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I started my GMAT prep a few days back and after going through the trials of the GMAT Prep platform I decided to buy e-GMAT Complete GMAT Prep course. The key highlights to this course are, that it is extremely well designed with preparation divided into 3 phases, lectures are short and comprehensive, and the course has a section called scholaranium which I really liked and was super helpful. This is essentially a 2 min video of all the common topics, common mistakes, etc. Essentially this is like having a flashcard or someplace where you take notes on important topics or topics you need to revise again, and subsection-wise quizzes are excellent to focus on a particular section and improve overall accuracy. The course includes Mocks, which are very close to the official GMAT mock, and detailed performance analysis for every mock increases their utility manifold. so far the course has been very helpful for me, particularly in improving the verbal section and I would recommend this to anyone aspiring to score 700+ on GMAT.
Their personal question quality across both verbal and quant is not good at all, and they even tell you the questions are good enough and you won't have to use official material which is frankly absurd. Their course as well is not great as they focus highly on methods/concepts which is good but there is little to no focus on how to implement the methods in a short amount of time and you can waste hours trying to implement it but it won't work. All in all - their course has a lot of talk and limited depth at least for my personal learning style.
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Verified GMAT Classic score:
760 Q50 V42 (Online)
What do I say for this amazing resource- I cannot imagine scoring a 760 with V42 without the help of scholaranium. It is a beautiful collection of all the relevant questions. Also the way it is designed it helps you customise your tests and find your weak and strong areas.
I would recommend it as a must resource for anyone aiming for a 750+ score in GMAT.
Combine this with E-GMAT videos and you will definitely feel much more confident and prepared to tackle GMAT specially 700+ difficulty level questions.
Kudos to the E-GMAT team for creating this resource at such a affordable price.
I have been using Verbal schloranium for around 6 months now and On thing I must say is it is Awesome, In depth topic wise analysis and answer explanation for each choice is quiet Good, why this answer choice is wrong and meaning analysis of every choice is what makes it Great.
So they give U a ability quiz after every topic u learn to check where u stand and after that custom quizzes for every topic so that u can build your Strength going from easy to, medium to hard. And after that u can take custom quizzes of all the topics of SC, CR and RC just like a pre mock prepration
I have tried over 12 question banks. Scholaranium is by far the best question bank available in the market. The quality, quantity, and diversity of the questions are unmatched in the market. Questions are exactly of the same format as the official GMAT questions. The difficulty level is, however, 5-10% more which makes it perfect if you are targeting high scores. I received. Quality of explanation is also top-notched, there were video explanations wherever deemed fit. I received a score of 740, V:41 thanks to the scholaranium. My individual section scores were 95, 93 and 72 in CR, RC and SC respectively. If you are ready with all your concepts Scholaranium is the best place to practice them
An enjoyable learning process
The course structure is very straightforward and breaks down through concepts in easy-to-understand videos and slides. The section modules are studied in a fun way and offers ideas and methods to solve the GMAT questions.
I took E-gmat course for my verbal preparation and I found it good. But it's not good stand-alone.
I started with MGMAT SC book, but even after reading the whole book, could not understand much. While E-gmat lectures helped me to get a grasp on basics. After that I used MGMAT SC book and website again.
CR lectures are good in e-gmat, but I used powerscore.
Also, the e-gmat online question bank of SC, CR is good.
If you are good with basics of SC, then it's not of much use.
If you're not familiar with Scholaranium, it's a platform by e-gmat to practice questions. It lets you create quizzes (select number of questions, concepts, difficulty level, etc.).
When you're going through OG, you don't know the difficulty level of the questions you're solving. It can be hard to assess what your ability is.
In Scholaranium, you can pretty much track your improvement over different difficulty levels. It's probably the most analytical approach to preparing for GMAT. Also it's quite satisfying to see an upward trend in your graph.
You're going to improve a lot faster through Scholaranium than through OG alone. Time is money, business school aspirants!
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Would avoid E-GMAT entirely and stick with TTP for prep and official gmat prep CATs for gauging your score range.
I had the same experience when taking their practice exam as part of the e-GMAT free trial. Before taking the practice exam, it requires you to submit your goal score. Can’t proceed without first inputting your targeted verbal and quant sub section scores. Ambitiously I inputted a near-perfect score (that’s my ultimate goal!) knowing that I’m not there yet. Then, I scored WAY below what I’ve scored historically (past few weeks) from other providers - veritas, economist, and GMATPrep official tests.
I suspect they are motivated to provide you with a lower score than your “target” so you’re incentivized to buy their prep course.
Another theory is that they provide questions solely at the difficulty level that you identify with your target score, so if you insert a very high level then you’ll get much more challenging questions and scoring will be skewed. That’s fine for prep, but if that’s the case they should note that at the outset.
In any case, would avoid these guys and stick with the trusted providers like TTP.
Scholaranium - There is a lot of flexibility to create the tests per the revision one wants to do. I really liked the quality of questions in the question bank and their corresponding detailed responses. The timed-test pattern of practice tests allows working on time management skills.
Verbal: The SC and CR questions are apt for getting the practice of actual test. Here also after practicing the individual sections, I practiced a combination of questions and mock tests. I was able to improve my time management through the countdown timer applied to a combination of questions.
Overall e-GMAT scholaranium has been the best GMAT preparation resource I encountered with high quality and quantity material.
Verbal scholaranium is a great testing tool that has given me the confidence to improve my verbal reasoning performance on GMAT. The questions are top quality and the explanations cover the concepts very well in great detail. The dashboard provides a fantastic way to keep track of performance and quickly identify areas of improvement. If you've solved OG and Scholarnaium questions, that's more than enough to ace GMAT verbal be it sub 600 questions or over 700 questions. All sub-sections of Verbal have good questions for practice. The platform allows you to review and analyze performance in depth. I have tried many other tests but e-GMAT's is def the best
