Magoosh GMAT Prep Course Review
You’ve seen them, I’ve seen them, we’ve all seen them. They’re these ads which pop up on Facebook for some reason. It’s a girl or a guy smiling widely, and a big ad saying “Magoosh” with green and purple letters. Maybe they mentioned the word “GMAT”, or maybe they didn’t.
Or, it’s possible that you stumbled across one of their blog posts while looking up something about the test. Their posts always rank highly, and they’re generally helpful. Not extremely helpful, but pretty helpful.
Somehow or another you took the plunge and bought the subscription. Then, you were overwhelmed. You thought you had a pretty good grasp on what you needed to learn, but instead you found yourself confronted with video after video, problem after problem. Scared, overwhelmed, confused you watched random videos, learned random things, and came into the test with a little more knowledge and a lot more confusion than you had before Magoosh.
Sound familiar? It does to me. I’m a GMAT tutor, and I regularly get clients battered and bruised from Magoosh. Here’s the basic problem:
They teach all the information that might show up on the GMAT, but they never actually show you how to get the score you want.
But that’s their business plan, of course. They overwhelm you with information in order to make you convinced that you need them. After all, if you knew that there was another option besides spending $200 and 1 year on a Magoosh subscription, would you still sign up? What if I told you that you could have done all of it on your own, gotten a better score, and saved money?
Because you could have, and you still can.
Here’s how you start studying for the GMAT:
- Check out this link here. This link includes every GMAT Quant question categorized (so you’ll have lots of practice material) and links to about 400 real GMAT questions.
- Download the first guide here, which is free, and tells you exactly how to study for the GMAT. Also included with that link are paid guides, made by yours truly, which contain all the strategies you need to master tricky questions, the same ones I used to get a 750 on the GMAT.
- Finally, if you need help with motivation or specific questions, you can contact me here, or you can check out my qualifications for GMAT tutoring here.