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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).


Apr 7, 2017

Score Improvement: +30 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 750
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 42
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? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
Verbal practice questions were extremely helpful, as well as the idiom flashcards.The user interface, which included a mobile platform, was also super helpful because it allowed me to study on-the-go. The math questions were also very helpful in solidifying concepts that I learned through the videos.

Apr 6, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 39
How did Magoosh help you?
Your team got me from a 500 (practice test) to a 710! I couldn't have done it without your fantastic lessons. Thank you for everything you do. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to other students.

Apr 1, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
I did well studying Manhattan books for concepts and practicing magoosh for ~2 hrs, 5 times a week.

Mar 26, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 38
How did Magoosh help you?
video lectures helped me organize SC, math concepts

Mar 26, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
The Magoosh program and staff helped me SO MUCH to achieve my score. I went from a 540 on my first mock to a 730 on my actual test, and Magoosh was there every step of the way for me. The Magoosh questions closely match the questions I encountered on the official GMAT. The video lessons were very well put together and were largely very clear. More importantly the Magoosh team that answer so many of my questions were unbelievably invaluable! That alone was worth far more than the cost of the subscription.

Must have self-study/supplementary tool!

Mar 23, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 38
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh provided me with a great foundation for my math and verbal skills. Especially the video explanations for every problem and the Magoosh flash cards were very helpful and contributed greatly to training and improving my problem solving abilities. Moreover, the often interesting blog posts of Magoosh gave further insight into the very origins of the theoretical quantitative and verbal subjects that are tested by the GMAT, as well as into strategies and study schedules recommended by Magoosh and applied by other students. Finally, I found it very helpful that Magoosh provides its students with an online companion app about the OG 2017, consisting of a timer, markable answer choices, and, sometimes, also video explanations for the problems. This app definitely is a great tool for analyzing past performance in the OG and thus makes a great error log for reviewing and improving the student's skills.

Mar 20, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 44
What was your verbal score? 44
How did Magoosh help you?
Videos of the OG questions were very helpful.

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Mar 18, 2017

Score Improvement: +14 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 740
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 44
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 38
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 39
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh was instrumental in increasing both my verbal and (not as well as) my quantitative score. I hope my score and testimonial serve as proof that you do not need to spend ludicrous amounts of money on a GMAT prep course in a classroom setting. Magoosh was the only resource I used other than the Original Guide. Thanks Magoosh!

P.S. Mike McGarry is the man!

Mar 18, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me get familiar with all the topics the GMAT possibly could have covered. Starting from nothing, I was well prepared to take the GMAT in a month's time and got a score above even what I was hoping for!

Mar 17, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 760
What was your math score? 000
What was your verbal score? 000
How did Magoosh help you?
I wanted to write you to guys to express my gratitude. I started out my GMAT preparation in state of apprehension. I majored in Art History in college, and since then have worked in IT. My interests and inclinations have changed since I graduated, and after a couple of years of experience and self evaluation, I realized that I was truly fascinated with the processes and logistics of business. In a very nerdy way. The major problem with this was that I had majored in a very liberal arts field, and worked in a sector that was, while more quantitative, not necessarily that business-oriented.

When I began to study for the test, I felt lost confronting the quantitative section. I’ve always been a naturally verbal person; my mother is a writer and my father was an English teacher who forced Shakespeare down my throat at an annoyingly young age. So after a couple weeks of studying verbal with the OG, I felt pretty confident.

But the quantitative section was a completely different beast. I'm not particularly bad at math and I'm not particularly good either. I have zero feelings about it. But the GMAT requires you to be exceptional. Not just in a 'memorize these formulas' way, but in a way that requires you to have a very deeply rooted understanding of and fascination with the basic principles of mathematics. And I simply never developed that. I haven’t had to do serious math since 2008, and I never really found a reason to care about it.

I tried a number of services, but most of them were, frankly, crap. I didn’t have enough money to afford the very expensive services either. So I was stuck with these sets of questions and answers with explanations that were either extremely confusing or entirely nonexistent.

I tried Magoosh because of the January sale. What the hell. $100. And I gotta tell you, it has been the single most important factor in improving my quantitative score.

I saved up my vacation days and used them to take a week off of work, during which, I went through every single Magoosh quantitative problem. I listened to many of the lessons. I documented the things I felt that were valuable. Chief among them was Mike McGarry’s insistence on developing “number sense,” a concept that was unfamiliar to me. Even the very simple things that he taught, like quickly figuring out what 15% of a number is, were new to me. Things that I was kicking myself about, but still new.

I spent a month or so, on his advice, doing every single calculation in my head. Memorizing prime numbers. Picking apart random numbers. If I bought a case of beer, I calculated how much it would have been in quarters, then nickels, then dimes and nickels. I broke down every single number in front of me.

Fast forward to today. I’ve taken more than two dozen practice tests, through different services. On each of the practice tests I had a relatively high verbal score and a relatively abysmal-to-average math score. I averaged about 680 in total. That’s what I was expecting to get.

