Course overview(Verbal) :
The e-gmat courses on verbal are best suited for people looking for a considerable improvement in their ability in SC, CR and RC. My personal favorite is the SC course with detailed applications for each of the concepts to cement the learning. The approaches provided are really handy and I would recommend this for aspirants with weak SC.

CR and RC for me were majorly about slight improvements here and there and I felt the course structure is straight forward to build your skillset specific to GMAT.

Scholaranium acts as the guiding tool for measuring your ability.
Important tips :
1. Do not jump into scholaranium practice before finishing at least Level 1 of any course. I made that mistake and ended up losing a lot of precious time.
2. Attend the onboarding session which is conducted regularly. This will help structure your preparation. I attended the session by Nava later in the preparation and it helped not lose valuable time.
3. Do go through the comments/questions in each of the lessons, you will end up clarifying most of your doubts.
4. Work with the mentors and create a personalized plan tailor made to your needs. This is really important and can save significant time in your preparation.

While I plan for my retake, I am working with DJ and others for a personalized plan. Hope this review helps aspirants get an overview of the e-gmat course.

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The best part about GMATWhiz's course structure is its approach, to both the Quant and Verbal section.
First, the usual pain points are laid out clearly, in quant, the tendency to miss important information in the question and in verbal, the inability to understand the meaning in the first go.

The whole curriculum then seeks to address these issues by adopting a detail driven approach in quant and a meaning driven approach in verbal. The verbal section is particularly interesting as the first teach you where to pause while reading so that meaning can be assimilated better.
Apart from this, there is a scheduling tool (the AI) which can help in planning the sequence in which topics are to be studied and allocation of time between verbal and quant.

The course however covers only quant and verbal. IR and AWA are not included

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Good quality Quant questions of all difficulties that are overall a little harder to solve than the actual GMAT questions. You only need to ace the advance topics questions if you're looking to score 51.
Great test taking system that recreates the exam environment. Though I didn't have the chance to fully utilize it, the new Scholaranium 2.0 with all its metrics looks promising in terms of performance analysis.
Both these factors helped me warm up for Quant just before taking the GMAT online exam.

On a final note, the quant section has all the study material, questions, practice tests and other sections you need to score 50 or above.

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GMAT Ninja was recommended to me by a friend and it was the best decision to prepare for the GMAT with them!! I would never have been able to obtain my 750 score without the very structured and efficient approach of Mike (and this in only 4 weeks of preparation!). Mike really was great at convincing me to trust his experience and his process of preparation, he offered me candid feedback at all times and the online tutoring sessions were very efficient thanks to his preparation work of reviewing my homework mistakes. As a non-native English speaker, sentence correction was a challenge, but through the tips&tricks I quickly improved and achieved the level needed. Lastly, I actually enjoyed the process of preparation thanks to the diverse homework and enjoyable sessions! Thanks to GMAT ninja!

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Definitely worth it! Mike was my tutor for the GMAT. My GMAT score jumped 100 points. I started getting tutored in March, took the test in May.

I took the test once on my own. I went through the Manhattan Strategy Guides. I didn't have a lot of structure. I didn't study consistently. Mike brought structure and confidence to my studying. When I was shopping around for tutors, I met with two tutors via skype. The first tutor was lackluster and didn't seem to care about my background (e.g., education, strengths, weaknesses). Everything was very cookie cutter. When I met with Mike, it was the exact opposite. He was full of excitement and positive energy. I had a good feeling ending that call. Turns out my intuition was right. He had a big smile and great energy every time we chatted! It got me motivated. He believed in me, which made me believe in myself.

For the next two months, Mike gave me weekly hw assignments for ~12-15 hours a week. What I loved was that I didn't have to review or analyze my mistakes. I just did the problems and logged them into a Google Sheet. We met once a week for 2 hours, where we reviewed problems I missed and new topics. It felt well paced, not too fast, not too slow. Homework was personalized to my needs. I struggled with sentence correction -- but on the GMAT I got 40 on my verbal, so quite an improvement.

While I did improve by 100 points (590 to 690), I think I could have done even better. A lot happened from March to May, I quit my job, got a new job, moved across the country, and moved in with my boyfriend. Basically a lot of change that was not conducive to studying.

