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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).
May 9, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 750 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 41 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh video lessons was extremely helpful. Since I didn't have much time to prepare to my exam, I took every chance to watch or just listen Magoosh lessons on my iPhone, iPad, or laptop. It was very convenient that Magoosh is a multi platfrom offering full synchronization among all devices. |
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May 7, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 710 |
| What was your math score? | 45 |
| What was your verbal score? | 41 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
The study plans are great and kept me focused. |
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May 5, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 760 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 45 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Loved the depth of the question bank, helpful video explanations, and emphasis on critical understanding. I liked being able to filter for questions that I previously got incorrect. |
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May 2, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 700 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 34 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh was a great resource. Everything I needed for the GMAT was in one place. The lessons were very well structured; SC lessons are top notch. Mike is a great tutor, and Magoosh Support was very responsive to the questions I had asked. Thank you, Magoosh! |
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May 1, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 730 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 41 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Helpful contents and videos. Great explanations. Very good tracking systems and question banks. |
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Apr 18, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 710 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 36 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Great videos and great helps from the tutor. Very responsive and clear in explanation. |
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Apr 17, 2017
| Score Improvement: | +30 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 730 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 40 |
| 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? | 38 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
The lessons and practice problems seemed tailored for higher level scores. |
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Apr 16, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 45 |
| What was your verbal score? | 44 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Mike mcgarry has a gift for explaining things |
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Apr 15, 2017
| Score Improvement: | +30 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 730 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 40 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Great question bank, excellent video explanations and fantastic tutorials. |
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Apr 13, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 40 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Provided helpful videos in defining the content covered on the test (what to and not to study for). |
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Apr 7, 2017
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 700 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 34 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
- Great question sets with mostly great explanation videos. - Nicely structured lesson videos |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I did well studying Manhattan books for concepts and practicing magoosh for ~2 hrs, 5 times a week. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
video lectures helped me organize SC, math concepts |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Helped me form solid quant strategies and understand the test. Videos are best part of the product. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I started from square one. Magoosh taught me the strategy and the content that I needed for GMAT success. |
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