When I took the test today, I actually could not believe how easy it was. I was used to the onslaught of “very hard” questions from Magoosh, which perpetually confounded me and left me feeling like I had months of preparation left. But one question after another, I knew exactly what to do because I had done it on Magoosh 20 times before (I went through every quantitative question a second time). And for a surprise to end all surprises, I got in the 87th percentile for quant and the 99th percentile over all. I got a 760.

I wanted to thank you because Magoosh was the single most effective, and cost-effective, resource available. I did not have the advantage of being able to afford expensive prep classes but you rectified that! It is a hugely important factor to be able to offer students of all means quality resources.

The primary purpose of this letter is a genuine, sincere thank you. Every single day that I used Magoosh I saw that banner “Person X just scored a 760! See how!” which I frankly, annoyedly, thought was just because they were inhumanly talented but I now realize is actually possible.

Anyway, if you want to use any part of this feedback in any sort of promotion, feel free, just let me know first. I really, really appreciate the service that you have provided me. It may have changed my life.

Mar 14, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 46
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
Helped me form solid quant strategies and understand the test. Videos are best part of the product.

Mar 6, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 42
What was your verbal score? 46
How did Magoosh help you?
I used Magoosh in conjunction with the Manhattan Prep books, and because I find their textbooks helpful, I used them as my first source for learning material, but when I encountered something tricky, I turned to the Magoosh lessons, and these often provided a different approach that helped to clarify things. The practice questions, however, along with the video explanations that followed each one, were a huge help. Being able to customize practice to focus on one area - geometry for instance - while learning that material, or to cycle through a variety of question types to retain that info, was incredibly helpful in developing stronger, quicker skills, and gaining the confidence necessary to tackle the GMAT. Having the dashboard update progress and estimated score range was incredibly motivating.

Mar 5, 2017

Score Improvement: +20 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 760
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 47
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 36
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
I started from square one. Magoosh taught me the strategy and the content that I needed for GMAT success.

Mar 4, 2017

Score Improvement: +25 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 750
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 42
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 36
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 31
How did Magoosh help you?
I loved the videos and practice problems. Really good to focus on a certain topic and do on the go

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Mar 3, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 780
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 51
How did Magoosh help you?
Really phenomenal solution explanations. By far the best in the industry.

Mar 3, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
I don't like to learn via a book.

Feb 28, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
The practice problems were extremely helpful. I also liked how the problems all had explanations that were linked to the lessons so it was easy to go right to the lesson about the problem. Thank you for putting this all together! I'm sure it was a ton of work to have explanations on every problem, but I greatly appreciate it.

Feb 23, 2017

Score Improvement: +14 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 38
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 41
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 32
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh videos cover every GMAT subject very thoroughly. The strategies that are presented make complex problems much easier to solve. The ability to answer questions and have through and detailed answer explanations is extremely helpful and unique to Magoosh.

Feb 23, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 740
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
I had no prior MBA-studying experience and the Magoosh prepared me very well for the test. I used both the verbal and quant prep material and found the written/video answer explanations and lessons very helpful. I also liked the notes functionality and the FAQs.

Feb 21, 2017

Score Improvement: +12 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 42
What was your verbal score? 44
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? 35
How did Magoosh help you?
The videos were so invaluable to me. I am a full-time law student. I took the GMAT in pursuit of the JD/MBA program, and it was tough to study for the GMAT while maintaining a full course load of law school. I had not taken a math class in about 8 years, since high school, so I needed to re-learn a lot of material. The lesson videos helped me so much and made me so much more confident going into the test. Being able to take practice questions online is also extremely helpful. Since the actual GMAT is all on a computer, studying from a book just doesn't cut it. Magoosh is so worth it. Great value for excellent content.

Feb 12, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 740
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh's question set is second to none. Honestly, I think that the questions on the Magoosh site were more test like than the retired OG materials. Also, the video explanations are amazing. Something that should not be overlooked is the professionalism of the Magoosh team. Mike McGarry expects people to live excellence to achieve excellence; this can be seen on forum posts when a student uses colloquial language when discussing a sentence correction problem. Mike's approach is by no means harsh or rude but should be seen as encouraging. In addition, the response time of the team when submitting a question on the site is extremely quick and helpful. There was never a need to send a follow-up email because the first email was very thorough. For the price, Magoosh is totally worth it.

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Feb 12, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 38
How did Magoosh help you?
The largest strength that Magoosh has is the explanation videos. I believe that the questions in the question bank fairly represented the actual test, with the math being a tad bit more difficult. This helped me prepare for the actual test.

Feb 7, 2017

Score Improvement: +4 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 45
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? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
Video explanations were great

Feb 5, 2017

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 38
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh give me a sense of structure and covers all the foundation of GMAT materials. Better yet is the preparation schedule which really help me made progress one step at a time.