When I first thought of a course to focus on my GMAT preparation, I skimmed multiple reviews on GMAT Club and some other forums but couldn't figure out one standard course to solve my problems. After some more research I finally decided to try the initial 1 week trial period by EGMAT. From the get go I fell in love with the content, the videos were not long and tedious but short, concise and to the point just as I liked. After finishing up my trial week, I instantly purchased my course to get started with my GMAT prep.
My main pain point was my Verbal section, with my approach not being decisive and most of my solutions specially for SC being based on feel good factor. The pedagogy employed by EGMAT helped me come up with a more sequential strategy to tackle SC questions, the elimination process helped me proceed from one step to the another without complicating the question. Also, while navigating through the Critical Reasoning module the structure to tackle the question and identify the argument helped me save time and look at the important keywords.
This being just a glimpse of what the EGMAT course has offered me, to cut short and provide an honest opinion on the course I can say in a heartbeat that if you struggle with consistency in Verbal or don't have a concrete strategy for the section EGMAT is the place for you.

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I used e-gmat.com to prepare for the GMAT and was incredibly impressed with the quality of their content and the effectiveness of their approach. The Verbal section specially had a very methodical approach, with clear strategies and techniques for tackling each type of question. This helped me approach the questions with more confidence and ultimately improve my performance. The pedagogy for solving SC questions were extremely effective, meaning based approach to each sentence correction really makes a lot of difference while solving medium to hard questions. The core skills such as identifying grammatical errors, understanding meaning, and answer choices analysis got firmly built due to the course. The CR part was excellent in terms of understanding the different parts of an argument, the different kinds of questions that can be asked and mainly getting to know the traps involved in official GMAT questions. eGMAT gave me an altogether different strategy in for tackling CR: “Pre thinking”, this approach has worked wonders for me. From starting with very low accuracy right to getting all of them right has been an incredible experience. The RC course was good for learning the way to understand any given passage, and increasing retention while reading anything.

I also used EGMAT for Quant, since I have been out of the academics for a long time, I needed to brush up my concepts and do the necessary practice to ensure that I am ready for the exam. The Quant section helped me immensely for enhancing my skillset and clearing my concepts on different topics.

Last but not the least, the best past of Egmat is its Scholaranium. This is an extremely welldesigned platform which provides numerous questions within each section, along with amazing data analytics which helped me improve my abilities.

Overall, I am extremely satisfied with eEgmat it helped to reach my target score at my very 1st attempt. I would definitely recommend the course to the future aspirants.

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My journey started from a score of 600 (Q48, V25). I was consistently getting 680 to 700 in my Gmat Official Mock and I was shocked when I saw a score V25 in my 1st Gmat test. Feeling disheartened, a friend of mine recommended me to join E-GMAT full online course.

Skeptical at first, I decided to enroll for E-GMAT course. It was the best decision that I had taken in my journey of GMAT. I was amazed by their videos. Even the smallest of thing(especially in the verbal section) is very well explained. In no time, I was able to figure out my flaws and able to correct them.

The pre-thinking approach taught in CR is section is undoubtedly the best and most sought after approach in answering the CR questions. I was able to answer around 80% of the CR questions correctly in each and every mock using their Pre-Thinking methodology.

FInally the Scholaranium, set of thousand of good quality GMAT questions. In my final days of preparation, All i did was solve questions from the Scholaranium. The quality of questions on the Scholaranium is by far the best that i have seen amongst all the other platforms. Each question has a well detailed explanation at the end, helping me to identify even the smallest of things that I might have otherwise looked.

Scoring 710 would not be possible without the support of E-GMAT mentors and their material. I would highly recommend anyone preparing for GMAT to enroll for E-GMAT course.

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I am 30 years old and my focus level has been dwindling over the years, so when I decided to sit for the GMAT in March 2021 where I scored a 610 after minimum preparation. I needed an average 700 score for the schools and program I was targetting. So I used to EGMAT tool. Here is a summary of my experience:
1) The video explainations were very good, though a little lengthy sometimes but going through the material increases your stamina to sit and focus for longer so it is a win win
2) The feedback loop after each prepartion step is very helpful.
3) I made it a point to go through each explaination as the approach matters, especially in quant. Also the review by other users helps, so after a while I could develop my own style of solving the questions.
4) There were neat little messages sent in the email that would champion me, in case I missed or hit my target. Those really help maintain the rhythm.

Eventually by accepting the pointers and feedbacks and working long hours I scored a 690, which wasnt exactly 700 but I am happy:-)

Knowing your own target is the most important as GMAT can become an addictive game but the idea is to learn how to learn and analyse and keep at it.

This is only the beginning really!

