Choosing from eGMAT, MGMAT and Veritas Prep

I start off by admitting I made a rookie mistake. A mistake that has, alas, cost me several study hours. My mistake? I decided to be a smarty-pants!

I have already amassed a treasure chest of GMAT Material over the past few years and instead of picking something and running with it, I dawdled and instead started looking for GMAT Courses that I could join in a bid to keep me focused and fast-track my prep. After seriously considering a local test prep company in Chennai, 4GMAT, i decided against it and instead opted to go with e-GMAT, an online GMAT test prep firm.

The reviews and feedback on gmatclub were almost unanimous in the quality of the course. I was blown away by the feedback to be honest. I've never seen a course garner such positive reviews, and in hindsight I should have said to myself "...maybe too positive". Anyhoo, I signed up for their Verbal Online course without batting an eyelid. I don't know what happened next, whether it was just my personal bias, or whether i was in pissed-off kinda mood, but I didn't like the SC material at all. All i did was a diagnostic test and then ran through one SC lession, but I had this uneasy feeling right from the first question in the diagnostic that the language used in the questions isn't really GMAT standard. Needless to say, I felt that for all the questions in the diagnostic despite scoring a 9/10. The explanations seemed okay enough, but I wasn't at ease with the language and style of the questions, and promptly decided that this course was not going to cut it for me. I have since asked for a refund in the 7-day window, which they've been thoroughly professional in processing. I've got to say though, I do like the quality of the sessions they conduct over the weekends, but for some reason I was not too happy with the course content.

So, I've now decided to stop messing around with different course options on focus on a limited set of resources. I have started with the MGMAT guides and have completed Number Properties and Fractions and Decimals. I have completed the first chapter in SC, and am keen to wrap up SC asap as I'm struggling to stay awake while running through this :P

The plan is to finish with the MGMAT books by the end of this month, and then run through the Veritas Prep guides which have been gathering dust.

Sigh, a long way to go!

Cheers!

The First Step is Always the Hardest

Well, not exactly the first step i've taken in my GMAT journey, but it does feel like i am starting from scratch. Gone are the days where I knew the GMAT like the back of my hand and was even successfully running private tutoring for folks in Chennai and abroad. I have been so out of touch, that this whole acing the GMAT thing doesn't appear as easy and straightforward as I knew it to be. Sigh!

It has been a year since I rather wistfully turned down an admit to ISB, and while I still have mixed feelings about my decision, I am certain that the time is now right for me to embark on my MBA journey.

In the meanwhile, since the time I made this decision, I have left work get in the way of my preparation and have made insignificant progress. To sort of kick me in the butt, I have signed up for a course I haven't tried out previously, but seems to have pretty good reviews on GMATClub. Yep, eGMAT. Let's see how it goes.

I promise regular updates, if only to keep me honest and true. Thanks for your company, and I'd love to connect if you are a fellow MBA applicant, has-been, or a been-there-done-that ;)

Cheers!
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