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These are survey responses from actual Magoosh students after they took the GMAT.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Jul 3, 2021
| 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?
Magoosh focuses on teaching you how to think the GMAT way, and does not promote iffy shortcuts (which almost always fails on D-Day). After watching the Magoosh videos I was able to approach the questions a lot more methodically, and look beyond the initial chaos of a question to find what the GMAT actually wants an answer to. The videos are crisp and clear, and the team was very prompt in responding to any queries. Apart from that, the question bank was thorough and gave me a lot of material to practice my newly acquired GMAT approaches on, in preparation for Test Day. On a side note, I did not prepare for the IR section at all. I hadn't done the Magoosh videos, hadn't done the section even once during any mock, but yet I scored an 8. This I truly credit to Magoosh's CR and RC techniques. I believe those videos had already put me in a thinking mindset, and hence despite having looked at the IR section for the first time ever on Test Day, I was able to do well. Thank you Magoosh. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I found it most helpful for the verbal section |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
With exercises and trained with tima |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
There were clear Math lessons and a lot of customizable practice question |
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Jun 6, 2023
| 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?
Watching all the lectures was foundational to my GMAT prep. Mike has an amazing flair for teaching and his style helped me understand concepts easily. Magoosh's practise questions were a tad bit difficult, but they helped me get more used to complicated questions. Perhaps the best feature is the student support that magoosh has to offer. Replies are not only prompt but also so detailed that in the end there's no room for doubt. From relieving anxiety to getting concepts cleared, I used magoosh for a variety of reasons relating to the GMAT and I found every one of them to be quite helpful. |
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Oct 1, 2022
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 760 |
| What was your math score? | 49 |
| What was your verbal score? | 44 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me immensely throughout my GMAT journey. I started my GMAT journey in January and since then magoosh's video lessons have been my source of all information about the GMAT. Magoosh has helped me with every aspect and section of the GMAT, the lessons are fantastic and very understandable. They really help in clearing the concepts. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
I did the mock tests. |
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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 |
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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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Dec 18, 2021
| Score Improvement: | +150 points |
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 50 |
| What was your verbal score? | 36 |
| 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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh helped me build the confidence which I was lacking earlier. When I took my first GMAT, I had been scoring an average of 670 on the mock tests. However, on the actual exam day, I realized I was not confident about my basics because of which I ended up scoring really low. After 2-3 days of being sad, I purchased the Magoosh course which enabled me to time myself on different questions of different difficulty levels. And finally, I gave the exam in the next 20 days scoring my dream score! |
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Jun 21, 2021
| What was your overall score on the actual GMAT? | 720 |
| What was your math score? | 42 |
| What was your verbal score? | 47 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Magoosh provided me with the knowledge, structure, and skills needed to perform well on the GMAT. As stated early on in the curriculum, all of the knowledge I needed to score a 700+ passed before my eyes, and on test day, I felt well prepared to achieve the score I was hoping for. My approach was simple: to follow the 3-month, math-intensive study guide on Magoosh's site, to a tee, and it worked perfectly. I can't recommend Magoosh highly enough. |
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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 |
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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! |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
Harder problems than were actually presented on the test, allowing me to overprepare. |
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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 |
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How did Magoosh help you?
By telling me EVERYTHING. I LOVE MAGOOSH |
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Oct 30, 2022
| Score Improvement: | +60 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?
I always had the ambition to reach 700+ on the GMAT. But after months preparing, I scored 680, not quite my goal, and was running out of time. I reached out for help and some friends suggested the Magoosh Advanced course. After 2 months preparing, I was able to land a 740 socre on my second try. I thank Magoosh for that accomplishment, specially so in the Verbal section—with multiple resources for learning and a set of questions harder than the real test. Now I will bring sound evidence for a successful MBA application. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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+. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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! |
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