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These are survey responses from actual Magoosh students after they took the GRE.
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Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 167 | |
Total |
Scored 331 |
I purchased a couple Manhattan Prep books, ETS's Official Guide, different phone apps, etc. yet I ended up using Magoosh's online application almost exclusively. I work full time and was only able to study after work and weekends. I was exhausted most nights after work before I even sat down to study... without the structure that Magoosh provides I would not have been able to be nearly as effective. I did not want to take the test more than once and my target was a 330. I scored a 331; what else can I say? Magoosh was literally a fraction of the price of the other paid resources. It has everything you need, trust me.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 167 |
Verbal | 168 | |
Total |
Scored 335 |
Magoosh helped keep me on track, at a much lower price point than other test prep systems. I followed the one-month plan, and was happy to do small pieces of prep each day. While I couldn't keep up the pace with a full-time job (as the guide warned me), I still believe Magoosh helped me a lot. I learned general strategies (number sense, not looking at the verbal answers without my own answer), a sense for timing, and most importantly, I always had a plan to follow so I couldn't second-guess myself.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 158 | |
Total |
Scored 322 |
Practice problems!
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 158 | 161 + 3 |
Verbal | 158 | 163 + 5 |
Total | 316 |
Scored
324 |
Magoosh's math questions were a good simulation of the type and difficulty on the actual GRE. Additionally, the video lectures taught me fundamentals of math that I had never encountered or had previously foegotten. Overall, quite helpful.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 158 |
Verbal | 154 | |
Total |
Scored 512 |
Lots of practice
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 170 |
Verbal | 164 | |
Total |
Scored 334 |
the practice was really helpful! and i could pick and choose what specific math topics to review
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 170 |
Verbal | 162 | |
Total |
Scored 332 |
Practice tests were great. I loved the Flash cards app.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 166 |
Verbal | 164 | |
Total |
Scored 330 |
Magoosh made my studying much more organized and efficient. It also taught me valuable test taking tricks that I then didn’t have to figure out for myself.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 163 |
Verbal | 170 | |
Total |
Scored 333 |
Magoosh was the greatest resource I had at my disposal when preparing for the GRE. I watched a number of math videos, studied the whole list of vocabulary words, and took multiple practice tests, and I can now confidently say that Magoosh helped me reach above the score that I expected on the exam. I have nothing but words of praise for this organization.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 170 | 170 |
Verbal | 155 | 164 + 9 |
Total | 325 |
Scored
334 |
Extremely helpful especially the Flashcards and all the classes! Already recommended to two friends!
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 162 |
Verbal | 158 | |
Total |
Scored 320 |
Math videos
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 166 |
Verbal | 160 | |
Total |
Scored 326 |
Lessons helped to review basic concepts.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 166 |
Verbal | 168 | |
Total |
Scored 334 |
Being able to flag specific questions and review questions missed was critical for obtaining a higher score.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 153 |
Verbal | 167 | |
Total |
Scored 320 |
I am in immense debt to Mike McGarry's thoughtful, well-paced teaching methods. I've never had such fun learning math. Even though his videos aren't personalized, I felt as though he was invested in my abilities and cared about me as a student. Maybe it's just because I've had arguably cold and indifferent math teachers, but I realized with Magoosh's approach to math, encouragement goes much farther to help a student learn math than negative reinforcement does.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 168 |
Verbal | 165 | |
Total |
Scored 333 |
Great practice, questions were usually harder than the actual test’s
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 165 |
Verbal | 162 | |
Total |
Scored 327 |
Lots of questions to practice from, and almost identical to the content encountered on the exam!
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 161 | |
Total |
Scored 325 |
Magoosh questions are extremely similar to the questions on the actual GRE. I didn’t see any questions on the GRE that Magoosh hadn’t prepared me for.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 159 | 166 + 7 |
Verbal | 161 | 161 |
Total | 320 |
Scored
327 |
Combo of video and written explanation of videos was really conducive to learning.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 164 | |
Total |
Scored 328 |
It gave me exposure to a lot of different problems and problem solving techniques that I would not have considered before.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 158 |
Verbal | 166 | |
Total |
Scored 324 |
Videos were really helpful. Strategies to save time really work
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 166 |
Verbal | 163 | |
Total |
Scored 329 |
Good pool of questions
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 161 |
Verbal | 165 | |
Total |
Scored 325 |
Really saw a huge improvement with my math abilities from the time I started studying to when I took the test.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 162 |
Verbal | 162 | |
Total |
Scored 324 |
Study guides helped give prep structure, videos helped me learn the mind of the test
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 168 |
Verbal | 165 | |
Total |
Scored 333 |
Gave me tons of problems to do (primarily the verbal section though, I was very confident for quant going in) and lots of videos on how to solve verbal questions/write the essay components. AND FLASHCARDS. It was awesome to have them in a mobile app so I always had them with me.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 160 | |
Total |
Scored 324 |
Refresher on things I haven’t seen since high school
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 159 |
Verbal | 161 | |
Total |
Scored 320 |
The whole set-up of Magoosh is great. Having quizzes after each section helped gauge how I was progressing and having full practice tests was helpful to train for the length of the test.