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 had started my GMAT prep back in Aug, 2020. Took the usual route of going through the OG Bundle, Advanced guide and Manahattan prep books without any guidance. My study was quite inconsistent until in Feb 2021, I realised that I needed to book a date for GMAT.

So, I took my first GMAT in June, 2021 and ended up with a 720. Although the score was decent, I knew I could do better. I really want to aim at those top b-schools and did not want my GMAT to hold me back. However, I really needed a direction to proceed in and areas to improve upon.

That is when I came across e-GMAT while browsing for suitable prep courses. I was naturally weaker in Verbal (got a V39 on the 720 attempt) compared to Quant (Q49).

I got in touch with e-GMAT and Karan from the team went through my ESR. He was very helpful in providing insights into where I could improve, examples of previous success stories as well as how e-GMAT could help me achieve my target score of 750+. I immediately signed up for the course as I knew I could reach my target with e-GMAT's guidance.

Hence, I took up the GMAT Online course for a 2 month duration. I am really grateful to e-GMAT for assigning me a mentor - Aditee through its LMP program. She was a constant support and a source of motivation throughout my journey. Her deep insights into my performance really helped me to understand where I was going wrong and her advise of maintaining an error log was truly outstanding.

She started off by analyzing my ESR and we understood that I needed work in Geometry and WP (Quant) and Critical Reasoning (Verbal). Also, a few topics in SC and RC.

It would not be a stretch to say that in my 720 attempt, I did not even know how to approach CR questions. In fact, I did not even know how I ended up with a 84 percentile, considering how I would get confused in each CR question and end up choosing a random choice. Pretty sure, it was by chance.

I started off by taking ability quizzes in the above sections and they truly demonstrated that I was in fact weak in those areas. Aditee, then helped to create a detailed study plan for me, explaining each step to follow. I followed each step diligently.

This brings me to my next point - e-GMAT's GMAT Online course (Quant + Verbal). The structured approach to each section, the level of data insights and nature of the questions are truly phenomenal.

I started off with CR - was literally mind-blown by the Pre-thinking approach. By the end of the CR module, I could make sense of every CR question. Although it takes some time to master this approach, it is truly rewarding once you get the hang of it. In fact, CR slowly became my strongest areas.
In my 750 attempt, I am pretty sure I nailed CR since I was able to tackle every question using the Pre-thinking approach and the correct answer stood there crystal clear.

I also took this opportunity to go through some of the RC, Master comprehension and SC modules as per Aditee's analysis of my sectional test and mock test scores.
These other sections were equally at par with CR.
In fact the low RC score in my first attempt was because I used to rush through the passage in order to reach the questions earlier. e-GMAT's RC and Master Comprehension modules taught me how to slow down, understand each word and tie it back to what you have read so far to assimilate the gist of the passage. SC's meaning based approach taught me to how to crack those 700+ level questions where grammar can only help you so much.
The data analytics engine in the course was very insightful and helped to identify my lagging areas quickly.

Quant was equally great. In fact, I would say the medium and hard Quant questions were at the GMAT club test level. I am pretty sure if you do the Quant questions diligently, you can be sure of a Q50+. The way each solution is broken down is commendable and very well written. Each of them take you through the Process Skills approach and nail those concepts in your mind.
I would also like to thank the quant experts and verbal experts who constantly provide valuable comments to students' queries on the forums and through the video solutions. I learned new tips and tricks by diligently following these posts from the experts. Special shoutout to Harsha and Shraddha for their simplified verbal explanations, which really ingrained the concepts in my mind.

Coming to Scholaranium 2.0, the question bank therein and the analysis provided is stupendous. It is a question bank pool one can truly rely on to practice on GMAT-like questions. They are really close to the type of questions you can see in the exam. Moreover, the difficulty of each question is also accurately set. The quality of explanations is also fantastic. New questions are constantly added and you can be sure to never runout of quality GMAT-like questions.

Next, the Sigma-X Mocks are one of the most accurate mocks out there which come with their own detailed ESR. The mock I took right before my exam accurately predicated my score as I got a 750 there also. The predicted quant and verbal scores were also similar. Hence, apart from official gmat prep mocks, you could blindly rely on the 5 Sigma-X mocks to see you through your GMAT journey. The level of insights there is also phenomenal and accurately pinpoint the areas you need to work upon.

This post cannot be concluded without thanking the entire e-GMAT team for creating such a fantastic course and a huge shoutout to my mentor Aditee. I cannot thank her enough.

