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I reached out to Piyush as I was stuck at my GMAT score of 680-700 despite 6 months of work. I had gone through multiple course loads and solved over 1000 questions in verbal and math.
I took a leap of faith and signed up with GMATWhiz.
After 5 lessons with Sunita, I was able to identify the issues that I had and was able to improve my Verbal score by 8 points from 33 to 41.
I feel that the GMATWhiz AI is sophisticated enough to realize your weaknesses and can really help you improve those area.
It also helped that the course load was not voluminous and I was able to complete it in a period of 20 days.
I only wish that I could have spent similar amount of time on Math with GMATWhiz (who knows, I may have even gotten a 760)
Highly recommend taking their course and the tutoring package
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Verified GMAT Classic score:
690 Q49 V34 (Online)
I have been associated with GMATWhiz for almost 6 months now and the experience has been amazing. The course is very well structured and the score predictor based on the performance in the quizzes and mocks is very close to the real score.
Apart from the course and it's structure, I have also greatly benefited from the timely guidance by Saquib Sir, Shreyyash, Zartaj, and Piyush. They have extended their whole hearted support throughout. I was facing challenge with the verbal section and Shreyyash helped me pinpoint my weak areas and helped me strategize my preparation to work on those areas.
Overall, my experience has been nothing short of amazing and I would highly recommend GMAT Whiz to everyone who has been struggling with their preparation.
By the time I subscribed to Gmatwhiz I had already taken the exam and wanted help specifically with Algebra, CR and SC. I was looking to join a course where I would get access to trainers who can identify gaps in my approach and formulate personalised plans. I got just that from Gmatwhiz. My mentor, Shreyyash, kept regular contact and made sure I was progressing. He even helped me reduce my timing by suggesting targeted sectional quizzes and by providing resources outside the gmatwhiz platform. Furthermore, he went above and beyond the regular meeting hours and made sure he was available everytime I needed his help. Net result, my score went up from v28 to v45.
I would go so far to say that the CR and permutation and combination models gmatwhiz teaches is the best I have seen in the market. I would recommend anyone looking for help with Coordinate Geometry, Permutation and Combinations, and probability to consider Gmatwhiz.
Overall Course is designed well. The Gmatwhiz platform includes everything you will need for your preparation. Buy an OG and this course that will be enough for you to score a 700+.
My verbal was weak, I scored a V27 and was very disheartened and thought maybe this exam is not for me (as I was in Hindi(local language) medium school and didn't learn English from an early age and always thought I will never do good in verbal section). But the verbal course is designed for someone like me that includes everything from scratch to advanced, everything was there.
I will especially thank Sunita for the help she provided, she even solved doubts on WhatsApp when someone asked in the group (I have taken the crash course for 3 months in which the teacher teaches the course.)
I will also thank Shreyyash who was my mentor assigned to me. He helped me to motivate and guide me to the right topics I should be doing my prep from before the exam.
Overall it was a great course, I will recommend this to someone who is weak in the verbal section and continuously struggling to get the questions right. I was good in quant and got a Q49 on the first attempt too, I can't judge the course correctly for someone who is weak in quant but I will say it is structured properly and can be advantageous.
Hey Ankur!
Congratulations on the 710 and all the very best for your upcoming interviews! The V40 is particularly impressive considering that you started with a V27 – that’s an impressive jump and must have been a major boost to the overall improvement of 80 points in your total score.
As you mentioned, you were a student of Crash Course program, the perfect offering for those who (1) are already at a 600-650 level but want to breach the 700+ barrier and (2) can give a lot of time on the weekends but not so much on the weekdays. Clearly, you made the best of the opportunity and worked on the section that had the most room for improvement.
Sunita is an absolute pioneer when it comes to GMAT Verbal, a true visionary of methodologies that not only work during practice sessions but are also effective in exam-like environments under the pressure of time. However, at the end of the day, it comes down to how much you as a student have been able to imbibe Sunita’s teachings – in your case, you clearly did, and the results are for everyone to see.
I remember our mentorship sessions as well, Ankur. You proactively sought my help with regards to strategy on where to practice questions from (a combination of our Whiz Quizzes, the proprietary GMATWhiz Question Bank, as well as our official questions Dump of over 1000 questions) and what kinds of questions to practice as well – again, you followed the instruction perfectly.
Many people try to reduce time taken from the get-go, an absolutely disastrous strategy. You first worked on your accuracy on 700+ level questions on especially key topics (such as Modifiers, Pronouns, Verb Tenses, Inference and Assumption Family) from Whiz Quiz and our consolidated GMAC dump by applying the methodology taught by Sunita. This was followed by a series of quizzes and sectional mocks from Whiz Quiz (before the actual mocks) to reduce time consumption while not losing accuracy.
