GMATclub folks,

I had a very long struggle with GMAT, which started back in 2018. I used various official and online resources but couldn't break the 700 barrier. My first official GMAT was in Aug 2019 and I scored a 650, in my second attempt which was only after a month I got a 590 with no improvement in quant and a verbal score of 31 . I then decided to take time and study again and attempted GMAT for a 3rd time scoring a 640 with a quant score of 47, my verbal had dropped from 39 (first GMAT) to 32 . I then decided to study for long and finally after using all the official and online resources I took the GMAT online in Aug 2020 and scored a 690.
It was late December and I started applying to business schools but I was not confident and wanted to retake GMAT to increase my odds at admission. When I was waitlisted by one of the schools I decided to take GMAT for the 5th time. At this point I had used all the official resources , and had gone through the verbal course of one famous company for 3-4 times. I wanted a fresh course but had time limitations, also I had the basics but wanted to take a refresher in 8-10 days and then take my GMAT again in next 2 weeks.
I then got to know about Piyush and his extra ordinary GMATwhiz course. I scheduled a call with Piyush and he was very nice to speak to me the next day. This was the first time I have discussed my performance issues with a GMAT professional, he listened patiently to my GMAT journey and my bottlenecks, I still remember he guided me and advised me not to rush and at least take a month to retake GMAT. I then decided to purchase the full GMATwhiz prep course. This course is elegantly designed (both verbal and quant), I feel the verbal videos are very engaging and the questions quality is amazing. As I had used all the official resources, I used the mocks from GMATwhiz properly to evaluate my performance. The thing which helped me the most was Piyush video on time strategy . In April 2021 , I got the strength to finally appear for GMAT for the 5 th time (Online 2nd attempt). Quant was really hard but I diligently followed Piyush approach and managed to finish on time (though I was doubting that I am missing most of the questions but I just kept attempting), verbal was okay . It was then a wait of 2 days after which I got my official score and this time I crossed the 700 barrier . It took me 2-3 years of prep and 5 official attempts to get a 710 (Q49 and V 37).
I really want to advise all the GMAT takers to keep cool and invest in studying hard for the exam. I strongly refer the GMAT whiz course to anybody who is struggling with GMAT or starting out , even somebody who has taken any previous courses and wants to improve GMAT should also take the course.
Thanks and keep working hard on the GMAT!

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I took the GMATWhiz Gmat prep course in mid-2020. The first thing that attracted me to the course was the AI-based approach and the personal attention of Piyush sir. He helped me identify my weak areas based on my answers and then customized the course to develop those. With regular catch-ups every 10-15 days it was like a private mentor relationship which helped me a lot to focus on my development areas and keep a track of my process. Content-wise I like verbal videos as they explained the concept very well in detail. Quants covered all the basic concepts required. I will suggest to go for GMATWhiz to develop the fundamentals and then practice tons of official questions included in the course itself. The personal help and motivation from Piyush sir help me improve my score from 660 to 720 within a short span of time.

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I started my prep for GMAT in July with buying Prep Books. First i bought an Official Giude, then Manhattan books. I decided that the best strategy would be just solving as many problems as possible and use books for learning the theory. After 3 months spent on solving questions and learning theory i decided to take a mock. I scored only 600. I was devastated. Then I reliased that the better investments would be to find a good GMAT Prep course which will equip me with Strategy and will be interactive enough to keep my attention and motivate me toward spending 2h daily on GMAT prep. When I saw one of GMATWhiz tutorials on Youtube I decided to go with that. After 3.5 months of preparation using GMATWhiz (though I was working full time) I was able to score 710 on Gmat day. The course is very interactive. It consists of video tutorials accompanied with practical questions (Boosters). Questions which are included in these Booster files were more complex than real GMAT questions, which gave an opportunity to be better prepared and enhance my confidence over solving even 750+ questions from Official Guide. I loved the way how the platform provides an opportunity to customise your learning, by providing weekly plans of your study schedule. Course has a subtantial question bank with alot of 750+ problems. I loved the way how each answer (even the wrong one) was analysed in a very detailed manner! Another benefit of the course is the responsiveness of GMATWhiz team. Whenever I had a question or query I could contact the Team, and they would address my query quickly. I also used a benefit of having 5 tutorials Quant classes. Saquib, quant expert, helped me to enhance my confidence and identify the areas of improvement) , so I was able to enhance my Quant from 30 to 49 within just 2 weeks!
Saquib not only helped me with math, but also provided his insights and advices on questions related to choosing the right schools for applying. His advices were unvaluable. I want to say THANKS for GMATWhiz Team for their devotion and expertise which helped along my MBA prep journey.

