Kaplan online course

anilsoujanya · #1 (**permalink**) July 20th, 2008, 10:40 PM

Anybody familiar with Kaplan GMAT online course? I am interested in couple of things:
- Are the tests in this course same as the ones that come with Kaplan GMAT Book CD?
- How is the difficulty of these tests compare to the actual GMAT?

Thanks for your input...

jonmoron · #2 (**permalink**) July 21st, 2008, 01:24 AM

anil,

I paid for the teacher-based kaplan course last year (it included the online course as well). Personally I think it was a complete waste of time/money. I would definitely recommend not to pay for it.

I've found scorechase + the manhattan gmat books/tests to be much more comprehensive. mgmat books, as well as the scorechase forums, teach content. Alot of Kaplan's methodology is to teach "tricks"...the only "trick" that I think is of ANY use is to know that if a quant question asks "which of the following...", and if you cannot solve the question, your educated guesses should start from E and go up. There is a high percentage of the "which of the following" questions that end up to be D or E as correct answers on the actual exam.

Good luck

anilsoujanya · #3 (**permalink**) July 21st, 2008, 08:20 AM

For better or worse, I subscribed to their online course three weeks back. I have taken their diagnostic test and three CATs so far. I am doing very well in quant and my verbal score is all over the place. My quant was consistently higher than 50, but my verbal ranged from 31-43. In some forums I heard that their test are difficult. So, I want to know if online course tests are same as the tests that come with the book. If anybody has experience taking online course tests, I would like to compare notes.

BTW, I think their quant is more formula oriented. Basically their questions seem to be shorter than actual GMAT questions. So, probably not very reflective of actual GMAT.

gopz · #4 (**permalink**) July 21st, 2008, 08:57 AM

GMATPrep is the best indicator of actual GMAT toughness .... Kaplan may be either side.

utkarsh · #5 (**permalink**) September 8th, 2008, 06:25 AM

Hi,

I am new to GMAT, started my prep 2 week back. Can u tell me what is GMATPrep. I have no idea abt it.

Hagrid · #6 (**permalink**) September 8th, 2008, 06:44 AM

hi utkarsh,

gmatprep is the name of the test provided by GMAC. You can get it on www.mba.com . Its free and it gives you a very good idea of what ur current level of preparations are.

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