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Strengths:
I think the biggest strength is the explanation part of every question
Would make the product better:
more gmat exam like interface
so it is basically a question bank and mock test kind of interface of Egmat. I think the biggest strength is the explanation part of every question. they are very elaborate and make the solution very clear to the user. the questions are also of a good level. they also help the software to assess your level of preperation. the only downside is that they say that you need 55+ percent question of hard level correct, then only you should move to the next level. but if someone is tuck to a lower percent there is no way out. you are completely on your own.
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.
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
Features of Scholoranium platform that are most helpful are section wise split of your strengths and weaknesses . In general the hard questions are a bit harder than the GMAT hard questions . In RC , performance is computed based on the subject of the passage. This helps in preparing more in a specific subject . Ability Quizzes are god in predicting your capability . However the questions which you do not attempt are also considered as incorrect and are added to dashboard incorrect questions . This is a wrong indication as this is a timing mistake and not that you are weak in an area
The quant Scholaranium is one of the best resources available for gmat club. The scholaranium is a huge question bank with lots of questions. Infact you can create your own tests set your own time though they give an approx indication of the time limit for that many number of questions. The questions are divided into very hard , hard , medium and easy. Very hard questions are brutal and are great concept builders for someone aiming for a q51. Even hard questions are challenging and are a must for someone targeting a high score of 49+. Egmat made me score a 49 and also the explanation provided is super amazing
e-GMAT Verbal Scholaranium is one of the best test for practicing and improving Verbal ability. It has two types of Test: Ability Tests and Custom Quiz. Ability Tests is a timed tests which has a mix of questions from all level of questions while Custom Quiz, as the names suggests, is a customisable testing type.
The quality of questions in e-GMAT Verbal Scholaranium is very good and the best part is that the explanation of all the questions is consistent with that of GMAT Verbal Online course.
Custom Quiz is unique in its own way as it allows you to even select the sub-topics from each of RC, SC & CR. So, for e.g., if you want to practice only Verbs in SC, then you can select the same in Custom Quiz and practice it. This is very helpful as it lets you to focus on your weaker section more.
I definitely recommend e-GMAT Verbal Scholaranium to everyone as it has really helped me in improving my score.
All the Best!!
The tests contain:
1. Question made by E-GMAT
2. E-GMAT explanations of their questions + possibility to ask questions about the explanations
3. Basic analytics (statistics on different topics, difficulty levels)
4. Possibility to do custom tests (by topic/difficulty)
I can't compare quality of questions made by E-Gmat to that of other companies. But I can compare these tests to official questions. These questions are a bit different from official.
Also, the explanations could be deeper.
Nevertheless, these test provide additional training and are valuable as a supplement to the EGMAT course.\
The scholarium contains 700 questions. You could add bookmarks to the questions and return later to the bookmarks,
I had given my GMAT 2 years ago (610- V28, Q47) and my critical reasoning was disastrous. i was jus giving a fluke in SC and i used to get some right and some wrong.my math was not that good , but always knew that i could pick up math in the last minute. i was from engineering background and was good at the basics in math. i was doing good at mocks, especially math section.
Then, i happened to read about e-gmat in gmatclub. Tried enquiring about the course through my friends and everybody had a good feedback.i did not want to go by the herd. decided to take a demo session by e-gmat. i fell for it in the first session itself.the session was about sentence correction and the way you approach in e-gmat is different. The way a question is broke up into clauses and then analysed. the way primary empahsis is given on the meaning etc.. i decided to go for it.
The CR videos were really helpful. the concept of pre-thinking made things easier for me. the strategy to attack each and every type of CR questions are clearly explained in the e-gmat course. the videos are desinged in such a way that i never felt as though i was preparing for gmat.watching the videos were fun and the learning used to happen simultaneously. short excercise after each topic also helped a lot in recollecting.
The strategies for RC were just the best in e-gmat. it helped me in boosting my confidence.the strategies seem time consuming in the beginning but eventually i picked up and mastered RC.
The best thing about e-gmat is the SC. the way each sentence is split into clauses and understandig the meaning of the given sentence is the just outstanding.
When I submitted the test, I saw my score report in which I had just one (Hard) question wrong out of a total of 4 RC passages. This was my biggest confidence booster and I was sure that my GMAT would go well this time, which it did!
I finished by Quant section 10 minutes in advance and my Verbal section 15 minutes in advance and landed up with a V39, Q48 and a total of 710. so i have my target score and nothing more to think about.
Thank you e-GMAT and hope this serves as motivation to everyone.
All the best to you all !!
SC - Video lectures covered even the most minute concepts in detail, maintaining the interest at the same time.
CR & RC - Video lectures might tend to be boring because of too much emphasis on theory part.
Other plus points:
- Practice exercise after each and every concept is taught.
- Detailed answer analysis of each practice question.
- Difficulty level of questions is explicitly stated, so you can choose between 500, 600 and 700 level questions.
- Topic wise segregated questions from OG are also available.
With eGMAT course, you would never feel shortage of questions. The scholaranium section has about 30-40 questions from each concept.
The verbal package also comes with limited edition of Quant Scholaranium, having about 150 questions.
Other add ons :
- 5 full length tests from 800.com - Not very helpful
- Complete package of GMATclub.com, comprising of 30 Quant & 8 Verbal sectional tests. - They are good.
In all eGMAT package is the most comprehensive package for GMAT preparation.
my friend introduced me to e-GMAT and I cannot thank him enough for having done that. After a year long break, I felt the need to go over SC and CR concepts as well and the videos provided by e-GMAT made them a whole lot of fun. I would stay up till late night, watching the videos, almost like I'd be watching a sitcom. They were light and helped me brush up my concepts very well. I had read someone's review about making handwritten notes while watching videos and then transferring those onto Evernote at the end of each day as that would not only help you revise, but also create a handy notebook for you to skim through while you're on the move. This tip helped me a lot and I would really recommend it to you all as well. I made my notes nice and colourful and added screenshots and links to them. Going over them later seemed fun because of all the colur I had added. (let me know if you want me to share them with you!)
What really made a difference to me was, however, the Master Comprehension. It really helped me nail the problem. My comprehension of a question was totally dependent on my mood. Master Comprehension really helped me with the right way of comprehending sentences and pausing at the right places, thereby improving my overall comprehension substantially.