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I started my GMAT journey in May 2019 and I joined a coaching centre in New Delhi. After 2 months of classes, I gave the first official mock and scored a 590. Demotivated by the score, I eventually stopped studying and gave up the idea of writing the exam. Fast forward to August 2020 when I decided to start my prep again. I picked up the material I had from my classes and started doing random topics. After 15 days I realized that this kind of unstructured prep will not lead to anything. I started searching for online courses and I stumbled upon GMATWhiz. I set up a call with Piyush and decided to try the free trial. The free trial gives you access to enough course material to be able to make up your mind about buying the subscription. Following were the pros and cons of GMATWhiz for me:

Pros:

1. The schedule made by the platform really gives your entire preparation a well-defined structure and ensures that you spend appropriate time on every topic and that you do not leave out any topic.
2. The AI constantly recommends adding or removing topics from your preparation depending on your performance in practice quizzes.
3. The modules and the practice questions help you to understand the various tricks employed by the test-makers in the actual exam.
4. The topic-wise OG questions are mentioned at the end of each module.
5. You are assigned a mentor from the very start of your preparation. Saquib (my assigned mentor) provided constant Guidance backed by AI data and it really helped me in identifying my weak areas. Saquib was a great mentor and gave the right guidance at every step of my prep.
6. The practice question bank (QWizard) has around 700 and 400 questions for quant and verbal respectively and the questions cover almost everything you can possibly be tested on in the actual exam. You can use a variety of filters to create timed custom quizzes as per your requirement.
7. If you have any doubt in any question, you can ask on the forum for that question and you will get a reply from the experts within a few hours. (Most of the doubts which may arise have been asked and answered in the forum already.)
8. You can adjust the speed of the video modules as per your preference.
9. The entire website is user-friendly and easy to navigate.

Cons:

1. I wanted to study verbal and quant together, but the AI structured my prep to finish the entire verbal module first and then start with quant. (Now there is an option to allocate your time between quant and verbal according to your preference.)
2. I had to refer to some external sources for Work-Rate, Time-Speed-Distance, and PnC to gain a deeper understanding of the topics.
3. No provision of adaptive mocks.
4. I found the time mentioned against each module to be too high. It took me approximately 60% of the time mentioned to complete the modules.

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The normal perception of Gmat that I had was that it was much easier than CAT and that 2 months of study is more than enough, but oh I was so wrong about it. I started preparing for GMAT in July and thought 2 months would be ample time to prepare for GMAT, considering the R1 deadlines and the fact that I have briefly prepared for GMAT last year. After one month of dedicated preparation off various platforms, I got a 580 in my mock. It was a complete shock as I thought I could easily achieve 620+. My preparation did not have a plan and for the next one month, I only kept practicing more and not questions on quant, SC, and CR and almost never practiced RC. One month before my exam I was scoring around 600, which was not sufficient for my target schools.

Out of desperate need, I contacted Piyush from Gmatwhiz and explained him my situation. He was very supportive from Day 1 and I started preparing from Gmatwhiz. With only 20 days left, I could only concentrate on quant. I diligently did all the practice problems. To my advantage Gmatwhiz had an AI enabled system which identifies your weak areas and only suggests the video lessons for those. In this way, I identified and worked on lot of conceptual gaps. I was consistently able to score Q49. On the exam day I got a 570 q49 and v20, though it was heartbreaking, I was not surprised as I didn’t follow a plan for verbal.

