I took my first GMAT attempt after preparing from a renowned course but ended up with only 640. So, I decided to retake the GMAT because I wanted to score a 700+. This time, I did not want to drag my prep for too long and gave myself only two months before my second attempt. GMATWhiz was the perfect course for me mainly because of how well it is structured. I religiously followed the study plan the platform had built for me and did exactly what my mentor advised at every stage. For instance, my accuracy in Verbal was quite low. I was advised to start with SC first, then CR and then RC. I was so well versed with GMAT Verbal by the time I finished with the CR module that I did not need any prep for RC. I could simply use my learnings from SC & CR to accurately solve RC questions. It was amazing.

The feature that I found the most helpful is the GMATWhiz AI. Since I had only 60 days to prepare, the AI allowed me to directly start with my prep. The platform asked me a few questions initially related to my time available and target score etc and that was it. It gave me a detailed study plan which I followed consistently and diligently. Another thing that I found helpful was the detailed solutions to questions on the platform. That helped me to quickly understand where I went wrong. In the previous course that I used, I was never told that there is a correct method of reading sentences too. I knew that understanding the meaning of a sentence is important but even that has a depth to it which I learned at GMATWhiz.

Also, the mocks were so GMAT-like. The score prediction on my mocks was quite close to what I actually got. It also helped validate that I was going in the right direction prep wise.

One thing that I feel was quite important in my journey to GMAT 720 is that in my previous attempt I was pretty much on my own. I had no clue about so many aspects of GMAT prep such as the right order of learning or the right time to take mocks. This time, I had a mentor who guided me well.

We divided my 60 days of prep into 4 sets of 15 days each and went exactly as per the plan. I can say that my prep journey was pretty smooth. I don’t recall getting nervous at any stage because I knew we were getting things done at the right pace without skipping a topic.

Overall, GMATWhiz has been a special part of my journey because the aggressive approach I took is not what most students might be comfortable doing. Only a personalized course could help me in my special scenario, and I believe I utilized the personalization feature in the best of my capacity. I improved from V27 to V40 and got a 720 overall in just 2 months with the help of the course and constant guidance from my mentors Piyush and Shreyyash. Thank you GMATWhiz for the full proof plan! Highly recommend!

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I started my GMAT prep with a score of 620 (Q-49, V-25). Ended up improving 100 points to 720 (Q-50, V-38).

I had known the meaning based approach but was not aware of how it is really done. I had done e-GMAT's SC, CR but got only 620.

The greatest thing I learnt with GMATWhiz was that meaning goes hand in hand. There is not extra step - 'understand the meaning' . I changed my reading approach, starting to break and read, and at same time understanding the meaning by assimilating the already read part. This felt like magic to me and pushed my V-25 to V-38.

In course, the solutions given to each SC question is very logical and helps in pinpointing the falter points.

Sunita Ma'am helped me understand the approach of solving problems.

Quant is solid. Though, it can be improved. I did diagnostic quizzes and worked on what I didn't know to pump Q-49 to Q-50.

My Mock scores were in the 680-700 range but on D-Day, I could just nail it.

If you are looking to work on your GMAT prep and tired of hearing 'meaning based approach', try GMATWhiz and take a session with Sunita Ma'am to encounter what it truly is.
Good Luck!

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Hi folks,

I signed up for the e-gmat course after hearing good reviews from co-workers. After attempting one of the free official practice papers and the sigma X mock, I realized that I needed to seek help with the Verbal section. The personalized study program at e-gmat validated the same. The verbal course material was really comprehensive and made me confident that I had exhaustively covered all topics.
Soon, I was reached out by Payal suggesting me to work with an e-gmat mentor – Rashmi, who would help me plan my study in the limited time I had. The analytics provided by the Scholarium platform coupled with Rashmi’s feedback facilitated me to cement my weak areas.

I was struggling with SC questions, where my approach was primarily rule based. E-gmat’s meaning based approach allowed me to not only reduce my attempt time but also improve accuracy. Finally, strategically planned mocks helped me become more confident about my skills, something really important for the final exam.
I am thankful to e-gmat, especially Rashmi, for helping me prepare better for GMAT.

