Calamity Jane wrote:
WOW. I have never heard this before either, and I did a lot of research before I started prepping. Makes me glad I'm taking an online course, although mine is with Princeton Review. I am getting plenty of practice on the fundamentals (math is my weak area) and am definitely able to maximize my time rather than listening to marketing drivel. I don't know if PR instructors do that in class, but so far, not through the online chat. I was initially lamenting not being able to do a classroom course, but now I am feeling pretty good about that!!!
Calamity,
Kraplan does give students plenty of 'online resources' so they may 'score higher' when they take the 'gmat' on 'test day' and they do have math review modules online that students can do for 'homework'.
however, we are told right off the bat in our first quant training video that "kaplan doesn't offer math classes, or even a math review" and i don't think customers buying into a kaplan class know that...
what the hell is the first thing you think of when you sign up for a GMAT class???? MATH REVIEW!!!!
Here is an example of what I mean:
The whopping 10 minutes I get to explain combinatorics and permutations to the class is fantastic. Considering a whole chapter of my PreCalc textbook was devoted to these two topics, I am really scared when I have to teach this lesson... who is going to be able to understand such things in 10 minutes? Especially since 25% of my time I am just spouting catchphrases and marketing nonsense