After a weeks break I started with Gmatwhiz verbal module and was able to understand how to answer questions by eliminating 4 wrong answer choices. Especially with CR, Gmatwhiz lays down common patterns which helped me tackle a lot of CR question. All this while I was consistently scoring q49 in quant and was slowly improving verbal. I scheduled an online exam on Dec 22, 40 days after my first exam. I went through all the notes I had written and reviewed the problems I got wrong on Gmatwhiz. I ended up scoring a 690..q47 and v38, my math score was low as I did not attempt two questions at the end due to lack of time. On the whole, I was able to improve 120 points in a span of 40 days mainly due to proper planning and revising the concepts again.

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Having tried more than three GMAT prep courses (including e-GMAT), I think I can write an honest review on this one. The course, apart from being structured and projectized, which most are these days is unique and holds a distinctive which almost all the others lack. The versatility and comprehensiveness. Versatile because their pedagogy does not limit itself to a certain cadre of students. It holds the potential to cover a born student to a made one. At the outset their process of deconstructing the sentence, framework driven CR technique and evolved reading mechanism are some things, to name, that helped me reach my dream score of V41. And comprehensive, as , it covers quant with equal excellence as it does verbal. Apart from teaching the right set of questions, they have proven their ingenuity, by providing areas of common pitfalls in not just mainstream DS traps but also in every other sect (of 750 level questions) and PS problems. All this helped me achieve a whopping score of 740.

I would strongly recommend anybody, novice or not, to go for this course.

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If you are reading reviews of test prep companies on Gmatclub, then there is a good chance that you already have enrolled with a gmat test-prep company and you think that your choice has not been a correct one. I was at a similar stage in my gmat journey when I came across a video of Piyush from GmatWhiz.

Before starting my preparations with GmatWhiz I had spent around 3 months in my gmat prep and had purchased a course from a popular self-proclaimed GmatGodman and another from one of the most popular gmatprep online company. What I had learnt until then were some shortcuts, tricks, and question formats covered in these courses - ticks such as one should focus on tone changing words and baselessly eliminate answer choices with superlatives in RC, in SC mindless selection of answer choice with an absolute phrase and blind elimination of options containing "being" , and many other such tricks that hardly result in quality performance on a real GMAT test. For quant, the courses that I had done until then did not have sufficient variety of “hard’ questions. Thus I did not have a correct approach towards the test and resorted to shortcuts and ticks. As a result I had a below average performance, and I was scoring around 600 on the mocks.

By August end, I was completely hopeless with my GMAT prep as my target score was 650 and the planned test date was 11th September, and I was consistently scoring only 600 on the mocks.

Then around August end, I got a chance to interact with Piyush and my mindset about GMAT was totally changed in this one discussion. Piyush emphasised on everything that I had cut corners around and had not done until now - for example: not skimming but thoroughly understanding the RC passages, spending sufficient time on SC questions to properly understand the intended meaning, understanding every word of CR passages, practicing hard quant questions, and ensuring to not to make careless mistakes on the quant. Hoping to learn something concrete, I enrolled with GMAT Whiz for a 10 day course (as I had booked my GMAT exam on 11th September) that included their AI delivered lessons and guidance by the mentors.

In the first four days of this course I understood that why any shortcuts, tricks, or guessing-patterns DO NOT help If one wants to score above average on GMAT. Knowledge of the concepts, analytical reading, correct approach, and proper understanding of the questions enable one to get his or her target score. During this course, I was taught how to properly read during GAMT so that I do not need to re-read - something which totally changed my approach towards the entire test. By developing this ability to throughly understand questions and choices in just one good read, I was able to not only correctly mark the questions but also to save a lot of time that earlier use to be spent on re-reading almost every thing. In 600+ level sentence correction questions, intended meaning plays the most important part, and GMAT Whiz SC module enables one to understand the intended meaning of even “Very-Hard” difficulty level SC questions in just one read. Once the intended meaning is clear then by quick application of simple grammar rules and logic, which are also covered in much detail in this course, one can easily and quickly arrive at the correct answer choice.

The quant section on GMAT Whiz covers the best quant concepts and has a variety of question types of all difficulty levels. The ability to correctly attempt hard level questions is really important if one wants to cross Q46 and I am so glad that I practiced all the quant questions on GMAT Whiz platform, on which around 40% quant questions have “hard” difficulty. Unlike like the other test-prep companies that said high accuracy in medium-level questions will be enough for my target score, Gmat Whiz and Piyush insisted that hard difficulty will be the deciding factor. I realised this on the test day - if one is performing above 600 on the GMAT, then around 40-45% quant questions will be of Hard difficulty.