All the best for the applications and please reach out in case you need any guidance with school selection, essays or LoRs for the applications because our admission consultants have end-to-end knowledge of the MBA admission process undertaken by the top schools across the globe.
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Shreyyash KP
Verbal Mentor | MBA Admissions Consultant
GMATWhiz
Hi, I recently took the GMAT and scored a 760. I have been using the online preparation material provided by GMAT Whiz. Following is my evaluation of various aspects of the course:
1: The content: The content is well-curated, comprehensive, and to the point. The integration of AI into the course is one of the most important plus points of the course. I could feel the benefit of this especially when I was learning the Quant section. Coming from a quantitative background, I was already aware of most of the aspects needed for the section. However, to regain familiarity with the concepts, I felt that it was necessary to watch sectional videos. Unlike the other GMAT test prep platforms ( a few of which I have used in the past), the Whiz platform provided curated content based on my performance from short sectional tests. Honestly, this avoided watching the videos on the basic concepts and helped save a lot of time. Furthermore, each video is broken up into different sections with specific time markers that let students navigate through the sections with ease. Again this helped me focus my effort on the weak areas and make the best use of my time. In addition, the quality of the questions on the platform is top-notch and commendable.
I felt the verbal section is very comprehensive and the experts are very knowledgeable. For instance in CR, they have broken down the pre-thinking approach ( as some call it) into a series of practical steps that anyone can follow while solving a critical reasoning question. Earlier I used to believe pre-thinking is a method that is more intuitive than method-based. But on the Whiz platform, the team has broken down the CR stimulus into several sub-sections and provided multiple pre-thinking approaches to identify the conculsion/strengthner/weakner depending upon the nature of the stimulus. This boosted my confidence in the CR sections and improved my timings.
2 The Team: Unlike most of the other test prep companies, the service provided by GMAT Whiz is not just limited to the course it offers. The help that the Whiz team offered me in my GMAT journey is praiseworthy. I had catch-up calls scheduled directly with the Founder, Piyush Beriwala, every single week. The strategies, insights, and motivation that he provided have contributed immensely to my GMAT test score of 760. In addition, the strategy calls with the verbal expert were immensely helpful in identifying my weaknesses. The commitment that the team has shown in helping me realize my goal and the expertise of the team are two factors that I absolutely loved both the platform.
I strongly recommend GMAT Whiz to all the aspirants who are serious about accomplishing a great score on GMAT.
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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Verified GMAT Classic score:
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.
Hey Sai!
Congratulations on the 720, especially the V45 which is simply outstanding! The V45 is particularly impressive because you started with a V28 – that’s a tremendous jump and must have been a major contributor to the overall score improvement of 120 points.
Such success stories are always inspiring since they reinforce the belief we have in ourselves and our product. Performances like these really motivate us to go the extra mile and innovate our offerings.
You mentioned our mentorship experience. It was really fulfilling to see you stick to the customized game plan we discussed. I always mention to my students that once we decide upon a strategy, the results you get depend a lot on how closely you adhere to the game plan discussed during the mentoring sessions.
For instance, with you I discussed issues such as time management over the 4 quartiles in Verbal and getting comfortable with 700+ level questions – by first focusing on accuracy and approach and then on the timing aspect. You stuck to that plan. You first improved on 700+ levels for specific areas that I wanted you to focus on (such as Modifiers, Verb Tenses, Assumption Family in CR etc.) from the extra official resources I provided (using our consolidated dump – this contained official questions above and beyond the OG such as Verbal Reviews, GMAC Paper Test, Advanced GMAT etc.). Then you took enough sectional mocks from Whiz Quiz to get the time management issue under check. Getting the accuracy high while not overshooting on time is about both knowing when to take risks on which parts of the Verbal section (using our 75-25 tactic) as well as patiently reducing average time taken per question over a series of quizzes – which means strategically customizing our targets for every quiz - a feature that can be easily used through Whiz Quizzes.
The following screenshot shows the final version of how you did really well on the final one of this series of quizzes (83% skill score in SC and 100% in CR), especially laudable given that this quiz contained mostly difficult questions.
https://blog.gmatwhiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Sai_Module_Score.jpg%22
All in all, great job, Sai! All the best for your applications. As you know, we provide admission consulting as well and our consultants have thorough expertise on the end-to-end MBA admission processes of top B-school programs across the globe. Please reach out to the support team in case you want guidance with the application process to your target universities
Regards
Shreyyash KP
Verbal Mentor | MBA Admissions Consultant
GMATWhiz