This was my fourth attempt at the GMAT and I knew that this was probably going to be my last chance at breaking the 700 barrier. I gave my first attempt back in 2017 and I got a below 600 score. It was self-study using Official books, Manhattan guides and YouTube videos. For my next two attempts in 2018 (610 Q44 V31) and 2019 (640 Q48 V31) I enrolled for e-GMAT but I could not do the course properly and had to rush through the course because of my personal and work commitments. The way e-GMAT course is built, I knew it was the only course that was going to help me break the 700 barrier. So naturally I decided to go with e-GMAT for my fourth attempt and it finally worked wonders as I was finally able to get a score of 710 Q49 V37.

I started with Verbal section, and covered each topic as designed in the course. e-GMAT SC course is pure gold. All the topics in SC is super simplified. Meaning based approach in SC set a solid foundation for solving SC questions. Once you understood what the sentence was trying to communicate, it was easy to eliminate all the incorrect answer choices by applying the grammar rules. Meaning based approach was especially helpful when you have two grammatically correct choices and you have to eliminate the incorrect choice. CR course is based on Pre-thinking approach. At the start of the course, all the different parts of CR passage such as premise, fact, claim, conclusion, main conclusion, author’s point etc are clearly defined. Honestly it takes time to completely hone the pre thinking approach to arrive at assumptions. But once you consistently follow the step-by-step method to find conclusion, falsification condition and assumptions, solving CR questions using pre thinking approach becomes easy. Once I fully got the hang of the approach, I never took notes while solving CR questions. Arriving at assumptions even before looking at the answer choices saves you a lot of time while eliminating answer choices, which eventually helped me in pacing the test. While solving RC questions you use few concepts learnt in CR course. I always felt that RC was my weak area. So, I focused more on improving my ability in SC and CR than on spending too much effort on RC. One thing that I did differently this time in my preparation was that I used the cementing quizzes after each section diligently to get the desired accuracy in medium and hard questions before proceeding with the next section. This helped solidify the concepts I learned during the initial stages. I realized the value of doing cementing quizzes when I returned to verbal course again after months of doing Quant section. When revising I did not spend much time relearning the concepts, saving myself a lot of time.

Qaunt course in e-GMAT has improved significantly from 2018. The new Quant 2.0 was detailed and the summary at the end of each section was helpful during revision. I followed the same approach for qaunt with regards to cementing quizzes – getting desired accuracies in both medium and hard questions, before proceeding with next topic.

Scholaranium is a wonderful tool from e-GMAT. This is super helpful when you want to solidify your learnings, improve time management and understand your strong or weak area by giving mixed quizzes – combining all the sections in verbal or different sections in quant. By giving multiple cementing quizzes, ability quizzes and ability quizzes you are improve both your accuracy and your ability while getting comfortable with skipping questions during the tests. Do not forget to do strategic review and make notes after each attempt and before giving another attempt. OG questions feel relatively easier than the questions in scholaranium.

Lastly, the support from the e-GMAT team was wonderful. They supported me with my queries, with my subscription extensions and also pointed out my weaknesses and a way forward whenever I mailed asking for help. Thank you e-GMAT!!

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I came across a number of different study resources in the year that I spent prepping for the GMAT and I can tell you without hesitation that TTP is hands down the best one for both quant and verbal like. Beyond it being so comprehensive, TTP is also great for what I think is such an underrated feature: ease of use. TTP is better than most other platforms in this regard--not to mention every physical GMAT prep book in which you have to flip back and forth between pages just to check your answers---because of its simple, clean design that helps you to maintain your focus and engagement during what can otherwise seem like a tedious process. Moreover, the sections are formatted in a way that makes sense--this was particularly helpful for me as I began my GMAT prep with little memory of the types of math skills that are covered. Lastly, this may be kind of cheesy but another thing I really appreciated about TTP was the quotes and words of encouragement that were interspersed throughout the lessons. Prepping for the GMAT can feel like a long and lonely road so the motivation definitely helps. I would highly recommend TTP for both quant and verbal prep.

