so i downloaded my esr and tried to analyze it myself and i thought yeah okay so this this this
point is weak for me i need to work up on them but when egmat sent me a personalized video often of
eight minutes which actually went through the whole verbal and quant section and telling me
what is my weakness what do i need to work upon i was kind of blown so i did not know
how many insights can we take and later on when i send you the second dsr and then when we had
our call and then when you gave me insights and i was like literally blown away by the
detail that you could get out of it so you were exactly able to pinpoint so i made a mistake on
the first rc which was probably easy and it hurt my score really bad so that was amazing
hey uh treyance again congratulations on scoring a 7.50 um how did it feel the moment you clicked
the button after uwa to see that 750. it felt sorry also uh after my previous attempts which
were not it did not go as well i was kind of demoralizing was not hoping i was just hoping
for a 7 30 or plus and when i got the 750 i was just my mind was just blown and i was like okay
finally i'm done and dusted with this and i can finally get ahead with my applications and you
know researching about schools right so it's one thing out of the way now so let's talk about your
previous attempts and how you studied right let's talk about quickly on how did you kind
of give the gmat before this was your third attempt how did you go about preparing before
yeah so it was mostly about asking for advice from my seniors who had already appeared for the gmat
and referring to the materials they referred me to so one was for sentence correction i used sc grail
for critical reasoning i used power prep cr bible power score sorry yeah and for rc honestly there
was no technique it was just about practicing and i was horrible at rc's i think i still am
but the attempt still went fine and for maths i was referring to mostly gmat club math book
and all the forums too you know just to optimize my strategy to take the questions so that i solve
that in minimum time so that was about it and i went ahead and i thought i was very well prepared
but somehow i could not score uh very well in the gmat and when i came back with a bad score
i actually hi yeah so when i came back with a bad score i actually sent my srs to easy mat
and they reviewed it and i actually found that there were many structural gaps which
was you know i was lacking some basic strong foundations which i needed to work up on so
i was able to do the hard stuff or some um things but i was failing at
uh simplest of questions as well so so essentially that is how it first attempt
um you you self-studied you picked up self-help books you picked up this book that broke and these
are good books this is good content as well yeah how much time did it take you to kind of do this
entire activity and then what school did you get after doing this honestly i it took me around 2.5
months or maybe even three and i ended up with a 650 it was a q50 v28
okay and what was your approach after that so the moment you got a 650 you got your esr what is the
next thing you did okay so one so after this one of my seniors actually referred me to the easy
math course he had already uh improved his score from 650 to a 730 or something like that so i
thought like yeah i can go ahead and the reviews on gmat club were amazing and it actually turned
out amazing so easy matt introduced me to so their verbal content especially is so damn good so
especially sentence correction it teaches you how to you know solve questions based on
meaning it's a very meaning based approach i was initially when i saw reviews or you know videos
of people i was kind of confused like what is this meaning-based approach and how much can
it help but trust me it does wonders my sentence correction improved and just apart from sentence
correction it even helped me in cr and rc as well so because it just changed the way i used to you
know read sentences and comprehend them and that like resulted in a lot of improvement in rc cr as
well all right you did sc grail and then you did egmat sc what are the key pros and cons of each
okay so i think sc grill is not as elaborate as the easy mad core cgmat courses elaborate
so especially if you're a non-native speaker you need to go through a lot of content and
you know a lot of things or a lot of nuances which egmat really goes through it and they've you know
sorted things out for you so they've told like this is this error type or you know you need to
solve this type of question by this way which is not there in um scale it is just like a summary
kind of thing it is also a good book but it is not as comprehensive and helping so
as much as the easy math course understood so um here's here's the difference between probably
essay grail or the og books and our course as well when you explain something when you explain
a concept and then you explain the answer why is this this way why is this that way at times you
start at a different level for a person who's just looking at an essay for the first time wants to
learn he does not know what a pronoun antecedent is he doesn't know what work tenses flow and what
order what perfect tenses or past perfect tenses so i think that's that's one thing that we kind
of added the course is perfectly structured in a very guided course so that you know that you're
on the right path and they've added you know how to utilize the course very well and how to proceed
about it and keep testing yourself cementing these concepts and ultimately you know getting
to know how much your actual level is after that preparation with the use of scholarly which has
really good questions to be honest like they test you very well on the specific concept which was
good that's a good point i think tell me something and i get this from a lot of students they ask me
that um the questions on scholarly verbal i'm just talking about verbal because that's what you do
in comparison to what you see on the gmat how comparable is it the questions i would say the
questions are very spot-on uh gmat can get a little trickier in some ways but even easy math
questions are pretty challenging and they know they are kind of very similar so
i've seen a lot of test companies go haywire and you know when they try to make difficult
questions so they just completely divert and go on a different path but eg mat
was uh kind of very similar to the way how gmat questions official guide questions were structured
