bgpower wrote:
Thanks nphealan! The post is really informative! According to your info the change won't be significant, nevertheless I will try to meet me target score before June 2012
Can you give your comments on my question.
After reading many posts, I settled down to the following books: Entire MGMAT Preparation package - 8 (prior to first CAT) OG 12, OG Quant, OG Verbal Aristotle SC Grail, Aristotle RC 99. PowerScore CR Bible
Would you add something - especially from the Kaplan package, which is to contain more practice questions? And generally, which is the best book providing test exams? Are there any plans for some of the above-mentioned book to be newly issued in the comming months? |
Thanks!
These books are certainly good ones to choose, you mentioned the Kaplan package and after what i've gone through myself with Kaplan I'm a firm believer that they know what their talking about and execute it an an efficient manner. The "Kaplan Advantage" to me is when I read through these forums at first, everyone talked about the difficulty difference between Kaplan and other tests. I feel as though preparing for something that's worse then the actual, can only help you develop a stronger strategy for when the day comes. The disadvantage of Kaplan to me is playing off the strength. Some individuals will get caught up in a lower score from Kaplan or harder questions and it'll get in their head. As long as you keep telling yourself that there is a difference in the average, you'll be able to take advantage of this.
As for the
MGMAT guides, I'm currently finishing my last exams of undergrad so I havent gotten a chance to really look into the books yet, I have them, but their pretty well collecting dust until next week. These are what i'm planning to build my studying around. I've heard from everyone that these are the books to use when building your foundation. They seperate into 8 different categories and really give you the opportunity to learn each topic one at a time. To me taking it one step at a time in great detail, that sounds like a recipe for success, and reviews on this site by BB and everyone else seem to indicate nothing but that. The OG12 goes along with this, you should use the guides together as one, at the end of each chapter you will see reference to OG12, so make sure that when you start the guides, you have OG12. Great source for your studying. Quant and Verbal are both offered by
MGMAT, and this could be advantageous but to me I feel as though what you'll learn in the
MGMAT guides, will show you everything to come from those two books. So in my opinion (and it is just that) I feel as though you won't need these books. I only say that because I see you're looking at other books for RC, SC, CR by Aristotle/Powerscore. I think that this is smart because obviously the
MGMAT guides will give you a single outlook/perspective on approaching the GMAT. But by bringing in these other books you're going to get a different perspective and perhaps a better approach for you personally.
To sum it up, my goal is to actually diversify my sources when it comes to studying. I currently have The Princeton Review, Kaplan,
MGMAT guides, OG12, Doing Grammar, and Ultimate GMAT Verbal. I feel as though these will be sufficient as it brings in a lot of approaches to the GMAT and I will be able to hopefully harness the approach that makes me the most comfortable, and after all building a comfort zone for this test is going to be the make or break factor on that first attempt.
I certainly hope this helps you a little,
nphelan