I had given my GMAT more than a year ago (710- V34, Q50) and at that point of time I used to absolutely dread RCs. I found them really mundane and could never get myself to focus. While my quant was always strong, and CR and SC were average, RCs just didn't come to me naturally. And no, this does not mean that I'm weak at English in general. Infact, I'm among the most annoying grammar nazis that you may across. But each time I would come across an RC in the middle of my mocks, I would feel low and lose time and thereby end up rushing through my SC and CR questions as well.

Then, my friend introduced me to e-GMAT and I cannot thank him enough for having done that. After a year long break, I felt the need to go over SC and CR concepts as well and the videos provided by e-GMAT made them a whole lot of fun. I would stay up till late night, watching the videos, almost like I'd be watching a sitcom. They were light and helped me brush up my concepts very well. I had read someone's review about making handwritten notes while watching videos and then transferring those onto Evernote at the end of each day as that would not only help you revise, but also create a handy notebook for you to skim through while you're on the move. This tip helped me a lot and I would really recommend it to you all as well. I made my notes nice and colourful and added screenshots and links to them. Going over them later seemed fun because of all the colours I had added. (let me know if you want me to share them with you!)

The RC videos were really helpful as well. e-GMAT provides you a number of key strategies that you must keep in mind while reading through RCs. The one strategy that worked wonders for me was "to get immersed". I would literally tell myself at the beginning of each passage that "Oh! this sounds interesting, lets read what happens next!" I even used the note making approach during RCs quite regularly and was thereby able to get ALL my main point and structure questions right. These strategies seem very time consuming in the beginning, but within no time, you start to internalise them.

The other thing that I absolutely loved about the VLP was the scholaranium. Since I knew that RC was my weak point, I had decided to do atleast 4 passages every day, along with 20 SCs and 20 CRs. I used to create a lot of RC Ability quizzes and while I started with a 43% accuracy (with no time left to answer the last one), by the end I had 96% accuracy which was a great achievement for me. Infact, the day before my GMAT, when I sat down to give my RC ability test, I felt I was able to breeze through it easily. I wasn't spending to much time reading and even the answers were coming to me naturally.
When I submitted the test, I saw my score report in which I had just one (Hard) question wrong out of a total of 4 RC passages. This was my biggest confidence booster and I was sure that my GMAT would go well this time, which it did!

Infact, I finished by Quant section 18 minutes in advance and my Verbal section 15 minutes in advance and landed up with a V41, Q50 and a total of 750. I was literally shivering while answering my last few Verbal questions because the difficulty level had gone up which also meant my score was going up.

I wouldn't say that a V41 is a kickass score, but for someone like me who dreaded RCs to such a large extent, it was definitely an accomplishment, specially since I was now able to answer the questions so much faster.

Thank you e-GMAT once again and thanks to all those who read my review till the very end. I hope I was able to motivate a few of you out there like me, who may have totally given up on RC.

All the best to you all !!

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I signed up for Magoosh just two weeks before my test. I originally planned on using it just for the extra practice exams, but ended up using it for extra review on a few topics I hadn't worked with since grade school. The videos that they have are awesome - a bit slow and dry, maybe, but they definitely get to the key concepts.

The math tests were much easier than the Manhattan GMAT tests (which were harder than the real test), but it was still good practice for the real thing.

I didn't poke around too much in the verbal stuff, but from what I did see it didn't seem to be at the same level as the math section or the Manhattan GMAT verbal section.

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I have been struggling with verbal for a long time. I would always get stuck between the two answer choices. Without a tutor I was finding it very difficult to know why a certain answer choice is incorrect. No matter how thoroughly I read the explanation it would not make much sense to me. However, my verbal understanding has improved dramatically, thanks to E-gmat. The way the tutorials have been broken down, it let's you master a topic at a time, and explains clearly what's the difference between a tempting answer choice and the correct answer choice.
I would 100% recommend the course, if verbal is what are you struggling the most.

For the quant, it's again a great program but more so for the beginners who need to brush up their basics. I use to teach voluntarily to the kids and I can assure you if you really want to strengthen your quant skills Egmat is way to go.

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Exceptionally happy with it!
The verbal is rather good. I promise you, you can't find a better SC course anywhere else. My improvement in SC accuracy was through the roof! also the CR and RC sections give you approaches to solve every question type a certain way. The best thing is that there are not hacks or dumb tricks to identify the correct choice like in other courses I have glanced at (trust me, every word you have been told can never be part of the correct answer, CAN be!!! I have seen it myself on the gmat and gmat prep)
The best part is the scholaranium. I especially like the ability quiz and custom quiz section. Helps to work on specific weak areas. And the variety of questions is unparalleled. I don't think there is a better quant question bank in any where else.
All in all, one month of prep and I got a decent score - 720. All thanks to egmat :)

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Magoosh is an incredible product and I would recommend that anyone who is seriously considering a major score bump on the GMAT invest in it. It is completely comprehensive, everything you need to do well on the test will be shown to you throughout the course and you also have access to over 1,000 high-quality practice problems each with their own video explanation. That level of detail just isn't something that you get when you buy a book, like one by PR or Kaplan. Mike is an amazing teacher and will make the beast that is the GMAT seem much more tame. I went from a 650 to a 790 in roughly 4 months using the Magoosh study plans and I genuinely believe anyone else can do the same if they put in the work with these products. Buy Magoosh, you won't regret it.

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I am a GMAT retaker and would like to highlight the improvement egmat Verbal Online course has brought. The course content is very well structured . The concepts especially for SC are explained in a highly effective manner. No further guessing or memorising is required.

