I took the GMAT three times over the course of a few years and TTP was finally the prep resource that clicked with me. The lessons are simple and easy to understand, and so much repetitive practice is baked into the lessons. The cadence of problem questions and reviews in the self-study plan made me confident that I fully understood the concepts I was learning.
I thought the lessons were very strong in both Verbal and Quant. They have a few helpful tips for AWA section as well. Overall, I HIGHLY recommend TTP's materials and will be telling my friends to use them as well.

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I had enrolled in 2 really expensive and well-reputed institutions to prepare for the GMAT. My reasoning was that the higher the price, the better and more detailed the course will be.

However, the reality is far from the truth, and it took me 1 year to realize this. Not only were the courses a waste of time, but also they make you feel that guilt of being the loser everyone calls you.

I almost gave up on the GMAT and started to apply to programs that don't require the same. However, I thought of giving it one last shot and I signed up for the Magoosh Premium plan.I initially thought this was just another course that gave the basics and the rest was up to me to figure out.

The videos were SO DETAILED and Mike McGarry even explained the doubts I had in mind even before I was preparing to note it down and ask the experts in the chat.

My biggest concern was getting a question wrong because I have no idea to approach it, because in that case, even if you do thousands of questions, that specific question could pull your score down exceptionally.

However, the Magoosh Product + Blogs cover EACH and EVERY detailed aspect tested on the GMAT. From interpreting absolute values to when to use 2nd and 3rd conditionals. These are things that are not typically found in the other products. Yes that includes the MGMAT.

Furthermore, if there is any ambiguity, the team of experts is just an email away. At first, I was skeptical. I thought they just had a bunch of standardized messages and sent them as and when required (at least that is what I experienced in the other 2 products). The emails were extremely detailed, and they even go back and forth with me to point out what EXACTLY is the mistake! That level of commitment is something that I cannot even fathom in the other products.

I remember I had an issue with the Negation Test. Gordon(Magoosh Expert) and I emailed 2 to 3 days to point out what exactly was my mistake (stupid me :P), and that alone took my CR by 6 points.

I don't have an exceptional score, but for a person starting with 420 on the GMAT mock and reaching 610, this means a lot. I developed in other aspects of my application (GPA, Extra Curriculars, and Internships), and got into my dream university.

The entire Magoosh team is the pinnacle of what you can expect in terms of expertise. I CANNOT thank them enough for creating such an affordable product! I will be enrolling with them again for my MBA preparation, and hopefully, secure a better score.

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I started my GMAT prep last year and like a lot of engineers quickly realized that although my quant skills were good enough, I needed some serious help in the verbal section. Multiple close contacts recommended eGMAT to learn and strengthen verbal concepts and I can safely say that it was the right decision.
The course takes you through the basics to the advanced level and at every step challenges you with quizzes and applications. The designed method to utilize the course is the one thing I would recommend everyone to follow and also read up on the explanations given for each answer whether you are right or wrong, especially in the Application files.
The pre-thinking process for CR and RC helped me to stay objective about the question and not get swayed by preconceived notions. For SC, cementing quizzes played a critical role in building up my thinking when there is no context provided – you do not know whether the question is from the verbs or modifiers module.
The mocks are a little towards the difficult end which I felt was good as they help you time better for the actual test. The mix of questions in the mocks and quizzes helps one better time their performance which becomes essential in the later stages of the prep.
Overall, I would highly recommend the eGMAT course as it strongly builds your basics quite well, provides ample data so you can understand where you are lacking, and has an ample number of quizzes and mocks to practice in that final stretch

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When I started my GMAT preparation, I thought of doing it without any support through free content on youtube and questions from different sources. But, soon I realized I used up 2 official mocks and I was stuck at 600-610 scores. V22 and Q49.

Then, I was about to drop the GMAT altogether thinking this is not my cup of tea. But, then a friend of mine recommended me the e-GMAT course. And this gave my preparation a good spin.

I absolutely love the preparation pedagogy starting from high school grammar. Earlier, I used to hate the RC section but after the course, and the techniques I was looking forward to the RC section in the exam. Even my ESR says I have received over 90% accuracy in the RC section.

Moreover, the question banks and mocks are very gmat-like. My test scores in e-GMAT mocks and official mocks were very close. And in the last days of the preps, I felt that the mocks are starting to become easy.

