I started my GMAT Prep in June 2021, and was keen on joining a coaching institute that would teach in a live and interactive manner. I ended up joining another apparently "well-known" coaching institute and wasted 4 months (Jun-Sep) and 40K for a 3-month seemingly live course, only to realise that neither my doubts were getting cleared, nor was I getting any proper guidance (faculty was rude every time I'd ask a doubt in the live classes). All they taught were short cuts and tricks that never worked for me. In October 2019, when I took my first attempt at GMAT, I scored a mere 630 which wouldn't get me anywhere. (Please note, I got a 730 in GMAT Practice test 4 just one day before the test; I found out that the famous coaching institute had used some of the quant questions and RC passages from official mock questions in classroom teaching and perhaps hence my scores were inflated). After my GMAT, I contacted my previous coaching institute faculty seeking further guidance, only to get ghosted (faculty wouldn't respond even after I tried calling them 3-4 times). Frustrated, I rigorously searched online and came across e-gmat and after reading verified reviews and reading free eGMAT topics, set up a call with Sundeep on October 5 and explained him my situation. I had already missed R1 and desperately wanted to apply in R2. Sundeep guided me, explaining exactly how many hours I needed to put in, over the next 2 months. I immediately bought the 2 month online focussed course and started my prep. I started with SC, which was my weakest section (scored a mere 50th percentile in the first sigmaX mock). After going through most of the topic videos, taking all the cementing quizzes, and 1 ability quiz, my SC score touched 97th percentile in the second sigmaX mock. The meaning based approach was really the key! I knew most of the basic concepts (basically had the key ingredients), but did not know how to apply them without judging the correct intended meaning. Once SC became my strength, CR and RC had to be worked upon. I watched all the CR videos (at this point I hadn't touched RC) and took a few cementing quizzes. I must work more on RC and CR to score more than a V35.
eGMAT course aims to build the ability to solve questions, rather than just providing useless tricks that do not always work. Quant has been my strong area, as I am from an engineering background; however, the courses have helped me fill the gaps and reach a Q50.
I took another GMAT on 30th November and scored a 700 (Q50,V35). After that, I reached out to the team and was immediately responded back by Dhananjay. I'm now looking forward to his guidance to help me improve my scores (hopefully by December end) and I place my full trust on eGMAT and the faculty.
(Another positive point of this course is that your doubts get cleared immediately with the help of respective discussion threads, so you don't have to deal with unresponsive / rude faculty. At the end of the day, one must get the value for their hard earned money and eGMAT is worth every penny!)

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After wasting 1 year of my life, and 1 GMAT online attempt in which I scored a 590 (Q48 V23), I joined GMATWhiz with a lot of hope. I have been associated with GMATWhiz for over 6 months now, and it has made all the difference. Their course is so well structured, and the modules are so well taught, that anyone who has no idea of Quants/Verbal can also learn and score well in this exam. The AI used is so accurate. It helps you structure your personalized course, with your own pace. The score predictor is wonderful. I haven't seen such an accurate score predictor. The quizzes and mocks are very close to the actual GMAT and the scoring system of GMATWhiz is wonderful.
They assign you to your personal mentor, who keeps a track of your overall performance and timely guides you. I was greatly benefited by the guidance of my mentor, Shreyyash sir. He pointed out all my weak areas, and gave me personal teaching sessions as well in the areas where I was struggling a lot. He also helped me setting a timeline and guided me throughout my journey. Thank you so much Shreyyash sir, I can't be thankful enough. He helped me reach 680 in just few months. I am still in contact with the whole GMATWhiz team, who are helping me to improve further.
I would recommend students to opt for GMATWhiz, which gives you what you are looking for:
1. Great course structure that can teach a newbie
2. Personalized course
3. A personal mentor who guides you throughout your GMAT journey
4. Accurate score predictor and marking scheme

For me, my weak area was verbal (as you can see in my score). I was never able to get any CR question right. And with RC I used to get scared just by reading the passage.
GMATWhiz has a well structured syllabus for Verbal. Their Critical reasoning module gives you all the frameworks which make it very easy to solve any easy/medium/hard level CR questions within 1.5 minutes. The CR module helped me a lot. I was able to see my improvement and it made me so much confident. Also the SC module is very well structure. With all the golden rules they provide you with, it will be hard making any question incorrect. And at last RC module, which is the most dreaded of all, turned out to be the easiest. With GMATWhiz RC course, you get the strategy to deal with every passage and every question.
And if you still have issues, they are always ready to give you a personal one on one session.
In short GMATWhiz makes you well equipped with all the tools you require for the actual exam.
With the verbal course I was able to improve tremendously from V23 to a V36 in less than 4 months. You just have to be patient, and trust the process. They are the gurus, and will definitely help you reach your goal.

