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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.

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.

Example Questions

At the start of my preparation, I was very scared of the Verbal. With the help of videos and explanation given by Chris, I am able to reach this score.

Huge improvement on my math score!

The math practice was very very useful. It helped a lot.

The vocab was great and the study plans were also helpful. The self-directed practice and learning helped me to zero in on the things that I needed to study most to improve my score within a short amount of time.

Though learning from the lessons and practice on the questions in less than a month, I improved my GRE score from 320 to 327. The lessons not only teach about the knowledges we need to know for the test in a very organised and efficient way, but also instruct on useful tips to crack the questions. The practice questions are marked with degree of difficulties(easy, medium hard, very hard) so students can customise their own practice according to their own level and goal.

It helped me understand the principles and underlying framework behind the test. This helped me better strategize. It also helped me in relearning concepts in math that I hadn't used since high school.

In math, I already was fairly strong with statistics and basic arithmetic. This allowed me to focus on the principles and concepts. The most useful topic I reviewed in math was probably on right triangles and coordinate geometry. I used the 60/30/90 Pythagorean triplet multiple times on the test. I also didn't use any scratch paper while reviewing and hardly used my calculator. This helped me in not relying on it during the test.

The other trick I found very useful was the estimation tricks. This was useful in some multiple choice questions and helped me avoid tedious calculations when estimating to a close enough number got me to the correct answer.

When it came to the text completion section, I think remembering to go with unfamiliar words over familiar words that almost fit was very useful.

Magoosh is amazing! It has been 2 years since my last GRE test. And this time I only had 1 month to prepare. I was desperate!
Basically I used the flashcard app to memorize words, and at the same time do the exercises. The explaination video are very helpful! Best review material for the GRE test!

The math lessons and verbal exercises got me to this score. I didn't have to study any other material.

I particularly appreciated the ability to set up practice sessions within Magoosh. As someone who ordinarily struggles under the pressure of timed tests - particularly in mathematics - the ability to simulate this stress was critical to my success.

Explained how the GRE asks questions.
Familiarized me with the rules and assumptions or more specifically what not to assume.
Provided a large vocabulary library and great flashcard app to learn the words.
Great math videos explaining methods and steps to solving some of the more complicated problems.

It gave me the resources and explanations I needed to find out how the test is written and how to solve any type of question that came up. Really couldn't do a better job.

Gave me a deeper math sense and understanding of fomula so I was not just plugging in numbers. I was able to study on the go on my phone. I loved the video explanations both the lessons and ones after practice questions. I loved the score range feed back and being able to see how long I was spending on questions so I could work on test day strategy (what time sucking questions should I skip on test day). I loved the review aspect and could assess different data points like what topics I was struggling with (percent correct or because time).

Thank you magoosh!

I only had one month to prep for the GRE and Magoosh offered me the flexibility to focus on the areas I needed help with. The amount of practice questions was invaluable! I was able to complete almost all of them and by the time the test rolled around, I felt much more confident and at ease in the testing environment. I used a book the first time I took the test and while I learned a lot, it didn't mimic the environment like Magoosh. Overall very happy with my improvement!

It made my preparation very comfortable, effective and structured.

Magoosh was incredibly helpful- the math videos alone were enough to get me from a 150 to a 163 in a week !

Courses and Problems

It is pretty much the only thing I used to study apart from a vocabulary list.

Magoosh plays the role of orientating myself toward GRE, those lessons helped me a lot as a beginner and those further questions are high-end and are really close to ETS logic.

Practice, re-learning techniques.

Magoosh's instructional videos helped me recognize shortcuts on the quantitative section that helped me answer all of the questions in time. Trigonometry, geometry, and statistics are the areas I feel Magoosh helped me improve the most. I used the Magoosh vocabulary flashcards app a couple of times, and saw more than a handful of words that I only knew because of the app. The essay strategies videos helped me develop coherent essays within the extremely limited time frame provided.

I loved Magoosh because the questions were similar to the theme of questions presented on the GRE but much tougher. I felt that no questions thrown on the GRE could be tougher than a Magoosh question. That's good.

Magoosh practice questions are really close to the actual GRE. I think I benefited from doing the timed tests and questions from the pool.

Magoosh allowed me to perform regular small drills of problems which matched my level of performance and thus challenged me, and then allowed me to immediately understand what I did wrong and correct any errors in my thinking/approach to problems in real time, as most of my errors in quantitative section were not due to lack of content knowledge, but rather in pacing and assuming a problem was either more complex or more simple than it actually was. Magoosh allowed me to develop a systematic method for tackling each problem, while also giving me data on how long different problem types took. On the verbal section, Magoosh helped me develop a strategy for the most challenging problems through elimination and consideration of more subtle aspects of word choices.

The math review was extremely helpful. I hadn't taken math since high school, so I was very rusty with a lot of the concepts. Magoosh really helped me re-learn the concepts I needed to know for the test, and I especially appreciated the focus on having a deep understanding of the logic behind those concepts, rather than just memorizing formulas. The practice questions were also very well done and very useful in my preparations.