I started my prep in Aug 2022 with a blind official mock test 540, and seeing such a low score, I was determined to improve. I am not a standardized test person or a reading person(not a native speaker), and I had been away from studying for 9 years, so I felt that I had to do a lot of prep work. Initially, I started with Magoosh Verbal - at the end of Aug 2022, and then I did the Manhattan Prep Verbal book in December 2022. At this point, I felt that I had gone through a lot of material, but it was all jumbled in my head. Not feeling confident enough in Verbal, I did not move on to Quant prep.
So in mid-Dec, I started with TTP and studied their comprehensive material for the next 5 months, which helped me become super clear and confident about all concepts and approaches.
I gave official mock 1 in May 2023 and although my accuracy in verbal was very high my timing sucked, and I ended up guessing the last 11 questions(which nearly all ended up being wrong) and got a 640, which was disheartening and I was running out for time for my first attempt planned date, and after analysis if found that my SC accuracy was very high, but the timing was horrible.
So on the next day, I took up E-Gmat to get my timing strategy right, I took their Sigma X mock 1 with a primary focus on not running out of time and got a 680, and based on their GMAT like ESR I saw that my SC ability was worst(36 percentile). I did E-gmat's master comprehension and SC section in 1 week and then took official mock 2 and got 710, which I felt was a good improvement, and then after doing some cementing SC exercises(which I felt were hard for me even after all the prep) and following some guidance of Aakash(e-gmat mentor) I took sigma mock 2 and got 730 with SC ability now at 76 percentile. After this, I just did OG questions till my GMAT online date, which was coming very soon, and got 700(V38, Q49).
I feel that my timing has improved thanks to E-Gmat cementing exercises, which gave me the confidence to book the test.
Timing in SC has been a major problem for me since day 1 and based on feedback from the platform's metrics and even from Aakash, I still have a lot to improve in timing my SC strategy(my avg is above 2min 10sec).
Just wanted to share my journey till now and say special thanks to all the platforms and mentors who have helped me get here. For my next attempt, I am going to continue prepping further with E-gmat, so that I can close the remaining gaps in my strategy and knowledge.
As it is said “It takes a village to move a mountain”, and in this case, “it takes the help of a village brilliant people to crack GMAT”

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The structure of the GMAT verbal section gave me clarity over the number of topics that can be asked in GMAT. Starting with Master comprehension, it builds a base for all 3 sections. My confidence built in the verbal section immensly. The individual strategies for all the sections made my approach very different from what it used to be. It helped me time myself better.
The quizzes in the quant section were a little bit tougher than GMAT, so when I gave the actual exam, my section was finished 5 minutes before time. So the practice quizzes helped me prepare for my quant section well.
Overall a great course. I would like to recommend E-gmat to all the aspirants. Special shout out to Rida Shafeeq, my mentor. I reached out to her for a doubt, and got a swift reply for my RC strategies.

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E-GMAT is a great platform, using data driven insights to help students find an edge. I had already written the GMAT before and had a fairly solid score of 720 (Q49, V38).

Since I come from an overrepresented background and am targeting top 10/15 B-Schools, I felt I needed to push my score up a notch. However, the catch with starting from a higher baseline leaves room for improvement only at the margins, and I was unclear on how to proceed.

This is where E-Gmat came in. Firstly, their platform is extremely user-friendly and analytics driven. This allows every student to assess their current level, highlight their areas of weakness, and build a study plan in sync with their goals and the amount of time they would be able to commit.

Their content around verbal, centred around a meaning-based approach and prethinking, really helped strengthen my fundamentals. Similarly, it helped refresh my quant skills and fine-tuned my methods in this regard. The quality of questions, especially those of a higher level, helped test the intricacies of each concept and ensured that any weaknesses were highlighted. By following their course, one can get an extremely process-driven approach towards their current level and path to improvement.

As an added bonus, I was part of their last mile push program which offered me the opportunity to work closely with a mentor. This includes steady correspondence over email and 1:1 sessions approximately every 10 days or so. My mentor Rashmi really helped, both in terms of diagnosing weak areas and building an action plan, as well as pushing my effort levels and ensuring accountability.

I ended up pushing my score to a 740 (Q49, V41) and E-Gmat played an important role in pushing me towards this improvement. I have used some of the other GMAT platforms out there, but would definitely recommend them to any individual looking to write the GMAT.

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Mike is incredible. He went above and beyond to support me and helped me achieve an amazing score. Not only is he a genius when it comes to the test questions themselves, but he understands his students and their needs on a deep level and is willing to put 100% of his effort in to get you to score at your highest potential. He was always willing to go above and beyond to support me, and he made the process enjoyable as well. Mike really knows this test through and through and is able to effectively teach you the techniques and skills you need to excel. Well worth the time, money, and effort. If you want to succeed, he's your guy.

