, I decided to postpone my GMAT preparation as I felt I would never reach my target score. So, from january 2021 to may 2021, I did a lean six sigma certification to boost a little more my CV.
June 2021, I started again my GMAT prep. This time I was determined to push the boundaries and be disciplined to reach my target score. I bought the crash course plan from GMATWhiz. I have read great reviews and the price was acceptable.
So during the whole summer, I took part of the weekly video meetings to solve verbal questions and quant questions. My weakness was clearly in verbal because I was a non-native speaker. I trusted the process and followed every single recommandation given from the teacher, Sunita, for the verbal part. I also gave great confidence in the recommandation given from the artificial intelligence program of the GMATWhiz software.
At mid-preparation which was around august, I decided to take a mock : I obtained a very encouraging 670. This score gave me strength to work more and more on my weaknesses rather than focusing on everything already learnt.
I took another mock on september and I reached 660. At this time, I decided to take the real GMAT test as application deadlines for round 1 were really fast approaching.
So I took the GMAT online test at home, and I really loved this experience. The comfort of working from home relieved me from a lot of stress as it is an environment I know.
After a week of taking the GMAT, I received the result : 640.
As it was not a score I was aiming I felt a little disappointed. I promised myself I would continue my preparation but I also decided I would apply with such a score.
I applied to a single school, which is HEC Paris because it was the right program for me in terms of location, program length, reputation etc.
After following all the process, I received in later october the great notice : I was proposed a seat into the HEC Paris MBA program.

This journey is a tribute to all people who feel depressed and think GMAT is everything in an application. My example shows that it is just a part of the whole profil assessment.
I would like to really thank all GMATWhiz team because their course gave me the right approach I was desperately looking for while dealing with the GMAT standardized test. Focussing on my weak part, getting disciplined, having an error book and working hard, where my keys to improve my score. I would also like to mention the great work made on the GMATWhiz software : It is incredibly powerful to spot the key areas one should work on.
Thank you for reading me,
Cheers,
ilias

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I took the verbal course and the best part I liked about it was the reinforcing quizzes and exercises after every module or couple of videos. The new AI is also a good feature as it very aptly recommends the areas you need to improve in speed or accuracy and categorizes topics and suggests video lectures and quizzes to Improve upon the recommendations. It is very well structured to understand the different types and nuances of verbal section questions for a strong approach. It definitely helped me improve in speed and accuracy in verbal by leaps and bounds. The huge question bank is a big plus.

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I bought my GMATWhiz subscription after taking free trials of a few courses. I really liked their in-depth coverage of each and every topic you could possibly encounter in the test. They have a nice focus on building your fundamentals first and then moving to the tougher bits. For quant, I really liked how they have diagnostic tests at first, followed by lesson videos, concept solidifiers, boosters, and finally the practice quizzes. I also liked how you could practice the relevant OG questions of a particular verbal topic right after finishing it. This greatly helped my learning. Finally, the team is always ready to help- all queries posted on the portal are usually answered in a day itself. The founder, Piyush, is approachable too- you can directly book a Calendly slot to better plan your studies. This course really helped me achieve my target score and I would recommend it to anyone who's looking for an online course.