So, what are you waiting for? Go join e-GMAT and see for yourself how that dream score turns into a reality.
Good luck :)

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First, I got interested by eGMAT course because it is not just video lessons, but an interactive study platform with a clear path and strategy. Secondly, when I first logged in, I was surprised by design, user interface, how well-detailed and nice the whole platform looks - I know its not a key element, but it really helps for something you spend 200+ hours looking at.
I started doing courses one by one, sometimes skipping, not truly following the recommended path - my bad. Actually, the course is designed in a "fool-proof" way, so as long as you follow the structure, one have no chance but to improve its ability.
For any topic, you do Diagnostic quiz (thats where you understand you are NOT good at Geometry, for example, after go with basics, all the small quizzes after each concept, after Application quizzes, Process quizzes, and finally GMAT skill quizzes. Such a structure is really amazing way to gradually build confidence and reach the GMAT level hard questions.
For Quant, some topics looks to easy and there is temptation to skip, but truth is better do each and everyone, and make sure there are no gaps.
Same for Verbal, the level of details is really impressive, and some lessons, like "ING modifiers" I have done 3 or 4 times (that make me feel really dumb) but I was able to understand it very well.
In the CR, the "Pre-thinking" concept is not only explained, but kind of substantiated by many examples and quizzes, so it really drills into your brain. I found it much, much useful.
What was funny for me, when I did Quant "Advanced" module, Combinatorics and Probability, I checked my ability in Scholaranium (it was low), so when I came back to course 2 weeks later, there was already updated files for each topic, much more detailed - I felt bad I need to do all again, but was great to see that improvements are constant, even product looks good, eGMAT team (I dont know, thousands of experts, coders and designers?) are constantly updating it.

I did not understand fully at once, but transfer from Study Course to Scholaranium is also very logical and makes a lot of sense. After course done, you do Cementing quizzes, where you solidify all you learned, and after can do specific quizzes.
When you first open Scholaranium, you think it is just a question bank, so one may want to rush and exploit all the 3000+(?) questions for Q and V, but that is actually the worst thing to do.
Scholaranium have immense number of questions, yes, but it is best use as a very detailed analytics tool for each topic, sub-topic, question type. Yes, it is greatly designed as well (especially I witnessed changed from Scholaranium to Scholaranium 2.0, and was impressed by amount of refinements made.
Another great thing about Scholaranium, that every question, (for me especially valuable was SC) has a QA under it, with all the questions asked and experts reply. Actually, I got immense knowledge from this QAs, and only sometimes asked question, and got reply fast.
Speaking about feedback or customer support. Well, that was the most impressive part. eGMAT have one email for all questions, and any question you ask, they kindly answer within 24 hours, which impressed me the most. And it is not small replies but a step by step to-do lists, which really made me feel that I am guided and not alone in my preparation.
Most importantly, somehow I was selected for "Last Mile Program", which is essentially a free private tutoring, and Dhananjay DJ took time to make call with me to go through my ESRs, went through my Scholaranium statistics (and extracted much more insights from it than I had imagined possible), and created a super-detailed plan what to focus on in my last 2-3 weeks before the GMAT. Such a kind and supportive help was really what touched me, and I thought I was very lucky to be selected for this Tutoring Program.
With DJ support, I was able to break my 690 plateau: he forced me to make error log for SC (was the best action in my whole GMAT prep.) , recommended to go through some course topics again (while I just wanted to do more, more questions :D ) , and he was able to empower me to be confident in the last couple of days - I am so much greatfull for his heartful support.
To sum up, all I got from eGMAT is amazing study platform, extremely helpful and kind (and free!) support, and piece of mind that I have all I need in one place; I have the path to follow to reach my target. -> That is why I think eGMAT is a unique value proposition, and I recommend it to all my friends; and to anyone who starts preparing for GMAT.

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I used TTP for 1 month to brush up my prep. Their quant contents are just superior to anything I have ever seen. Someone scoring Q25 or above will benefit from the contents tremendously. However, lessons are super detailed and lengthym, for a good reason though. Be aware though, lessons are in text form so if you are more into video lessons, I would recommend you to find something else. That said, solutions of the problems are in video form as well. Overall, a great experience. They do lack verbal part though.

I would encourage people who seriously considering to up their quant score to seriously consider TTP.

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TTP is a revolutionary test prep option, for a very fair price. It has more than everything you need to beat the GMAT. You just have to trust the process–one thing to note about TTP is that it takes time. To really make progress there are no shortcuts: you need to read all the lessons, complete all the tests, and do all the review. Expect to budget over 150 hours for serious progress in quant alone.

