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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.
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Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 170 |
Verbal | 167 | |
Total |
Scored 337 |
I benefited a ton from the Magoosh GRE vocabulary app. A lot of words in the app showed up in the actual exam. I wouldn't have ideas what they mean had I not used your vocab app.
Verbal strategies presented in the videos also proved to be invaluable. The one single most important strategy that I learned for verbal section is "thinking up your own answers before reading provided answers". This definitely helped me in terms of averting confusion by all the similarly-worded answer choices.
Getting a lot of practice questions and seeing myself answering them correctly also boosted my confidence going into the actual exam.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 169 | |
Total |
Scored 333 |
3 month study plan was awesome. Challenging, yet manageable daily workload. Felt very prepared come test day.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 168 | 170 + 2 |
Verbal | 158 | 169 + 11 |
Total | 326 |
Scored
339 |
Magoosh helped me by giving me strategies for studying. For English it gave me vocabulary to remember and directed me to places to read advanced material. Magoosh also helped me break down complex reading problems and complex passages. For math it gave me strategies to simplify the math problems and do them faster. The main benefit of Magoosh is it gives you a real perspective on what the purpose of each question is which helps you define how to tackle each answer.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 155 |
Verbal | 170 | |
Total |
Scored 325 |
Magoosh was a great resource for practice questions, lesson videos, and question explanation. For any trouble area I needed to work on, I knew there would be plenty of Magoosh materials I could use to improve. I also appreciated the Magoosh study plans. I used the 2-3 month plan as a guide for my studying, and it helped me stay on track throughout the course of my preparation.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 167 |
Verbal | 158 | |
Total |
Scored 325 |
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Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 163 | 167 + 4 |
Verbal | 150 | 158 + 8 |
Total | 313 |
Scored
325 |
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Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 155 |
Verbal | 165 | |
Total |
Scored 320 |
You organised my whole revision process - extremely helpful! Wouldn't have been able to get my head round the material without it!
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 167 |
Verbal | 160 | |
Total |
Scored 327 |
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After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 160 |
Verbal | 161 | |
Total |
Scored 321 |
Gave me a sense of the score level I was at. Also, the lessons were extremely helpful!
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 153 | 156 + 3 |
Verbal | 168 | 169 + 1 |
Total | 321 |
Scored
325 |
The math lessons and practice problems were amazing. The lessons do an excellent job of anticipating points of confusion and spell out very clearly how to approach and handle the math problems.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 168 |
Verbal | 162 | |
Total |
Scored 330 |
Practice simulation quite close to the exam. Best summary of the GRE content I could find. Harder than GRE so I did better day of. Time management. Lots of helpful blog posts to really tie it all together.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 163 |
Verbal | 159 | |
Total |
Scored 322 |
Allowed me to practice and learn the tricks of taking the test
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Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 169 |
Verbal | 165 | |
Total |
Scored 335 |
Good set of practice problems, made it easy to recognize patterns in the test questions and develop strategies for answering them.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 168 |
Verbal | 160 | |
Total |
Scored 328 |
Video lessons and question explanations. I found it way more appealing to watch a video instead of reading text.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 620 | 154 |
Verbal | 640 | 169 |
Total | 1260 |
Scored
323 |
Magoosh really helped me get reacquainted with math that I haven't used for 15 years and be calm and confident when I took the test, since it's already taken several full length practice tests.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 167 |
Verbal | 167 | |
Total |
Scored 364 |
Math review was great. Quantity of practice problems enormously helpful; verbal practice questions were really, really similar to GRE itself
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 162 |
Verbal | 164 | |
Total |
Scored 326 |
MATH - tips, tactics, etc
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 167 | 170 + 3 |
Verbal | 152 | 161 + 9 |
Total | 319 |
Scored
331 |
Magoosh helped me a lot through practice, although I didn't practice a lot of quant, after having completed the verbal practice I was sure that my score would be more than 325. The questions in the practice are of very good standard and helped me feel confident on the day of exam.
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Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 170 | |
Total |
Scored 334 |
Lots of math practice questions & practice exams, great explanations and strategies
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 161 |
Verbal | 167 | |
Total |
Scored 328 |
The videos for the Verbal section were informative in providing strategies to answer questions (e.g., thinking of an answer/solution yourself prior to actually looking at answer choices)
The Math review was useful in providing succinct and insightful instructions in all relevant topics of the GRE Quant section. In addition, the practice questions provided were also very useful in applying the topics learned and the associated solutions were clear.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 169 |
Verbal | 154 | |
Total |
Scored 323 |
I self-studied for GRE, and I use Magoosh to inhance my Verbal. It provides plenty of high quality verbal questions, as long as elucidated answers. The best part for me is that Magoosh teachers answered my questions quickly and thoroughly. This kind of service could not be replaced by merely buying a GRE book.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 164 |
Verbal | 166 | |
Total |
Scored 330 |
Help me understood the tricks behind the math questions. I'm a mechanical engineering major but watching the math lessons helped me with important geometry and probability/counting tricks which I don't use in my day to day math. The vocabulary flash cards made it really easy to study on the go.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | 156 | 157 + 1 |
Verbal | 163 | 170 + 7 |
Total | 319 |
Scored
327 |
The vocabulary flashcards and AWA lessons provided exactly what I needed to improve in those categories. Timed practice questions and a full practice test were extremely helpful for improving my time management per question.
Before Magoosh |
After Magoosh |
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Math | I had not taken the GRE before | 170 |
Verbal | 170 | |
Total |
Scored 340 |
Vids, practice questions, and study plans were all great.
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