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!

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I decided to opt for a course in mid September 2021 because I realised while solving problems that my Verbal abilities needed some significant improvement. Based on GMATClub reviews, I decided to go for e-GMAT.
Their Verbal Section(Sentence Correction modules in particular) are really good. Initially when I started out, SC was my weakest area but eventually, it became one of my strongest sections in Verbal. By following the step-by-step e-GMAT process, I could effortlessly answer some of the hard SC questions.
In CR, the process of pre-thinking and breaking down the argument into fundamentals(premises and conclusions) boosted my thought process clarity and in RC, the notes on summarising paragraphs proved out to be beneficial as well.
In Quant, the hard questions in Scholaranium really test out your concepts and if someone is able to nail those, I feel he can answer just about any GMAT quant question.
The 'Skill data' feature of Scholaranium is pretty amazing as it helped me analyse my strengths and weaknesses by quantifying by abilities across each sub-topic.
I also felt that the Sigma-X mock tests are pretty good estimators of your actual ability. It's a bit on the tougher side but better have a cushion that inflate your actual level.
Finally, I think the game changer for me was the personal guidance in the LMT programme that I received from Dhananjay(DJ). I reached out to him a bit worried, one week before the test. He organised a call with me, where we discussed the areas where I was lacking and created a tailor-made plan specifically for me to follow in the last week. That really helped me a lot as I got to work on my weaknesses and give my prep that final finishing touch.
Overall, e-GMAT turned out to be a great platform for someone like me and I highly recommend it to everyone.

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Target Test Prep is very comprehensive. I started the course after scoring 670 on the first attempt earlier this year, Q41 and V41. I used the flexible prep course for three months, wrote the exam again and scored 750.
I selected Target Test because its quant module was very highly rated and I was looking to increase my quant skills. I am glad I did. The course contains the most simplified and comprehensive explanation of combination and permutations I have ever seen. It breaks concepts down and teaches them to you in bits, building upon previously understood concepts to improve your understanding of complex topics. It is really good and I’d recommend it to anyone struggling to improve their Quant score.

I did not use its verbal module so I’m not sure what that contains, but going by its quant course, I believe its verbal course will also be pretty detailed.
The only area of improvement would be the responsiveness of instructors to questions. Prospective students who want access to instructors may have to pay for a different package, because the flexible prep option does not seem to include constant access to instructors. Although the instructors initially responded to my questions, they eventually stopped responding, explaining that they were understaffed and could therefore not respond to every question from subscribers.

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I started my rather long journey of GMAT studies in August 2020. At first, I took a course from another test prep company. In December 2020, I took my first attempt and scored 640. After that, I came across E-gmat. My friends had also recommended me this course. I scheduled a consultation call with them and I bought the Verbal and Quant package. Fast forward to November 2021, I took the test again and I scored a 730 (V41,Q49).

When I started preparing from E-GMAT, I had to unlearn some concepts, especially in Verbal, and learn some new tricks in Quants. E-GMAT course is very intensive but at the same time, it helps you have that strong concept base. What made E-GMAT stand out for me was the course structure , the practice questions , and a clear path forward.

Highlights about Verbal course :

The Verbal course is just phenomenal. It covers all the concepts that you need to know in the GMAT exam. It is structured in a very coherent manner and it is very easy to follow from one sub module to another. The course starts with the Master Comprehension course which gives us essential reading strategies which make our life so much easier !

Sentence Correction module was a very helpful module. The concepts taught as a part of this course didn't seem like rocket science, this was because the course is very student friendly and easy to follow through. Especially the Meaning based approach taught in Sentence Correction module is the only way I feel that one should approach this question type. I have honestly tried using other methods like elimination. But, from what I have observed and applied in the actual test , only the Meaning based approach works ! And it works absolutely flawlessly.

