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These are survey responses from actual Magoosh students after they took the GMAT.

You can find more stories about Magoosh here (on the GMAT Club forum).


Jan 27, 2024

Score Improvement: +100 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
I think the best feature of Magoosh is the possibility to answer questions in the “exam mode”. It really helped me to get used to manage time. The video lessons after every question are really helpful for fixing concept in mind

Jan 4, 2024

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 685
What was your math score? 88
What was your verbal score? 85
How did Magoosh help you?
With everything! I had no background with the GMAT prior to when I signed up for Magoosh. It gave me all that I needed to be successful when it came to test day.

Nov 6, 2023

Score Improvement: +140 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 39
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 27
How did Magoosh help you?
I found it most helpful for the verbal section

Aug 21, 2023

Score Improvement: +195 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 51
What was your verbal score? 37
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 39
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 23
How did Magoosh help you?
With exercises and trained with tima

Dec 5, 2022

Score Improvement: +40 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 39
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 43
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 38
How did Magoosh help you?
There were clear Math lessons and a lot of customizable practice question

Jun 1, 2022

Score Improvement: +30 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 770
What was your math score? 51
What was your verbal score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 50
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
I did the mock tests.

Mar 29, 2022

Score Improvement: +50 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 760
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 50
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 37
How did Magoosh help you?
I signed up for Magoosh Premium after my first attempt as I was looking for something that would not only help me identify the blind spots in my learning but also challenge my current skills with hard questions. Magoosh Premium was the only additional course I signed up for, and it met most of my expectations! :)

The journey was arduous at times, especially with the Very Hard Quant and SC questions, questions that challenged my thought process and approach to the core. But I learnt a lot in the process, as the explanations, lessons and blog posts were really helpful. I also had a couple of tutoring sessions with Tom who helped me with some really useful GMAT test taking strategies. He also helped me calm down and added positivity to my process. Finally, the e-mail support provided by the team was quick and elaborate.

Thank you very much to the entire team for coming up a really well structured course and for providing swift and insightful support. Special shoutout to everyone who replied to my e-mail queries and helped me with tutoring -- Tom, Kristin, Jonathan, Karryn, Adrienne et al.

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Feb 24, 2021

Score Improvement: +80 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 27
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 51
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 27
How did Magoosh help you?
Great lessons and questions. Really liked the help button. The teachers were very prompt in responding to my questions. That really helped a lot. Thank you!

Jan 23, 2021

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 41
What was your verbal score? 45
How did Magoosh help you?
The logic of the lessons was very helpful. When I started my studies, I would get a question wrong, then watch the videos to see what I should have done. The logic completely missed me. But I stayed diligent in watching the lessons and soon i was getting questions right, but watching the videos after each study question anyway. (Don't skip this!) I quickly realized I was seeing patterns and "number sense" that I picked up from the lessons that even the instructors were missing. Several times on the official gmat (math and verbal) I was able to answer questions without even getting into a problem because I could recognize relationships between the questions and among the answers.

Nov 29, 2020

Score Improvement: +250 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 41
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 32
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 21
How did Magoosh help you?
The quality of the video tutorials in fantastic. The questions are top notch as well. I also got a discount for GMAT 3&4 from Magoosh. Other than that, the customer service has been nothing but phenomenal. I'd be lying if I said I scored so well without you.

Sep 3, 2020

Score Improvement: +50 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 750
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 41
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 49
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 36
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh questions and the video explanation were the pivotal resource for me to jump the score. I really liked the reference links to further material to better understand the concepts.
I'm also grateful for the timely help on any question I had, it really helped me in strengthening the concepts and giving me clarity.
I also liked the blog posts a lot, very helpful information there.

Last but not the least, the statistics on dashboard pushed me to improve on my performance - it was like a game for me, in which I felt the urge to improve my "correct percentage" and "average time per question". In turn, it helped me to score better.


Jul 30, 2020

Score Improvement: +50 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 760
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 48
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 45
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 46
How did Magoosh help you?
Harder problems than were actually presented on the test, allowing me to overprepare.

