3 stars (Good practice problems, bad presentation) - I preferred 'Cracking the GMAT', which I read first. I ended up using this book primarily for the practice problems. My big complaint with this book was that in the answers to the practice questions, the problem isn't included. To see the original question, you have to flip to the quiz, then back to the answers...this style makes it difficult to see where you went wrong. Note that the CD version only works on Windows, and you won't see this information printed anywhere obvious. 3 stars (Some parts good, some less so.) - The good: The book itself has some fairly good explanations of things and useful tricks. The practice questions are nice to have, especially the data sufficiency questions which are so unlike anything the average college student has previously encountered. The mediocre: Much of the explanation is *too* much, I think, for a book that's supposed to be geared at people who either have graduated or will be shortly graduating from college, but I may be nitpicking with that. What I definitely find irritating is that the book seems to have been poorly proofread; I caught one reference to 'going back to a question later' or something similar which must have been from a version predating the CAT! The bad: The internet portion offered works very poorly and doesn't give you much that the book and CD don't, though they certainly hype it enough. And the practice questions are generally of easy-to-moderate difficulty, even though it's an adaptive test, probably to get high-level test takers to purchase their separate GMAT 800 book. The gist: If you just want to survive it, this'll probably do you fine. If you're expecting to expand on your preparation with other books, question sets, or prep programs, this seems like a good place to start. But if you want to really do your best, you're going to have to do more than just this book. Since it's a $250 test, you can probably afford a few other boo... Kaplan :: Study Aids & General :: Test Prep :: Study Guides :: Study Aids :: Management :: Graduate Management Admission Test :: Graduate Departments And Schools :: GMAT (Gra :: GMAT 2006- Premier Program (Kaplan Gmat (Book - CD-Rom))
4 stars (Satisfactory) - Good for students who need hard questions to get above 700 on Gmat. Tan 5 stars (Good book, Excellent verbal practice) - I am finally over with the GMAT... what a nice feeling :) I decided to try and save some money and study on my own using all the books I could find. I used: * Kaplan 800 (2005-2006) * Kaplan 2005 * Princeton 2003 * The Official Guide * Barron 2000 * Kaplan and Princeton CD-ROMs. I found the GMAT 800 very useful, especially in the verbal section. While doing the drills I was getting about half of them wrong, which allowed me to improve by learning from my mistakes. The Reading Comprehension passages are simply the ugliest one can imagine - Very good preparation for the exam. The critical reasoning questions also had some nice edges to them and confusing answers to choose from (Reading the explanations removed the confusion and helped me understand the reasoning behind the answers) Oh, and the Sentence Correction... These were a joy! Some very tough ones in that section and they touch all the types of questions that can be found in the exam. The math section was o.k. It has the toughest math questions from all the books, but still not close enough to the real exam, and here I really felt there were too few question. If had to choose two books to study with, I would choose this book and the official guide (and the CD-ROMs) Overall this is an excellent book, either as a first book to introduce the different types of questions, or as a review of hard questions a week before the exam. 5 stars (GMAT vs GRE) - I aced the GRE, after studying 3 months while taking 12 credits in undergrad. I'm now addicted to standardized tests because I have found a system that works. I've taken a non academic Professional Liscense exam and ACED it using a system that I've found. I took those two standardized tests within six months, and now i'm going to be ready to take another within 3 months. THAT'S 3 standardized tests within NINE... Kaplan :: Study Aids & General :: Test Prep :: Study Guides :: Study Aids :: GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test) :: Kaplan :: :: Kaplan GMAT 800- 2005-2006 (Kaplan Gmat 800)
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