Which GMAT Prep Course is Best for 2024?

Question

Hi GMAT Club community,

I’m starting my GMAT prep journey and trying to figure out the best course to invest in for 2024. There are so many options out there—Manhattan Prep, Magoosh, PrepScholar, Princeton Review, and others.

For those of you who’ve taken the GMAT recently or are currently preparing, which course are you using, and what’s been your experience so far? What do you think offers the best value for the price?

I’d love to hear your recommendations or any tips on what worked best for you!

Thanks in advance for your help!

Archit3110 · Answer

its best to take trial pack of few of the listed ones and then self decide which one suits you best in terms of pacing, course and tests ...

Kavicogsci · Answer

Here's the interesting part that noone will tell you and I have painfully learnt through lot of trial and error and attempts

1. One course may take one student to a 700+ and other still struggling at 500+ cause the aptitude difference and grasping skills could still differ and the the set approaches may not make sense for every student.

2. Exploit free trials for all!

3. Exploit YT playlist

- For CR: 1)GMAT Ninja 2) Delv Academy by  AjiteshArun  sir 3)Ron Stewart 4)Few lectures of Karishmaprep/Ana prep
- For Quant I only know of GMAT Ninja and Crack verbal search Aditya sir
- For DI GMAT Ninja is all I know

This will set a standard of what all great stuff is out there, what you need to know why avoiding some prep company, what approach works for you

4. Stick with GMAT club for official questions cause a lot of these prep companies have modelled questions basis OG only after all

5. Now for paid course here are my biased opinions:

- GMAT Whiz and Egmat all good for quant but dont like prethinking startegies for CR at all (Beaware of lot of fake reviews here - i am saying this without being their paid student but basis the webinars they put out)

- Magoosh felt short of covering some crucial Quant concepts

- TTP tried to overtemplatise CR questions, Quant again missed crucial concepts

- Top 1% felt very self and not great for understanding errors

- Manhattan I didnt do because of cost - but heard good reviews. Try reading their books and Powerscore CR bible to evaluate more

6. If you cant work through a self paced course after your first attempt, switch to a tutor immediately dont waste time on any other course.

Hope this helps.

RishS94 · Answer

Adding to detailed post by  Kavicogsci , E-gmat were quite accurate with Sigma-x mocks for classic GMAT

ScottTargetTestPrep · Answer

Regarding prep courses, in addition to seeking advice in this thread, take a look at the GMAT Club reviews for  the best quant  and  verbal courses , and also read through some  GMAT success stories  to see what materials have worked well for other test-takers.

spillon · Answer

I used PrepScholar because they had a good value package which included the self-paced online course with a one-on-one tutoring package, where the tutor could view your online test results and go through them with you. It was not bad for the cost, however, if I had my time again, I would probably use a different course such as TTP.

Positives of PrepScholar included a diagnostic test to test your strong/weak areas, a customised structured course with modules to complete each week, tracking of performance against skill areas, the ability to set a schedule and study plan for yourself, simple and generally easy to understand content, and mini practice tests to complete and test your knowledge at the end of each module (which included working solutions in the answers). It would also get you to re-do modules if you didn't get a high enough score in the practice tests to reinforce the learning.

Main criticisms were the content was sometimes overly simple or lacked adequate explanations (I would often get questions in the practice test the content had not adequately prepared me for), only some modules had video explanations which meant a lot of reading, and answers to practice test questions sometimes lacked adequate explanations. You also could not access the "locked" modules, meaning you didn't have control over which modules you wanted to study outside of the weekly plan without requesting the admins to manually unlock them all for you. Additionally, several weeks after I signed up to the package (at the end of 2023), I realised the content was based on the GMAT Classic edition (I planned on doing the GMAT Focus exam), meaning I had wasted time doing irrelevant modules that weren't in the Focus edition (e.g. geometry, graphs etc.) - unsure if they've updated the content for Focus edition, but keep this in mind.

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