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Kaplan GMAT Prep Live Online - Review (Verbal)
Instructors:: Joseph Tambornino, Rachel Reina
Course Materials: Kaplan GMAT Premier 2016, Online GMAT Quizzes, Diagnostic, and the Kaplan online engine.
What I liked:
- Flex and Fixed sessions: There are 6 Fixed live online sessions (3 quant and 3 verbal), and about 10 verbal flex sessions (that you can sign up). Fixed sessions give you the basic idea of a section from scratch (in broad areas such as SC, CR, and RC). Flex sessions give you the tools to fine tune and perfect a particular concept (Geometry, verbal advanced etc).
- GMAT Quizzes: Kaplan literally has thousands of questions in a customizable quiz engine. I liked most of the questions as they were a mix of different levels of difficulty, and you could never run out of them.
- Topic specific workshops: Kaplan also gives you the chance to watch a repository of pre recorded workshops and aligned quizzes with scaffolded levels of difficulty (SC basic, intermediate, advanced etc)
- GMAT Test day experience: One of the most useful Kaplan features which lets you take a mock CAT in the closest GMAT simulation possible - in a GMAT test center. I could not use this because this service is not available in India, but I am sure this can be a very valuable tool.
- Instructor Support: My instructors were friendly and approachable. They e-mailed summarized notes after every sessions and used to stick around after sessions indefinitely for questions.
- GMAT Pocket guide: A very handy and pocket version of the GMAT premier, for reading while travelling or quick reference. It contains basic math forumals, how to guides, and verbal strategies.
What I hope to see more
- Questions with higher levels of difficulty: I think most questions are on the easy side. I am afraid I find SC and Quant in Kaplan pretty strayed from what the GMAT tests (from what I have seen in official questions)
- Lack of specific targeting of concepts: There is no scope of targeting specific areas such as parallelism, or weaken questions unless you are taking a quiz. Kaplan has innumerable videos on the engine, and I think adding such would be helpful to students.
- Less stress on official problems: I almost saw no use of official GMAT questions. As a big fan of official questions and a proponent of practicing tons of official materials, I found that restricting my chances of scoring higher on the GMAT.
- Better CAT scoring: I took 1 CAT. My score was 710 (Q47V38): I had made 2 mistakes in quant, and 3 in verbal. Score does not seem to be a very realistic reflection of my ability.
My Quant course starts in a week, and I will review as soon as I am done
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Hi Souvik,
I was looking for reviews on Kaplan GMAT course and rightly got one of your reviews here on gmatclub.
I am anxiously looking forward to your review on the Quant course and an overall final feedback.
Thanks,
Vijay
I was looking for reviews on Kaplan GMAT course and rightly got one of your reviews here on gmatclub.
I am anxiously looking forward to your review on the Quant course and an overall final feedback.
Thanks,
Vijay
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Hi Souvik,
I would love to hear your feedback with respect to the complete course.
Also specifically, can you please elaborate on the following points?
a) Kaplan CATS -> Though you have mentioned that the CAT scores were not accurate (in your case, it has put your overall score very low for very few mistakes). But I have just taken a kaplan CAT to which i got access because of the purchase of the kaplan 2014 premier edition. I found that despite close to 10 mistakes, I have scored a 50 on the Quant. Also on the verbal also i made as many as 16 mistakes and scored a V34. Overall kaplan scored me 690 in the mock. Can you please help me understand if their scoring algorithm is correct? I have a feeling that the score is a bit on the higher side. If i have to give some margin to the CAT scores, on average, how much should i expect to deduct from these CAT scores?
b) How representative of the actual GMAT questions is the Kaplan Quiz engine. Are the questions at the same level as it is the kaplan quiz bank. If they are not representative, I do not want to own a false belief of performing well in some of the quiz questions to which I have access to. I was looking to buy the kaplan quiz bank for 41 question set practice.
Looking forward to your feedback.
Vijay
I would love to hear your feedback with respect to the complete course.
Also specifically, can you please elaborate on the following points?
a) Kaplan CATS -> Though you have mentioned that the CAT scores were not accurate (in your case, it has put your overall score very low for very few mistakes). But I have just taken a kaplan CAT to which i got access because of the purchase of the kaplan 2014 premier edition. I found that despite close to 10 mistakes, I have scored a 50 on the Quant. Also on the verbal also i made as many as 16 mistakes and scored a V34. Overall kaplan scored me 690 in the mock. Can you please help me understand if their scoring algorithm is correct? I have a feeling that the score is a bit on the higher side. If i have to give some margin to the CAT scores, on average, how much should i expect to deduct from these CAT scores?
b) How representative of the actual GMAT questions is the Kaplan Quiz engine. Are the questions at the same level as it is the kaplan quiz bank. If they are not representative, I do not want to own a false belief of performing well in some of the quiz questions to which I have access to. I was looking to buy the kaplan quiz bank for 41 question set practice.
Looking forward to your feedback.
Vijay
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