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I had a great experience working with Mike! He is an insightful, efficient and supportive tutor who has a real gift for identifying weaknesses and providing concrete strategies to overcome them. He is very methodical in helping students tackle the test and his prep work and testing strategies made a big difference for me on test day. I enjoyed our sessions very much and felt our time together was always productive. His friendly nature and clear articulation of challenging concepts made studying GMAT content less overwhelming. Mike genuinely cares about the success of his students and I would highly recommend him to anyone in need of GMAT support!

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Here are the major milestones from my GMAT prep journey...

1. I took my first diagnostic exam and got a 530. I was pretty disappointed. As the editor of my school journal and an engineering major, I didn't necessarily think I was going to ace the test my first try but I also didn't think I was going to have to fill a gap of 200 points to reach my goal score.

2. I spent 4 fruitless months studying on my own with MPrep books. At this point, I had plateaued to around 660 (Q44/V38). Quant-wise: I was spending all my time trying to understand the NUANCES of the HARDEST quant questions. Afterall, the questions weren't hard, I just needed enough time. I couldn't figure out why I could understand complex engineering calculus but not a simple GMAT trig question. Verbal-wise: I honestly had no idea what I was doing. I spent every night doing bricks of 10 questions and making literally 0 point progress from my initial diagnostic exam. Not going to lie, by this point I thought maybe I wasn't cut out for the GMAT...

3. I finally bite the bullet and signed up with Mike. After 3 months, I jumped 70 points and scored a 730 on my first official GMAT exam! I ACTUALLY cried in the car on my way home that's the amount of relief I felt. Quant-wise: Mike helped me realize how ridiculous it was I was spending insane amounts of time on the hardest questions and then shooting myself in the foot on the easy questions. Verbal-wise: Mike taught me to eliminate answers based on clear grammatical mistakes, which means, sometimes the most incoherent answers may still be grammatically correct!

Honestly, Mike is a life saver! His help allowed me the freedom to apply to virtually any MBA program I want to and the time to finally see my family and friends again. I'm forever grateful - thanks Mike!

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The team at GMAT Ninja are real professionals when it comes to GMAT prep, and take a tailored approach to their tutoring strategies and studying recommendations to best suit the individuals they're working with.

I worked with Mike Maietta for about a month prior to taking the GMAT for the first time. Mike started by analyzing the problem sets I had already done independently, and asking me the right questions to hone in on the areas I had been struggling with. Although I was fortunate to be starting off in a good spot (710 and 730 on previous practice tests prior to tutoring), Mike helped identify low hanging fruit in sentence correction and certain categories of quant where I was struggling, so that we could spend our time most efficiently. During tutoring sessions, Mike was able to figure out my thought process on questions I was getting wrong, and helped show me techniques to improve my percentage on these particular problems. I took the exam twice after working with Mike, and was able to get a 750 each time.

Working with Mike and GMAT Ninja gave me a lot of confidence when I first sat for the exam, and I was extremely pleased with the score improvement. I would highly recommend GMAT Ninja to anyone who is looking to improve their score, and willing to put in the time and effort to do so.

If you need another reason to work with GMAT Ninja, they write their own word problems for their worksheets, most of which are hilarious and entertaining. I would've had a hard time imagining I would ever be smiling while studying for the GMAT!

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The pattern of questions is similar to original GMAT exam. Level of difficulty is higher compared to GMAT test which helps in attempting the official test easily. Expert's Global's mock are quite better than official MBA mocks. The score we get in mocks are nearby to the original test with +- 20 points.
USP in verbal is I guess the RC section. If anybody wants to score high in RC, the rc section is best and one should thoroughly attempt the rc quetions.

Quant is good but some questions are repetitive that can be skipped.

IN all if you want to score high or want 100+ improvement then the course is a good go for you.
my first attempt was 600 then using the platform I achieved 700 then with more effort i achieved 740.

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I can't recommend TTP enough. Coming from a zero quantitative background, I studied for 4 months with a group of education professionals. The result of my first two attempts was disappointing for my aspirations: I scored 640 and 680 (with a Q42 in both). I knew that my Quant section had to go up in order to achieve a higher overall score but I didn't feel comfortable nor did I grasp every topic from the basics. I decided to start a flexible plan with TTP, set a target score of 46-48 in Quant, and went through every section, exercise, and practice test. After 3 months, I was confident enough to give the GMAT a new try and managed to get a 710 (Q47, V42)! TTP rocks.

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