Hi Everyone,
I started my GMAT prep journey in Oct, 2021. First 2 months, I did some self-prep from the official guides. After solving the guides, I felt that I was at a stage where although I was able to get some easy or medium questions correct, I was not confident on most of the harder difficulty questions of verbal and hence was getting those questions wrong.

At that point, I decided to go through one of the renowned GMAT-Prep courses. After going through that course, I was a bit more confident on my grammar for SCs, but still I felt that I was not able to solve confidently verbal questions of higher difficulties. Most often than not, I was stuck in between two option choices. Hence, my mock scores were also fluctuating. To work upon and resolve this, I decided to go for another renowned GMAT-Prep course, thinking that this new course might help me to bring my Verbal prep on track. After completing the second course, I was confident enough to book a date for the exam. Scored a 660 (V28, Q50). I somehow knew while attempting the exam that my verbal section has not gone as per my expectation. Appearing the exam, I felt that I am not following a process and going wrong in some way. After some research, I decided that this time around I need someone who will point out my mistake during my prep and who can guide me as to where I was faltering in the verbal section.

Finally, I booked a consultation call with Piyush and decided to go with GMAT Whiz. Already I had attended a seminar of GMAT Whiz by that time. In Sept, 2022, I signed up for the GMAT Whiz Verbal Tutor prep course and started working with Sunita Ma’am. In the very first class I attended, I knew that I had made the right choice as I was able to get where I was faltering. The process that I was not following before was the root cause. Over the next 1 month, we worked hard to unlearn and relearn the question solving process. In every session, she kept pushing me to follow the structure and process to solve the different types of questions. After completing the course, I attempted a couple of mocks and appeared for my 2nd official GMAT attempt. This time, I scored 700 (V35, Q49) – a 40-points improvement in 50 days.

I cannot emphasize the contribution and role played by Sunita Ma’am in these 40 points improvements and from a V28 to V35. Thank you, Ma’am, for bearing with my silly questions. It was a short but memorable journey of learning with you 😊

My experience with GMAT is that the structure (to solve questions) is very important in GMAT. If you don’t have a structure or a process to follow for attempting various types of questions, the official exam will make a mockery out of you (which I myself felt in my first attempt and that too after almost 11 months of preparation). Preparing by solving lots of questions won’t help you much, if you haven’t already learned the standard structure and process to attempt questions. First, learn the process and the skills, then go for solving questions, applying the process and your skills in each and every question. Then only in the actual exam, under the exam stress and time pressure, you will be able to follow the process and arrive at the correct answers.

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