Following is a brief timeline for your reference:
1st Free Sigma X Mock – 29th May 2022 – Score 710 (Q48, V38)
Plan Purchased – 5th June 2022
Mock 2 – 30th June 2022 – Score 700 (Q49, V36)
Mock 3 (After LMP – Last Mile Push program) – 11th Sep 2022 – Score 750 (Q50,V41)
Mock 4 – 14th Sep 2022 – Score 710 (Q50, V36)
GMAT – 16th Sep 2022 – Score 720 (Q50, V37)

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I was struggling to find right direction. Even after putting hours of work, I could not improve my score before joining e-GMAT. The process that is taught in the videos makes the results consistent and repeatable. Just knowing the theory isn't enough, if you are looking to score 700+. Additionally, Rida's mentorship in e-GMAT's LMP really helped me in getting into the mindset of the exam. Platform's exhaustive content and application modules prepared me to deal with exam stress, leading to a 730. On top of that, e-GMAT also has IR modules, which are really help you to be thorough with your preparation. Also, my RC performance improved by 30-40% just by having a 2-hr session with Harsha. e-GMAT provided me support throughout my journey for which I am very grateful. I hope that this review helps people make a more informed decision.

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I scored a 720, which was a 240-point improvement from my first cold mock.

Here's the stuff eGMAT is doing very well:

1. Concepts are covered right from scratch, assuming the student doesn't know anything about anything. That's a good thing because I used to make a lot of conceptual mistakes in the quant section and an overview helped me iron those out.

2. The website is flawless. Everything is easy to find and access, subsections are divided in a logical manner, and I don't remember the portal malfunctioning even once in 6 months.

3. There are a lot of people involved in the doubt-clearing process. Every question on the portal has a solution, and there are thousands of questions. Doubts are cleared within 12-24 hours and are on-point most of the time.

4. The cementing process is much more important than it sounds if you're stuck in a subsection and can't seem to get better even after a lot of practice.

5. Verbal preparation is tremendous, especially when you actually follow what they say. The 'meaning-based approach' that eGMAT follows is by far the best way to handle CR questions with 90%+ accuracy.

6. The feedback process is fast and helpful. An analytics engine tracks every single question you've attempted on the portal and assesses your accuracy for you. When you want to find out where you went wrong, not only can you search for subsection errors (SC, CR, ALG), but also subtopic errors (modifier, assumption).

7. The Last Mile Push Program is a godsend for the last few weeks before the final day. If you get selected for it (or buy the thing), you get an expert who accurately analyses where you can improve and creates an action plan for you to follow. Every day.

8. There's a one-month extension option too, which is great for all of us who are bad at managing time :)

There's also some room for improvement.

1. Scholaranium questions could be more accurate, difficulty-wise. I've found that OG questions are a lot easier, especially on a high difficulty level, than the ones on Scholaranium, although this could be by design. I found that I was consistently scoring higher on OG questions than on Scholaranium for both sections.

Overall, I think eGMAT is definitely worth a shot.

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I started the course in June 2022 and had about two months left for my GMAT. I had to figure out a way to manage my preparation and to be consistent.
The way the course is structured is just superb. It help you understand the course to the most minute detail and the PACE feature also helps you time your prep. The analytics dashboard is a must have for any student and e-GMAT seems to have cracked the code. You will get a summary of your strengths and weaknesses from the dashboard along with tailored quizzes to help you level up.

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I started preparing for GMAT in Feb'22 with the Official Guide. It was very confusing because I was feeling direction less and my preparation was completely disorganized. I started looking for free tutorials on YouTube and then I came upon a video of GMATWhiz. I signed up for free course and within an hour, I paid the fee and took the subscription.
Their course structure is very streamlined, thorough and explanations are very clear.
For Quant section, it took me around 3 months to finish the course, I used to study for around 20-22 hours a week. They have difficulty level marked for each question which is extremely helpful to make the judgement. Probability and Permutations & Combinations have always been my weakest part, GMATWhiz helped me a lot to improve. They have a huge question bank for Quant, all difficulty levels.
For Verbal section, they have an excellent course, I went through the Verbal course two times, first time at normal speed and second time at 1.5X speed. Going through the course second time made me appreciate the concepts and techniques a lot.
My mentor was Satyam Gupta, he knew that I was facing issues in Verbal, he guided me to focus on solving the question and not pay much attention to the timings. I did that and my accuracy increased. He also provided me with some study materials outside of what is available on their website. Not paying attention to timing created problem for me in the first two mocks and I was left with hardly 1 min per question for the last 8-10 questions. In the final stages Satyam guided to improve my timing and within a week I was able to give enough time to each question.
This is my first attempt at GMAT and I got 690 (Q48 V35) and this is the exact score (650-690) GMATWhiz predicted based on my performance during the course. I am very thankful to GMATWhiz team.

