My GMAT Journey began in last year, when I took the e-gmat subscription in June 2021. Before attempting the actual GMAT, I gave two official mocks and scored 730 and 710. I was confident to get a score of atleast 700, but to my utter surprise, it turned out to be a 670 (Q50, V30) when I first attempted the GMAT in Aug 2021. I revised all the error logs, scholaranium quizzes and re-attempted the GMAT in Oct 2021, but again failed to get anywhere close to my target score of 730-740. I was completed clueless as to where I am faltering.

My confidence about my abilities took a serious hit and I decided to take a break before re-attempting the GMAT. Moreover, as all B-Schools had their deadlines in early January for Round 2, I decided to take a break till March before starting my GMAT preparation again.

I decided to re-enroll into e-GMAT in Last week of March 2022, only to focus on cementing my test taking abilities. I first revised all my notes which I had made in the previous attempts. Two months into the course, I felt a need for guidance regarding the assessment of my performance so far. That’s when I first wrote to e-GMAT support team and was replied back by Abha, one of the mentors and strategy expert at e-GMAT. Her detailed analysis about my abilities on the scholaranium platform helped me to build up my preparation brick by brick. Abha constantly provided me the stats and details about my weaker areas and created customized quizzes for me, something which helped me strengthen my weaker areas. She constantly showed me the true picture of my abilities and helped me imbibe confidence.
Based upon multiple quizzes suggested by Abha, I came to realise that it was only meaning based approach where I was lacking and I started to work towards it. Specially, in longer sentences, I identified only the subject and the verb pairs and omitted the details in between – an approach that helped me immensely to boost my SC capabilities. In CR, I fumbled upon assumptions questions and adopted a strategy to just focus on the conclusion and see if it breaks down after negating the five answer choices.

After attempting multiple custom quizzes as suggested by Abha, and two official sigma mocks wherein I scored 730 and 740, I finally took an online GMAT date of 12th Sept 2022. However, I was completely shattered to see a 670 on the screen. Totally clueless and feeling absolutely dumb, I approached Abha for her guidance. Though I was doubting my abilities heavily, Abha asked me to book a test date within next 10 days and suggested that all the parameters on the e-GMAT platform suggests that I have a 730-740 ability. I blindly trusted her and booked my test date for 23rd Sept 2022.

In the last 10 days, I figured out the reason why I fumbled in my attempts. It was not because of ability but because of exam readiness that I was faltering. Moreover, the online GMAT didn’t really suit me as the feel of a proctor constantly monitoring you kept ticking me at the back of my mind. In the last 10 days, Abha helped me to get into a mindset of exam readiness and not focus on the end result. She prepared sort of a motivational video wherein she mentioned that she has absolutely no doubt that I had a 740 ability. She asked me to take a sigma mock 2 days before my GMAT and I scored a 740 in the same. I built up the mindset in the last 2 days and went to the test center with only one thing in mind – not at all focus on the score. Just focus on the question and apply a meaning-based approach that I had practiced. Finally, words cant describe the happiness when I finally saw a 720 on the screen. Though it was 10 short of my target score, nonetheless I was more than happy and happily accepted the score. I wholeheartedly thank my GMAT mentor Abha for all the guidance and support - be it strategical, motivational, and emotional. Big thumps from my side!!

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I will be honest about this review. Since, I had very less time ~3 months to prepare for my GMAT, I decided to take the GMAT whiz tutor course.

Quant: The quant course material is very well designed to get you going with the basics, so you can advance your level prep in tutoring sessions.

Verbal: Sunita ma'am is great. She understands your weaknesses and helps you fine tune your concepts. In verbal, I believe that GMAT Whiz needs to improve on the online course structure. I opted for the tutoring thats why I had a swift ride.

I am thankful to Piyush, Sunita Ma'am and Shubhankar sir for their support and help.

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The e-GMAT, popular for their reviews, ratings can get anyone's attention.

I used this course for 6 months but couldn't score more than 620 (V-25).

Positive: They cover SC to the depths. Once I remembered all the rules, exceptions, figuring out any SC error was easy. pre-thinking was good technique.

Negative: I felt bad with their responses as well. Found them little arrogant in dealing with my problems. Sometimes things can't be explained on e-mails, they should learn this. When thinking of course, I was able to connect with them on video call but when I was stuck with same score, there was no one.
RC is not well designed. GMATNinja's video are far better than the RC part of the course.

Overall, it may work for someone or may not but I wouldn't recommend anyone to blindly get trapped in ratings etc game. Do speak to fellow students and figure out.
Applies to all other courses out there.

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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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