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Having attended a few free seminars of a different company, I was completely convinced that it was the one for me. Then I came across GMATClub and registered on it. That is how I got a free trial of GMATWhiz and I randomly went through a few video lectures. And a few video lectures of the competitor too, which are equally good in terms of content. However, one thing that made me choose GMATWhiz over the other was the UI, being a software engineer myself. The UI is clean , the AI engine is amazingly good, and on top of that there are mentors available always. Hence I decided that it'll be GMATWhiz for me, even though there were fewer reviews. I spoke to Piyush, he's superbly busy, but I explained him that I was in a hurry to choose a course, because I thought I was running out of time for R1. After speaking to him, I was convinced, and I didn't even need any other opinions. Next day I started with the crash course(I actually joined it a week later than the start date) and then began my journey of GMAT prep. I loved the way concepts are laid out, easier things first, gradually increasing the difficulty such that at the end of the concept, one wouldn't even realize that the last attempted question was a 700 level one. For verbal CR and RC, its all about building ability, ability to think in a way managers or someone in a leadership role would think. Something that they call pre-thinking. It's hard to grab these things in the beginning, but I think everyone should trust the process. Solving questions will initially take time, but one shouldn't be concerned about that. For instance, my RC was weak initially. Shreyyash from GMATWhiz, who was also my mentor, suggested me to take a good amount of time to solve RC. As a result, I was taking 10-15 minutes to solve RCs during the learning stage. It helped me so much that during the practice phase, I was attempting RCs with 80% accuracy within 6 minutes and I was actually enjoying RCs. Moreover, the crash course has the weekend classes. The live classes were amazing with Sunita Singhvi, who's one of the best in her job and is also the sweetest mentor and she takes each and every question no matter how silly it is. Then there's Saquib who knows it all about QUANT, the different question types, the traps and everything you can expect in GMAT Quant. I never felt the need to look at other courses to supplement my knowledge. It was only GMATWhiz and the official content (along with the official mocks). By the end of the practice phase, I was scoring well into 700s. In the last few mocks my scores were actually 710, 720, 730 and a 770. That's how prepared I was. Even when I wasn't having the best of days and when I knew I hadn't done well enough, I scored a 680 in that mock, with a Q51. I finally decided to take the GMAT and booked the date. Again during the exam itself, I knew it wasn't my best, but I still got a 710. That's how this course (along with my own hard work, of course :) ) made me. Without a doubt, it has been one of my best investments ever. I'll definitely recommend GMATWhiz to everyone looking for something personalized just for themselves. Everyone is different and people have different abilities. The AI will customize the course exactly for you. I think no two persons are the same, and GMATWhiz has done well to address that exact issue!!!!

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I tried several courses (such as e-gmat, which is good for SC no doubt, for short duration I tried Empowergmat, and then Edushastra (I would recommend to not to go for this last one, My personal suggestion etc), and among all, I found GMATWhiz to be a very comprehensive course.

My journey of GMAT began with 620 (Q49, V27), then 660 (Q50, V29) and a few days back, I scored 710 (Q49, V38, IR3, AWA 6). I will write a separate de-brief later on GMAT journey.

I opted for a verbal tutor prep pack because I thought external help will be beneficial to see which aspects I lack in my preparation. The GMATWhiz team is very kind in terms of their response to the services that they provide. I genuinely felt that this team is focused on the success of the student. Be it moral support or support in verbal guidance, GMATWhiz really does a good job. I even got my verbal online prep-pack (which comes along with the tutor prep pack) extended for a week because I was due of course access just a week before my exam schedule.

Ms. Sunita is a very patient teacher; I would say she understands the difficulties students face. I, in fact, had to relearn my approach to even basic sentence reading. She would often ask me what I really understood from the sentence or the argument. She often focused on the “questioning” aspect while analyzing the CR argument. For RC, to keep up that interest, I used to do a bit of self-talk while reading. This is what I learned from her, so that one can engage himself totally in arguments or the passage.
I personally liked the question bank of the course. The CR answer choices are cleverly worded. At first glance, one may think that a particular option would be an answer but after reading their explanation, one would realize that it was a trap answer choice. Their methodology is beneficial in understanding the question or concept, for that matter. The frameworks used in CR really give one a peep into the pre-thinking stuff or predicting the answer. The RC passages questions are also tricky, and they test the real inference skills. I feel that the course does a good overall on all three fronts, SC, CR, and RC. I had reviewed their questions (the ones I got wrong) before my GMAT.

I learned that a great course is a course that has a good question bank, a solid methodology to apply to questions and excellent support to its students. And I am sure that the GMATWhiz team will continue to be genuine in feedback and support to its students.

