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TTP is the absolute best resource for GMAT out in the market. The material, the quality of questions and the way it is structured (with a little bit of gamification) are all amazing! If you are struggling to improve, especially in Quants, do not think twice before subscribing to the course. A lot of questions on the actual exam felt like I've already solved them in the practice tests. I even had a trial version of verbal which was way above expectation, especially when it comes to Sentence Correction.
Since my GMAT was scheduled a day after the end of my plan subscription, the team was also kind enough to extend my subscription by a couple of days to ensure I had the material for revision.
100% Recommend TTP.
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710 Q50 V36 (Online)
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Hi Everyone, I am an Entrepreneur from India. I am married and a father of a beautiful 2.5 yr old daughter who is the sole inspiration for me and my wife.
I am writing this review after getting an admit from IESE Barcelona and ESADE Barcelona. During my prep I used GMATWhiz for GMAT preparations as well as admissions consulting.
You can watch my review of both on the video link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1U2CQBhhJE&t=641s
PS: At the time of this video I had gotten admit only from Esade.
Those who like to read, I am just giving the review of GMAT prep course. Admissions consulting review will come later.
My Profile:
I graduated from IIT Roorkee and moved to work in Germany, India and Malaysia for an MNC. I currently work as the Director in Central India's biggest Water Resource Management company where we help cities solve water shortages by developing infrastructure.
I am also working on my startup which is focussed on sustainability where my target is to improve people's and planet's health for better future of our kids. In this journey, my wife and I have launched about 40+ FMCG and medicinal products which are organic and ecofriendly.
My MBA Journey
My MBA journey began from May 25th 2021. I started with giving a free GMAC Mock exam and scored 540 in it with Q42 and V26. I knew that I needed to work on Verbal to get a good 700+ score. To improve my Verbal, I looked at several leading solutions such as GMATWhiz, Egmat etc. and finalised GMATWhiz on the basis of the following factors:
1. The reviews on the GMAT Club which were excellent.
2. The free trial that lets you try out the course
3. AI driven personalized and adaptive study plan – which was really important as I was working full time, running 2 businesses at the same time. Therefore, I needed a solution that would help me Laser Target the weak areas in minimum time. The AI helped a lot in that.
I gave the exam on 27th July 2021 and receive 710 as the final score.
After having gone through with the lectures and the practice questions, here is my feedback
Pros:
1. The AI works perfect. Just trust the system and you will get the results
2. The adaptive study plan was a great help. It not only analysed my weak areas but also helped me improve them specifically.
3. The structure and meaning based approach of solving Verbal questions helped me understand the right answer in a very simple way
4. The order of learning is also RIGHT. You start with Sentence Correction, then go to Critical Reasoning and by the time you are done with these 2 modules, Reading Comprehension just becomes so easy.
5. The Do’s and Don’ts are mentioned specifically for each question type.
6. There is framework for each type of question in Critical Reasoning that works
7. The videos are not long or hard to understand. The content is taught in simple plain English which is easy to grasp.
8. They develop a way of pre thinking which helps a lot in eliminating wrong answer choices well in advance.
Cons:
1. The program may feel a bit too long for people who want to complete it in a short time like me. It’s just very comprehensive. To speed up things, once you understand the pre-thinking method, the course becomes relatively easy to do.
Other than that there is nothing missing from the program.
I scheduled my first GMAT test in mid October 2021. Just 3 weeks before the test, I was in panic. I realized that I have a concept gaps particularly on SC. I looked through multiple reviews in GMATClub and decided to take e-GMAT course.
The e-GMAT course is phenomenal. The structured and comprehensive curriculum, the question banks and analytics platform are really exceptional. My favorite is scholaranium, which has amazing analysis on your strengths and weaknesses.
I took all the verbal courses in a very short period and I wish that I could take it much earlier in my prep journey. I realized that my prep was not optimal yet at that time, but I decided to go ahead for my first GMAT attempt. As a result, I got below expectation score of 670 (Q49 V31).
1 week post the exam, the e-GMAT team reached out and offered me a seat in the 'Last Mile Program' - a mentor-guided program to prepare your next GMAT exam within 15-60 days.
DJ is the mentor assigned to me and he is very great and super helpful. He analyzed my ESR and came up with targeted plan for the next few weeks, focusing on SC and CR. He shared weekly milestones on SC and CR, pointing out targeted courses that I need to retake - the most important ones are the master comprehension and meaning based approach for SC. He also highlighted to me the importance of error log (using e-GMAT structured error log template) - I was skeptical earlier, but after few tries, I realized that it was very helpful in really going deep to understand areas, skill-sets or processes that I faltered.