Jul 21, 2020

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 770
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 47
How did Magoosh help you?
By telling me EVERYTHING. I LOVE MAGOOSH

Feb 11, 2022

Score Improvement: +170 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 39
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me with my math especially, which was very weak, but overall gave me specific strategies on how to quickly get the answers without solving the entire problem. Their lessons were phenomenal and they greatly helped me figure out how to make strategic shortcuts to get to answers without doing all the work by hand. I did a bunch of practice problems in timed sets to practice my time management skills.

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Aug 9, 2020

Score Improvement: +50 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 46
What was your verbal score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 39
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh’s videos are unparalleled. The lesson videos offered a refresher on topics I hadn’t seen in nearly 10 years & the answer explanation videos helped me to identify patterns and shortcuts to improve my timing. Further, I loved the fact that the custom practice is adaptive, rather than being a mix of all questions.

Dec 21, 2019

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 38
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me gained the necessary self-confidence to crack the harder questions in GMAT, especially in Sentence correction and data sufficiency. The recorded classes by Mike McGarry and Chris Lele were very good and helpful, specially when it came to how to approach each question type. I would definitely recommend Magoosh to anyone who wants crack GMAT with a score of 700+.

Dec 17, 2019

Score Improvement: +40 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 44
What was your verbal score? 46
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
The video explanations after each practice question are great. A few weeks before my test I reviewed several questions that I initially got wrong to analyze what kinds of mistakes I was making most often. I think that made a big difference in my score.

Dec 4, 2019

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 40
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? NA
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? NA
How did Magoosh help you?
I started off around 490(practice score) in August and was totally intimidated by GMAT. Over the last few months, I believe that Magoosh, especially all the solution video from Chris, improved my score from 490 to 710 (actual score). I am very happy with the result but even happier with the progress I made with the help of Magoosh. I found all the resources and videos easy to understand even for someone like me who hated math in school and has never attempted math problems again for 15 years. I've tried couple of Korean online courses but they were way more overpriced, of less qualify and they had time limit (usually 30 days) to finish the whole course. I love the fact that Magoosh lets the students to take as much time as they need and also for unlimited number of timed practice exam.
Overall, I am very happy and thankful to Magoosh for making all these amazing resources available. Thank you again!

May 26, 2019

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 44
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh taught me everything I needed to know for the test. The videos were fantastic and allowed me to go at my own pace. The 1000+ practice problems helped me see just about every type of possible problem I would get on the test. I couldn’t have achieved this score without Magoosh. Thank you!

Oct 25, 2018

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 740
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 44
How did Magoosh help you?
Lots of practice questions! Loved most of the video explanations

Sep 26, 2018

Score Improvement: +30 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 760
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 44
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 47
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 44
How did Magoosh help you?
Great model for quant questions - I watched all the videos on double speed, and they really helped me to improve my factoring and efficiency in ways that cracked the low-700s threshold I was previously stuck at.

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Sep 13, 2018

Score Improvement: +20 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 46
What was your verbal score? 44
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 44
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 42
How did Magoosh help you?
Really clear explanations of problems. Very well structured agenda for a 4 week timeline. Loved the links to relevant lessons in the questions, seeing how I was pacing. Just a terrific website!

Aug 22, 2018

Score Improvement: +90 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 760
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh was amazing! It helped boost my quant score more than I could have ever anticipated. Although I was already pretty strong in the verbal section, Magoosh helped me to refine my skills even more. The video lessons as well as the videos attached to each practice question were immensely helpful. I couldn't say enough good things about Magoosh. Thank you!

Aug 3, 2018

Score Improvement: +80 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 41
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 37
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
I followed the Magoosh 3 month advanced study plan to prepare for my exam. This helped me to stay on track with my studying by adhering to a schedule. I found the quant lesson videos on the Magoosh website to be particularly helpful as they retaught me concepts that I had not seen for several years. Moreover, I found the practice problems I did in Magoosh to be more helpful than other books and sites since every problem in the Magoosh database is accompanied with a video explanation for the problem and links to more videos explaining the underlying concepts. This helped me to more fully understand my mistakes so I could correct them in the future.