My only constructive feedback is that they might like to incorporate some OG work into the mission structure. I found going through OG problems alongside TTP to be very useful, to see the variety of possible GMAT questions.

If you are looking to beat the GMAT, TTP should be your first and only stop.

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I am sharing this from my personal experience as even after 2 months of preparation with Manhattan books and solving all the OG questions my verbal score only improved from V25 to V29. SC was the area where I was faltering most at. A friend recommended me e-gmat to help me improve my score. After coming across so many reviews I felt confident and decided to invest in e-gmat. It was truly the best investment I had ever made. You do not even need OG books if you enroll for e-gmat. I found their SC course to be the most helpful along with their pre-thinking skills for CR. Their math is also really good if you are aiming for that high score as they help you strengthen your math base with really tricky questions. Particularly, E-gmat helped me alot as just two weeks before my exam I contracted the COVID-19 virus and I was bedridden for 10 days. They helped me develop a personal study plan and I was able to give my exam just two weeks after recovering. Dhananjay was really helpful as he helped me devise a plan for when to take mocks and how to review my key areas. The main thing after learning concepts comes down to strategically reviewing the areas you falter at. Scholararium by e-gmat helps you do that as it is the most advanced analytical tool I have ever come across in the education sector. It provides you with a detailed analysis on each topic and areas you are constantly faltering at. All in all I would highly recommend e-gmat to all those who are stuck with their gmat preparation. Check out their success stories on youtube which helped me motivate a lot during my preparation.

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I started off with the e-gmat course September, did it three months. but then before I could take the exam, went on a holiday for three months, and then restarted my GMAT prep in April.

Overall I definitely recommend the e-gmat course. 5/5. Why?

- Value for Money
- Tested strategies
- Helping the mainstream population which is non-native English speakers
- lot of free sessions, which is really great. My favourite ones have been by Harsha for RC, Ameya for Math and generally watching Rajat get so excited about comments during the sessions. Shreya's were pretty great also!
- one more thing is that they seem to be developing their products
- amazing replies over email and guidance - big shout out to mr Dhananjaya.

Even if you are a math wizz, its totally worth to take their math session and their quant workshop. you definitely learn alot.

The 2 reasons to take e-gmat are:

1. Verbal sections
2. Amazing feedback and fast responses via email.

Things i learnt:
RC Reading Strategies
SC Based Approached
CR Pre thinking

Math in general - formulas which we tend to ignore, and how to process things.

They also have a ton of videos of success stories which are then also transcribed, so it becomes so much easier to to follow and relate to other gmat-takers.

They also help with personalized videos and hyper plans specifically - this is where Mr Dhananjaya was a huge rockstar, pointing out issues and things i wasn't looking at. If you use their platform well, you'll sure get data to see what things aren't working for you. DJ also had a short call with me to go over my ESR and plan my study. In fact honestly, e-gmat goes beyond than what you sign up for.

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TLDR: Having tried multiple resources over the course of 12 months, this was the best that I found.

I have used GMAT official guides, Manhattan prep materials, and Math revolution. The first of these doesn't go nearly far enough to get a top score. A common thread in the unofficial materials is that they bulk out their material and call it added value. Manhattan makes you pay for a set of thick books, but when you look at the chapter structure for example they split up the strategy chapters for no other reason than that it allows them to state the same material some 4 times, as a reminder. Math revolution advertises some large number of hours of video content but if you watch the videos each opens and closes with a slow title and again, often repetitive content. This goes further than lacking substance, it detracts from the value of the product as it cuts into your time to discern the value from deliberately included BS.

TTP made the most of my time. All lessons in the quant section were direct and to the point, explaining each topic only so far as I needed to know. After completing all the material you then have a huge question bank to work through. The hard questions are probably harder than what you'll see on the day in many cases, but are excellent examples to test what you've learned. On completion of a practice test you can bookmark problems that you struggled with or guessed, then compile custom tests made up solely of those questions you found tricky. I loved that feature as I got close to test day and wanted to find problems that I knew would inch me closer to the score I wanted.

The newly completed verbal section is not as good. Sometimes it can be long-winded, again unfortunately seeming to pad itself out with examples, or oddly structured, opening with an exception to a rule then going into what the rule was.

Beyond the materials the presentation of the site is great and customer service is highly responsive.

To make the most of the course takes far more than a month in my experience, so be ready for that, but otherwise this is my number 1 recommendation for GMAT prep after you have used the official guide to understand the structure of the test.