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I will divide my e-GMATs review into 4 sections as below:

The Verbal Section
Sentence Correction: e-GMATs method of understanding the meaning of the sentence was very helpful for me. This method helped me to identify the error in the sentence within 30 to 40 seconds and then to mark the current answer within next 30 seconds by process of elimination.
Critical Reasoning: e-GMATs method of Pre-thinking the answer helps here for 90% of questions. For the rest of the questions such as Evaluate the method etc., they have a process known as Variance test which helps to identify the correct choice. Pre-thinking might not lead you to guess the correct answer every time, but it helps you to fix the structure of the passage perfectly in your mind and this fixing helps you to identify the correct answer quickly.
Reading Comprehension: e-GMATs method of immersive reading was a game changer here. Understanding the entire passage thoroughly before reading the questions helped me save a lot of time in the exam.
The Quant Section
Being already comfortable in quant, I used this section to refresh my concepts. Learning quants with such an approach was a major mistake as you can see from my quant score. I am planning to retake GMAT to score better in quants. So I will post a detailed review for this section post this attempt.

Quizzes:
After learning all the basics I started taking custom Quizzes. A custom quiz is where in you can design a quiz the way you want. So I generally designed my quizzes to replicate a subsection – Quant or Verbal. This approach helped me to improve on my timing and accuracy tremendously. Apart from custom quizzed I also took the cementing quiz (to cement the concepts I have learnt) and ability quiz (to test my ability on a particular topic). Ability quizzes are helpful in that they will show you a true picture of your ability in a particular section in terms of percentiles.

Mentorship:
I was struggling to clear the expected cutoffs for reading comprehension in the cementing stage. My major hurdle was timing, as I used to take a lot of time to read a passage. Dhru Joshi, my mentor, helped a lot here by providing me with various articles and with various links to different news websites. He also asked me to go through atleast 2 such articles daily and practice the e-GMATs method on these articles. This practice helped me to improve my speed not only in ready comprehension but also in overall verbal section as I finished my verbal section with 5 minutes to spare and scored a V44.

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Before I met e-GMAT, my score was stuck in 660 until third attempt. I trusted my English skills, because I have usually achieved the highest scores at TOEIC/TOEFL reading comprehension.
After I started to study with e-GMAT curriculum, I finally realized that I totally misunderstood the GMAT exam and decided to revise my approach as e-GMAT curriculum says.
Also, there was a lot of support from e-GMAT professionals, from thorough plans to follow to timely response to all kind of inquiries.
Though it took longer period than the e-GMAT team suggested because I have a full-time job and have up to 2 hours a day to study, I eventually saw the achievements at mock tests.
Sigma X mocks : 680 -> 730 -> 720
Official mocks : 700 -> 760 -> 750 -> 720.
Though the scores are fluctuating because I could not maintain the rigor of study plan due to work, the e-GMAT team's support and feedback for every mocks I have taken gave me further insights for my faltering points and actions to be done in the near future.
So, even though I got 720 at my actual exam, I am pursuing for another exam with confidence.
For me, visualization for every passage and sentence is the key to all the skills that follow. This is the most important basic mindset when you address various questions.
Regardless of the difficulties of the questions, proper level of visualization and following pre-thinking will put you on the higher position than other test-takers.
e-GMAT will make this happen if you are with them, and the advertisements saying "600 to 750 in xx days.." are not lies. You too, can be the very person who made miracle.

