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0 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This review is from: Kaplan GMAT 800: Advanced Prep for Advanced Students (Paperback)
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4.1 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 34 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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Best book to get into the best schools,
By Tom - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kaplan GMAT 800: Advanced Prep for Advanced Students (Paperback)
I strongly disagree with the one-star review given here and feel compelled to give my own take.This books is tough and painful to get through. But, if you are serious about getting into a Top 10 Business School, then this is the best book you can get. Look, if you are even considering a Top 10 school you probably score reasonably well on the GMAT to begin with. This book is a collection of the toughest questions that can be found. It gives some guidance on how to get through the questions, but the real value is simply going through them all and figuring out the patterns yourself. I was scoring in the high 600's before this book. I then spent about an hour every night going through it until I had done every question in every section twice. It was painful, to be sure, but the 780 I got at the end of it all made it all worthwhile. This book is not for everyone. If you are an average test taker or student you will simply find this book to be too nuanced and specific for your needs and it will likely not help you much. But, if you are a serious candidate for the top schools, this is a really great book and is something I recommend to everyone I meet who is applying to top tier b-schools. 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Has useful techniques, but not as difficult as they claim,
By KNJ "KNJ" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Kaplan GMAT 800: Advanced Prep for Advanced Students (Paperback)
I bought this book to supplement my core preparation materials, namely The Official Guide, some Manhattan books and the Kaplan Premier Program book. To give some relevant background, my initial diagnostic score was approx. 600, and my latest practice score is 750: Quantitative 77th percentile, Verbal 98th percentile. The 750 was an unexpected surprise, but since I wasn't happy with my Quant percentile I referred to Kaplan 800.There are some good time-saving techniques in this book, but overall an advanced student won't find every page challenging or even useful. Most, if not all, of the "challenging" Quant questions are covered in the Official Guide. From my experience, you will face a greater depth and breadth of challenging questions by practicing the last third of the questions in the Official Guide, and most importantly reviewing your mistakes diligently. With a 77th Quant percentile in a practice test, I'm obviously not a genius in Math who would find most concepts super-simple; like most students, I'm someone who needed a lot of basic practice to get to where I am now. Given that similarity, I think most fellow test-takers won't benefit immensely from Kaplan 800. However, it is possible that students will find the Verbal section useful. My verbal score was already at an advanced level before picking up this book, but I still found some of its techniques noteworthy. This book doesn't offer a large number of practice questions, rather it focuses on theory, which it then exemplifies through a couple of questions following each theoretical concept. The concepts, as I mentioned, can be useful, but as the book itself states they are not comprehensive. If you want comprehensive, go Manhattan. Overall, my recommendation is to focus instead on the Official Guide, Manhattan books depending on the areas you need to focus on the most, and the main Kaplan book (especially the Kaplan practice tests). This set of materials was recommended to me by someone who got a 760, and I know others who've used the same; their scores were 740 and 710. Save your money and (more importantly?) your time instead of perusing this book. Good luck! 8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Utterly Useless,
By Alper - Published on Amazon.com
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The book has 2 parts: First 2/3 verbal and last 1/3 math. There are very FEW questions and no practice tests in this book.The math part is OK, but do not expect any good tips or examples of difficult GMAT questions. It is NOT any different from regular GMAT books in terms of difficulty of questions. The title 800 GMAT is absolutely and completely misleading. The questions do not resemble GMAT questions. For example, divisibility and mods, which are quite frequent in GMAT, are not covered (I got 2 in my GMAT). Princeton Review's Cracking GMAT book has more difficult questions than Kaplan 800 GMAT. Last but not least, there are duplicate questions in the book. The verbal section is in complete disarray. The questions are not great and the explanations for answers of some questions are ridiculous, unclear or insufficient. It feels like they just didn't want to put any attention into the content. It feels like it was assembled by a greedy corporation. Overall, the book was worse than useless. It did not improve my math score (I scored same before and after studying this book), but it may have lowered my verbal score due to confusing and misleading explanations to questions. I recommend Princeton Review Cracking GMAT over Kaplan 800 GMAT. |
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