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This review is for someone who is a non-native like me (although I feel that e-mat will surely help natives and non-natives alike). Before e-gmat I tried 2 courses for verbal - 1. Manhattan Gmat Verbal and EmpowerGMAT. After completing the above 2 courses I was still struggling to break the 700 mark because of weak sentence correction. I went through the Manhattan SC guide twice along with listening to EmpowerGMAT verbal multiple times but could never feel comfortable doing SC Questions. The problem with EmpowerGMAT is that it relies too much on one's ear. Manhattan GMAT SC guides on the other hand are really good for understanding individual rules but when it comes to applying 3-4 different rules/concepts in real GMAT like questions some how I was always making mistakes. The explanations for OG questions in the book and the online videos are not helpful. The explanations fail to unambiguously convey to the reader why a particular options is right vs why other options are not.. In short the explanations are a lot like the explanations in the OG guide. So after struggling with SC for about 1-1.5 month I decided to give e-gmat a try.
It turned out to be an excellent course and a good value for money. e-gmat teaches you a very methodical approach which can be used for all SC Questions alike without any exceptions. I must say that at first the 3 step approach (Meaning Analysis, Error analysis and options analysis) made me feel like I could never complete the question in 90 odd seconds if I were follow the approach to the letter but as I solved more and more questions (say 20-30 questions) following the same approach my accuracy improved quite a bit and the average time required to solve a SC question went down. Ultimately my verbal score improved from a below par V26 in mock tests to V38 in actual test and I could break the 700 mark.

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I have taken both e-gmat verbal and quant courses and find scholaranium very helpful. Scholaranium is a really good tool to track topic wise progress as it provides 10 ability quizzes each for SC, CR and RC. There is a Dashboard which aggregates the data related to the ability quizzes and also shows the overall ability percentage for SC, CR, and RC. We can also drill down further into each topic to find the weak areas. e.g for SC consists of multiple areas such as Parallelism, Modifiers, Idioms etc. and CR such as Strengthen, Weaken etc. In later part of my preparation I could focus on my weak areas and get could improve my verbal score substantially (I started with a verbal score of around V26. With egmat verbal I could improve it to V38). This improvement was instrumental in pushing my score beyond 700.

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Just like verbal scholaranium, e-gmat quant scholaranium is a very helpful tool to do focused study on weak areas.
The dashboard provides a view of test taker's ability in each of the topic areas namely Algebra, Geometry, Number Properties, Word problems and advanced topics. Though I was good in Quant even in the beginning my score was hovering around Q46-Q48 in mock tests. Using quant scholaranium I could hit the Q50-Q51 mark consistently in 3 mock tests taken 4 days apart at the end of my study plan. From my experience I can definitely recommend quant scholaranium and say that it is a very good and helpful tool which also doubles up as your error log.

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