Review of Grockit GMAT

Can I say AMAZING?!

Now with one month to go, the action plan is to learn how to manipulate this test and of course actually start the application process i.e. essays. In order to strategize for my upcoming war with the GMAT, this past weekend I took a 2 day, 18 hour, super intensive strategy focused course, The Grockit Essentials. Can I say amazing? Of course, I had the honor of being taught by Brian Galvin and Matt Douglas. I say "honor", because Brian Galvin is AMAZING; knows his material in and out, has clear cut methodologies of explaining them (even to idiots like me), engaging enough that I didn't fizzle out through the 9 hr session, but also didn't pace too quickly or too slowly. While grueling and jam-packed with info, it was probably the best investment I've made thus far in this whole GMAT process. The take-aways from the class were so valuable and added another dimension to the weekly Grockit course I'm taking. The combo was great because there wasn't a lot of overlap. The course provides more of a skill set and the Essentials course gives you the strategies to utilize the skill set in different ways. It's nice too because it's all digital so as long as you have internet and speakers, you're good to go. I highly recommend the 2 day boot camp, but more so recommend taking the course specifically with Brian Galvin.

Hone your time management and presence of mind

Grockit is by far one of the best ways to start off your GMAT preparation. With it's well designed UI and simple philosophy of shooting you with questions one after the other in a timed environment, it is a straightforward and addictive practice solution.

It was especially useful to be able to review answers, read alternate explanations and watch my strengths and weaknesses analyzed in real-time. Using Grockit definitely helped me achieve my 99 percentile score.

Highly recommended!

Grockit

Grockit is a great course but I have found some problems:

- The time to answer the questions 2 min 30 sec is not the time per question that you should take in the real test.
- There are a lot of question repeated.
- The level of the questions is not as difficult as it is in the real test.
- The Grockit's CAT test is not accurate. It is not really a CAT and you can find questions in the test that you have answered before.

Great for Practice

Grockit, I feel, is working very hard to give new features all the time. But there seems to be a problem that rises to it.

First the bugs. There are a few. Grockit introduced timed solo practice tests, and untimed solo practice tests. The untimed solo practice tests seem to have been disappeared. Also. Grockit has a great feature that after answering a certain number of questions, you can take a "Challenge test". My math test are no longer valid. Perhaps it could be that I am only allowed so many Challenge Quant tests, but the user interface should inform me, rather than not do anything. For reading comprehension, Grockit seems to have alloted a lot of time for each reading comprehension question - which is not at all what should be there on the GMAT

But again, its a great way to practice questions. I would recommend it for the quant section. I also have faith that Grockit will improve considerably for their GMAT section, since it seems to be a very promising site and a novel concept. If you start your GMAT preparation early, get Grockit for practice questions.

All the best to Grockit :)

Great way to learn interactively!

I thought Grockit was a great way to learn new concepts, practice the ones I had learned, and challenge myself with new questions. The way the site is constantly interactive helps you go from question to question is much better than just trying to go through a book on your own. Not to mention the live help you get through questions in the rooms hosted by Grockit teachers! Some were even free, which was fantastic.

I can't say enough with how much this helped above and beyond what I could have gotten out of just a book.