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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).


Nov 1, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 44
What was your verbal score? 45
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh's videos really helped explain complex concepts in a simple way that I was having difficulty understanding via books. I couldn't afford a tutor or a GMAT course, but Magoosh was jut as good - better even.

Oct 31, 2015

Score Improvement: +13 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 42
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? 39
How did Magoosh help you?
Watching video lessons and doing practice questions was the primary way that I prepped. The one month study plan was also great for giving structure to my prep. I've already recommended to a few friends.

Oct 30, 2015

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?
You guys have been amazing...I have done well in GRE and done excellently in TOEFL only due to you...I wish however I prepared a bit more for the GMAT using your fantastic material...

Oct 28, 2015

Score Improvement: +5 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 38
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? 40
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
Provide great videos

Oct 27, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 42
What was your verbal score? 47
How did Magoosh help you?
The clock on each question was invaluable.

Oct 26, 2015

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?
The math and grammar lessons are top notch. Learning all of the grammar rules helped not only my test score but also my job performance. What I love most about Magoosh's lessons is how they emphasize LEARNING the content and not just memorizing it. I was able to take the test with such confidence because I understood the material.

Oct 26, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 45
What was your verbal score? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
Great review of all topics!

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Oct 25, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 44
What was your verbal score? 42
How did Magoosh help you?
It provided me a huge database. Also, the videos were really helpful, especially for some topics I did not master

Oct 25, 2015

Score Improvement: +6 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 35
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? 31
How did Magoosh help you?
Really helpful from videos!

Oct 24, 2015

Score Improvement: +9 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 39
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? 34
How did Magoosh help you?
The usefulness of magoosh stems from its superb learning platform: quality of questions,coupled with superb explanations, makes plugging prep loopholes that much more effective.

Oct 21, 2015

Score Improvement: +25 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? 29
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? 33
How did Magoosh help you?
This one goes out to all those struggling with the hope of turning their scores from abysmal to top notch.

I started with a practice test score of 560. Then I took a Veritas program, but wasn't able to commit myself fully to it, and really wasted a lot of money by not doing so. From this I learned the hard way that slow and steady is not the way to beat the GMAT.

Then I started with Magoosh, and took a practice test again, and scored a 520... After that I got intense, put my social life completely on hold, and committed myself only to my job and my GMAT studies for 4 months. Magoosh proved to be an extraordinary study resource that is unique because of the huge amount of practice questions it has with excellent explanations of the answers. My strategy was to focus on all the ones I got incorrect (especially for Quant) as many times as it took until the lessons behind all 500 math problems correct.

While some people may prefer classroom settings with instructors, Magoosh has the key advantage of offering short and concise video lessons that allow you to re-enforce challenging ideas as many times as needed.

Back to my story now, I took the GMAT in mid-September, and scored a 560 again, which I was very disappointed with and cancelled my score. Just prior to that I was scoring around a 600 on practice tests, and so I decided to keep at it, and took 4 more practice tests that were around 600, except for the one I took 2 days before my official retest, and on that I scored a 550...

So then I took the official test a 2nd time in mid-October just praying not to get a completely awful score, and then I scored a 710...

I'll be honest, I haven't the slightest clue how on Earth I went from a 550 to a 710 in two days, but I guess I beat the GMAT. Magoosh definitely deserves props for being a key to that success, but for those people who don't think they have a shot at a top notch score, don't lose hope!!!

Oct 16, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 42
How did Magoosh help you?
Continually doing problems helped me see the test as a puzzle and not just problems. Puzzles have tricks and clear processes to solve them.

Oct 13, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 41
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? -
If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? -
How did Magoosh help you?
It basically help me organize my entire GMAT study schedule. I used your schedules, listened to all the lessons and I think I finished all the exercises. I'll be listening to Mike McGarry's voice in my head for a while and I'm not complaining!

PS. He should read audio books.

Oct 11, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 740
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 40
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?
It really helped me to understand what GMAT verbal is all about. The only difference between my last attempt and this attempt was the I was better equipped to handle Verbal this time and all the credit goes to Magoosh

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Oct 11, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
The material, blog, and videos provided a great foundation for real understanding of the math and verbal concepts. I felt prepared to handle varying concepts given the base of knowledge magoosh helped me to develop. Overall, magoosh was a great resource that helped me to get my 710 score in one try!

Oct 10, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 700
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 34
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh had some of the best video lessons on improving the GMAT verbal scores. The review section can be customized to provide feedback on what areas one needs to improve.

Oct 8, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 47
What was your verbal score? 44
How did Magoosh help you?
Practice problems and math videos. A lot of math videos. Mike McGarry's voice will be in my head whenever I do math now, for better or for worse.

Oct 7, 2015

Score Improvement: +3 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 39
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
How did Magoosh help you?
The explanation videos were very helpful!

Oct 6, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 760
What was your math score? 50
What was your verbal score? 42
How did Magoosh help you?
Great Questions, brief lectures and customised testing.

Oct 2, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 42
How did Magoosh help you?
Practice problems were invaluable to learning the commonly used patterns on the GMAT, the only way to learn them well is to screw them up a few times to ensure the lesson is memorable (I can't tell you how many times I forgot that x^2=4 has two possible answers.)

Oct 2, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 710
What was your math score? 51
What was your verbal score? 34
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me analyze my week points.

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Sep 28, 2015

Score Improvement: +6 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 730
What was your math score? 48
What was your verbal score? 41
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? 36
How did Magoosh help you?
Question bank and explanations. Customized question banks were helpful.

Sep 26, 2015

What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 49
What was your verbal score? 40
How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me improve my score from 650 to 720. I loved the questions and the detailed explanations .

Sep 25, 2015

Score Improvement: +11 points
What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? 720
What was your math score? 44
What was your verbal score? 44
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? 41
How did Magoosh help you?
The videos are SO helpful - both math and verbal (mostly SC). Also having a video after each problem is so incredibly useful. Magoosh helped me more than I can express in words - thank you, Magoosh!