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When I took my first mock test on the official GMAT site I got a 560 (Q44, V21). I then saw a tutorial video on the GMAT club youtube channel by Payal, co-founder of e-GMAT. I read some reviews online and decided to invest and took the 2-month course. A strategy expert connected with me to help me prepare a plan to reach my overall planned score then it was 680. It was suited to my planning and hours I could invest per week. The video tutorials, application-based practice tests, scholaranium - cementing, and ability quizzes whose data is projected per section per topic showing average time and accuracy with detailed explanation for all questions were really helpful in improving my verbal score. During the last 3 weeks of my course, e-GMAT introduced PACE which really helped me go through the quant section in minimal time to improve my quant score.

I was not able to fully keep up with my plan for the entirety of two months because of work and the holiday season (had family over) but had I focused for the entirety of the course, I would have crossed my target score.

If you are looking for an overall score improvement, I would recommend e-GMAT. The Subject experts are really helpful and do respond to queries well within 12-15 hours.

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I had joined another coaching institute before and even after several attempts my score was stuck at 680. So, I decided to go ahead with e-gmat after one of my friends scored a 760 with their help. I am so glad I made that decision, with e-gmat’s help I got a 710 and am optimistic about getting a 750+ in my next attempt.
Two things that stood out for me were:
1. The adaptive nature of e-gmat and the detailed analysis provided by them our accuracy and time subsection-wise and question type-wise. Their Sigma-X mock tests, Scholaranium cementing and ability quizzes are incredibly helpful in terms of not only replicating the difficulty level of the actual exam but also analysing our performance and providing in-depth solutions,
2. The 24/7 support I received from my mentor Atreya sir truly made all the difference. As an individual, I tend to procrastinate a lot but sir was always there to tailor plans for me and keep me pushing to achieve the targets he set for my gmat journey. Atreya sir constantly analyzed my performance on the platform and suggested customized, hyper-specific plans to work on my key areas of improvement. In fact, after my recent attempt, he shared a video analyzing my ESR and pointed out what I should be doing in the coming weeks in order to get that 750+ score.

With their remarkable insights, adaptive nature of their quant modules, and commendable techniques (especially their meaning-based approach and Pre-Thinking) to ace the verbal section, e-gmat is one of the best gmat courses out there. I have personally recommended to a lot of people over traditional coaching institutes. The amount of personalization and 1:1 mentoring especially in the LMT program is phenomenal.

If you’re looking to achieve your target score in the least amount of time with maximum personalization and top-notch mentoring, e-gmat is your best bet!

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I come from a non-quant background and have a very fast-paced job. So, it was hard for me to study for the GMAT- there were just so many options and honestly, no time to go through them at all. I saw a review of TTP on YouTube and decided to try the free trial. TTP was exactly what I needed. It is thorough and structured while being concise and easy to follow. It's suitable for a total GMAT newbie for me. Instead of giving you rules and formulas to cram, it shows you the underlying thought behind the examiner's questions so you can apply it to multiple question formats. I'm very happy with TTP and my score is a testament to its efficacy.

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Before I started my preparations with E-Gmat in May-21, I had already appeared for GMAT once in Jan-2019. It was my first attempt and I had performed poorly in that exam. That day i got to know that the rules are not enough to clear the GMAT. I took a break from GMAT and then decided to seriously prepare for it in Feb-2021. I thought of doing the OG and questions from GMAT Club. I majorly focused on Sentence Correction ,and the questions from OG and GMAT club did seem to improve my ability on SC. Since my performance in CR and RC was not upto mark, I decided to take some expert help. I got to know about E-GMAT from a friend of mine and decided to contact them. They asked me to write one sample test before suggesting anything. I was shocked to see that even after two years my score had not improved. I decided to go with E-GMAT complete package.
I took my first test(post E-Gmat subscription) on Sep-2 and scored a 680 with V-37 and Q-46. I was quite shocked by the quant score. Though it was an improvement, the score was way below my expectations
. I decided to reappear for the exam in November and started by focusing on Quant more. I finished almost all of the E-Gmat's quant questions. I gave the Online-GMAT but was let down by the glitches in the online software. Thanks to my proctor, GMAC refunded my money and I rescheduled my test for Dec-16. On the day of exam, I was not worried about the exam. I finished my sections well within time and was surprised to see a 730 at the end of the test. E-GMAT's course trained me to an extent that I eventually scored a great score after much hard-work.


Verbal

SC- The SC section is one of the highlights of E-GMAT. I would definitely recommend E-GMAT specially for this section. The questions test your understanding not just the grammar rules. The Modifier section has been covered in detail.

