Best GMAT Books

I believe Kaplan changed how they give access to their tests and now you have to take on test for the next one to be unlocked. (this has to do with recycling questions among the tests). So, there are more CAT tests - should have a total of 5.

Regarding Kaplan Premiere online, It's irritating not to have CAT access offline (on CD). Suppose if one doesn't have online access or for some reason he can't come online then he won't be able to practice. There must be offline access to CATs if one buys the book. This facility is useful to only those people who have online access or have stable connection.

Fully agree, that's why the latest edition of Kaplan Premiere comes with a CD

Hi BB,

I recently signed up for the forum and was hoping for some advice.

I'm trying to get into a grad program, and the score I likely need is above 600, maybe around 630-650. When I took a practice GMAT test last year, my score was 540. I don't remember the exact breakdown, but that was my overall.

I've tried searching the forum, but I can't seem to find a study plan that is exact for my situation. I have a little less than a month to take the GMAT, and in that month I have essentially as much time as possible to dedicate to studying. Do you have any suggestions or advice for improving my score from 540 to at least 600, with an upside of 630-650, in 3-4 weeks?

I'm obviously in a crunch for time, so I'm not sure if it's possible, but if there is a good study plan, I would do my best to follow it and try to make it happen. I purchased the Kaplan Premiere, but am not sure how best to go through it.

As far as my specific background, I was an Economics major. I took Calc I in college, but that's as far as I went with math. I'd say quant vs. verbal, I likely have an equal amount of struggle/need to improve. The math on the GMAT seems really strange to me, and not stuff that I really remember learning.

Any help you or anyone else can provide would be much appreciated. Thank you very much.

Oh! that's nice but unfortunately couldn't find here in stores yet. Also MGMAT books aren't available here. And never did online purchase, so I am a bit confused here. I think Kaplan will be available sooner or later but never saw MGMAT here anywhere. Lol! Barron's GMAT is available in almost every store here

Let me know if you want me to ship you the books - you can see how much it will cost to ship here: www.usps.com (get the weight of the book from Amazon).

My friend wanted to have a go at the following snippet:

Please give us an important business achievement where you showed exemplary leadership (maximum 1000 characters


At Work:
I have demonstrated ability to take up responsibility and showed leadership skills under highly stressful and demanding conditions right

at the beginning of my career. As part of Production support Mercator specialist in the Middleware Team, I was responsible for

handling all the Production related issues pertaining to my area of expertise which is a Middleware tool called Mercator 6.7

(owned by IBM). The other technology used for this support is IBM MQSeries which is looked after by different experts.


As a fresh graduate out of the most coveted engineering college in India, the Indian Institute of Technology, I think it was a reflection

of the belief that my employers had put me that I became in charge of the entire Production Hub withing 6 months of joining IBM

India Pvt Ltd.

The day of my calling came on 28th March 2006, when all of sudden we came to know that there has been a labor unrest in the city

of Kolkata(India), where the support is based from. Because of this unrest almost 95% of IBM employees could not come to office and I

was the only person sitting in charge of the entire Production Hub right in the Middle of French go-live preparation

and a host of urgent tasks to be completed on that day itself. Instead of getting nervous and acting in a hurry, I first organized my

thoughts and started planning.To begin with, I arranged the most important work and issues on the basis of their urgency, reflecting their

impact on the Production systems and hence client business, the second thing I did was to inform immediately my Team Lead and Delivery

Manager about the current situation and discussed ways to tackle this situation. After about half an hour of conference call, I sent out a

mail to the onsite experts (very lean team of 3 members only and used for extremely critical issues) including their Team Lead Stefan

Ziranek, our client, informing that they might experience a little hiccup in the service that we provide because of the current situation.

Thereafter, I sat down resolving over 50 production issues one by one. It involved not just extensive working knowledge of a particular

software but also communication abilities to talk to the Market contacts based all over Europe and America. As a result of my dedication

and leadership, I not only covered the production support for 13 hours straight, but also attended the daily conference call with our client,

Nestle, which involved giving updates, suggesting ways to address impeding problems and most important not letting the client worry

about the internal problem that we were facing.


I managed the entire day so well on two accounts: Solving production issues in time and communicating with the client successfully. For

this single day , I received ORION star Award from IBM India Pvt Ltd as a recognition of my contribution to the organization.

This day mattered a lot to us because of another reason,

the contract for Production support was still not awarded to IBM. Till this time we were competing with WIPRO Technologies

(another big Indian IT Services company) to get this work. Months later, it was the days like this that eventually played the most important

role when IBM won the contract to provide this support by Nestle in spite of stiff competition from Wipro. As time went by, I

learned a great deal about working in the other technical area (MQSeries) of this support and slowly became the most sought

after resource in my team.

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Hi everyone! I'm new here and looking for some test prep techniques. I just ordered 8 MGMAT books and OG12th( all 3 of them)and need some advice how to start my prep. From what I've been reading MGMAT books should be used with OG.? I've already went through Kaplan Foundations Q and V books to get my feet wet and know I'm ready for some serious preparation! Thanks bunch, help is much appreciated!

Please! visit this link
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you'll find everything related to GMAT and also visit
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Study plan for Novices, by the way this link is also mention in above link.
Study plan are discussed in detail but in the end you'll have to make your study plan but do use the tools & methods mention in these threads.
Hope it helps!

Hi...

I have Kaplan Math workbook and as you have mentioned it is weak on probability and combinations..

Is there any workbook you recommend with detailed probability and combinations work??

thanks alot

Probability & Combination are very well described in MGMT Word Translations, so MGMT Number properties and MGMT Word Translation would be nice addition as far as I know.
Hope it helps!

This was an awesome compilation.

How much time would it take to go through each "Plan"? I would like to do the Advance/Ultimate but I'm not sure if I have enough time.

Just to clarify, I'm assuming that for the "advanced" plan, I would have to go through the Kaplan Live Online guide, then use the MGMAT books to "drill down"/ build knowledge. (Right?)

See this: gmat-study-plan-for-gmat-novices-start-your-gmat-journey-80727.html

I see. I was afraid I was going to get pointed in this direction because I now have add'l q's . How much time a day is being put into, let's say, the 4 weeks for quant? And is this for all the different levels of study (standard to beyond)?

I guess I'm really asking because I was thinking of just starting with MGMAT series for quant (and skip the Kaplan Live Online all together) since I'm not very good at it.

You can skip the Kaplan Pmreier - absolutely; it just comes with extra tests and usually somewhat valuable for the info, but MGMAT books will give you even more coverage. The main value is general test overview (which you probably know already) and gmat tests.

I intend to by the MGMAT series (i.e. trusting your reviews on Amazon ) but I'm not sure whether to buy the OG quant and verbal review as well. I do have the OG12 already, but are the other two essential, too?
Thanks for a short info.