The Critical Reasoning course was an eye opener for me personally because having taken the GMAT once before , I never knew the step by step approach that one needs to follow to solve the CR questions. Before the E-GMAT course , I used to jump into the CR section without having any strategy or framework in my mind. The E-GMAT CR course teaches the very Step by Step process which is needed for getting a high accuracy on the CR questions. The Prethinking approach is the most helpful takeaway from the entire section. As it is taught in the course , we must fight the urge to jump straight into option choices before analysing the argument. I cannot emphasize enough on importance of following the step-by-step approach! It is just that great :)

The Reading Comprehension section was especially helpful for me since I was not an avid reader and had never read so many fact-heavy and inference-heavy passages in my life before. The key reading strategies, if followed to the details, will help you to reduce the reading time and at the same time will increase your comprehension ability exponentially.

To conclude, If I had realized it sooner that the methodologies and the step-by-step approach taught be E-GMAT is the only way forward, I would have cut my preparation time in half. But as it is said, better late than never! Honestly, the day I realized that if I apply the process skills taught to me during the course exactly as they have been taught to me , my time management problems disappeared and my accuracy started improving.

Highlights about the Quant 2.0 course:

This course is genuinely the only thing you need for GMAT Quant. There is absolutely no reason to refer to other sources once you have taken this course and have seriously gone through the course. The Quant 2.0 module is a module in which you can adapt the course as per your expertise. The course gives personalized feedbacks along the way, which I think was the most important part of my preparation. The GMATSkills files and Practice Files covered all the tricky ways in which the questions could be phrased.

Mid August 2021 , I was also selected for the Last Mile Program(LMP) . I was assigned a mentor to guide me through till my target score. Mr Atreya Roy was my mentor and he guided me at every step. He also provided me personalized feedback and gave me a list of actionable steps. He also analysed my mocks and provided me a video mentioning the entire analysis and the areas of improvement. He also shared detailed plan of improvement. He was my point of contact for the entire 3 months and he helped me with any queries I had during this time :) I would say LMP is a really nice initiative to help students get where they wish to be!!

Finally , I would like to say that the team of experts at E-GMAT is extremely helpful and they respond to any queries that you may have in the least time possible. Each question in E-GMAT has a separate discussion thread and most of my questions were already answered ! Even If I didn't have any query , just going through the discussions gave me so much more insights into different ways of solving the problems.

The SIGMAX mocks are really close to the actual GMAT. The quality of verbal and quant questions are very similar to the quality of questions in the actual test. The Quant questions specifically are very close in terms of concepts tested and the difficulty level. For me , the test taking experience was rather smooth because I had already taken the SIGMAX mocks and I didn't feel that the actual test was a whole different game. Overall , the feedback provided after every mock was very informative and it guided me towards the next steps.

I would say that had I taken the e-gmat course earlier , my prep time would have been reduced by more than half. This is a one stop solution for the GMAT !!

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I immensely enjoyed working with the GMAT Ninja team right from the first email message. Even before I became a paying customer, I received a level of attention which I did not encounter with other GMAT tutors. Charles and Dana demonstrated a very high level of professionalism and maintained it for the whole journey. Dana was focused on understanding what prevents me from getting my target score and helping me to bridge the gap. There were many HW assignments and Dana paid attention to my performance of those, giving me actionable recommendations on how to improve each time. More importantly, Dana was very attentive and empathetic to my moods and feelings. The tutoring is a bit pricey, but GMAT Ninja is simply the best and the price is worth it! Even if you can only take 1-2 sessions, the team will be able to help you. Highly recommended!

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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.

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I had been wanting to give the GMAT since a few years and finally started my preparation post pandemic year of 2020. Like every other aspirant, I took the official guides as my source of truth and started to understand more about the exam, the sections and what are the types of questions there are.

With the initial learnings and basic ideas into the paper, I took the leap of faith to give a diagnostic test and scored a 600. This made me sure that I had to dig deeper into the concepts of both the Verbal and Quant sections if I need to have a serious chance of cracking the GMAT. That is when I started to research about various GMAT online programs that I can avail to re-run all the concepts and build expertise around the sections. With detailed research and a free counselling session by E-GMAT folks, I enrolled into E-gmat during April 2021 to now dedicatedly focus on my preparation.

