veritasprep or kaplan or princeton reivew.

[v-rap]

Hi,

I am trying to decide which of above training is good. Anybody has any suggestion ? I have very less time for prep. I am leaning on some kind of training will give me edge, I am aiming for 700 score.
I am in Minneapolis, Please let me know if anybody has any insight on instructors around this area. Also in general which course is better.

Thanks in advance.

[tickle]

I'm doing a one month prep and I've just finished the Veritas intensive course in Mumbai, India. Don't really think it was very useful. Their material, although useful, is far from sufficient by itself. You'd definitely have to use other stuff to prepare.

Couple of good things though - They took individual lessons for all Quant topics, and that helps in strengthening your fundamentals.
Also, what i really liked was that they had plenty of practice problems per lesson to implement what you learn.

All in all, Veritas was decent, but not great.

Can't say anything about Kaplan or PR.

[kannn]

One of my close friend took Veritas in Houston.
It is complete waste of time and useless.
Their book materials are awful except the Statistics and Probabilty book.
You can get these 2 books combined into one book in Amazon.com. Book name is I guess GMAT Project or something.

Verbal material is certainly not helpful at all.

They claim that they provide 15 tests. None of them are certainly not that useful.
- 3 arco tests. Just little above the standard of PR
- 2 GMAT Prep tests you know what that smiley is for
- 5 Veritas test: This test is certaily waste of time. No where close to GMAT
- 5 800Score test: You can buy this for around 30$ online

Think abt it. If you still want to do course with someone considr Manhattan. Their books dedicated to each chappter of Q and B are very good.
They have online program as well.
This way u can save time.

Kaplan course is ok.
Princeton is good if you are ok for 650-700 score. They provide good strategies for the test. Not too good for the in depth concepts.

Good luck

[hG_ka]

I took PR last month in St. Louis. Seriously, it was a waste of time and money.

[v-rap]

Hi,

I am still not sure at this point. Veritas offers 42 hrs and they have lot more classes than Kaplan and PR. I have two options for my timing either Veritasperp or Kaplan. Can somebody throw some light...thanks Kann for you info.

Did your friend take GMAT who had taken class with Veritasprep ? how much did he score ?


Thanks
V-

[kannn]

Not yet. He is still preparing.
You may want to consider Manhattan's online course.
I attended one of their guest session. It is pretty good.

[v-rap]

My problem is I need class room training, I cannot do it at home, with a 2 year old toddler , Online course might not work for me.

thanks
V-

[kevinspain]

Both Mahattan and Veritas are great outfits. Ask to attend the first session of each so that you can make the right decision, as the extent to which you would benefit from either depends on the instructors and how their styles mesh with yours.

[v-rap]

Thanks for the insight. I have registered for vertiasprep. It fits with my timelines to exam. I will let you know how it goes.

Sometimes world is not perfect, Take as it comes and cake it the way you want !

Thanks
V-

[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