Established in 2006 in Bangalore, we have successfully mentored over hundreds of students on GMAT. CrackVerbal comprises entirely of people who are extremely successful in their own fields and who are in this venture purely out of the love of teaching. Many are MBA graduates from top schools such as ISB, Wharton, Harvard etc.
GMAT is a standardized test that was created with American applicants in mind way back in the 1950s. It is only recently – last 20 years or so – that the demand for GMAT has gone up so much in non-English speaking countries such as India. We realized early on that there is a huge gap in the way Indian students prepared for the test, and what GMAT was actually testing on.
We realized that the people who could provide us inputs on how to do well on the GMAT, are (surprise, surprise 
the people who have taken the GMAT and have done well. We spoke to successful students, and to not-so-successful students, and understand this. To do all this our research has focused on which study material is the best, how to approach each type of question, picking the best practice question, focusing on which topics are important and which are not. We even got a few of these “bright” achievers (700+ scorers) on-board as faculty so they could be with us to continuously refine the methodology, approach and questions. We first started out understanding what differentiates people at a 700-level from students say a 500 or 600 level. It has been a tough 4 years doing all this research, but at the end we believe we have a product that you will love.
What does all of this mean for you – For starters, we are the first institute in India to start a program that focuses on GMAT Verbal and has tailored techniques and strategies that are exclusively designed for Indian applicants. We at CrackVerbal believe that questions are the best way to learn to score well on the GMAT. Not by hits and misses but by analyzing thoroughly what the question was testing you on, what went through your mind in those 60-90 seconds, what you thought was right in the wrong answer choice which made you pick it, and what was wrong in the right answer choice which made you not pick it.
We think the biggest problem with non-native speakers is that we tend to go in with some kind of “algorithm” to solve based on the “theory” we have learned. This falls apart because the human brain learns by imitation and not by algorithm. The moment I see a particular pattern or usage, I will try to relate it to something that I already know, question I already solved, example that I remember in order to solve it. I will not remember some arcane rule of grammar to help me solve at that point in time. This explains why even after going through your standard Grammar book multiple times it is so hard to apply it on the actual GMAT questions.
Don’t get us wrong – we also conduct workshops on Quant (in our own unique way!), and provide all the support for Quant through doubt-clearance sessions, and bucket loads of “standard” GMAT questions. This is so you don’t need to go anywhere else once you come to CrackVerbal!