I did my GMAT in June 2020, but on an unlucky moment in another country (due to COVID) and got a 560 score. I started the E-GMAT course in November 2020. The course is very good, well structured and complete. It helped a lot to boost my levels but I found I could not get into the 700 region (which was my target). Although my general score improved a lot (to 680 on different mock tests), it did not get me over 700, due to my verbal scores which were stuck on V35.

I took the intense mentoring the last 5 days to get a final push, although good tips, sadly I could not enjoy any benefits on test day. Perhaps I was unlucky, because I liked the final push tips they gave.

All by all, really good course, worth its money!

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e-GMAT's 'GMAT Online' offering is a great course to get you started with your GMAT Prep. Before purchasing this course, I had already explored a few other free offerings from other prep companies and was yet stuck at a score between 610-630 in mocks. After attending one of Rajat's RC webinars and applying the concepts in OG questions, I saw an increase in my accuracy. This prompted me to try out the free version of e-GMAT and I absolutely loved this limited version of the course. So much so that I decided to go ahead and try out the full-fledged version of GMAT Online after getting a decent discount 😊

I started my preparation in June 2020 in the midst of the pandemic despite working 50+ hours a week. I landed a 570 in my first sigma mock. I reached out to the e-GMAT Support Team and requested them to help me with the next steps. The team created a customized study plan for me which I used until my first GMAT attempt in October 2020. Until a week prior to this attempt I was still scoring a 680 in sigma mocks. I was confident that I would be able to score somewhere in the vicinity of a 700. However, I got a 630 (Q48 V35) in my first GMAT (online) attempt. Upon performing a post-test analysis, I realized that my timing strategy for Verbal was not on point due to losing out time on harder RC questions. Post this attempt I again reached out to e-GMAT’s Strategy Team for help. I was suggested to follow a strict plan which involved using a mix of tools such as timed custom quizzes, strategic review of errors and GMAT Club mocks. By the end of November, I was scoring between 680-690 in both GMAT Club mocks and the GMAC Official mock. Thus, I decided to attempt the GMAT (Online) exam again in December. I secured a 680 (Q48 V35) in this attempt and this was a good enough score for me to apply to my target B-schools (I also secured admits to 2 of the 3 top IIMs in India with this score)

To summarize, I would highly recommend e-GMAT’s ‘GMAT Online’ course to those looking to build a solid foundation in both Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning. From GMAT Online’s Quant course, one can learn quite a lot of tips and tricks which can help solve even the hardest quant problems on the GMAT. Apart from the core content, the UI of the portal/application is very smooth and easy to use. If you are looking for a GMAT prep course with great customer support apart from great content, e-GMAT is what you should go for!

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This review is for e-GMAT's full online course priced at $349. I'm a native-born American and a working professional, out of school for 8 years and recently decided to switch careers to pursue MBA. It has been about 10 years since my last standardized test, and when I used to take tests, I usually scored very well without much study. So, I expected the GMAT to be like that.

To my surprise, no matter how hard I studied or how much time I put in, I could not break the low 700's barrier. I consistently scored 690-720 on various practice tests sampled from many GMAT courses. On Dec 8 2020, when I took the real GMAT, I scored a 710. I cancelled my scores (my target was 730) and decided right then that I needed the help of experts.

I enrolled in e-GMAT and in a nutshell, I was overall extremely satisfied with the product they delivered. I adhered to a strict, daily study plan that they provided for 2 months, from Dec 13- Feb 13 culminating in a test on Feb 13, 2021. I scored a 760 V44/Q49, up from the 710 V38/Q49. I spent 6 weeks on Verbal and 2 weeks on Quant. If I had spent 2-3 more weeks on Quant with their material, I have no doubt I would have scored 50 or 51. The week before the test, I had only completed about 40% of the material and so had decided that improving Quant was too late for me.

I want to make this review helpful to any native-born speakers who may be skeptical. e-GMAT may be, at first, difficult to get used to if you are an American, as the company is based in India and all the videos have speakers sporting an unashamed accent. But, if you stick with it and make no excuses for yourself, you will learn a lot. You do have to swallow your pride and realize you don't know much about English. I went from V38 to 44, and I could not have done it without learning the concepts and the processes provided by e-GMAT.

