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Title: Kaplan GMAT 2003 with CD-ROM by Kaplan Publishing ISBN: 0-7432-3031-0 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good practice for HARDEST problems / score is a joke though
Comment: The Kaplan GMAT prep book is not without it merits however its practice tests scores are totally unrealistic. The best thing about Kaplin is that it teaches you aggressive clock management and MAKES you guess in order to finish. When I first took the practice test I managed to get a 580. After 2 months of study I took the final test the night before the real GMAT and got a 560 My GMAT score on test day... 740. I'm sorry but a 180 point margin of error renders the practice tests worthless for anything but reviewing the material. Get the Princeton Review GMAT book if you only plan to buy one prep book for test taking strategies and to brush up fast on the basic verbal and math. I recommend Kaplin if you intend to devote more than 50 hours reviewing for the test and really want to get back into all the math and English you at one point thought you could safely relegate to the trash heap of highschool history.
Rating: 2
Summary: Skip Kaplan, buy the official guide
Comment: This book is almost useless. As everyone pointed out, it does not give you an accurate indication of your expected performance at all. The questions are on the tricky side, the math problems are not necessarily harder than the actual ones, but they definitely need more work (hence more time), the reading comprehension passages are much longer, and the questions are more detailed than the real ones, in fact, they are the LSAT level questions (yup, I studied for that, too), so you are extremely pressed for time. It scares you, demoralizes you, and it doesn't really help you prepare.
I took the first diag. test w/o any prep, and got a 620, then after considerable amount of practice with the official guide (got at least 93% of the questions correct in every section), took more of its CATs, and scores began to drop like a rock, 590, 570, 550. So I said what the hey (or something to that effect 8-)), took the test anyway, and got a 740!! I even had 10 minutes to spare on the math part. Go figure. But I do believe the high actual score is consistent with all my works.
The verdict, buy the official guide, and do every one of the problems (it took me about a week to go through all the problems, but it was time well spent). Skip this Kaplan guide. But you might want the Kaplan GMAT Verbal Workbook.
Rating: 3
Summary: Nice Math Review, Poor Test Questions
Comment: After scoring a 690 on the PowerPrep, I figured I should tackle the Kaplan Book and take the practice tests. The math review is comprehensive, and quite thourough, so I was quite confident that I would score well above 690 on the first Kaplan Practice Test. To my dismay, I scored a 600. So I took another test, and this time it was a 590. After contemplating quitting my studying altogether, I checked the reviews here and felt a thousand percent better. Thank you to all the reviewers who took the time out and explain their problems, which seem to be common among many test takers. This book is great for its math review, but be forewarned, the whole review is long, so allow yourself a large chunk of time if you feel your math skills are lacking. Take the practice tests to get down timing and get a feel for how long the actual test is, but take the test results with a grain of salt.
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Title: Kaplan GMAT Verbal Workbook by Ingrid Multhopp, Inc. Kaplan ISBN: 0743216865 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Kaplan GRE & GMAT Exams Math Workbook, Third Edition by Kaplan ISBN: 0743233549 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Cracking the GMAT with Sample Tests on CD-ROM, 2003 Edition by Geoff Martz ISBN: 0375762507 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
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Title: The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 10th Edition ISBN: 0886852404 Publisher: RSVP Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Verbal Workout for the GMAT (The Princeton Review) by Douglas French ISBN: 0375754172 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 23 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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