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I started my preparation with the Official guide. However, very soon my prep was all over the place, I mean complete haywire. I realized I needed a course to add rigor and a good structure to my prep. While exploring various resources, I signed up for GMATWhiz’s free trial. The way the whole course was designed was so impressive that after using it for just 2 days out of the 7 days free trial period, I went ahead to subscribe the course.
Signing up for the GMATWhiz was probably one of the best decisions of my life that I am never going to regret. It made my dream come true. This time my preparation was a lot more structured as I just had to follow my study plan. The AI took care of everything and made my life quite easy. GMATWhiz allows you to customize your study plan based on number of hours you can weekly devote and the choice of section you want to start with. I was assigned weekly tasks as per my schedule and I only had to focus on doing those. And the good news is I could very smoothly switch between Quant and Verbal as per my wish.
There was no more of “WHAT to do?” or “HOW to do it?” on my mind and only “DO it.” The diagnostic tests before starting every topic helped to evaluate whether I need to spend much time in learning that particular topic or straightaway move to the practise questions. There is a keen focus on learning the right methods for application of concepts learnt in their course. If I did not score well, the AI immediately provided me with the concept boosters for the topics in which I was struggling and added content along with quizzes based on the same. All I had to do is accept the personalisation and the AI added everything automatically to the plan. There is no need to take any mental notes or do self-analysis. Whiz Quiz was truly a striking feature where you get to see your score in percentile, difficulty level and even performance in each topic. Those customised quizzes and constant tracking of the dashboard on GMATWhiz portal which shows performance graph and predicted score, helped me move in the right direction by working on my weak areas.
Whiz 2.0 Core weakness analysis functioned as a true game changer as it saved a lot of prep time, and I could simply focus on working on my weak areas then and there. The Whiz 2.0 also helped me to track my progress and analyse my performance. I knew topic wise where I need to solidify my learning and where fine tuning is to be done. Also, it helped me identify the kind of questions or topics that I am solving quickly and where I need to work on my timing. The key is to focus on quality and not quantity.
After completing around 80% of the coursework, when I started giving mocks, I realised that the official GMAT mocks seemed easier compared to the GMATWhiz mocks. GMATWhiz mocks are a bit on the higher side of difficulty level. In fact, their verbal is more challenging than actual GMAT. My highest GMATWhiz mock score was 750(Q50 V41), however, I ended up getting a higher score i.e., 770 with V44 which is amazing in just 2 months of preparation. So, basically, if you are able to fare well in those GMATWhiz mocks, you are probably going to rock your GMAT exam.
I can firmly vouch that GMATWhiz lesson videos are enough to prepare you for come what may (For people from non-math background as well for even topics such as Permutation & Combination and Probability). The Meaning based approach for SC and Framework driven pre-thinking for CR helped me do well on RC (which was the weakest area for me) and in turn, enabled me to master the Verbal Section overall.
Before GMATWhiz, the approach was pretty much random for me. I was clueless how exactly to about my GMAT prep. But GMATWhiz introduced a structure and direction to my prep which helped me ace my GMAT prep. It was all so smooth.

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I was doing most of my studying in the early morning and really wanted to continue that routine, so it was nice to find a tutor who was awake at that time as well!
Bransen started out each session by going over the homework that I had in between sessions and then going over new topics. I was really struggling with verbal, but Bransen gave me a lot of great pointers regarding how to tackle CR and the RC section, which were my weakest areas. I kept his pointers in mind during my second attempt, but was just super nervous and got two hrs of sleep the night before. I also switched my testing order last minute which is a no-no. Needless to say, I didn't do too hot on the verbal section the second time around, but KILLED the quant section (50Q).
Bransen was very encouraging leading up to my 3rd attempt and gave me pointers on how to be successful the 3rd time around.
I kept reviewing GMAT-like questions and all the GMAT Ninja worksheets that Bransen gave me, slept for 8 hours every day leading up to the exam and kept my usual testing order. I'm happy to say that I jumped up to a 41 in Verbal and am so glad to be done with this exam. Thanks Bransen so much for your help!

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I first heard about Target Test Prep late last December from a friend after having a dismal experience with some of the big banner names. TTP's program boasted rave reviews that piqued my curiosity. A week into the free trial, TTP's superiority was clear as day and made me go for the 6-month maximum learning program without any second thoughts.

The platform has an immaculate user interface and a meticulously designed course structure - things that matter the most to me. The curriculum is a pure goldmine of knowledge that is free of any fluff or gimmicks, something I believe that really makes a difference if your aim is to go full throttle on the test and not just "settle".

I also regularly attended TTP's weekly webinars - Thursdays with Jeff and Fridays with Marty - which were one of the best things to happen and became my go-to. These really helped me cement the concepts, practice real exam-like problems, and keep in track with studies even when work got overwhelming.

TTP instructors have a rich and acclaimed background in GMAT coaching, and an ever-so-calm and confident outlook that instilled a massive confidence in me, and I attribute every single bit of my score to them. Cheers to this incredible team! :)

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