I would attribute a big reason for my improvement to active participation in Scholaranium (their question and quiz bank). Although I wish they had more questions in the question bank (you can easily run out of questions and need to budget well), I believe they restrict the # of questions because of the importance of reviewing your past questions.

Never have I ever reviewed my own mistakes as in-depth as before. When I would review incorrect choices in the past, I would usually think "ah, I was very close, I just won't be so careless next time!" But e-GMAT stresses the importance of revision and to understand not only why you selected the wrong answer but also rejected the correct answer. Therefore, I started to understand the test-makers' thought processes and to spot subtle, detailed traps.

I found myself frequently battling it out in their solutions forum, arguing why my solution was the correct choice. Sometimes, I would come across certain SC questions and think that the correct choice was so awkward... In the real world, native speakers would not think that this is a good English sentence! I would write passionately why e-GMAT's solution was wrong, or how the question/sentence was not clear or awkward. But always in the end, I would indignantly realize that the correct answer choice was slightly a better choice than mine, or that my thought process had logical gaps.

I was lucky, half way through my study (around 40 days before the test) to have been enrolled in their Last Mile Push, where I was assigned a mentor (shoutout to Ashutosh) who would tell me what sections to study or what scores I needed to get on certain quizzes. This helped me not make excuses for myself (for example, if the target score was 70% and I got a 65% I would think that it was close enough. But my mentor would say that I failed and needed to redo that section).

Last Mile Push also made me realize I was not studying enough, and to commit to 3 hours a day of studying and 6 hours a day on the weekends. This was the most insane amount of time I've dedicated to studying but I stuck with it.

I did not take any of the SigmaX Mock tests (e-GMAT's practice tests) from Dec 13 until Jan 30, a full 6 weeks after I started my journey with e-GMAT. During this 2 week period before the real test, I took 3 different mocks, scoring 740, 700 and 720. It turns out that the Sigma Mock Tests are a lot harder than the real GMAT, as on test day, I found myself wondering why the test seemed so easy.

The rest is history and I would like to say props to e-GMAT for sharing their process in such a clear, consistent and rigorous manner. Though sometimes it was not intuitive for me to know how to follow the study plan, their support stuff was always on standby to answer any questions or evaluate my results for me.

Their newly revamped Quant course has a new style of teaching, boasting variety of activities. I would definitely say that it helped me solidify my number properties understanding. However, I did not spend enough time on their Quant section to give a detailed review, as I was still in the "re-learning" process of Quant when I took the test.

Some quick cons to provide balance for this review:
- the Personalized Study Plan recommended to me through AI was very inconsistent with the one recommended by my mentor. I was lucky to have had a bit more personal guidance on this.
- Scholaranium ran out of questions so I had to practice solving additional questions using GMAT club forum
- the course is intensively concept and process-focused, and no test-taking skills or strategies are provided. If you enroll, be prepared to spend a lot of time to re-program your mind on verbal and quant concepts. You might do worse at first as you are assimilating a new process. For test taking strategies, I had to watch a few videos and read a few blog posts outside of eGMAT to learn some tricks for time management
- I couldn't finish the course in 2 months despite putting in 27 hours a week

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I used TTP for Sentence correction, and I have to say that it's Spectacular, Lots of people talk about TTP quant, which is ofc phenomenal, but SC is also on another level, if you have problems in verbal part, do not hesitate to purchase TTP course. I am a non-native speaker who struggled with Sentence correction, I tried almost everything on the market, but I have to admit, TTP has the most comprehensive verbal guide and their targeted practice does the magic!
At first TTP introduces the topics, you get accustomed to the exact things that are tested on the real exam, and then you get the targeted drills which focus on very important areas.