you did the master comprehension course as well right uh a lot of people don't know that this
exists with us and only this it's for paid users uh was that helpful or in any way in any which way
yes so i guess master comprehension course is like the building block of all the uh verbal
questions so it just changes the way how you start reading sentences a little slowly and you know you
comprehend the meaning so well and it actually helps you a lot in general just understanding
complex sentence structures because that is what gmat is all about right they have like
up to 35 words in per sentence and that's uh that'll just get your mind boggled down with
a heavy word so you need to get slow and take a structured approach to read and take pause points
and stuff so it was really great it i think this meaning based approach and this master
comprehension is what helped me improved in river and st specifically but even you know helped me a
lot in cr improving and understanding the argument that's that's a really nice one because you didn't
do the cr course this kind of obviously helped aid kind of your cr skills as well right um so
you pointed out that you did scholarium you practiced uh quite a few questions you have
fantastic metrics on scholarly name as well right so i think uh i wanted to kind of show students
here uh what your metrics look like so let me just share my screen and this is this is precisely what
success looks like so you basically practiced essay on skull reading it is very very specific
right and i mean if when i look at these scores here uh these are phenomenal i mean we've never
seen ninety percent ninety percent seventy percent and uh if i look at hard level if you're scoring
seventy seven percent in hard sc questions uh my god it's good that means you absolutely have
the meaning-based approach uh set inside and and that's something that i kind of wanted
to share with everybody here you use call radium how did you use cauldron now we've seen that you
focused on sc and a little bit in rc how did you go about uh using the platform scholarly per se
okay so when i used to finish a specific course let's say i went through the parallelism so what
i will do is i'll go to the sc and try to take the easy to the medium quizzes which are the cementing
quizzes and they are even suggested you know you're suggested to take them once you're done
with the specific module of the course so i would visit that and try to do those questions and once
i've cemented that i'll go on to the next chapter on to the next module and once i'm done with the
whole course i'll start attempting the medium questions and the hard questions and that'll be
initially it'll be still topic wise and once i'm well done with the hard questions and i
know that i'm able to perform i'll just mix those questions up and start attempting them so that
i need to also identify specifically what is this question testing me on so it helped a lot
to be honest like the question back is enormous the questions are flawless so it helped me a lot
in sc and cr questions also i believe they were very good and the pre-thinking approach which
eg matt uh you know endorses i think i was kind of applying it already but i still refer to a
few videos or you know specific sections of cr to improve myself upon that that's that's perfect i
think it gives you the benefit of picking out what you want to do what you want out of the course and
i think that's what's called radium is all about so okay all said and done we did all of this and
then you gave the gmat again and you scored uh 710 right so q50 v38 um how did you feel
honestly i was pretty disappointed i was like i have done everything i could have
i have touched almost all the topics i had to and still i'm not getting a score that i'm satisfied
with and honestly people have got 7 30 with a q50 v30 but i got a 7 10. i even have a friend who has
the same code and score in point but a lower on verbal but he still still scored a 720 so
it was pretty disappointing for me and initially i just you know shut gmat off for myself i was
i went to a trip to undermine and came back after a week or so and then i made easy match with that
i'm you know unhappy with my score and i just do not make sense of the final score and the breakup
together so yeah i saw your email i was like the man's got a point he's got a q50 v38 obviously
i mean i saw your stats and i was like this guy should have scored better on google what happened
there so uh you obviously sent over your esr right and uh i think uh that's that's when we kind of
got in touch i got a call with you and we analyzed your asa and mind you this was when you did not
even have access to the course right so this was yeah i had my course i had expired well before the
second attempt and yeah i was uh actually very delighted to know that you know egmat is still
ready to support me my course is over but they're still ready to provide me you know one-to-one
mentorship as well so that really felt very supportive to me and talking about esrs right so
even the first attempt csi which i sent to easy matter i thought it was very detailed so
initially i thought so i downloaded my esr and tried to analyze it myself and i
thought yeah okay so this this this point is weak for me i need to work up on them but
when egmat sent me a personalized video often of eight minutes which actually went through
the whole verbal and quant section and telling me what is my weakness what do i need to work upon
i was kind of blown so i did not know how many insights can we take and later on when i send
you the second esr and then when we had our call and then when you gave me insights and i was like
literally blown away by the detail that you could get out of it so you were exactly able to pinpoint
so i made a mistake on the first rc which was probably easy and it hurt my score really bad
so that was amazing yeah the idea of the esr is a lot of people kind of say it's data this is my
accuracy this is my time but the idea is to figure out what happened in the exam and how did it like
trace that path to figure out where did srian kind of go wrong and that itself is the art it's
very difficult by the way it requires multiple hypotheses and stuff like that but it requires
multiple hypotheses it requires you to have more experience and having looked at so many srs over
time and that is only why you're able to draw such meaningful influences from those esrs because i
was clearly not so i did not have any idea how to comprehend okay i have an 81 percentile in sc