During my last 2-3 weeks prior to the test, DJ guided me to do Quant Test Readiness and the last mile plan. It was very targeted to refresh and further sharpen my quant skills. The last mile plan was helpful in building my test readiness skills as well as my confidence.
I took my next GMAT attempt on early December and scored 710 (Q50 V35). Thanks to DJ and the e-GMAT team in helping me throughout my GMAT journey.
After about ~8 months of using a different test prep company, I was really struggling to raise my GMAT score above a 600. I had gone through an in-person course and 1-on-1 tutoring sessions (spending well over $1000), but still wasn't able to reach even the general range of my goal score. Given the reviews on GMAT club, I decided to give Target Test Prep a try.
Because of TTP's extremely detailed curriculum, I was able to break down EVERY potential quant and verbal question that could come up on the test. I found other test prep companies simply grazed the surface of core topics (especially quant), whereas the TTP course has been designed in such a meticulous way to ensure that you have no surprises on test day. Albeit somewhat time consuming (I wouldn't recommend if you're in a time crunch), I saw my score jump over 100 points after completing the full course. I was initially weary about the lessons being fully self-driven, but Scott + the TTP team are 100% invested in each student's success - I received multiple personal emails from Scott checking in throughout my prep duration.
I recently got into my #1 choice M7 b-school and truly could not have done it without TTP.
Before starting the course on eGmat, I already completed a few GMAT courses from other reputed providers, but none of their approaches were well suited for my style, and despite putting up a lot of effort towards my GMAT, I could not improve my score and cross the 700 marks. After wasting three valuable attempts and a lot of money I came across eGMAT, which has excessively positive reviews for eGMAT on Gmat Club. I was skeptical at first but decided to join their free trial anyways and to my surprise, it was very thorough and teaches methods that can be used in a wide variety of questions and not just does the trick a few times and fail for the rest of the questions. Impressed by the trial, I enrolled for the full course.
My primary focus was English, where I was seriously lacking, and eGMAT delivered on the promise. When you go through the first few exercises, where they teach you how to read with pauses and introduce you to nouns and pronouns, they seem slow and nowhere near GMAT level at first but the course gradually develops your fundamental skills and prepares you for the harder questions ahead. Yes, their approach, of understanding the purpose of each part and then deducing the error in the sentence, may seem a bit slow at first because it is much faster to do a 2-3 split using some keywords and go for the answer, but as you approach harder questions this approach is your trump card. When you thoroughly understand the question, you don’t make silly mistakes and you’re more confident about the choices you mark. I can probably pinpoint a lot of things that I liked about the course, but all those are meaningless because the best thing about any GMAT prep course is that you can experience it yourself before enrolling and spending even a dime. Check out the free trial and you’ll see the difference yourself.
I still remember a quote from the founder Rajat in one of his webinars, “A lot of people say GMAT is a test of timing/time management, It is not. If you can’t solve all the questions in time, don’t. Attempt the first 27 questions correctly and mark the rest of them randomly. I guarantee you will get a score of above 700”. I made this my mantra for GMAT and, no surprises here, he was definitely right.
Dear Shane239,
Congratulations on making it to the 700+ Club! It is no mean feat, and you deserve every bit of it. You started off the course with the target of improving your Verbal Score and you have done it. The journey was easy for you because of the following:
The foundation was laid when you went through the Master Comprehension course in detail. You diligently went about doing the entire course, maintaining scores of 85%+ in all concept and practice quizzes. This is a great example of doing Stage 1 correctly. Refer to the Screenshot to have a look at your stats.
Shane239 Course Attempt: https://success.e-gmat.com/course-stats-sc-cr
You had laid the path to your success and that was validated by your scores in Scholaranium.
Your Medium and Hard Scholaranium statistics show how well you handled the entire Verbal section.
Shane239 Scholaranium Stats: https://success.e-gmat.com/scholaranium-stats-mh
I am very happy for you! All the best for the next steps.
Regards,
Atreya
GMAT preparation is a vast and tedious process which takes more than 2 months for most people. The process can be overwhelming and easy to get lose yourself in. This was my exact situation before my first shot at the GMAT.
This is where e-GMAT comes in. The first step after signing in was to take a Sigma-X mock and create a "Personalised Study Plan" using the outcome of the mock. The PSP helped me structure my preparation and create a solid timeline toward my second attempt.