One piece of advice to students - please speak with the mentors and prep strategists, they are very helpful.

Overall - highly recommended

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I started my gmat preparation by solving questions from the official guide and from GMAT club . The questions were very useful for practice but the often contrasting views on a topic on the common forum caused confusion in understanding of concepts.To avoid this confusion, I decided to enroll for an online course which would help me be clear with different concepts. After some search on the web and speaking with some friends I decided to enroll for the egmat online course for 2 months.

Over the 2 months I accessed only the verbal section and mainly SC and RC as these two topics were my weak areas. The course on both these topics was highly structured and detailed. The practice questions at the end of each concept helped me gain a better understanding of each concept.

The course on SC helped me understand all the different grammer rules. After completing the course I could see significant improvements in topics such as modifiers, parallelism and comparisons. The course also gave a thorough demonstration of the method to be used to arrive at the correct answer while solving questions. This structured methodology was of great help in answering questions on the actual exam.

The course on RC, as the SC course was also very detailed and structured. The reading strategies provided were very useful in understanding how to gain proper understanding of any passage in minimum time. The insights provided on the way to approach a main point and inference question were very useful in solving questions and helped me increase my accuracy in these questions.

Post completion of the theory I began solving questions on the scholaranium section of the course. During this phase I solved a lot of questions through the cementing quizzes on each of the 3 verbal topics. The scholaranium provided me access to lot of questions where I could apply the concepts learned during the course. In addition to providing questions, the detailed solutions of the questions also helped me improve my question solving ability. After I solved some questions on the cementing quizzes I moved to giving the movk tests. Initially I struggled to solve the questions within the stipulated time as I was taking time to adjust to applying a different process of question solving. However, as I kept practicing questions I became better and was able to solve the questions within the stipulated time with a good accuracy. Consequently, my mock score also increased upto 740. Another good feature of the scholaranium was the fact that question used to get added after completion of a mock test. This ensured that I always had sufficient questions for practice. Also the analytics section in the scholaronium section helped me understand my accuracy in different type of questions and gave me an understanding on the topics on which I was supposed to work.

After i felt confident to give the gmat I booked a slot for the exam. I ended up getting a score of 760 with a 41 in the verbal section. The egmat course on SC and RC played an important role in helping me achieve this score.

Overall I would recommend the egmat verbal course for anyone looking for a structured and detailed way of learning. An important point in getting maximum advantage from the course is consistent practive. Consistent practice is very important if one has to gain expertise in solving questions.

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My GMAT journey started in 2018, at that point of time I tried various platforms, such as Offline Coaching, GMAT Club question sets, Manhattan Test Series, e-GMAT etc., for my preparations. I spent around 6 months on preparations and gave 3 attempts back to back. Needless to mention my performance was dismal and I ended up with:
• 680 on Ist attempt
• 640 on IInd attempt (Score Cancelled)
• 630 on IIIrd attempt (Score Cancelled)
With this score I couldn’t get into any B School of my choice, and finally gave up on my MBA dream. Fast forward 5 yrs, I got married and am doing good in my career but couldn’t really stop thinking about MBA and the momentum it provides to the career.
So, I decided to write GMAT one last final time. Because of my previous experience, e-GMAT was my obvious first choice. I started my preps in Dec’21 and religiously followed the course structure recommended by them. During the course of preparation, I made following mistakes, which I realized later and ultimately had to spend more time, later, to correct them:
• Skipping the Master Comprehension part. Supposing that it is not required, since it is not evaluated on exam.
• Skipping the videos of certain topics that I believed I knew.
• Not viewing the solution video. Cause solution generally tend to be of 10+ minutes, so I either played the video on 2x speed or didn’t view it entirely.
• Being overconfident about Quant – supposing that I knew all the concepts and hence spent only 6-8 hrs in entire quant preparation.
• Not maintaining the error log properly.
• Focusing on attempting more and more no. of questions.
Because of these things I ultimately ended up re-doing the modules and ultimately adding few more months to the timeline.
What I liked about e-GMAT:
• Structured modules – Each section of e-GMAT is structured in such a way that you can actually implement the learnings of one in another. Moreover, the structuring of Practice Quiz & Application files helps to learn and implement the concepts in a much handy way.
• Analytics: Whether it be analytics around time spent in a particular module or around the Scholaranium, it helped in providing extremely helpful insights about the weaker sections. Moreover, the analysis of the time spent in a particular question helped me to drastically reduce the time taken in RC & CR. It also helped me identify the weaker areas in SC and do a targeted practice around the same.
• Error Log: I think it is the most undervalued thing in the whole preparation :D. At first, I was not maintaining it religiously but learnt its importance, the harder way. It is extremely important as in the last phases of your preparation, when you’ve attempted 100+ questions, it is very important to understand and not repeat your mistakes. The key is not to practice more and more questions, but to learn and not repeat the same mistake.
• Support from e-GMAT experts: As a student when you’ve been preparing for 6+ months, one tends to lose patience, overlook the obvious signs of un-preparedness, and schedule an appointment in a hurry. The same happened with me. After 2 sigma mock tests, I was like I should take a date for next week.
Fortunately for me, all through my journey I had been actively writing to the support team and seeking their suggestion. In the end when I was restless and impatient to schedule an appointment, it was Support team who analyzed my performance and helped me identify the areas that needed more practice and improvement. Though the exercise took me 1 more months but it helped me be more confident in Verbal and Quant.

