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I redeemed my Gmatclub Point to get 6 CATs from Manhattan Prep GMAT. Thank you all for the reward.
Manhattan Prep GMAT CATs have many extremely hard questions, particularly in the quant section. It's a good experience for those who want to practice solving hard questions and prepare for facing psychological pressure in the test room.
I think Manhattan Prep GMAT CATs should improve the adaptive questions during the test. I saw from the report that when my estimated verbal score was 30, I was assigned to a series of 6 hard questions with the difficulty of 700-800. Unbelievable! I wonder if, in the real test, we will also face this problem.
It really helps to get used to the timing and the best practice to prepare for your real test. The test in general is very challenging, but it evaluates your level very accurate. You usually get lower score than expected which is a good thing to me. I don't like to score very high on practice tests and then get lower score on the real one. The report is also very detailed and understandable. You will get some ideas of how your score would be graded, how you would lose points or gain some. My scores were terrible but Manhattan tests help me learn a lot so I can improve myself. I'm still re-taking the test since it's a very good studying tool.
Recently I have gone through the MGMAT all six mock tests.
Though I was consistently getting 640 but the SC questions were top notch and RC passages were also very high quality.
Quant is specially very helpful specially to people who are aiming Q49 plus
Quants questions level are top notch but difficulty level can be reduced. Both Verbal and quant mocks cover almost all topics ,which may appear on the actual test.
Score algorithm is very close close to actual GMAT algorithm.you can probably easily add 20 points to your mock score compare to the actual gmat. Pricing is also very convenient $49 for six tests.
The questions are very similar to the concepts that are explained in all Manhattan books. I highly recommend taking the CATs after working through the Manhattan books. I took every CAT test and looked up the solution once I got stuck. I love the clear explanations from Manhattan Prep that's why I can highly recommend all test packages! If you like the explanations and strategies from the Manhattan books you can learn how to apply all the things during mock tests! Highly recommended! One more thing: people who struggle with the Quant section should consider reading the Foundations of Math Book, too. It starts from scratch and might be helpful for people who forgot some of the principles of high school Math.
Great to practice for quant but should not take the scores seriously. Has very challenging quant tests, excellent for practicing 750 level quant questions. Verbal section isn't at the same level as Official Guides. But definitely great to practice hard math questions and develop higher order thinking skills. Manhattan math sections are time consuming , but what I’ve heard from my peers is that GMAT math level has gone up a few notches (I still can’t believe it, but their scores seem to validate it a bit). So, you can’t really say that Manhattan quants would be significantly tougher than the actual questions.
Students end up scoring more on the real GMAT than in the Manhattan tests. So MGMAT tests can act as a benchmark for improvement or as a morale breaker, depending on how you want to view it. The questions are good (considered tough) by students. Both Quant and Verbal questions are hard to solve. he score reports show that a candidate gets more number of questions in the 600+ level. This is unlikely to happen on the GMAT except for high scorers for whom its inevitable . Indeed its likely a person would do good after practice from manhattan guides and then the exams from here
THESE TESTS PROVIDE GOOD ASSESSMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL
AND HELPS TO BUILD CONFIDENCE. QUESTIONS ARE GOOD BUT NEED SOME VALIDATIONS.
THE QUALITY AND PATTERN OF QUESTIONS ESPECIALLY IN THE CR SECTION AS FEW OF THE QUESTIONS GOT A SLIGHT AMBIGUITY . THE SCORING PATTERN CAN BE IMPROVED HERE TO SOME EXTENT.
MORE OR LESS THESE MOCKS ARE GOOD BUT ONLY AFTER ONE ATTEMPTS THE OFFICIAL ONES . SCORING ALGORITHM IS NOT APT TO THE OFFICIAL ONES THOUGH.
THE QUALITY AND PATTERN OF QUESTIONS ESPECIALLY IN THE CR SECTION AS FEW OF THE QUESTIONS GOT A SLIGHT AMBIGUITY . THE SCORING PATTERN CAN BE IMPROVED HERE TO SOME EXTENT.
BOTH QUANT AND VERBAL QUESTIONS ARE SUPER HARD TO SOLVE HERE. STUDENTS END UP SCORING MORE ON THE ORIGINAL GMAT THAN ON THE MOCK TESTS.
GETTING A 750 PLUS LIKE GETTING A LOT OF BENEFIT
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Verified GMAT Classic score:
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Manhattan Prep Mocks can be reset and reused. But you do not see a lot of familiar questions, so the question pool is very rich.
Verbal is too good. The questions are as sophisticated as those in Official GMAT Prep. There are detailed explanations for each question. The explanations walk you through the reasoning process, especially in CR, and shows how to eliminate the wrong answers.
Quant sections is stricter. With four mistakes, I got 48. In typical GMAT Prep tests, you get 49 or 50.
Analaystics are also provided by the test for each question type. You can obtain combined analytics for multiple tests.
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After going through a lot of reviews and posts on various forums on Internet, I subscribed to gmatclub.com for my GMAT preparations and to Manhattan Prep CATs to evaluate myself periodically. The quality of questions was really good, and the rave reviews for the Manhattan Quants section are not unsubstantiated. Although each question may take more than 2 minutes to solve, it provides good practice for the brain and reduces the surprising element up to some extent. I scored Q49 finally which was above what I thought of scoring depending on my Manhattan CATs performance, in which I consistently scored around Q46-Q47. Manhattan provides 6 CATs, and I solved all of them. I scored consistently around 660-690 in Manhattan CATs, and my Official GMAT Score was 690, which was very much aligned to my performance in Manhattan CATs. Now I am planning to attempt GMAT again to improve my overall score, and thus will be attempting the Manhattan Mocks again after a gap of 6 months, as it also provides the option of resetting the exam on the lines of GMATPrep.
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Verified GMAT Classic score:
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As the word-on-street is, Manhattan CATs indeed have tough Quants but fair verbal sections.
I have consistently score Q45-47 in Manhattan vs Q49-51 in GMAT club tests and Q49 in GMAT Online test as well. Specially the DS section is brutal in Manhattam. But dont think that more the difficulty the better you are prepared - even after taking 6 Manhattan CATs, my Quant score did not really improve, whereas my Verbal score did improve from 30s to 35s. Manhattan Verbal is a fair game and lands in same range/ difficulty for GMAT/ Kaplan/ GMAT club.
Still I would suggest Manhattam CATs because (1) they are cheap (2) prepares you for tough Quant and time management
Manhattan has 6 CATs, which you can reset multiple times. I personally have reset it twice, maybe even more are possible