CR- The CR section, though not as strong as the SC section, trains you on how to logically solve the GMAT questions. By the time I was done with the CR section, I was able to solve most of the questions.

RC- The best thing about RC section is that it trains the mind to identify the trap answers. Once you are trained enough, you"ll be able to achieve 80+% accuracy on RC.

Quant-
E-GMAT's Quant is good to build on the basics and practice on some tough questions. The questions aren't exactly GMAT style , but the course clears the concepts to a level that it becomes easy to solve the GMAT type questions.

The Scholaranium 2.0 and Sigma Mocks provide a range of questions to practice from and train yourself for the real test.

I would recommend E-GMAT to people who want to have a solid foundation on all the concepts-Verbal and Quant.

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I spent long time figuring out which GMAT course I wanted to try out. After reading a variety of reviews I decided to go for E-GMAT and I do not regret that decision at all.

E-GMAT's online study course is very good, especially on verbal. I think it got the best SC section of all the courses (I have also seen a few others), leading to my 87th SC percentile score. The SC course is very comprehensive and goes through EVERY RULE you need to know. Scholarium is also great, providing a fantastic learning platform. It breaks down your performance on e.g. verbs, modifiers etc, in which is really great.

I was fortunate to get invited into E-GMAT's last mile programme with Atreya as mentor. He was always positive and provided help when I needed so, for e.g. setting up a tailored study plan. We had meetings over Teams and he gave me tailored videos e.g. going through the ESR, in which was very helpfull, so thanks for that!

Another great thing with the course is that if you have any question you can just send it to customer support or post it on the forum and you receive an answer within 24h. I was in the Last Mile program and sent directly to Atreya, and he always responded in great fashion.

I also tried out the quant course but my focus was on the verbal section as I got Q48/Q49 without much troubles.
I also tried the sigma mock, but only once. It seems to be fairly accurate.

I can really recommend the course, especially if you are struggling with the verbal section. SC/CR/RC section is great both in terms of online videos and questionnaire bank in the Scholarium. It provided you the tools you need to get strong score in verbal.

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My journey from 600 to 730 has not been an easy one but I would surely say that it has been a fulfilling one; one filled with stress, pressure and anxiety but more importantly one of hope, hard-work and resilience.

After underperforming in my first two attempts [I scored 600 (Q47, V26) and 650 (Q47, V33)], I realized that my approach in solving the verbal questions (especially SC and RC) was not right. I knew that to reach the elusive 700 mark, I would have to start from scratch and change my approach.


I started researching about various courses and came across e-GMAT on GMAT Club. I signed up for the free trial and to my surprise, I learnt so many new things in those modules itself. I signed up for the full course immediately (the best decision I took during the whole journey). e-GMAT course worked wonders for me. The course structure, scholaranium and the personalized study plan stood out to me.


Highlights of the Verbal Course:

MC- The MC module was the best way to start the verbal course. It provides excellent reading strategies that lay a solid foundation to do well in the verbal section. This course drove my improvement in RC. My accuracy improved from 50% to 80% by the time I finished the RC module.

SC- SC went from being my weakness to my strength in 20 days. The comprehensive meaning-based approach improved my accuracy from 50% to 90%. After I completed the module, I was very confident in selecting the right answer and in rejecting the four incorrect choices.

CR- CR was always my strong point in the section. The module helped me brush up some conceptual gaps and the diversity of questions gave me exposure to attempt any type of question that came on the D-Day.


After going through the verbal course, I was confident in touching the V40 mark. I moved on to the quant modules.

I was confident in my quant skills before starting the modules. The quant 2.0 course is quite comprehensive. It makes complex topics such as absolute values and inequalities easy to understand. Yet, to my dismay, quant became my weaker of the two sections. After finishing the NP and WP modules, I took the first sigma-X mock and scored 750 (Q44, V47). Q44 was a shocker for me. After completing the other modules, I took the second mock and scored 770 (Q48, V46). I was happy with my quant score but I wanted- to reach to Q49-50.