SC on e-GMAT was a game changer. The meaning based approach made the task of reading the question statement and all the options way easier. The grammar sections were useful in helping me revise English grammar.
CR and RC on e-GMAT introduced unique concepts that helped simplify the process of solving these questions. "Pre-thinking" is one of those concepts that helped my increase my accuracy in CR.
The quant package in e-GMAT is an ever evolving part of the course with Quest 2.0 suggesting the necessary steps to take in order to make the required improvements.
Scholaranium ties the whole course together and brings the most impact in boosting your score in the GMAT. Scholaranium helps cementing the concepts learnt in the video lessons. It's customisable and flexible quizzes with its in-depth insights is what sets it apart from anything else.
The support team is super helpful in all aspects whether it is understanding your study plan or execution on learnt concepts. A big shoutout to DJ and team on their unwavering patience.
To sum it up, e-GMAT was the perfect package in helping me boosting my score by about 70 points in a short span of time and I would recommend it for anyone looking for a structured and sequenced GMAT prep.
Hi GameFace,
Thank you for being a student. A 70-point improvement is impressive. Congratulations! This happens when you follow the processes well. Your fairly consistent scores in Cementing were an early indicator that you would do well eventually.
Scholaranium Cementing Stats : https://success.e-gmat.com/Verbal-Cementing-Scores
We are super thrilled to have been your partner in this journey. We wish you the best for your future.
Regards,
Aditee
Egmat's verbal section has really helped me to conquer my weakest section, sentence correction. Since I had never been focused on using correct grammar, I was performing terribly in this specific section. The course structure helped me to clear the fundamentals and follow the meaning based approach which actually worked quite in my favor. Also the 3 step process designed by Egmat is quite a reliable tool for people who are not much experienced with grammar rules.
For QA, the best part is the course begins everything from scratch, which is helpful for people coming from non quantitative background.
I am thankful to Payal and entire Egmat team.
Hi Aman,
Congratulations on the 750 score! We are glad to be a part of your journey to this fantastic score. You had a score of 600 on the first mock that you took on our platform and to improve from there to 750 (a 150-point improvement) is just fabulous.
I am glad that you internalized the 3-step process & the meaning-based approach which in-turn helped you on SC. Your diligence in imbibing the process and approach can be seen in how you have attempted the Verbs module.
Verbs Module Attempt Details - https://success.e-gmat.com/Verbs-Module-Stats
Aman, we wish you the best for the rest of your MBA journey.
-Aditee
Back in 2018, I scored just a 580 on the GMAT. I was so distraught with the whole process that I almost gave up only to come back in 2021 to give it a try once more and start preparing for GMAT again. I started preparing back in Jan 2021 and solved all the OG questions and when it was time to give my mocks, I observed that my score was not levelling above 640-650 in all Manhattan and VERITAS mocks. That is when I reached out to e-GMAT folks in May to get the help I needed to improve my Verbal score. I had opted for just the Verbal online course from e-GMAT for which I had read a zillion reviews online of how intensive and thorough the course is.
I believed that my Quant was strong enough for me to score a Q49+ and that reflected in my prep and all the mocks too. I never scored below a Q48 in Quant, but to my dismay not sure what really happened on the test day that I just scored a Q44 even though I felt it had went well.
Verbal: The Verbal course was really thorough starting from the Master Comprehension module which makes you acquainted with how to read and comprehend really long sentences by taking appropriate pause points. This will help test takers in tackling both the lengthy SC questions as well as making sense of the CR and RC questions.
Although I was doing well in the OG questions and getting questions correct, I didn't know if I am getting a question right for right reasons and why are all the other 4 choices incorrect.
This is where e-GMAT's famous process proves to be utter useful. They have a very well-defined process for all the three sections in Verbal. For SC, they helped me inculcate meaning based approach which worked wonders for me to push those verbal barriers. It was an eye opener for me to realise how blindly I used to approach SC questions earlier. Similarly for CR, pre-thinking helped me get to that right answer pretty quickly. Although I felt it to be cumbersome and time consuming earlier, I realised its value soon enough and started using it while attempting CR questions. I personally was struggling a lot with RC more than any other section and personalised feedback videos from Harsha and my mentor DJ really helped me ace it. Like I never gave up on the journey and stuck o the process, neither did the entire e-GMAT team gave up on me. I could just send an email to the team and they would get back within 24 hours by hook or crook.
