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Hello guys. I know it's a relatively long comparison but I really need to understand their differences before diving into any of them. I am currently at 640 (Q48 V29). I need to touch 700 and I have almost 6 weeks. What's my best bet? Which one of these books is better for improvement (mainly in verbal but in quant too)?
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what course material & which test prep are you using that you have gauged your current level to to be 640?
IMO try studying from manhattan guides as they are better than most of the available course material...
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Hello guys. I know it's a relatively long comparison but I really need to understand their differences before diving into any of them. I am currently at 640 (Q48 V29). I need to touch 700 and I have almost 6 weeks. What's my best bet? Which one of these books is better for improvement (mainly in verbal but in quant too)?
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GMAT books are my wheelhouse :-)

The answer is fairly simple. All of these books are designed to work together. The good part is that there’s no overlap… eons ago I prepared using the Kaplan books as well and I used the main book in conjunction with the workbooks. I personally like the workbooks the most they seem to have a lot more practical and very straightforward advice that I need it for my specific target areas. I think the workbooks is what helped me improve my score of the most the main books seem to be too general and didn’t go deep enough in my experience.

I studied pretty much from scratch or from 540 after wasting a lot of time with the Princeton review book which did not get me very far. I have not used GMAT 800 for my prep, but it’s worth poking around and use it as a staying fresh, while you are honing some of the weaknesses. What I mean is that if you were focusing on verbal, you don’t want to completely ignore quant. You need to do some practice and review and so you could potentially study quant for 30 minutes from that book per day. If I remember correctly, it doesn’t actually have a lot of materials or rules or studying and it’s mostly question collection.

The strategies and approaches that Kaplan has generally match what Manhattan has. However, Manhattan goes a lot deeper and is a lot more thorough but it will probably take you double the time to cover it.

Looking at your current score, it seems like you can mostly help in verbal so I can see getting the verbal in the quanta workbooks and start in the verbal workbook and use the quantum workbook as a refresher so to speak. It has some fantastic questions in it. It took me a number of passes to realize how elegantly some of them could be solved. The book authors did not seem to realize that themselves, or at least they included more traditional explanations, but some of the arithmetic questions can be solved faster and more elegantly. I did not realize it until after I already was done with the GMAT and I was helping someone else study. 😂

You should be able to cover the variable workbook in about a month or six weeks.

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Hello guys. I know it's a relatively long comparison but I really need to understand their differences before diving into any of them. I am currently at 640 (Q48 V29). I need to touch 700 and I have almost 6 weeks. What's my best bet? Which one of these books is better for improvement (mainly in verbal but in quant too)?

GMAT books are my wheelhouse :-)

The answer is fairly simple. All of these books are designed to work together. The good part is that there’s no overlap… eons ago I prepared using the Kaplan books as well and I used the main book in conjunction with the workbooks. I personally like the workbooks the most they seem to have a lot more practical and very straightforward advice that I need it for my specific target areas. I think the workbooks is what helped me improve my score of the most the main books seem to be too general and didn’t go deep enough in my experience.

I studied pretty much from scratch or from 540 after wasting a lot of time with the Princeton review book which did not get me very far. I have not used GMAT 800 for my prep, but it’s worth poking around and use it as a staying fresh, while you are honing some of the weaknesses. What I mean is that if you were focusing on verbal, you don’t want to completely ignore quant. You need to do some practice and review and so you could potentially study quant for 30 minutes from that book per day. If I remember correctly, it doesn’t actually have a lot of materials or rules or studying and it’s mostly question collection.

The strategies and approaches that Kaplan has generally match what Manhattan has. However, Manhattan goes a lot deeper and is a lot more thorough but it will probably take you double the time to cover it.

Looking at your current score, it seems like you can mostly help in verbal so I can see getting the verbal in the quanta workbooks and start in the verbal workbook and use the quantum workbook as a refresher so to speak. It has some fantastic questions in it. It took me a number of passes to realize how elegantly some of them could be solved. The book authors did not seem to realize that themselves, or at least they included more traditional explanations, but some of the arithmetic questions can be solved faster and more elegantly. I did not realize it until after I already was done with the GMAT and I was helping someone else study. 😂

You should be able to cover the variable workbook in about a month or six weeks.

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Thank you so much for the detailed reply! Which one of these Kaplan books has the hardest quant questions, so to speak? Because I don't feel much need to dive deep in the basics of quant, since that seems to be covered, I need to practice relatively hard questions under time pressure to go to Q50. What would be my best source?
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Hi UzairSohail,

If you're consistently scoring in the low-600s to mid-600s at this point, it might be that you don't actually need any additional books to hit your Score Goal - and that some new non-book materials might ultimately be required for you to hit the 700+ level that you're after. Before I can offer you any additional advice for your studies, it would help if you could provide a bit more information on how you've been studying and your goals:

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1) How long have you studied? How many hours do you typically study each week?
2) What study materials have you used so far? What “brands” of CATs/mocks have you used?
3) On what dates (or approximate dates) did you take EACH of your CATs/mocks and how did you score on EACH (including the Quant and Verbal Scaled Scores for EACH)?

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4) What is your overall goal score?
5) When are you planning to apply to Business School and what Schools are you planning to apply to?

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