Overall, I would recommend this verbal course (as I did not take the quant part) to anyone who wants to ace the GMAT.

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I am having a full time job working in Finance. Hence I can't give a lot of time in GMAT prep. The Verbal module of the course really helped me in increasing my Verbal score from V27 to V40. The contents are that good to analyze and understand. Highly recommended for Verbal. There are lots of Practice questions after each lesson which helps in clearing the concepts of the course. Also there is a score predictor tool which is fairly accurate in predicting GMAT score. There are a huge number of questions in question bank for practice. The questions are very close to real GMAT questions. The AI is pretty sleek. They are working on the content and UI on a regular basis. Kudos to you guys.

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With self-prep last year, I managed to score a 680 (Q49, V34). I was unable to go past this score as it seemed I had plateaued my verbal score.

I decided to give another shot at GMAT this year and figured that I would be needing some assistance for the verbal section, especially the reading comprehension. I began exploring various self-prep courses available and came across Gmatwhiz. I booked the free consultation it offered. The following are the things I was informed and I considered to convince myself why Gmatwhiz would be the best among available to reach my target score:

1. To-go study resources for any newbie starting GMAT prep are famous books published by American companies. Implicit in their structure in order to serve the native-speaking population is assumptions about certain topics which students already are aware of. Hence, when a nonnative speaker uses these books, they often fail to grasp topics entirely, as was my case in my first attempt. Gmatwhiz’s course is designed specifically keeping the non-natives’ needs in mind and overcomes this problem.

2. Entirely personalized course. We all are aware that personalization and customized user experience are the future of consumer products, and I was very attracted by the fact that Gmatwhiz has incorporated them into its product. On the basis of my performance in quizzes, the algorithm would recommend videos to revisit and help strengthen my concepts.

3. Economical


All in all, Gmatwhiz helped me raise my verbal score from a V34 to V37, a much-needed increase to reach my target score of 720. I would highly recommend this course to everyone.

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The best part about GMATWhiz's course structure is its approach, to both the Quant and Verbal section.
First, the usual pain points are laid out clearly, in quant, the tendency to miss important information in the question and in verbal, the inability to understand the meaning in the first go.

The whole curriculum then seeks to address these issues by adopting a detail driven approach in quant and a meaning driven approach in verbal. The verbal section is particularly interesting as the first teach you where to pause while reading so that meaning can be assimilated better.
Apart from this, there is a scheduling tool (the AI) which can help in planning the sequence in which topics are to be studied and allocation of time between verbal and quant.

The course however covers only quant and verbal. IR and AWA are not included

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I started with the old school way with Official Guides and after 2 months of preparation I got a 390 in my first official mock. I was really frustrated to see such a low score and at a point of time I felt GMAT is not my cup of tea. A friend recommended me Gmatwhiz and I checked the free trial and was really surprised by the unique course structure and the unique interface. The platform asked for some initial questions and after that prepared a proper customised study plan for me.

The study plan helped me stay on track with my studies which was a big challenge for me as working professional. The course was designed in such way that it had the right balance of conceptual understanding as well as unique methodology. I really liked the DS methodology, which was one area I was always afraid of. This went a long way and helped me improve my quant score to Q45 on the actual test.

Also in verbal I felt the explanations to the questions were very good. In fact there was detailed analysis of each passage besides the usual explanation of correct and incorrect choices. This way I could understand where I was lacking and helped me improvise a lot. There were some additional modules that were served to me whenever I was not able to perform in a particular topic.

Within 3 months I was scoring in the range of 650+ in official mock tests consistently. This was a huge relief since I started at 390. Unfortunately on the day of the test I panicked in the verbal section and ended up messing it up, but thanks to my mentor at Gmatwhiz I am looking at a retake soon and targeting a 680+. I would highly recommend this course to anyone struggling with their GMAT preparations.

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