i thought it was still bad because i thought okay it should be somewhere 90 and ncr i had something
like 84 percent i was still not sure i mean how good is it so i thought my whole verbal section
went very bad once i got on a call with you you were like your fc and crr spot on you just need to
you know get done with rc maybe just give her the attempt and you'll be fine so that was actually
very supportive and very motivating for me and it it actually worked out it was actually true for me
that's a funny thing you know i you kind of got in the call and uh i saw your esl is like it's
v38 firstly there's a very little difference between a v38 and a v41 this guy kind of just
messed up on one rc to be very honest and it's not like a very difficult rc also you got an
easier rc question wrong if you remember you weren't easy ask your question wrong which is why
you're you kind of got that a little bit negative score as well but i said uh i told you i never do
this usually that you know i usually say here is your hyper specific plan do this do that
i was like do one thing just take the exam again and you're going to see a marked difference in
the score because you see we all have good days and bad days but ability never changes
that's what is like your ability in scncr is sorted right it's absolutely on point i saw that
even even though 81st doesn't look like very good ability trust me on that exam
in your timings it was very very good and you might kind of manage oh yeah because i saw like
i spent a lot of time on the wrong questions and like the correct questions were like the
30 of the time taken so i think that was a very good observation as well so yeah i mean
i never do that and i just said just go get the exam again uh and obviously that that's clearly
worked out very very well for you um yeah and you also suggested me to go a little easy during the
last week because i was taking a mock every day which was not healthy that was very important
so i asked you in the call that what did you do before the 7 10 and you said i was taking
a walk almost pretty much every day before i got the 17 i was like you must have been tired
so yeah i think that was good that was actually true so during the gmat i realized that i'm not
able to comprehend the sentence i was reading during the last part of the uh verbal i was
able to read the sentences but i was not able to draw you know what meaning does it actually imply
so that actually helped and trying to keep my anxiety and stress levels low yeah agreed that's
absolutely fair that's a very good observation now that you've scored a 750 or you have a background
in finance and quantitative finance per se uh where do you go and where all are you applying
to be honest i'm not really sure yet so now just now i have got a g matter right so when i had a
17 i had started to come to terms with the seventh and i was planning okay so now i can maybe go to
canada or maybe europe because that is where my gmat score fits in and maybe that is what
i deserve but now that i have speculated i think you were settled yes i was trying to settle there
yeah now i'm not so now i'm thinking okay now i have a 750 so now i can pretty much apply to any
b school rest depends on my profile and how good my applications go so i'm more focused
towards finance so wharton and chicago booth are my preferred colleges but i'll try for mostly us
top 10 but i'm yet to get into the process of you know shortlisting the school so i've been in touch
with a few seniors but i've not you know been involved that much into that process that i know
okay so i just want to research more about schools and try to see where do i fit in whether which
school helps me the most so i'm currently in that stage understood i think or you you
point out something very interesting and important networking with people you know or should know to
the schools that you kind of want to go to is very important connect with them on linkedin ask them
is your finance program good is my profile afraid if you ask alumni and current students
you give a much better picture of whether or not you can get in and what the scholarship
opportunities look like so i would ask you to also consider colombia uh colombia is a great
school for finance again it's uh right next to new york uh again yeah so out of colombia and nyu's
turn so what would you recommend so i mean let's turn okay colombia yeah so because uh originally
when i was in school so my sister actually was going to nyu first so i had thought very highly
of nyu but turns out things have changed a little bit and colombia has actually ranked better than
but uh stone is a very good school mind you it is a very good school but yeah yeah it is good
colombia colombia has done really well yeah colombia's colombia so i will try for colombia
it's like the difference between uh i would say howard and booth you know the same thing
these guys they have a lot of uh they have a lot of rivalry there but again howard is hop
same thing with colombia again both colombia and borton for sure one for you should be a bit
like right up there uh top of the list so again i'll just wish you also
thank you so i will just be looking at the alumni base and you know which one has stronger so
maybe 10 15 down years down the line after an mba so you know you need mba is also a lot
about networking so you need to have a very solid alumni base and you know a lot of people who are
doing really well in their spaces so that later on the synergies just start up and help you out
true that's a very good point in fact what has an intake size of i think 930 students you're
on your it kind of varies a little bit but that's where you kind of have so many students they have
uh these four to five different cohorts they kind of divide you up into once you get into um and you
kind of then network within your cohort because 930 people is a lot right at the end of the day
with everybody so yeah i think that'll be a great school that you should definitely uh
try to get into and again wish you all the best for your applications and um thank you thanks
a lot thanks a lot for your uh you know very specific guidance like which was very specific
to me and it helped me a lot honestly and it worked exactly the way you had told me
oh and i was thinking a little lucky also but uh yeah i appreciate the kind words
it only works out when students do well and i think you had a very very big role
in that as well and uh again all the best and we're here to support you right till
the end till you get in the business thanks a lot thanks a lot grateful for all the support