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.

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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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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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I flunked my sentence correction in my first attempt. I got a score of 700. QA was disappointing (49) and VA was even more disappointing (35). My ESS told me that I had a percentile of 33 on SC. CR was 97 and RC was 80. I knew I had to prepare for SC anyhow

I took up Gmatwhiz SC course. It starts from the fundamentals. I actually really enjoyed studying. I forgot my score, I was actually really eager to improve my written English. The videos are awesome. The practice questions are to the point and test your concepts. The feedback are areas of improvement are clearly highlighted.

I made a point to watch the videos several times. especially one day before the exam. This time around I gave the online version and got a score of 740. Unexpectedly, I flunked QA again (49) but VA (42) saved me. I have a decent score now.

I now realise I should have taken up a course atleast for SC right from the start.

Special thanks to Piyush, who explained me how to use the material. Plus was available to clear doubts even when he wasn't supposed to

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