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Working as a research associate in the venture capital arm of a financial services company, time management was the biggest challenge for me as my work consumes almost 12-14 hours of my daily routine. I barely had enough time to plan things very well. Also, it had been quite a while since I left my education days behind and you know, once you enter your working phase, you hardly come across those quant/verbal logic in your daily life. So, I needed something that would help me from the very basics to the most advanced strategies. And as a full-time working professional, I just did not have time to attend tutoring classes.
For ease of prep, obviously, I started doing my research and used the trial period offered by various test prep companies like E-GMAT, CrackVerbal, etc, and used their free mocks. As a result, what I found was the content that these platforms were offering was quite static, lacked actual personalization, and would require a lot of my personal effort in planning. For a working professional like me, it would have been a very tedious task as I could not afford to give my time in planning, I could only execute. For that, I needed somebody to rely upon completely. Once I gave the GMATWhiz mock and used their free trial, I was amazed by the way their course was designed. The best thing about GMATWhiz was that everything was automated using AI. I did not have to do anything. The system asked me a few questions and basically gave everything to me as per my requirements. Things being in such organized fashion, I was like I have struck gold with them, and I chose to go with it!
Their course addressed every fear and concern I had. Especially with everything being so tech-focused. With covid, and everything going digital these days, it made sense to me, that their course was driven by an AI algorithm which basically told me everything I needed to do and, also told me how to do it! It asks about your weekly commitment and devises a study plan based on your schedule. All I had to do was just log in and see my tasks for the day and I was good to go. Being a working professional who could barely spare 24-26 hours per week, I was greatly benefited by its comprehensive nature.
The use of AI is tremendous, and it personalizes everything for you. Their course provided everything I needed to study, and I could blindly follow the study plan suggested by the AI as it was so intuitive. I also loved the concept boosters as they allowed me to learn specific concepts and the customized practice quizzes they offered allowed me to work on both my strengths and weaknesses. Quizzes were the best part. They have concept booster quizzes to strengthen the topics that you are good at, quizzes on topics you are struggling with, and time management quizzes too with a couple of questions to help to learn how to manage time. Plus, the approach due to the AI was very efficient. For example, when I took a quiz, my performance was recorded, and the next quiz would be based on my current level while considering the previous quizzes. This way, the quizzes were never repetitive in nature, and I was learning new things every time. I could skip the topics that I was good at and focus only on topics where I lagged. Since I only had a month’s time to prepare, this was a very progressive and logical approach for me.
The AI helped me find my weak areas and work on them. For example, despite being a fast reader, I was weak in RC, and I could not figure out where I was going wrong. RC, being my weak area, the AI helped me understand that I was following the wrong reading strategies. Accordingly, it gave me the guidance to follow certain exercises, focus on what I was doing wrong, and get the improvement required with the help of improvement modules. The approaches being taught for all the sections in Verbal were really helpful. My Verbal score improved from V31 to V41 in a month’s time using the right methods of solving the questions and my overall score improved to 720. I was more than happy!
On the exam day, I managed to finish both the Verbal and Quant sections before time, unlike many aspirants who struggle to finish in time. One thing that I understood from my experience was that if you get the concepts and methods right along with the strategies, time management will never be a problem.
Although the course was so well structured, there was no need for any personal mentor, the role of Piyush and the entire GMATWhiz team has been instrumental in my journey. I feel I was fortunate to have this journey under their guidance and support.
I would recommend my fellow aspirants to try the free trials offered by all other GMAT service providers along with GMATWhiz because only then you will be able to make out the difference that GMATWhiz offers. I am sure you won’t regret it choosing GMATWhiz.
All the best!

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I scored a 640 twice on the GMAT and was completely lost after my second 640 not knowing what to do and how to improve from there and what I can do to get a better score.

Quant: I have always been strong in Quant and got a Q50 in most of my practice tests, but ended up scoring only Q47 and Q48 in the actual test. E-Gmat really helped bridge those gaps in a few concepts that stopped me from scoring a Q50. Each practice test and session was followed by a thorough review and a "going back to the basic concepts" kind of approach which really helped hone my quant skills to secure a Q50.

Verbal: The Verbal course was also really thorough. I almost had to start from scratch and redefine my whole approach in CR and RC and E-Gmat helped do this.

The biggest help in E-Gmat was the question bank and the explanations. Each question had a clear solution with details of how to approach a question. But for the few questions where the explanations weren't understandable or thorough, I could just send an email to the team and they would get back within 24 hours.

Lastly, I cannot finish my review without mentioning the mentoring that Aditee Biyani provided. She was always very encouraging and pushed me in the right direction to get to this score.
I'll always be thankful to E-Gmat.

Final words:
I cannot help but mention the fact that I did feel lonely in this journey many times and lost motivation to study. GMAT is a journey and you can only choose your vehicle but you have to do the driving. Looking back on my journey now, I cannot help but wish I drove harder and pushed above that 740+ score.

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TTP is without a doubt the best GMAT prep out there. I started with a 530 and with only a few months of TTP I scored a 760. Q50 V42. I initially used Manhattan books, but I was really struggling with their books; so I tried something new. TTP is extremely lengthy and comprehensive, so you have to put a lot of time into it. It took me 250 hours to complete. $99 a month and a lot of time investment is a small price to pay in my opinion. The improvements you will make using TTP will serve you extremely well when applying to grad school.

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It was after receiving a 610 (Q36 V37) In the second attempt at GMAT that I started looking for a good quant course for GMAT.