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Before I started using the E-gmat's verbal live prep course, I had used Magoosh premium subscription, manhattan verbal guides, and the Powerscore CR bible for my verbal preparation, so basically, I had a fair idea of the content tested in the verbal section.

I was scoring in the low 30(s) on the official mock tests. However, I was almost never confident about my answers in SC, I was stuck between 2 choices for almost 40% of 600 level questions questions and almost all 700 questions, and I was usually lost during the RC section.

For someone who had basic knowledge about the content but who struggled to apply those concepts, my set of pros and cons for the course are as follows:-

PROS:-
1. E-gmat has absolutely nailed the idea of what GMAT wants to test. The meaning based approach in every element of the test is what one needs to perform better on the test and E-gmat's course is built on that idea. After taking the course, I started primarily focusing on taking my time and comprehending the information that was presented to me and I can't stress on how important that is, especially on the harder questions.
2. The structured approach by E-gmat for every section provides you with a toolkit to attack any type of question with confidence. It is very essential to have a strategy for individual question types to avoid last-minute hiccups, to be confident about your preparation, and to save some precious time.
3. The course is very comprehensive. I have never seen a course that is nearly as comprehensive as E-gmat when it comes to SC. They have dealt with almost everything that can be tested.
4. Brilliant instructors who know how to impart their knowledge to you.
5. The course is optimized for non-natives and it is very helpful to build your verbal (and English in some cases) knowledge for the GMAT and the world beyond that.
6. Seamless live classes which were very interactive.
7. In the course, there was a section about how to read stuff on the GMAT. It can be a game changer was those who need to channelize their brain for the GMAT and leave behind some counterproductive reading habits. For instance, as someone who has only taken Indian competitive exam, I was highly motivated to skim through the RC passages and finish reading them as soon as possible. E-gmat certainly helped me to break this habit and to read the GMAT way.
8. The scholaranium has some great GMAT-like questions to practice.
9. Value for money.
10. E-gmat provides you with amazing, personalized strategy to prepare for the test and to approach the test on the D-day.

CONS:-
1. As someone who was already scoring in the 30s, who had basic idea of the content, and who had solved and deeply analysed some 150 questions in the verbal official guides, I don't think the live sessions added much value to me. The idea was to do some questions live using the E-gmat approach and to build the discussion on them. However, in all the sessions, I thought that the fact that I already registered while going through the online course or had practiced while solving a scolaranium question was reinstated. If you resonate with my type of profile, I highly recommend that you go for the online verbal course rather than the live prep course. However, if you are struggling with the foundational knowledge, you should go for the latter.
2. As per my experience, the query resolution system on the E-gmat forum is not very robust. I would give a shoutout to Magoosh here for almost always resolving my question with a very comprehensive solution within 24 hours. I don't know if it happened just with me but the queries I wrote on e-gmat forum were solved in a week or more, and once, a query was resolved after a month.

Verdict: I think the pros of the course far-outweigh the cons and I don't regret my investment in the course at all. If you are thinking about the current verbal score I hold, it is solely because of how I deviated from the devised strategy on the test-day because of test anxiety and not at all because of anything provided by E-gmat.

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Overall I found my e-gmat experience really rewarding as I was able to improve my verbal score from V33 to V41 by following their structured approach to each question type on verbal section.
I feel to score good on GMAT, two things are really important – one is to have good fundamental understanding of the concepts and the other is to follow the correct approach. This course is structured in a way which will help you in getting good at both of these aspects. Their focus on approach and fundamentals in every single lesson will help you ingrain it in your mind.
Personally for me the SC was something which I wanted to improve upon as my current approach of splitting options into groups of 2/3 was not panning out. Therefore, I tried out their 3 step approach for SC questions. At the start, it was really difficult to follow this approach. But if you give yourself time, it can do wonders like it did for me and many others.
e-gmat helped me overachieve my target score of 730-740 and get admits from multiple schools. I would 100% recommend this course to everyone who want to improve their verbal score, enabling them to get closer to their MBA dream.

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Though there are great reviews for the EGMAT course and seeing those reviews I took their complete course, verbal+Quant. In the verbal section, I just did their sentence correction which is ok for learning grammar rules but didn't help me in achieving any results in sentence correction. Their method of understanding the sentence is good but seeing the time constraints in GMAT, it was not very helpful in practice. If you plan to take their complete course Quant+Verbal, be ready to have 3 months of complete break, they are very long and monotonous, I only did their sentence correction and a few other parts. What really helped me is the GMAT Club, where I used to practice every day with the Question bank. Though my official GMAT score was less than expected, as I was scoring 720-740 in mocks but it got me admitted to my dream college. For this, I want to thank GMAT Club and it's awesome members. There are people at GMAT Club who have explained every concept very beautifully.