I joined the GMAT Whiz course on 1st September, and on 11th September I wrote the GMAT and scored 660 - within 10 days my performance improved by 60 points! I credit Piyush and Gmat Whiz for this improvement because their emphasis on “developing a correct approach” enabled me to change my mindset and to develop the right approach towards this test.

Piyush and Saquib from Gmat Whiz also have really good knowledge about business schools across the globe. Post GMAT, Piyush and Saquib helped me with my applications. Under their guidance, I applied to B-schools. I was really amazed by their quality of support for application questions, essays, and interview-perp because I was able to convert 5 really good B-schools - Rotterdam School of Management, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Cranfield University - UK, IIM-Calcutta, and HHL Leipzig, and got a waitlist from Warwick Business School.

I find myself lucky that I did my gmat prep with Gmat Whiz and also worked with them on my applications. I am going to join Rotterdam School of Management in January 2021 and I cannot express in words how grateful I feel to have met Piyush and Saquib :)

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Gmatwhiz is an extremely meticulous and comprehensive course. Gmatwhiz is designed in a manner that it focuses on effective learning of the students. It basically divides every topic into three modules viz. Videos, concept booster and finally practice set. The whole aim of this division is to fill the gap between learning and application of a concept.
Further, the course is complete in its content i.e it comprises of both teaching of a concept and provides practice questions for the concept. The course also has a large question bank wherein you get to practice questions a varied spectrum of question from different concepts. People preparing for GMAT must surely go ahead with the course.

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GmatWhiz made me realize that there is more to learn other than the concepts to score well on GMAT. I was not really aware of any strategies to solve GMAT questions before. But once I started studying using GMATWhiz, I got to many strategies which helped me solve questions under optimum time. The personalized study plan helped me stay focused right till the end and the organization of concepts made it really to easy for me to study a particular topic on a given day.

The way of teaching is something I have to really admire. After every concept video, there is a concept booster and practice quiz which help you solidify your understanding. The detailed solutions provided for each question helped me compare my approach with the right one and nullify the gaps if any. And the questions provided in QWizard helped me take timed quizzes. I really liked this feature because the main thing I tried to focus in my last month of preparation is the timing. I gradually reduced the time limit for every quiz and then increased the level of difficulty.

And not the least, the mentorship provided by the team is really helpful. There were times when I felt low and when I thought of giving up but the motivation and guidance provided by Piyush helped me reach my target.

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Back in May, before I even began my preparation for GMAT, I attempted the first official practice test and scored 410, which in a way created a mental barrier about how much I could possibly score in the actual test, even with sufficient preparation. While I was trying out a few courses, I spoke to Piyush from GMATWhiz and told him about the aforementioned score. Based on my profile, he recommended a target of 680, which honestly, I was sceptical about achieving. Nevertheless, I went ahead with GMATWhiz as my choice of course since I found the video lessons very engaging as well as immensely useful on account of the content covering every topic right from the absolute basics. The feature that pretty much sealed the deal was the personalized analytics and recommendation engine (my job involved making recommendations to my company’s business partners based on individual performance metrics, which made this quite relatable).

I started my preparation and used the course in the exact sequence that it asks to, focussing on one section at a time. Saquib, who had been assigned to me as the strategic mentor guided me on conquering my weaknesses, especially with Quant, where I needed assistance the most. His recommendations on individual concepts, on external sources for questions as well as a detailed review of one of the official practice tests that I took, helped me identify and plug gaps. The verbal section, especially CR, is explained beautifully and trains the student very well on spotting fallacies and flaws in reasoning, which is what critical reasoning is all about. The recently added Score Predictor provides a fairly accurate range of what one’s actual score can be and was very useful. After a gruelling four-month preparation marathon, I scored 680 on the actual exam, which is exactly what Piyush had recommended. I’m highly satisfied with the score and with GMATWhiz and I recommend the course anyone who aims to tame the beast called GMAT.

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