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Hello.. I have my gmat scheduled on 24th Sept. My current level of accuracy is around 50-60%. I have gone through MGMAT SC and OG 12. I just feel that, the way I am approaching SC is not right. So am thinking of trying eGMAT's SC course,which has got good feedback. But my biggest doubt is ,whether 3 weeks is sufficient to complete the course?
Could some experts from egmat or people who are taking this course provide their inputs?

RyanDark wrote:Hello.. I have my gmat scheduled on 24th Sept. My current level of accuracy is around 50-60%. I have gone through MGMAT SC and OG 12. I just feel that, the way I am approaching SC is not right. So am thinking of trying eGMAT's SC course,which has got good feedback. But my biggest doubt is ,whether 3 weeks is sufficient to complete the course?
Could some experts from egmat or people who are taking this course provide their inputs?

Im sure the egmat experts can probably provide you with better feedback on how to improve in SC, but I'll pitch in my 2 cents here.

After hearing from some trusted people about egmat, i signed up for their 3 weeks course recently and so far its been going good. My accuracy has improved, not where I would want it to be though. My test is on the 25th of this month and I still haven't completed the course, so I am hopeful that it'll get even better.

Good Luck for your test!

Thanks for the reply.Their site has 2 courses.One for Basics and another the 3 week Advanced kinda course.Which one have you signed up for?

Oh nevermind,I didn't pay attention to the words "3 weeks" in your post. This is not good for RC..lol.

Hi Payal,

I am also having some problem with SC, my test is less than 3 weeks away should I take the 3 week test? I am afraid that might lead to me missing some concept from the regular course. I gave the gmat for the first time 2 weeks ago and got a 690 V36 Q48 wanted to push it to 700+ I feel like your course could be the key.

Thanks,

Mike

hi payal,

I got a verbal 34 last time over in December and am looking to cross 40 now(Retake in July).

MY sc accuracy is usually over 12/16 on any cat. That would be 75 %. I am brushing basics again and looking for an advance course from 15th may to 15th june.

Is the 39$ course the advance course ? Is there any other course on offer (for SC) ?

Guys,

I would stick with one source. There a differences in approaches from each company that might end up confusing you more. I think MGMAT SC and OG is awesome and if you are still scoring low on it then you have not gone through them thoroughly enough. If you don't have time, I would suggest getting a private tutor. Don't jump from sources to sources; the marginal gain is very very little.

I have a few friends (they don't know each other of course) that have used eGMAT. The reviews are not good. In fact, one of them gave up on the course and gave me his login. I tried it for 1 day then quit. Here are my reasons. Firstly, the material is not comprehensive and it is mostly a rehash of MGMAT SC stuff. Secondly, the practice questions are ok not great and there are definitely some conflicts with MGMAT materials. I don't know who's right but I'm sticking with MGMAT. It's a big test company that specializes in GMAT. I can't help but feel that eGMAT was started by a an ambitious high-scorer on the GMAT doing this as a side-project. Thirdly, the interface is absolutely horrible and the "forum" is even worst. Its only redeeming quality is that you do get your questions answered if you have any but you can already get that here.

I got it for free and I still didn't want to use it. Not that $39 is alot but the time you have to commit to it is. Plus learning an entirely different approach is not fun and counterproductive. I would bet you that you already have enough knowledge to score high but there's something small missing that keeps you from getting over the top. I think a tutor is the best option to diagnose that. I don't know if the pricing has changed but isn't Grockit $99? I've heard they give live support (you should check again). Why not do that instead. For $60 more, you get more than just SC and from a big-company no less. I would stick to one source but if you need live support that might be the cheapest dollar-for-dollar.

That's just my honest opinion. I don't favor anything over anything. The only thing I care about is the final score and how much time and money you have to spend to get it. I reviewed them so that people here can get the best info. The cream should rise to the top. If they are truly amazing this should not hurt them in anyway. I'm not saying that it won't help you, I'm saying it won't help you that much if at all and compared to what you can do (opportunity cost of time) with the time you spent on that, its a no-brainer. I wouldn't do it even if its free.

Hello Folks,

I would beg to differ on the below post. I am a long time silent lurker on this blog. Felt the below review of egmat-SC is a bit harsh without actually giving it a serious try.

I Have used egmat-SC course and I am impressed by their approach. They use a bricks to wall approach, concentrating on the basic SC structure.

They have plenty of SC questions also to check your accuracy. Definitely worth trying out their free section seriously and if you are impressed, you can subscribe to the full course.

I don't want to get into any slanging match here. The above are a couple of thoughts from my side from personal experience.

Regards,
Praveen

Hi friends,
I completely agree with Praveen.
I have also been using e-gmat for a sometime now. I also went for egmat after having done mgmat and og twice and not finding any improvement in my score. I have seen a really good improvement in my score after I started using egmat.
The below are few of the points I really like about e-gmat
1) They have an extremely good methodology, which is definitely not the case with MGMAT. After I started following the SC process it became fun solving SC questions.
2) I have suggested egmat for a couple of my friends and I know their score definitely improved because of egmat. My accuracy went from 50% to 85% in 3 weeks. This is because of the methodology they follow and repeat throughout the course.
3) I loved their video courses instead of reading books. It is easier to follow and do repetitive studies on when compared to reading from book. Especially if you are like me and work long hours before starting to study or simply don't like re-reading books � this is definitely a better choice.
4) The quality of the questions also is excellent and at par with OG. They also give you the list of questions to do from OG12 based on the topics covered. All egmat questions are explained with the same methodology that they use initially, so you can improve in applying the same on OG questions.
In all I would say spend sometime, at least like an hour, on the free videos and then decide.
You could also read my debrief and see what impact egmat had on my score. https://www.beatthegmat.com/from-510-to- ... tml#337875
Hope it helps.
All the very best for your GMAT.
Rock buddy!!
Regards
Nitya.

I took the GMAT last September and have immensely benefited from beatthegmat forums for any advice on courses, practice tests, questions, and GMAT experiences and it makes me sad that folks here might be using this forum to degrade businesses offering GMAT coaching. Thanks to the e-mail notifications I still get on responses to my posts that I came across the post by nynicks11. I feel sorry that nynicks11 could not benefit from the e-gmat course after trying it for 1 day.

Surprisingly, its the first time I have seen a user make such harsh statements for a course - be it MGMAT, Knewton, or e-GMAT. This really makes me question the intent leading to this post.

Below is a link to my post detailing my GMAT experience.
https://www.beatthegmat.com/finally-done ... 67179.html
I read thru MGMAT books for math preparation and found them immensely helpful. I also read the SC and CR book that MGMAT provides, but unfortunately it didn't quite work for me. Thanks to beatthegmat forums, I was introduced to e-GMAT and I bought the SC course. Their course helped clear my basics and definitely was a major driver to my target score on GMAT. I absoultely love the apprach e-GMAT follows and makes the course so much more interesting than reading from a traditional text book! I have personally worked with the e-GMAT team in preparing both for Sentence Correction and Critical Reasoning and found them very knowledgable and professional.

@bblast - If you have any questions regarding the course, feel free to send me a message and I'll be happy to answer your questions.

fully agree with Nitya !!!