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e-GMAT helped me change my perspective towards verbal.
The kind of process that is followed to understand and answer a question is amazing. The SC course is amazing! The concepts were explained methodically and from the basics.
Short Quizzes for assessing the weaknesses and conceptual gaps was one key aspect that helped me throughout my preparation.

The best part of the course was scholaranium . It has all levels of question from low difficulty to high and one can customize the type of questions they prefer to attempt based on their level of preparation at that point in time.

On a whole, one who wants to ace GMAT can choose e-GMAT with 100% confidence.

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I started preparing for GMAT somewhere in Apr-17 by my own and given my first GMAT on 09-Sept-17. I had only referred only one book -Princeton GMAT Review apart from the diagnostic test from official guide. I scored a score of 560(Q49, V17) which I cancelled as my target score was 650+. I asked few of my colleagues for my improvement in the score. They suggested to take e-GMAT course. I enrolled on 14-Sept-17 for this course. I judiciously completed complete verbal course and solved all the recommended official questions. I partially solved their verbal scholoranium. I also went through their Quant courses partially. Meanwhile I had scheduled my exam date which was 04-Mar-18. I got a score of 580 (Q49, V19). Again I cancelled my score as it was not meeting my minimum score criteria of 650. I took six month extension of their course to complete the Quant as well as scholaranium. I fully competed the quant course, completed Quant and verbal scholaranium to a great extend and brushed up the verbal portion. I again appeared for the GMAT on 04-Aug-18 and ended up with 550 (Q50, V16).

Whether e-GMAT course was not effective for my preparation?

I started systematic with e-GMAT course as per their recommended schedule. I simply printed their recommended time table and pasted it on the wall. I simply colored the portion i completed. It took me around 4 months to complete the sentence structure and another two month for critical reasoning and reading comprehension. The course material was assisted with the live sessions by their instructors. The recommended official questions numbers were listed which I solved as per the guideline. The sentence correction course is quite dense, CR was moderate and RC was only explained with help of 2-3 examples. Though I brushed up the concept related to GMAT questions through this course and got a quite good understanding about the question types and pattern but I failed to improve my verbal score. In case of quant, though I improved only from Q49 to Q50, I was quite comfortable solving the quant questions in my 3rd attempt.

e-GMAT verbal teach concepts of verbal but it fails to provide the skills to make one fast. Even it makes one quite slow in their approach as there is no time to use the recommended methodological approach. e-GMAT quant approach is also methodological which might make one slow but a person of math background can get one's concept brushed up and can manage to have some improvement in score.

e-GMAT doesn't provide any exclusive instructor as they have various instructors for different topics who conducts live session. Live sessions adds only limited value to the preparation and is not as effective as advertised.

Looking forward for improvement in verbal through further preparations.

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Subscribe to EGMAT Verbal course. Their great content is great and the analytics are pretty engaging. Tried and tested by yours truly. You will encounter two options, the Online Prep and the Live Prep. The difference between the two is that the Live Prep has additional three hour webinars on the weekends. No new concept is taught in these webinars, only the application part is strengthened by solving 4-5 questions collectively. Choose whichever option you like.

GMAT Verbal consists of three subsections – SC (Sentence Correction), CR (Critical Reasoning) and RC (Reading comprehension). I would suggest that you start off with SC (time to complete approx. 4 weeks), after which your brain will probably get fried up and thus for pain relief, go to RC (pretty lame stuff, finishes in about a week) and at last take up CR (approx. 4 weeks). This entire time calculation depends on the assumption that you will be spending a quality 2 hour period each day on study and maybe double of that on the weekends.

On the EGMAT platform, you will encounter Concept files (which teach the theory), application files (IMO the most important since they teach you the application of the concepts learnt earlier via 3-4 questions), and practice files (questions from the EGMAT Scholaranium database). After this, there are topic wise questions to be solved from the Official Guide (OG) and the Verbal Review (OG VR).
In a nutshell here’s the Verbal approach for you - Concept < Application < Practice < OG < OG VR. Do this topic wise in each subsection (e.g. SC / CR / RC) and move ahead. By doing this you will comprehensively finish the topic wise content of the Verbal section.

At the same time, please, for the love of god, maintain an error log. An error log is simply a collection of questions which you attempted incorrectly. All the questions on the EGMAT platform have excellent in-built analytics so there is no need to log those. But the ones which you get wrong on the OG and the OG VR, do put them in. My preferred way is to take a picture or a snapshot and then paste it on a power point presentation. Make a small text box as to what you need to remember or where you faltered. Do this for the Quant section too.

Thus, for the Verbal section, the resources which will give you a comprehensive preparation are –
• EGMAT – Theory + Scholaranium
• Official Guide
• Official Guide Verbal Review

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