What makes E-GMAT stand out?
The entire syllabus of the GMAT exam is intricately broken down in the E-GMAT platform, with each section having sequential learnings transpiring from initial concept to application and then trickling down to increased ability and expertise. Both sections for Verbal and Quant have detailed video learnings for each topic and sub-topic, along with pre and post assessment quizzes to re-impose the concept.

Enhancing these video learnings into actual problems from each difficulty was imposed perfectly by the Scholaranium 2.0 platform, which gave detailed insights into your quiz attempts as well as provides data points to identify areas of strengths and weakness. Rigorous effort put into SC, CR and Quant section from my end helped me understand my concepts better and build a solid base for my GMAT exam.

Another factor that gave me good exam practice and confidence were the Sigma X mocks, in which I transitioned from the diagnostic score of 600 to a 720 with the improved learnings and concepts learnt over a span of 2 months. The mocks are very close to the actual GMAT exam and provide you the right opportunities to apply your skills and manage time in a simulated exam-type experience. The 5 mocks given in my course helped me identify my strengths and weaknesses and revise and redo concepts accordingly for my main exam.

The Last Mile Program (LMP)
With the score improvement to 720 in my mocks, I got an opportunity to work with E-GMAT Mentor team (Aditee), who looked at all the data that is present in my E-GMAT portal and guided me to have a dedicated approach to reach my target score and help ace the GMAT in the official attempt as well. Aditee introduced me to the concepts of strategically logging my errors in error-logs which massively helped me to revisit my errors and ensure that I try not repeating the same in any of my future questions!
The team also guided me improve my score from a 680 (first attempt with a CR dip) and help bring my verbal score from a V32 to V40 with guided improvements in CR to finally help me get my target score of 720.

I would strongly recommend the E-GMAT course to all students who want to focus on the detailed concepts provided by the amazing online platform and wants to practice GMAT questions across with Scholaranium and Sigma X Mocks for a complete GMAT experience. All the best!

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I gave GMAT last year in December and got a score of 660. I had gone through 4 months of self-study using manhattan books, CR bible, GMAT club Youtube videos, and GMATNinja Youtube Videos and also 1 and a half months of E-GMAT verbal course towards the end of my prep. I was targetting a score of 700+ and 660 really disappointed me and I realized I will have to try again next year and also that I should have taken the E-GMAT verbal course earlier, opposite to what I did last time.

So, I began my preparation for GMAT again in May, after taking some break. This time I contacted the E-GMAT team through the mail in the beginning and told them my whole story and what I was expecting from them and from myself. They were very active to reply to the emails. The 1 and a half month course that I had done last year made me realize how much I can improve if I gave this course sufficient time and practice as the content is really very good in there. It is so interactive and also if I wanted any help, I used to drop a mail to the support team. The mail thread had around 50 mails by the time I gave my GMAT. They helped me plan my study schedule, and the way by which I can cement the concepts as just going through the study materials is never enough. My accuracy and way of thinking or I should say Pre-Thinking significantly improved by going through the E-GMAT verbal course. There are so many questions to practice and the forum discussions for each question are a great help.

After using the course for around 5-6 months I finally got a score of 710, and I am really satisfied with this.
I would like to thank the entire team of E-GMAT for helping me throughout this process.

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I decided to give TTP a try because it was the most commonly recommended prep course by people I knew who have taken the GMAT and improved their score significantly. The Quant section, which is spectacular, is what TTP is known for, but I found the Critical Reasoning section to be the most helpful for me. The lessons for all Quant and Verbal sections are easy to read, well-organized, and interactive. I love that I was able to bookmark and highlight tips I wanted to revisit, and create personalized tests by marking questions on my error log. TTP is a phenomenal resource for anyone looking to improve their Quant, Verbal, or both on their GMAT.

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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.

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