The eGMAT three step process for SC and CR initially appears to be quite slow and time consuming but it actually trains the mind to pock the right track. kudos to the Prethinking strategy in CR.

I highly recommend e-GMAT Verbal Online course and can declare that this is the best programme available online for anyone aiming at improving Verbal accuracy to as high as 99%.

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The e-GMAT Quant Live Prep was just what I was looking for – an online course covering all aspects of the quant part of the GMAT exam. The Quant Live Prep course is well structured and contains On-Demand Sessions, a lot of questions to practice, seven practice CATs and much more.

The best thing about e-GMAT Quant Live Prep is that it teaches you a consistent and reliable process for handling any quant question. The step by step approach explained in each subject gives you clear understanding of the topic you have just studied and build your confidence before you start to practice. This step by step approach improved my quant accuracy rate dramatically. The Scholaranium tool that according to e-GMAT official website contains questions that have been created based on the latest developments in the GMAT world, gave me the option to analyze and to identify my strengths and weakness areas by providing detail statistics, including time spent on each question.

The e-GMAT quant Live Prep is the best quant course you can find online. It’s not a secret that in order to success in the GMAT exam every test taker should build a solid foundation. Not only that the e-GMAT Quant Live Prep offers the most comprehensive preparation materials that you can find, but it also comes with reasonable price and tons of questions to practice.

Without a doubt, the e-GMAT Quant Live Prep along with self-discipline would help everyone who wish to improve his quant skills and to perform its best during the actual GMAT exam.

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The e-GMAT Verbal Online Prep was just what I was looking for – an online course covering all aspects of the verbal part of the GMAT.

I have started preparing for the GMAT exam a year and a half back. At the beginning, I took a classroom training course offered in my country. After failing to get my desired score on the actual GMAT exam, I realized that in order to improve my score I have to concentrate my efforts on the Verbal section. While I searched for the best Verbal online course, I noticed the very positive reviews about the e-GMAT Verbal Online Prep and I decided to give it a try. It was probably one of my best decisions that I have made so far. The e-GMAT course was a "game changer" for me. The strength of the e-GMAT Verbal Online Prep lies in the audio visual videos that are succeeding in deliver complex verbal concepts in an easily understandable way.

The best thing about the e-GMAT Verbal Online Prep is that it teaches you a consistent and reliable process to tackle all SC, CR and RC questions. This step by step approach improved my verbal accuracy rate dramatically. Lastly, the Scholaranium tool that according to e-GMAT official website contains questions that have been created based on the latest developments in the GMAT world, gave me the option to analyze and to identify my strengths and weakness areas by providing detail statistics, including time spent for each question.

The e-GMAT Verbal Online course is the best course you can find online. It’s not a secret that in order to success in the GMAT exam every test taker should build a solid foundation. Not only that the e-GMAT Verbal Online Prep offers the most comprehensive preparation materials that you can find, but it also comes with reasonable price and tons of questions to practice.

The e-GMAT Verbal Online course along with self-discipline would definitely help everyone who wish to improve his English verbal skills and to perform its best during the actual GMAT exam.

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I am a huge fan of the teaching philosophy at e-GMAT. Instead of teaching you "tricks" that may or may not work, e-GMAT gives you a thorough grounding in the key grammatical rules and concepts tested on the GMAT examination, and saves you the countless hours that would otherwise be spent futilely browsing through archaic texts on grammar. In particular, the explanations on verb+ed and verb+ing modifiers are the best I have found anywhere on the web, Manhattan GMAT's forum included. I wholeheartedly recommend e-GMAT! The primary cons are that the videos could have been created more professionally (although I am probably nitpicking by using the high standards I have come to expect from Lynda.com) and that it is sometimes hard to understand the thick Indian accent (for the record, I went to college in the U.S.). In any case, these are minor flaws that should not detract from an otherwise superb learning experience!

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My Gmat journey was never easy and was never supposed to be easy, since my method of learning prior to using e-Gmat ressources was completely flawed. Just to put you into perspective I used the official guide as a bible, I read the directions and "grammar" part and started directly practicing the questions. Since I was not aware of that club or the Gmat whole structure (Gmat is a test of pattern ). I thought I was doing ok, I did all questions of the OG, and I believed that I was ready to take the exam. Unfortunately, this was not the case, I scored a V23 and a total score of 480. I wanted so badly to improve my score, so I resolved myself that I needed more than the OG to beat the Gmat. So that's when I came across this awesome website, though which I discovered E-gmat verbal prep and I signed up for the course since it is the best course for non-natives.

Benefits of the course:
I believe the platform that the course is using is very easy to navigate and make life easy for those who prepare the Gmat. In addition to that, the content itself is by far the adapted and tailored to the Gmat. Furthermore, the periodic checkpoints in the form of Gmat questions to ensure concept retention is very useful.
The SC, RC, and CR courses are tailored to non natives who want to score good on the verbal part, they teach you from the grammar basics to the most efficient method to tackle a CR passage.
Moreover, the course can be interactive as well, though the live sessions provided by Rajath and Payal. During these live sessions, you will get to practice 700+ level questions and evaluate your learning curve. These live sessions will increase you confidence, since you will be solving most of the 700+ questions.
As the cherry on the pie, comes the scholaranium which is also a powerful tool provided by e-Gmat to give an exhaustive idea about your strengths and weaknesses. This will help you focus more on your weaknesses and capitalise on your strengths.
After using e-Gmat ressources, I noticed immediately a positive change in my verbal score and I am now much more confident to go and retake the Gmat, I just to share with you my experience with you in order to spare some you the first impression that I had about the Gmat. I truly recommend the e-Gmat verbal course especially to non natives.

Good luck!

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