Their error log templates tailor made for SC and CR helped me pin point on the exact mistakes I used to make and eventually you do find a pattern of the mistakes you commit. Very importantly, the biggest help in e-GMAT was the question bank (Scholaranium 2.0) and the explanations. It is such an awesome tool with a plethora of questions to practice. each question had a clear solution with details of how to approach a question. And for the few questions where the explanations weren't understandable or thorough, I could just go to the ask an expert section where other test takers like me would have asked a similar doubt and the verbal experts would have clarified the doubts.
Lastly, I cannot finish my review without giving a special shout out to my mentor DJ. The kind of mentoring he provided and the way he was always brutally honest with me during the entire journey of prep was unparalleled. He was always very encouraging and pushed me in the right direction to get to this score in Verbal which I could have only dreamed of earlier. And when I was almost there and just needed a slightly harder push, he enrolled me to the Last Mile Push program wherein he just made me focus on my improvement areas and refine and finesse my verbal skills. The Last mile program made me believe in myself even more and got me to that score of V41.
I will always be immensely thankful to DJ and the entire team of e-GMAT.
GMAT journey is a very exhausting journey and takes a toll on you at times. It may not be easy to start with but eventually will lead to success. And the team sitting right here is extremely supportive and will guide you in the right direction. Personally, I would say that had I taken the course slightly earlier, my prep time would have been reduced by more than half. This is indeed a ONE STOP SOLUTION for acing the GMAT !
GmaṭWhiz improved my score and my understanding of the questions and approach . The portal is extremely good and the AI helps in providing structural guidance and plans . The verbal section is designed in such a way that all the relevant information is covered up and its super easy to understand. The Quant section has tough sums but from the videos and the tough questions a student will be able to do questions with logic and deep understanding of the variables in play in the question . The Gmat tutor Prep is something I would recommend for all students. The teachers are very experienced .They are focus more on the understanding and approach of the student and very easily dissect the problem and help in using the right approach to a question . And once a student follows this new approach he/she can easily score a high score . The GmatWhiz tutors helped my understand the intended meaning of the question, understand the way a question needs to be addressed and finally teach me the most full proof method of getting answers correct. Their classes and their videos together helped me improve my marks and really dissect the paper and make it approachable .
I took the GMAT on self study on the end of September and got 710. I was looking for a prep material that could help me get the additional 20-30 i needed and found Egmat pretty well structured and advanced.
The overall material is good, with nice explanations and exercises. However, i think the material is good to help you arrive to the 700 milestone. Still, it is not sufficient if you plan to score a higher score like top 5 % as it lacks the tips and tricks to do that. Some of these tricks, especially in Quant, were included in the Gmat club forums but not in the preparation material. Moreover, the Verbal section might be a little bit biased as my real verbal score was below all the mocks i took.
Overall, good for preparing if you are new to Gmat.
Dear Jordi,
Congratulations on your 710!
Jordi, it is essentially a lot of things that go on the test day which take a person to their scores. You were actually performing really well on the platform and that might not have translated in the test.
Your accuracies for Medium and Hard questions have been phenomenal. You had translated all your learning into the high accuracy you were consistently hitting.
See the screenshot here: https://success.e-gmat.com/Scholaranium-Stats-MHQuestions
You are a great student and I hope you get your dream b-schools.
All the best for your application processes.
Regards,
Atreya
Hey adrian123,
Congratulations on finally breaking the 700 barrier - it hasn’t come easy. I know it because you have seen both a V31 & a V33, you were always within striking distance of this score. It was a unique challenge because you had already used the course and, in your mind, you had done everything to score well in Verbal, in fact in the call I had with you – you believed so with uncanny resilience (A quality only prevalent in the best test-takers)
Your SC ability plagued you at this point and it was the one thing standing in your way of scoring better on Verbal.
SC Issues from ESR: https://success.e-gmat.com/SC-Ability-Gaps-Adri
The diligence with which you went through the Master Comprehension course that contain hour-long sessions with Payal showed me that you wanted to change this. The deal clincher here was your error log that takes hours and hours of work to create – but you did it. Your hard work finally paid off when you took cementing quizzes and comfortably crossed the benchmark.
SC Cementing Stats: https://success.e-gmat.com/SC-Cementing-PostLMP_Adri
Little by little I could see you gain confidence and that translated to an improved Verbal score. My engagement with you in the Last Mile Program came to fruition and we finally conquered the challenge, TOGETHER.
Congratulations again!
Regards,
Dhananjay(DJ)