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I did not research very extensively on which prep course to take for GMAT but rather went ahead with the course that 2 of my friends were preparing from – E-GMAT. I was skeptical about whether or not I should be paying a high amount for the study material mainly because I believed that I needed help with only some of the sections of GMAT. My quant was good to begin with and I was of the opinion that I couldn’t improve some areas of the verbal (RC and CR) much in a short duration of time by using some sort of study material because I thought that these sections mainly hinged on factors that could only be changed by engaging in long term activities and habits such as reading different types of texts. So I was apprehensive about paying the amount just for the SC section’s study material.
What convinced me was the sigma-x mocks and the EGMAT’s scholaranium since my friends told me that the difficulty level of the questions of the scholaranium is very close to that of the questions you see in the actual exam and the sigma-x mocks had an adaptive grading algorithm that is also very close to that of the actual exam. I also realized that just finding such exams that are similar to the actual paper and give a good reflection of the score that you can achieve was a big deal and hence these sigma-x mocks alone were very valuable.
The platform also has other useful features. It has a section where you can create your modifiable study plan, good extensive study material, a very good and apt question bank, options for creating quizzes in which you can even customize the difficulty levels, the number, and the topics of the questions that you want to have, a good test series, detailed customizable analysis of your progress, active forums for asking your queries and also a very prompt customer support service.
Following is a description of how I utilized the platform for various sections :
1) Verbal (SC) – This was the section I spent the most of my time on. I went through all of their study material, which is very extensive, and I also made some notes so that I do not have to go through the videos again. Then I followed the approach that they had defined for the questions and I performed well in it. I got all the questions correct in SC in my final exam and this most likely has to do with me spending my largest proportion of time on it.

2) Verbal (CR) – I did not go through the study material of this section extensively but I did see their pre-thinking approached. I went through the quizzes that were spread throughout the study material. I used to get most of the questions wrong at first, but since their questions are very good and have detailed explanations attached with them, I soon got the hang of this section and the pre thinking approach. But I mainly learned it through practicing the questions from their scholaranium and OG. I got just 1 question wrong in this section in the final exam.

3) Verbal (RC) – I did not go through the study material for this section but again went through the quizzes that were spread throughout the study material. My accuracy slowly improved as I practiced the questions but this was till the end the toughest section for me. I have a slow reading speed and that is mainly what was my weak point. I got 4 questions wrong in this section in the final exam.

4) Quant – I have good quantitative aptitude and hence did not have to go through their study material. But I did take some quizzes from their scholaranium. I then analyzed my section wise accuracy using their platform, and gave some more quizzes for my weaker sections. I got only one question wrong in my final exam for quant.

5) IR – I went through all of their quizzes from the study material. The difficulty level of the questions was higher than the actual paper but the question types and the explanations were good.

Apart from this, whenever I did not understand the explanation properly or was not convinced by it (did not happen many times tho), I went through their forums for that particular question and 90% of the time had my doubt already posted by some other student in the past. The experts had also already answered that doubt. This usually helped solve the doubt. In case it did not, I wouldn’t scratch my head too much over it and just move on to the other questions but again, there were not many instances of this.
Also, whenever I mailed the E-GMAT team regarding any issue or when I was stuck, I got a very prompt reply. Their Last Mile Program also helped me where they assigned a mentor – Atreya Roy to me for making a customized plan for me. Although I did not follow his directions a 100% (because of my other personal commitments and shortage of time), he DEFINITELY gave me a lot of important insights. He nudged me into giving the exam sooner than I had planned and also helped me identify my weak areas and accordingly devise a study strategy for my final week. He was very helpful with the process and also helped me have more self-confidence and take less stress for the final examination. He also offered to help with any type of questions that I was having difficulty with. This made me feel like I had a private tutor/expert with me that I could go to for help if I needed.
In conclusion, although I did not research extensively on other prep courses and also did not use a lot of material and features of the platform (mainly because I did not spend enough time in exploring the features), I can say with confidence that the platform has everything that you would need for your preparation for the final exam and the quality of everything is also top notch.
Finally, if you’re thinking of taking GMAT, I would advise you to do the prep with a positive mindset and not take stress or set unrealistic timelines for yourself. Rather, just try to enjoy the process and give lots of time to any section that you think is not saturated for you yet. I was able to improve my score by a 100 points with just 120 hours of preparation because I took proper rest, enjoyed myself and did not pressurize myself too much with the preparation. The quality of time you spend on studying is more important that the quantity. Don’t just keep on doing questions for the sake of it and try to learn as much as you can from a whatever you can – be it the study material or the explanations and analysis of your attempted questions. All the best!

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