veritasprep or kaplan or princeton reivew.

[kannn]

Originally Posted by v-rap

I posted this on other thread. Thought this is more relavent place...Here goes my experience after taking the veritas perp course--

I suggest not to take veritas prep course. I have taken it and felt I lost 42 hrs of prep time. I literaly wasted time traveling and attending the class. What they do is solve the problems in the book,which I can sit at home and do it. No strategy is thought, all 99% percentile tutors are ancient and they don't even know about CAT properly. They hail from paper exam era. Not sure even they got 99% percentile.

I suggest have a good self study plan and do it yourself, spend as much money possible on books than sending $1500 on training. Get varity - PR (Top 3 GMAT study guides/tools), Kaplan and Manhattan (SC is very good) , Veritas compared to Manhattan - Veritas is way behind in structure and material. They need to upgrade there instructors and material both. And FYI - Instructor being 99 percentile does not mean they are good. Every 99 percentile candidate cannot be good teacher. They mostly have a hectic job, they come to teach for heck of it and they are not dedicated.

To add more Veritas exams are phatetic. They have 4 of 800 exams and 2 gmat prep exams (which are free - I dont know why they count as 2 of 15 exams they offer-dumb), 5 of there own, 2 thomoson. Which are never updated. The training material is same from past 4 years. Instructor carry the books which are torn and they look like from late 70's.

If I would get back my time and redo the whole preparation - I would buy
a) OC 11
b) Manhattan SC and CR - Browse thru math from Kaplan and Manhattan in book store (BN or borders) after going thru OC11. Pick another varity
c) May be buy Kaplan 800 if I had time to study.
d) Buy good exams - I would suggest Manhattan and flirt little with Kaplan exams.
e) Give as many exams as possible

And get over with GMAT.

Anyway that is my two cents, I think I went little tangent on the topic. However it will help when someone who wants to analyze.

- V

You are absolutely correct. My friend said exact same thing.
In case if it helps:
- Dont even think abt their own 5 tests. Neither Verbal nor Quants are good enough. GUI is pathetic.
- 4 800 exams: Quants part is good. But tough. It will help you to sharpen the weaker quants areas. Verbal is waste of time.
- Arco/Thomso test: If you run out of tests then think abt this. Not bad. Rather you can buy one of the Manhattan book for 30$ and get 6 free CATs along with that.

- Veritas Statistics and Probability books are very good. I've not found anything better than that in those topics.

[clockwork]

Buyer beware with the Manhattan GMAT books. I just bought the CR and NP books and ended up giving them away. Felt like they were just recycling ideas that I had already read online for free.