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I purchased E-Gmat Online Course based on recommendation from my senior (who is currently at ISB) on Dec 22, 2022. As my aim was to get into Indian colleges, My target score was 700 and above.
As mentioned by experts at E-Gmat, It is very helpful to know your starting ability before even going for the learning. My first sigma-x mock yielded a 610. It gave me insights into the where my weak areas were and also gave me a good analysis of my Time Management.
I first went to tackle the Verbal section. I had extreme difficulty in tackling the SC and CR part. My RC was rather good at first. For SC, I went on with the course and tried to study all the grammar rules. But for the first 100 questions that I solved post the learning, I wasn’t doing great. I knew I was missing something from my analysis of SC questions. The Course always screamed at each and every point during the learnings that “ Please understand The meaning of the whole sentence first”. Then went back to the course and analysed (with the help of error log-cant stress the significance of this enough) that I finally was able to understand the root cause of my problem with tackling SC questions. I then focused on inculcating the meaning based approach and it immediately gave a boost to my ability. I was much more confident and was able to tackle questions with fairly high accuracy. It also reduced my overall time spent on SC questions as it made it easier for me to eliminate answer choices more easily.
My CR understanding was really bad at start. I almost dreaded and was happy when I came to know that GMAT throws the least Number of CR questions. But only after giving the mock test was I able to understand its significance. After going through the course, it gave me an idea on how to tackle such questions
1. Always, I mean always keep the conclusion statement in your mind. If for some reason You insert your own analysis, its game over.
2. Pre-thinking of answer choices helps a lot in understanding the direction of thought of the author. Sometimes I was able to do such questions under 30secs just because of pre-thinking.(CR questions are on the higher side of average time taken to solve questions)
3. Process of elimination with eliminating each point by thouroughly understanding the point is another major ability you learn as you go through the course.
RC was fairly a strong point for me so the I just brushed through the course. The thing to keep in mind is give sufficient time to fully process the entire passage (4-5 mins for large passage is good) so that questions can be tackled fairly easily. (I for some reason couldn’t get my timing right in exam which affected my overall score.)
Quant has many topics which requires sufficient time for learning all of them. The PACE AI utilized by E-Gmat is a golden hand for your preparation as it provides a very good analysis of your ability in various sections of quant and skips those which you are very good at, therby saving a lot of precious Time.
The SIGMA-X mock tests are very good at estimating your true ability and its esr like analysis provides deep insights into your strengths and weaknesses.
I also want to sincerely Thank Mr Dhruv from E-Gmat for providing constant guidance during my prep. His analysis helped me in my score improvement from 620 to 700 in just two weeks!!
Overall E-Gmat provides a very good platform for improving your ability in GMAT Exam Prep with its systematic and well designed course.

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I recommend E-Gmat to anybody who is struggling with the test. In case you're on the edge about making a decision regarding the test-prep firm you want to join forces with, I further recommend visiting the huge library of free e-gmat resources available on the internet, and figuring out if the fundamental approach followed here makes sense to you.
Personally, it is exactly what I needed, and I loved the way the course as well as the product has been designed. Apart from just the teaching aspect of things, which is cementing by the sheer number of outstanding results achieved by egmat, I would like to commend the team for the stellar product and peoples practices followed by everyone I have had the chance to interact with. I'd like to take another moment to thank Rida for being who she is, and being ever-present in my journey. Felt nice having someone feel so deep in my corner all through.
All in all, e-gmat is a great place to be through!

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Overall a great course which helped me improve my score by 90 points! The course is very well structured, explains everything in detail and builds step by step on every ability - by starting on easier level questions and moving on to tougher ones. Their strategies like maintaining an error log, had immense impact on my preparation. Initially, I did not follow these, but when I started following these strategies, it helped my verbal score a lot.

Coming to the verbal section, It has everything you could ask for. The meaning based approach in SC, the pre-thinking approach in CR and RC help a lot in solving those hard level questions, which take a lot of time and effort, in a structured manner. The small quizzes in the end of every concept helped me to cement the skills I learnt. After completing a subsection, there is a cementing process which helps in cementing the ability which I gained in the course by practicing on GMAT like questions. The level of questions in these quizzes was similar to those in the real GMAT. Helped in a lot to improve in my weaker areas, especially SC.

About the quant section, as my starting score was Q50, I was familiar with most of the concepts and the study plan recommended me to move straight to the cementing stage. The level of the questions in quant is little bit higher than the actual GMAT, which kept me grounded and not overconfident of my skills. Any concept which I was weak in I could practice and master through the concept files.

Last but not the least, the amount of personal attention and support the team provided me is the most important reason for my score improvement. I purchased the course in January and was not serious, not even completing the verbal course fully till mid April. I mailed the team about my situation and from that day onwards, they have kept no stone unturned in helping me better myself. From daily study plans to detailed mock analysis, they helped in every way possible. Special thanks to Akash from the E-GMAT team who helped me till the last night of my preparation!

Will recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their score, especially in verbal.

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Jamie is an incredible teacher!
It was clear from the start that she is extremely experienced with exceptional knowledge of the ins-and-outs of the GMAT exam. Her in-depth understanding of every single topic and question type that could come up on the exam equipped us with a whole toolbox of techniques and tactics we could use to approach questions, no matter the difficulty.

She gives really clear explanations and breaks down challenging questions into manageable and simple steps, making the whole process seem a lot less overwhelming. Her teaching style is extremely interactive and engaging, meaning you were actively learning throughout the class and were really taking on board what she was teaching. It was an enjoyable experience being in her classroom and we all looked forward to class each week and learning from her.
Jamie truly cares about her students and goes out of her way to create the best learning environment, often staying behind in her own time to answer questions or go over concepts again. Most importantly, she believes in each and every one of her students and gives them the confidence they need.

Anyone would be lucky to have Jamie as their teacher - Thank you so much Jamie!

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