Strengths:

The course provides free access to essential GMAT study materials, including The GMAT Official Guide, six full-length official GMAT practice exams, and the GMAT Navigator practice tracker with full solutions for the main Official Guide. This means you don’t need to purchase these resources separately—they’re all included to support your studies. Additionally, the Dynamic Question Set Builder is a great tool for targeted practice, and the complete GMAT Strategy Guide Set (with especially strong Quant guides that cover all the basics) is also provided.

Would make the product better:

As a non-native English speaker, I found the verbal section of the GMAT particularly challenging. Unfortunately, the course didn’t place much emphasis on this area, and if I remember correctly, we had very little focused instruction on the verbal component during live sessions. If a wider variety of problems had been discussed during class, it could have been really helpful in building a stronger foundation in verbal skills for students like myself.

Broadly, The course offers free access to critical resources, including The GMAT Official Guide, six full-length official GMAT practice exams, and the GMAT Navigator practice tracker, all with full solutions for the Official Guide problems. This comprehensive support saves on additional costs and ensures access to the primary study materials needed.
The Dynamic Question Set Builder is another helpful tool, allowing for targeted practice tailored to different skill levels. I also appreciated the full GMAT Strategy Guide Set, with the Quant guides being especially thorough in covering all the basics.
However, as a non-native English speaker, I found the verbal section challenging. While the quant-focused materials were strong, I wish the course had placed more emphasis on verbal reasoning, especially with varied practice questions and additional live session coverage of verbal topics. This would have been a valuable addition, as I felt more support was needed in this area.
Overall, the course is well-structured and resourceful, especially for those looking to build a strong foundation in quant. Some extra attention to verbal training could make it even more effective for a broader range of students.

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The good thing for me was the questions it was really hard for me as this was my second attempt at GMAT and I had exhausted my resources all the OGS, verbal review and quant review and the MBA.com mock tests so I had no original material left but manhattan questions are the next best thing and the way they explain sc questions are amazing.

Would make the product better:

I would recommend to improve the quant section and the weightage of some topics on quant because in my mba.com exams and original gmat both attempts I did not receive a lot of geometry questions.

Preparing for a standardized test can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to the GMAT exam. The Graduate Management Admission Test is a challenging test that requires diligent preparation and hard work. As a test-taker, it is essential to use all the resources available to ensure success.

After taking the GMAT exam for the second time, I found the questions to be quite challenging. However, this was a beneficial experience for me as it pushed me to go beyond my limits and improve my skills. Unfortunately, by the time of my second attempt, I had already exhausted all my available resources, such as the Official Guides, Verbal Review, Quant Review, and MBA.com mock tests.Despite this, I found a solution in Manhattan Prep's GMAT question bank. Their questions are well-constructed and challenging, which helped me to refine my skills and strategies. The Sentence Correction questions, in particular, were explained in a manner that was easy to understand, making it easier for me to identify and correct grammatical errors.

Using Manhattan Prep's resources allowed me to approach the GMAT exam with a fresh perspective and tackle questions that were similar in structure and difficulty to those found on the actual test. Additionally, the detailed explanations provided by Manhattan Prep allowed me to understand my mistakes and learn from them, which ultimately helped me to improve my performance on the exam.

In conclusion, taking the GMAT exam can be a challenging experience, but it is important to use all available resources to succeed. Manhattan Prep's GMAT question bank proved to be an excellent solution for me, providing me with well-constructed questions and detailed explanations that helped me to refine my skills and strategies. If you are preparing for the GMAT exam, I highly recommend utilizing Manhattan Prep's resources to maximize your chances of success.

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The pros of this service were the Interact courses which were very engaging and the practice GMAT exams that were very accurate in predicting my actual GMAT score. The major con was the course instruction itself would often times lose momentum due to getting bogged down on a particular student's question or lack of participation and we would not always finish the topics. I also felt that once the course ended, I was left to my own devices. I decided to use another course instruction after Manhattan prep and found that I had more success with the alternate service. Looking back, this service was very expensive and I saw better results with a less expensive service. I just didn't see the return that I was hoping for.

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Overall, I felt this was really good. I like how it was really organized with the lessons and homework planned out for you each week. I think I focused a little too much on the textbooks, though, whereas focusing on practicing actual GMAT problems was a lot more useful to me in preparing for the exam. The Manhattan questions, especially the verbal questions, were not representative of the actual GMAT questions, so I would recommend practicing with real GMAT questions as well. In terms of the quant, their questions were a lot harder than the actual GMAT questions so I guess it "over-prepares" you in a sense, but still I got thrown off during the actual test because I though I was doing badly when I was getting what I perceived to be "easy" questions (I ended up getting a 47 on quant, so not TOO shabby). Anyways, I ended up supplementing this course with Magoosh and buying real GMAT questions from GMAC, which I think helped me a lot. I also purchased the practice tests from GMAT Club. I ended up with a 690, and I think that was a result of a combination of different things, not just Manhattan.

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Admittedly, I'm someone who hasn't practiced math in a really long time and for full disclosure, my studies focused much more on the books post-course. But, I thought the verbal books were amazing, straight-forward, were very comprehensive. My verbal score literally doubled after spending minimal time reviewing the verbal books, but, to be fair, I think verbal was always going to be my strength. The math, for me, felt like it offered a lot of "rules" but wasn't helpful in terms of implementing the rules in a way that was effective for the adaptive/logic-over-math skills nature of the test. The practice questions after each section weren't in any way geared toward the test, so if you dedicatedly do them, it's just not going to help that much. I just feel like MGMAT's approach to quant isn't holistic enough. It was much more about trying to strengthen your math foundation rather than strongly coupling that with a strong foundation for approaching this adaptive test, a test which I think few of us have encountered before. My suggestion: definitely buy the verbal books. Pass on the math. Course was fine but I probably would have done another (and have since).

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I had spent several months studying the GMAT and also took the Veritas online course, but decided to sign up for the MGMAT Live Course since it was paid by my employer. Because of this, the classes were a waste of time for me since we went over very basic materials. The books were excellent and the online forum was very helpful, but the CATs were very frustrating. I think the CATs are more difficult than the actual exam and my scores were all over the place. The thing I liked most is the OG Archer. I used it on every OG question and it helped identify my weaknesses. I would recommend just purchasing the books and utilizing the OG archer instead of spending over a thousand on the live course.

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I took the 9 week course and studied very intensely for a month after the course. I got a 540 on the actual GMAT exam because I scored well in the math with a 44. I started with a 37 on practice tests in math so I believe that Manhattan had good math strategy. However, Manhattan really lacks in the verbal section so I am going to look for another company before I retake the GMAT.

My verbal score on their exams really fluctuated with the highest being a 37 and on the actual exam I got a 21. Their SC section was good but just knowing that is not enough to bring up your verbal score.

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The course focused more on verbal which I would have preferred Verbal since I feel that Quantitative is easier to teach oneself and I struggle in verbal. We did cover Sentence Correction in full detail. I wish more time was spent on CR and RC.

The instructor did a great job at being available before class to answer questions that I had. He also would respond to my questions by e-mail very quickly and even has followed up after the class. My favorite part of the class was the powerpoint slides with different problems as each one would be completely different and we'd learn how to approach them.

Overall, I feel that the class sometimes moved too slow. It may have been that no one completed the homework assignments so the instructor had to go over things that they should have read so class went by really slowly as students would ask questions pertaining to that. My score did not go up at all even though I completed all of my homework assignments, read all of the chapters, and did more than the expected practice CAT exams. I'm not sure what went wrong as I did everything to get a score increase.

I would recommend Brett as an instructor.

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