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Searching for good GMAT prep books. 28 Aug 2007, 10:44
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Hi,

I have just started preparing for GMAT and looking for good preparation books.
Please recommend me few books which I can start reading. Also if there are new courses I should I take please suggest them as well.

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Searching for good GMAT prep books. 28 Aug 2007, 10:56
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Must Have:
GMAT Official Guide 11ed
GMAT Verbal OG
GMAT Quant OG
MGMAT Sentence Correction

All other resources seem to get mixed reviews.
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Searching for good GMAT prep books. 28 Aug 2007, 11:07
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MGMAT,is that Manhattan GMAT Preparation?
I did some GMAT preparation couple of years ago but gave it up,thinking of taking it this year.
JP,how about Kaplan?Is it one the must have books as well?
Any other books?Please add to the list!
thanks.
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Searching for good GMAT prep books. 28 Aug 2007, 11:31
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MGMAT,is that Manhattan GMAT Preparation?
I did some GMAT preparation couple of years ago but gave it up,thinking of taking it this year.
JP,how about Kaplan?Is it one the must have books as well?
Any other books?Please add to the list!
thanks.
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Read "share your GMAT experience" part of this forum. You will find what people with different scores used in their preparation.
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Searching for good GMAT prep books. 28 Aug 2007, 14:00
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agree with vlad - check out the various debriefs of the resources that top scorers used.

i have the kaplan premier and kaplan 800 books. in my opinion, kaplan, along with princeton review, is good for earlier stages of studying when you want to get into some questions and just get used to writing GMAT style questions. however, since the questions are written in a style that vary in consistency with the gmat, i would spend less time on kaplan later in your study period, and ramp up on official guide questions.

also, the kaplan CD CAT scoring is a bit skewed from the actual algorithm, so ppl usually score 50 points lower on kaplan CAT's which can be discouraging to some.
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Searching for good GMAT prep books. 29 Aug 2007, 11:15
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So far I have Cracking the GMAT and PR's Verbal Workbook, and am going to download GMATPrep. Haven't gotten OG yet, but hear that's a must.
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Searching for good GMAT prep books. 29 Aug 2007, 11:16
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btw Vlad I LOVE the GMAT CAT picture!!! That's great.
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