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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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Target Test Prep was immensely helpful in preparing for the GMAT and directly contributed to my 70-point score improvement. Having used another test prep program, I found Target Test Prep to be extremely engaging and helpful. The Quant review was structured very well and was done in a way that the concepts built on each other and did not bounce around. The sections were extremely detailed and everything was easily laid out and sections could be referred back to easily. The Verbal review was also very helpful, and I found the Sentence Correction sections especially helpful as this is where I struggled on the Verbal section. The video explanations for both Quant and Verbal were very thorough and provided detail explanations of the problems at hand and discussed how certain sections were related. The people at Target Test Prep were also very responsive and helpful. I would definitely recommend anyone considering a test prep program at least try Target Test Prep.

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If you start with less than Q40 on mock tests, you can improve to at least Q44- Q45 after finishing the entire course. If you start on the low Q40s you can improve to at least a Q47.

Honestly the content and the structure is the best there is on the market. The repetition and quizzes make you understand and dominate all the different types of questions gmat quant has.

I didnt try verbal but if it follows the same structure as the quant course I am sure is just as useful.

Also the level of service and attention tu customers that Jeff and Scott has is excellent, they were alwasy super helpful during my studies.

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1st GMAT attempt - I started studying for the GMAT in late 2018 using exclusively the Magoosh online course. At the time I studied for approx. 2 months before taking the GMAT in Jan 2019, when I scored 620 (Q47/V29).

2nd GMAT attempt: I was very disappointed with my score and took the test again one month later, still using Magoosh and free material on the GMAC site, and scored 680 (Q47/V37). I felt the online course I was using was not similar to the real test and I couldn't apply proper strategies to address different question types. So I decided to take a break and take the test at a later stage.

3rd GMAT attempt (using e-GMAT): In Sept 2020 I bought the e-GMAT online course and tried to focus on verbal, which was my weakest spot. I went through the SC course and most of CR, and I was impressed on how I was able to apply the e-GMAT process for solving these questions to improve my results in quizzes and mocks in the verbal section. The course is time consuming, but once you master their process you feel more comfortable with the questions & can asnwer them faster. I took the gmat again in Dec/20 and scored 700 (Q49/V37). I was happy to reach the 700-level but still felt that I could do better.

4th (and last!) GMAT attempt: By the end of 2020 I was invited to join the Last Mile Push program with an e-GMAT tutor (Ashutosh) with the goal to score 720+. He provided me with daily tasks, overall focused on Quant, that allowed me to increase the time studying & focus much better on taking the most out of the e-GMAT course. I did the new quant courses (Number Properties & Algebra) and I got much more comfortable with those type of questions. The course helps you build a strong foundation on the concept, learn process skills to solve different question types and then practice GMAT-style questions with more difficult level, similar to those you will take on the test. This 1-month program helped me to focus a lot on my preparation for the test. It still requires you to take the full course (which takes time) but again once you learn their process you get more comfortable with gmat-style questions. Finally, I scored 730 (Q48/V42) and very happy with the final result (especially in verbal that was my weakest spot since the beginning).

I'd like to congratulate e-GMAT for creating such an excellent methodology to help test-takers excel on the GMAT and hope that you continue improving the course to help more and more people over time!

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My experience with taking the full GMAT live course at Manhattan prep went very well. First of all, the breadth of resources that they provide to you is second to none. I ended up spending way more time than I had anticipated on utilizing the online resources included. The resources that I found to be especially helpful were the GMAT Navigator, CAT analytic reports, Interact lessons, and companion e-books. However, one thing that I want to note is that the process of accessing the companion books wasn't the easiest.

With regards to the live instruction, I found Jamie to be very successful at teaching people the underlying concepts of the GMAT. In leading the GMAT class, she was not only very thorough in her instruction, but also relatable to the common student. Her ability to break down difficult questions into simpler parts was very helpful for me to understand certain questions that I struggled with. Her personal tips/tricks for certain question types ended up being a game-changer on the actual GMAT.

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I had 3 sessions with Sunita mam and Gmat Whiz and it was a great learning experience going over the strategies for RC. Anyone struggling with RC can go over the subject with Sunita mam. I think she has an excellent hold over language and a great teaching experience. We learnt how to read a passage, solve detail type and inference type questions. The one on one sessions were particularly helpful since mam helped me identify the areas where I required improvement . I also studied SC briefly with Sunita mam and her methods were helpful for me to identify some core concepts where I lacked.

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