Many of us feel shy to reach out to Support team, thinking that they might not respond or may take long to reply. But believe me, always reach out to people, seek their support, and make them a part of your journey. People do respond. And the same was true for e-GMAT support team also.


Lastly I would like to add that GMAT is a game of patience. Plz keep your mind cool and don’t let the monotony or self-inflicted deadlines make you go in a hurry.

May the force be with you, All the best 

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What e-gmat gives you is an easy-to-follow structure. All you need to do is to follow the step by step plan and stick to the process. You will be constantly practicing the meaning based approach in SC and pre-thinking in CR and somewhat in RC as well.
The PACE system allows you to solve a lot of time in preparing your Quant preparation. The analytics based approach to identify each of the strengths and weaknesses in each of the different sub-sections has truly been of immense help to me.
The constant motivation from the team, the constant support in terms of not only identifying the weaknesses but also providing a methodology to tackle those weaknesses have been the highlight for me and will surely help anyone from any background who's willing to put the time.
Thank you egmat.

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I started considering applying for deferred MBA admissions back in September 2021. The first thing that comes up with regards to any school admissions is - the standardized test requirements. Coming from an over-represented group (Indian Engineers), I would have to ace the GMAT (read - about 20 to 30 points above the general median) in order to not have standardized prep as a weaker part of the application.

I started with taking an official GMAT mock test, and I received a 690 (Q50 V34). While taking the mock test, I quickly realized that I would have to focus my preparation for the verbal section, and in particular, the Sentence Correction section of the test, thanks to the level of discomfort I was having with it. After reviewing the test, it became clear to me that I will need to focus on the foundations of grammar, and develop a knack of checking not just for the meanings (which I was reasonably comfortable with), but also for the grammar.

I started looking for some resources, and I came across e-GMAT. From the introductory videos and reviews, it became very clear to me that their test prep relied a lot on correctness and developing fundamentals, instead of trying to teach some GMAT-specific ‘hacks’/solutions. This approach seemed really charming to me given my target of having a high GMAT Score. Thus, I took up the GMAT Online 360 course from e-GMAT.
I focused particularly on the SC section since I saw the most value in improving my weakest section. I started following the foundational topics, and covered most (if not all of them) with attention to detail so as to develop the grammatical foundations. I would at times try to ‘skip’ the learnings by jumping into cementing exams, but I could see no improvements then, and therefore decided to continue covering all the topics. Once I completed the SC course contents, I made the novice decision of taking the GMAT with no exam temperament (ie. no practice of taking the GMAT mocks). In my first attempt, I scored a V730 (Q50, V39).

In my fist exam, I realized the importance of being able to reduce the time I took for solving the SC questions, especially given that I was receiving very long sentences and I could see that despite my ability to solve these questions, I was taking up too much time to reach the solution, thus leading to an incomplete verbal section attempt. Once again, I focused on improving my SC score by taking the cementing tests (especially the medium and hard categories). After each test, I made sure that I would go through the questions I had a bit of guesswork involved (by flagging such questions), the incorrect answers, and the questions in which I took up a bit too much of time (both obtained via the xPERT engine). I would also make sure to review the concepts that I would deem necessary. In particular, I had focused tremendously on the modifiers section, especially the verb-ing and the verb-ed forms.