After the second mock, DJ first reached out to me through the Last Mile Program. We had a call to analyse the first two mocks. He made me realize that I was struggling to manage my time well in the quant section. I usually ended up guessing the last 4-5 questions. He gave me the first milestones with a major focus on overcoming the time management issue using the cementing quizzes. I started maintaining a quant error-log and re-did the algebra and geometry modules. I took the third mock four days before my third attempt and scored 750 (Q49, V42). I was quite happy to see the Q49. DJ shared a well-detailed plan for the last three days. I was shocked when I scored 680 (Q46, V37) in the fourth mock two days before the exam and thus, lost all my confidence. DJ tried to calm me down and motivate me but I walked into the test center full of anxiety. I managed a decent 690 (Q45, V39) but I was not happy. I knew I could do so much better. I was mentally tired of the test and decided not to take it again. After leaving the test center, I mailed DJ about the score. He motivated me to appear for a reattempt because he believed that I could cross the 720 barrier. I decided to go for it for one final time. It was a big decision and I am glad that I made it.


I shared my ESR with DJ. I received video feedback from him stating some glaring mistakes in quant. He asked me to redo the NP and WP modules and set targets for me in the cementing quizzes. My scores in the quizzes improved after re-doing the modules. After observing the improvement, he sent me a day wise plan for the final fifteen days. I maintained an error log for every question I got incorrect. I used the same to revisit the learnings from every question one day before the exam. I took the last mock a week before the exam and scored 750 (Q49, V42). In the last week, I used the scholaranium to practice questions. The scholaranium provides amazing in-depth analysis of your strengths and weaknesses. I used to revise the summaries of quant modules that I was weak in daily. This time, I did not take a lot of pressure on the exam day as I had scored a decent 690. I went in with no expectations.


15th December 2021, 3 years, 6 months and three attempts later, was the day I was finally content with my GMAT score as I achieved 730 (Q48, V42) in my exam. I went from Q45 to Q48 in 30 days. It has been a tough journey with many disappointments along the way. There were so many times I thought of giving up but DJ and the people around me did not let me give up. Not once did I feel alone in this journey. DJ, thank you for your amazing and honest mentorship. I know I would not have been able to do this without you. Also, kudos to the e-GMAT team for creating the most structured course out there.

