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These are survey responses from actual Magoosh students after they took the GMAT.
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Mar 13, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 760 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 42 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
It provided challenging practice questions, covered all of the topics, and included excellent videos that described the answers to hundreds of practice questions |
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Mar 13, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 700 |
| What was your math score? | 46 |
| What was your verbal score? | 40 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Three ways: 1. You have awesome lesson videos. They scoop the most basic concepts, which, if you want, you can skip. But they also go over more difficult concepts and give practise problems as if we were in class ourselves. Also, the techniques used to solve the problems use the methods mentioned earlier, reinforcing the use of time-saving methods to achieve higher scores. 2. The practise questions adapt. If I were to use simply use my books, I would get a medley of problems of multiple levels. It turns out my math was mostly adequate for the "hard" level among the four categories. If I had taken the harder questions, the concepts and methods used to find the answers might have daunted me (dignity and pride aside); and if I had taken easier questions, I would have been wasting my time as I might have already thoroughly understood the concepts and optimal methods to solving those problems. 3. There's a video explanation for every answer! As a friend of mine put it, it's almost better than a classroom setting. If I were in a classroom and didn't understand something the instructor covered, unless I bothered the instructor after class, I might not learn the subject matter adequately. Meanwhile, if I understood something thoroughly while the rest of the class did not, I might have to sit through a period of empty learning as the rest of the class were taught something I already understood. I only had two weeks to study for the exam, and I got a 700. If I had a whole month (or imagine, three whole months!), imagine the score I could have gotten! For the meantime, I wanted to substantiate applications for Masters in Accountancy programs which want an average GMAT score of 630. I succeeded in making deadlines with an above-adequate score. I may yet study more and take the exam again to get a Top 10 MBA average program score, but for now, I'm relaxing with some drinks! Ask me tomorrow what my plans are! Thanks! |
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Mar 8, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 760 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 44 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
The video lessons + the quant and verbal question bank + ultra-cool dashboard + Magoosh GMAT blog + prompt response to my queries + GMAT Android apps + Mike + Kevin + others = helped me in my preparation, apart from my own effort and other sources as well. Thanks. |
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Mar 4, 2015
| 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?
I had decided to use Magoosh as part of the 3-month self-study plan, which I ended up following loosely. Magoosh came in handy essentially for the Quant-related videos and for overall practice. Having a tool that could get me in exam mode (practice questions on screen with a timer) anytime I had 30 minutes to spare was incredibly helpful. Having directly-related lessons linked below a problem's explanation was a big plus. |
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Feb 27, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +9 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 740 |
| What was your math score? | 48 |
| 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? | 36 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Big question base with excellent explanations of the tricks and traps to look out for |
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Feb 26, 2015
| 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?
extremely well. saved me a great deal of time. In Korea, they teach all these things that are to a great extent unrelated to getting a high score on GMAT. Magoosh just teaches essentials. Loved it. |
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Feb 26, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 700 |
| What was your math score? | 46 |
| What was your verbal score? | 40 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I gather lots of disadvantages regarding the probability of achieving my target score of 700 in the GMAT: 1) I am quite old for the GMAT (31) 2) I work for over 10 hours daily (that was the case during my prep as well) 3) I have no time for prep schools and prep seminars 4) I only had two weeks for preperation What I did? I relied absolutely in Magoosh material. I viewed all of the videos (in the fast forward since I was running out of time), tried to keep personal notes (very helpful for my last day's revision). I did all of Magoosh's excercises in batches of practice tests (Q37,V41) under real timing conditions (75min) and then read all the solutions (even those I found correct). And in the last 4 days (two of them were the only days off work) I kept re-watching videos and retrying questions either flagged or wrong. The result? I achieved my target score of 700 on my first try. I am sure that Magoosh has just the information you need to achieve even a higher score and nothing more. I regard it as an extremely efficient prep tool. Thank you! |
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Feb 22, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 740 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 42 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
It taught me the tricks I needed to solve problems and learn grammar the right way! |
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Feb 10, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +10 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 770 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 44 |
| 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? | 44 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I was pretty pleased with my verbal score on my first attempt at the GMAT (98th percentile), so I only purchased the quant package... I did your math problems every single day after work for 4 weeks. I watched the videos and worked the problems again. The results speak for themselves... from 47th percentile on quant to 88th... from waitlisted to scholarship!!! Thank you. |
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Feb 8, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 710 |
| What was your math score? | 44 |
| What was your verbal score? | 42 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I got some good review with math for the quantitative section. |
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Jan 31, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 740 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 41 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh videos really helped in SC and Probability. The blog was a big help for RC. |
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Jan 28, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +10 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 710 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 35 |
| If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? | 48 |
| If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? | 27 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh excercises helped a lot to practice pacing, to see questions in different difficulty levels. |
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Jan 28, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +9 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? | 39 |
| If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? | 41 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh was instrumental in filling in the gaps in my knowledge. All of the extra questions, combined with videos to help explain to me what I could do better next time. Magoosh really came through for me at a small fraction of the cost of traditional tutoring services! |
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Jan 27, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 700 |
| What was your math score? | 44 |
| What was your verbal score? | 41 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I thought the intro videos to all of the relevant subjects were super helpful and gave me a great base to refine from. |
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Jan 27, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +8 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? | 48 |
| If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? | 35 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me to follow a structured approach while preparing for GMAT preparation. The video lessons are also well-designed and immensely helped me in developing my overall quantitative and verbal skills. |
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Jan 26, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 38 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh was awesome. It was the reason I did well. The videos were extremely helpful. The ability to customize practice sets was invaluable. Being able to see what types of questions I was missing let me structure a more guided and efficient method of studying. I spent $100 on Magoosh and over $300 on other materials and more than 90% of my studying was spent on Magoosh. |
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Jan 16, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 710 |
| What was your math score? | 48 |
| What was your verbal score? | 40 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Study plan, video lessons, and adaptive question practice really helped. |
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Jan 10, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 47 |
| What was your verbal score? | 42 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Doing a large amount of practice problems helped me get exposed to the different types of questions to expect on the GMAT. |
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Jan 6, 2015
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 770 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 44 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I started with the 3-month plan for beginners until I had the feeling I could use some more flexibility. I used the custom practice feature to improve in my weaker areas. The 'very hard' questions were challenging and were excellent for practice! I must admit that I have not completed the OG, but I am very happy with my results. |
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Jan 5, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +5 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 700 |
| What was your math score? | 47 |
| What was your verbal score? | 38 |
| 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? | 35 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I was able to use Magoosh to focus on my weak areas, come up with an improvement strategy within a short period of preparation (1 month), and an overall time saving strategy for the exam which I believe helped to improve my verbal score. |
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Jan 4, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +7 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? | 50 |
| If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? | 29 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh really helped improve my Verbal score. The practice tests are really good. The Magoosh questions are very close to the GMAT test. |
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Jan 3, 2015
| Score Improvement: | +5 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 38 |
| If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous math score? | 48 |
| If you took the GMAT before, what was your previous verbal score? | 34 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh has an excellent question bank. The questions were more comparable to the real test questions in term of content and difficulty level. Also, the Magoosh video explanations and lessons were fantastic! They were extremely thorough. I learned more from Magoosh than I did from Kaplan lessons, which cost over $1000. |
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Dec 31, 2014
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 700 |
| What was your math score? | 47 |
| What was your verbal score? | 39 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
It let me study at my own pace and provided detailed coverage and great explanations of every topic. |
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Dec 15, 2014
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 47 |
| What was your verbal score? | 42 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Being able to practice and review lessons whenever I want made it easy to fit studying into my routine. The practice questions were great, I should have done more. |
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