Not gonna lie, I have no experience with either. However, I have heard good things about both.
My $0.02:
Flip a coin.
veritas prep vs Manhattan Gmat
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Gluteus
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Neither one is a good program for GMAT. Manhattan GMAT relies heavily on OG and
skips and skims around various topics. It offers barely 24 hours of working through
the OG problems that you can work through on your own. The OG problems are already explained
in the book. Why do you need a dude to explain the explanations to you? As for Veritas GMAT,
the company appears to be shady and not telling the truth about its courses and products. It
deliberately hides the fact that most of its study and test materials are sourced from other
companies and adds a huge markup to the assorted gibberish you can buy on your own. It does
phone interviews and sends out trainers and you become a sucker. Avoid Veritas and Manhattan GMAT.
skips and skims around various topics. It offers barely 24 hours of working through
the OG problems that you can work through on your own. The OG problems are already explained
in the book. Why do you need a dude to explain the explanations to you? As for Veritas GMAT,
the company appears to be shady and not telling the truth about its courses and products. It
deliberately hides the fact that most of its study and test materials are sourced from other
companies and adds a huge markup to the assorted gibberish you can buy on your own. It does
phone interviews and sends out trainers and you become a sucker. Avoid Veritas and Manhattan GMAT.
Not sure about veritas, but I download Manhattan Gmat teh 9 week class videos online. I thought they were very beneficial (Increased my prep score by 200). However I recommend doing some OG problems going in. Yes they go over mainly OG problems in their cirriculum, but they provide very good strategies on COMMON problems you will encounter and provide good insight on how to approach them. I saw both of those programs taped online, I suggest you download both and see which one is better.
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bkw
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Keep your mind open and try to combine resources. For instance if you read https://www.amazon.com/Complete-GMAT-Cou ... 966&sr=8-2
you will see that their book set cannot be that bad after all. I am waiting for my book set from Veritas which I will work through. Veritas also offers you: 10x Veritas CATs and 5x 800score.com CATs. You can get all of this plus the BTG questions for $405/y. Not a bad offer.
However, MGMAT is a useful resource as well! They have useful books. So I have purchased their books too. Remember that each book will give access to all their CATs plus extra topic questions.
MGMAT offers "Thursday's with Ron" also which indeed is free, but it is a valid and very useful. So I really am grateful to them because they offer this.
So, try to combine if you are unsure...
Good luck with your prep!
you will see that their book set cannot be that bad after all. I am waiting for my book set from Veritas which I will work through. Veritas also offers you: 10x Veritas CATs and 5x 800score.com CATs. You can get all of this plus the BTG questions for $405/y. Not a bad offer.
However, MGMAT is a useful resource as well! They have useful books. So I have purchased their books too. Remember that each book will give access to all their CATs plus extra topic questions.
MGMAT offers "Thursday's with Ron" also which indeed is free, but it is a valid and very useful. So I really am grateful to them because they offer this.
So, try to combine if you are unsure...
Good luck with your prep!
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Thanks for all the responses, everyone - and, bkw, I'm psyched to hear you'll be using our books!
As a co-author of several of the Veritas Prep lessons and the final decision-maker in all instructor hiring and training, I'd just like to clarify a few of the claims in this thread. I love having opportunities to talk about how our lessons have been created and how our instructors are hired and trained.
-Having personally written scores of pages of original content for the Veritas Prep lesson materials, I can assure you that they are not mostly "sourced from other companies". Most of our lesson books have been created by top instructors who have several years apiece of GMAT teaching and tutoring experience.
-We do offer, as part of our suite of 15 practice tests, five tests produced by 800Score, and we used to feature some tests produced by Thomson/Arco, but created additional proprietary tests to replace those when we became discouraged by the lack of frequency with which they were updated to more accurately reflect the current question makeup of the actual GMAT.
-For our hiring process, we do conduct telephone interviews as an initial screen of quality applicants. Next, we invite candidates to conduct a teaching interview in an online classroom, and then we invite the top-performing candidates from that round to conduct an in-person interview with one of our Mentor Instructors (David@VeritasPrep and I, both from this website, are on the team that conducts those interviews). That Mentor Instructor then becomes a mentor for the new instructor during his/her first few courses, after, of course, the new instructor has served as a teaching assistant for an entire course.
What I like most - and new instructors tend to love - about that hiring process is that by the end of it each new instructor has worked with three veteran instructors: Me, as the initial interviewer, an Instructor Mentor from the in-person interview, and the lead instructor on the TA course. As we've seen with the evolution of our lesson books, you can learn a whole lot about how to take this test by sharing the best strategies of multiple instructors and leveraging those to create newer, better ways of relating information.
@bkw - keep me posted on your progress with our books and let me know if I can help!
As a co-author of several of the Veritas Prep lessons and the final decision-maker in all instructor hiring and training, I'd just like to clarify a few of the claims in this thread. I love having opportunities to talk about how our lessons have been created and how our instructors are hired and trained.
-Having personally written scores of pages of original content for the Veritas Prep lesson materials, I can assure you that they are not mostly "sourced from other companies". Most of our lesson books have been created by top instructors who have several years apiece of GMAT teaching and tutoring experience.
-We do offer, as part of our suite of 15 practice tests, five tests produced by 800Score, and we used to feature some tests produced by Thomson/Arco, but created additional proprietary tests to replace those when we became discouraged by the lack of frequency with which they were updated to more accurately reflect the current question makeup of the actual GMAT.
-For our hiring process, we do conduct telephone interviews as an initial screen of quality applicants. Next, we invite candidates to conduct a teaching interview in an online classroom, and then we invite the top-performing candidates from that round to conduct an in-person interview with one of our Mentor Instructors (David@VeritasPrep and I, both from this website, are on the team that conducts those interviews). That Mentor Instructor then becomes a mentor for the new instructor during his/her first few courses, after, of course, the new instructor has served as a teaching assistant for an entire course.
What I like most - and new instructors tend to love - about that hiring process is that by the end of it each new instructor has worked with three veteran instructors: Me, as the initial interviewer, an Instructor Mentor from the in-person interview, and the lead instructor on the TA course. As we've seen with the evolution of our lesson books, you can learn a whole lot about how to take this test by sharing the best strategies of multiple instructors and leveraging those to create newer, better ways of relating information.
@bkw - keep me posted on your progress with our books and let me know if I can help!
Brian Galvin
GMAT Instructor
Chief Academic Officer
Veritas Prep
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GMAT Instructor
Chief Academic Officer
Veritas Prep
Looking for GMAT practice questions? Try out the Veritas Prep Question Bank. Learn More.