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I started my GMAT prep in August of 2021. I stumbled across an advertisement of e-gmat for a 1-1 consulting with a mentor (Anshul Biserya). I had no idea about e-gmat then. Anshul told me to take an e-gmat mock and then re-connect again with him. I score a 640 (Q48,V29) in that mock. Anshul pointed out that I was lacking conceptual knowledge in CR and SC since inspite of spending more than optimal time. He suggested that I start with concepts of CR and SC. He explained me how to structure my prep for each of the 2 sub section.
So here is how the e-gmat Modules are structured -
It starts with a master comprehension course. This module is like salt. Doing it won't really boost your score a lot, but not doing it can expose serious flaws across all three subsections in Verbal. It essentially teaches how to break sentences in to meaningful parts, aiding in extracting meaning of the sentence. This is forms base to solving SC and RC questions and helps to systematically deconstruct CR questions as well.
I then started with CR module.(for readers - I suggest start with SC) The CR module is quite detailed and teaches right from identifying premise, anti premise, conclusion etc to explaining how gmat introduces incorrect ans choice. So here's an important bit - All subtopics (assumptions, strengthen etc.) start with concept, then have a post assessment quiz and then an entire chapter of 5-6 questions (known as application module) to explain step by step how to approach each question.
Another very important trick that it teaches is the art of pre-thinking. The idea is very simple - Ask urself what are you looking for in the answer choice. IMHO it doesn't let the answer choice divert your thoughts from the argument and more importantly the authors conclusion and line of thinking.
Think of it this way - You want to bake a cake - Wouldn't it be easier to know the recipe, identify the ingredients and then go to the store to buy them rather than just directly going the store!!
It took sometime for me to grasp the art of pre-thinking, but it happens. And it's still improving!!!
The SC module is quite detailed as well. Pretty much covers all the bases. It introduces the meaning based approach. Meaning base approach simply asks us to first understand what the author is trying to communicate via the sentence and then go ahead with the error analysis and answer choice analysis.
What really stands out is that if you write to e-gmat with ur concerns about gmat prep, they most certainly will respond with a good solution.
So what happened is after every course i.e. SC, CR etc. I took multiple small quizzes of hard and medium level (e-gmat calls this cementing quizzes). I was scoring well within 70-80% weighted scores. So I was like yesss!!! finally I know what to do and how to answer correctly with some confidence. So i decided to give a mock (this was in end of September), the same mock I had initially given (I wanted to boost my confidence so decided to re-take the same mock) and guess what! I scored a 630 (Q47 V30)! I was shocked. How did that happen. So shell shocked i wrote to e-gmat team. Archit from e-gmat replied to me with a detailed video about my mock analysis. He mentioned that though i might have understanding of the concepts, i SEVERELY lack application in CR. So he gave me a plan for both CR and SC. I followed this plan properly. I went through the application files of all CR concepts again over the next few weeks, polished understanding of some of the tricky SC rules for modifiers etc. More importantly i made sure i go through the error log at-least once every 4 days.
Now come start of November, I gave another 15 question quiz for CR and SC (Hard + Medium). E-gmat calls these quizzes as Ability quiz. It gives a percentile score for the test. I scored an 88th percentile in SC and 92nd percentile in CR. I was happy. I now felt much more confident with SC and CR. For CR i was very sure that i can pre-think in 7/10 cases. So i went ahead and booked my GMAT test for Mid of December.
After scoring decent in the ability tests, I took 2 Sigma-X mock over a period of week (It was end of November by then). I scored a 650 (Q42, V37) and 700 (Q49,V36). My 700 score was exactly 9 days before my exam date. I was gaining some confidence now. I kept doing my routine - give quizzes, create error log, revise error log and repeat.
Then out of now where Dhananjay (DJ) from e-gmat reached out to me 5 days before my gmat date. I was surprised that e-gmat keeps a granular check on who is scoring what! He told me that I could most certainly achieve a high score and that he is willing to help me with my prep over the next few weeks. He told me that e-gmat has a Last Mile Program (LMP)
I will tell you what this is -
Think of a T20 match. For the first 16 overs the team has played well and set up a good base for a strong finish. And then in the last 4 overs go boom bang boom and score a 200+ score.
The last 4 overs is where the LMP comes into play in our GMAT match. The aim is to get those 20-30 points in the finishing lap of the journey.
However, this plan actually requires 3-4 weeks, but Dhananjay tailored it to my timeline and gave me a 3-4 day plan. We had a session for analysing my my mock. He showed me where my next improvements could come from. He sent me a customised plan too later in the day. I followed the plan to the best possible manner. It did help me boost my SC score. DJ had pointed out in our discussion that i'm taking too long to solve medium level SC questions. So the plan he gave me for SC was helpful.
I scored a 710 in my actual GMAT (Q47,V39).
The Q47 was slightly disappointing.
Dhananjay is still working with me for the next jump and hopefully that will come soon.
Till then in E-GMAT style - HAPPY LEARNING!!

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When I first decided to prepare for GMAT exam, I wanted to do it strategically from the basics considering that being from a medical background, I've left behind my quant in 10th class only and also I've been from a hindi medium background till my 12th standard.
To start from the basics, I've researched about so many online course providers of GMAT and the reason why I chose EGMAT was that I liked how they always focus on you mastering the concepts and going deep into the topics not just superficially getting it right anyway.

I would say when I started verbal course, I found master comprehension course to be a blessing for me because that course gave me confidence that I can do well in verbal because I could think or apply strategies in the problems after understanding them.
SC course was specifically good because of its meaning based approach and mainly elimination approach that was really a time saving strategy for me.
CR questions made all the sense to me with prethinking because I was able to connect the dots in the author's reasoning which without prethinking seemed tricky.
RC was a strong point for me after I started comprehending passages well, I not only focused on the meaning but also focused on how author is making transitions through keywords and paragraph by paragraph and this was possible because of the reading strategies I learned through the course.

For Quant course, I would only want to say that the process skills and understanding what process skills are, what process skills you're generally weak at and improving them with the right strategy was everything that worked magically for me.

The support I've received from egmat was not only limited to the concept courses but I would like to mention the most underrated feature of EGMAT that I feel is its forum. in the forum you can actually find all the answers to your queries about the questions already asked and replied by EGMAT team and whenever you post a new question, you get a reply promptly. I got a chance to interact with nava, anshul, archit, aditee and also Dhananjay and I'm grateful for the whole team for the immense support throughout the journey.

I would like to end my review with a thing I broadly loved about the EGMAT approach is that you don't need any short tips and tricks to ace any exam, you just need to have a right mindset and prepare yourself strategically, identifying and working on every single problem you face and your GMAT success story is not very far away with the right approach.

Again, A big thanks to whole EGMAT Team, cheers!

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