After the cementing tests, I took the official GMAT mocks and the Sigma-X mocks. The Sigma-X mocks were tremendously helpful since they were tougher than the actual GMAT Exam, and therefore I was very well prepared for any hick-ups during the actual exam. After a month of preparation, I took the GMAT again, this time with a score of 760 (Q51, V40), just enough to apply to my target B-schools with a sense of comfort.
As far as the course is concerned, I have been able to learn a lot about the fundamentals of grammar, written English, and the importance of unambiguous sentences. The course will not just help in GMAT (the prime focus of the course), but it should also help with written English - right from comprehension to developing a knack of writing unambiguous text.
I would recommend the e-GMAT course for anyone who is looking:

1. To learn from the fundamentals - throughout the journey, I never found any ‘hacks’ to solve a question. I cannot stress enough how important this is for a high GMAT score. Take it from someone who has done reasonably well in multiple standardized exams :)

2. To truly excel in the test- the e-GMAT course goes above and beyond to prepare for the worst-case scenarios during the actual test. While the course may seem daunting at the beginning, the actual test will feel like a breeze.
3. To use data-driven analytics in their prep: The X-PERT engine does really well in finding out the gaps in the preparation through its cementing and mock tests. Any candidate can use the analytics to fill in the gaps by revisiting these topics.

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Hi guys,

I started with egmat from absolute zero. I was out of the habit of studying and had done Maths about 5 years back. My English too was all over the place. So, egmat helped me with getting that rust off my verbal and quantitative skills.

I loved their Verbal course the most. I remember a session that Payal had hosted on SC. The title said something like, "How to solve an SC question in under 60 secs". I said to myself, "Another gimmicky company". But when I sat for my actual test, I was actually solving almost all SC questions in under 60 secs. The jump in my ability happened because I just mimicked the way Payal used to solve SC questions in their SC module.

Step 1: Break the stimulus/ argument into smaller pieces. Pause while reading at strategic moments. Then absorb the meaning of the sentence.
Step 2: Look for S-V pairs, pronoun errors, modifiers, comparisons, idioms, redundancy, etc.

This systematic approach, if followed diligently, cuts down the time "significantly". And that's why I got a V42 in the actual exam.

I believe that one of the most underrated stuff that egmat helps you with is- "Reading skills". To learn "effectively" is a very underrated skill. If you don't have that down, you will suffer tremendously in the exam. More so because, during exams, "nerves" come into play. And if you have not developed a systematic "Reading skill" then you will speed-read stuff in some panicky situations and start getting easy questions wrong. That's where GMAT punishes the test-takers the most.

So, just try to imitate Payal when reading a stimulus or breaking down an argument. After some time, it would become your natural habit.

The last but important aspect of egmat is their support. Dhananjay (DJ) and Shradhha are absolute GEMS. DJ would give you reality checks whereas Shradhha would answer all your "Verb-ing" modifier queries with utmost patience. I remember I used to trouble her a lot with questions on "Verb-ing modifier". So for that, "Shradhha, I am sorry". And to DJ, "I did it man!".

A word of caution: I did their Quant course the wrong way. They have a structure in place, but I didn't follow it. If you happen to take the course, try to follow the structure they have in place. I can't write it all about it here, but in short, "Trust them with your time and money", and "contact their support" when in doubt.

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I only studied the quantitative section due to lack of time so I will be reviewing that. I took my first test half a year ago and scored a 625. Despite crushing verbal (might have been better than my actual score ironically), I remember barely performing better than 50% of test takers on the quant section. Not having taken real math since my senior year of high school was definitely impacting and worrying me, and decided to enroll in Target Test Prep after reading positive reviews. Each month from January was a gradual ramp in time studied from the prior, but if I had to average it out during the 6 months it was close to 2-3 hours 5/6 days of the week. I read all the lessons and did all the problems which was great as the course is very focused on teaching you the actual concepts that underlie the GMAT. Even more helpful were all the variations of the concepts including the strange and uncommon ones that only the GMAT would test you on. I managed to get a 730 with a 49Q and can solely thank Target Test Prep as I admit my base was pretty weak before studying.

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