I searched the internet and found that TTP had a very good reputation. A lot of people had great things to speak about TTP.

I subscribed to their week long trial, After a week of using it, I was convinced of its value and subscribed to it.

TTP turned out to be one of our best investments for GMAT. The Target Test Prep course. This was a game changer, It had an extensive and exhaustive course structure and tonnes of questions to solve. I spent upwards of 400 Hrs on the course solving various questions, learning new concepts and analysing various errors that I commonly made. This course drastically improved my confidence in Quant. I owe most of what I learned in quant to this course.

This is an amazing resource, with amazing support form tutors when ever you have a doubt.

I would recommend TTP to anyone who is looking at a great GMAT course.

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I am a hard believer of outsourcing things, because if you have experts in the market who can provide products with 10X quality and in 1/10th of your time, it make sense to buy the product (if it's affordable to you), rather than labouring yourself. When I appeared for my first mock test on MBA.com and scored 620, I very well understood that I need to get some GMAT course, which can help me fairly improve my score. Then came the question of which product to buy, and so, I did an extensive research by attending webinars, taking demo classes, talking to peers and senior and also reading reviews and feedback on online platforms, and through this I came to know that egmat is the answer to my quest

As soon as I got my login credentials to egmat, I was really happy to see that egmat helps you prepare a detailed timeline of how your preparation should go for a particular score improvement that you are looking at. And trust me, planning is important, as 'failing to plan, is planning to fail'. I spend a day at planning my course with the help of egmat, and ensured that I made a holistic and flexible plan, which is executable by humans.

I started my preparation and delved directly into the SC portion of the Verbal module (this was my weakest zone and I wanted to face my fear first). The course of egmat is so well structured and scientifically designed that it will hand-hold you right from understanding the basics of a concept to solving 750 level questions. The whole egmat course is so designed that you first have a pre quiz, then the actual concept and finally the post quiz. The post quiz checks how well you have understood the concept and if there are still any gaps, you are asked to revise the concept. So, egmat does not allow you any escape gates, and you leave one concept, only when you have cemented the fundamentals of it. The step wise step guide which you are taught to solve a verbal question is foolproof and as you practice more and more questions in the Scholaranium, you will start seeing a massive increase in your pace.

I also had certain gaps in my quants section, specially the data insufficiency questions and wanted to fill those gaps surgically. I quickly steered through all the concepts in quants and delved into the Scholaranium for practising questions. And trust me on this, Scholaranium is the Bible for you. You don't need any other material, if you have practised all the questions in Scholaranium. The Scholaranium 2.0 is designed to incorporate all the OG questions as well as gives you the flexibility to chose the type of questions you want to pratice, so that the gaps can be plugged surgically, and you don't waste a lot of time unnecessarily.

Finally, just before the D-Day, I just revised the summary PDFs which I got at the end of every concept and then I was exam ready. So, if your concepts are cemented and you have practised a substantial number of questions, you can ace the GMAT exam without feeling the pressure in the centre. This is how egmat helped me and I wanted you guys to know that it was bang for my buck.

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My journey with TTP is 1.5 years long (considering the covid time). I started studying after 15 years of working. Without TTP I couldn't have cracked the GMAT. The team is wonderful and very supportive. The course is designed in such a way that the concepts are embedded in our minds for a very long time. There is enough practice material on TTP, that you do not have to take anything else for preparation. Also, the Verbal part is very convincing.

If you want an overall GMAT learning with deep understanding of concepts, I highly recommend TTP. I was able to improve my scores by 100 points, which is a herculean task if you do not have a proper guidance.

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Verbal is recommended to all especially non native speakers
SC is very good. Meaning based approach to each sentence correction really makes a lot of difference while solving medium to hard questions.
CR was average. I mean some techniques were handy for solving hard questions but in general it was also helpful.
RC was below average. Nothing special was mention here. If you are purchasing this only for RC then I would like to warn you.
Quants was very extensive. For an Indian or Asian test taker you will easily get bored with the repetition of the content. For me It was not that useful. but for test taker with non maths or engineering background it might help.
At the end i would only recommend it for SC and CR, and if you are only buying it for quants then there are many other better alternatives available

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I enrolled with EGMAT after getting a 720. However, I started from scratch after a gap of 6 months. The course stood out clearly on 3 fronts -
1)It clearly identified where I was going wrong - The platform interface along with the large question bank gave me critical insights over a sustained period of time of problem areas. Not only was I able to identify areas where there was a knowledge gap but was also able to identify question areas where I was taking too long to respond

2)Step by Step Guidance - During the preparation, one is bound to feel lost when the scores stagnate but I constantly kept getting feedback from the Mentors as to what steps could be followed to push up my score and this helped me in keeping my confidence and not feel directionless.

3) Course Structure - The course for both quant and verbal is streamlined to ensure that your time is utilized efficiently. With clear emphasis on steps and processes for both Quant and Verbal - the learning curve for variety of questions is very sharp.

I would recommend EGMAT for anyone who is looking to get a score improvement and mentorship when they get stuck with average scores

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