You have made the right decision and study with Manhattan. I took the GMAT last March 5th to be exact and scored a 540. I received a 540 through self-study and knew that I could not do better without proper instruction. On March 9th I began the online virtual Manhattan GMAT course. Two days ago, Saturday April 5th I scored a 660!! 120 points greater. My previous 540 (72%ile in Math, 22% Verbal). I combined my previous math skills with the new Manhattan GMAT math tricks I learned over the 4 of 8 classes. However, before taking the course I completely deleted my verbal "hard drive", whatever verbal lessons "learned" through self-study obviously did not work, and I began the class with basically ZERO verbal knowledge. Well over the 4 classes my verbal skills improved, mostly on sentence correction and reading comprehension. Unfortunelty, we had not fully comleted the RC and not to confuse myself I did not go ahead of the class on that topic. The CR and SC sections of the exam went really well. Well after only 4 online classes may math went from 72%ile (44) to 85%ile (fourty-eight) and my verbal went from 22%ile (22) to a decent 62%ile (32). I still have a month of classes and plan on taking the exam May 7th.

Long story short, you will definetly improve with the help of Manhattan GMAT. Practice, practice and practice some more. I actually saw 7 repeat questions from old exams GMATprep/paper test/OG questions with just name changes, not number. I was so confident on those 7 questions that I did not even have to work them out.

Good luck, and enjoy the classes!!

I agree, work hard with MGMAT and you should feel confident enough to significantly increase your scores. In a little over a month's time, I went from a T-500 38%, Q31 32%, V27 44% to T-640 78%, Q40 61%, V38 84%. While it isn't quite Top-10 B-School material, it was exactly was I needed to get into my MAcct Program. While I did invest a fairly significant amount of time over that month, prob 35+ hours/week, I am confident that I could have done better if stretched over a 3 month period. It is also worth noting that I still missed out a couple weeks of the guided self study program because I was short on time.

Work hard and BE CONFIDENT!!!

jingsuet wrote:I just took the GMAT this morning and got my @$$ handed to me on a platter 480 (Q22 V33). I studied for 2 months. The book I used was Kaplan 2008. I'm in despair. I'm planning to study with Manhatten and try again. So sad right now...

As other posters have said Manhattan GMAT seems to be the way to go. So try not to let this one get you down and study with Manhattan GMAT's materials and you should improve. I know you can do better the next time around. Good luck!

There are some strategies that are more appropriate then others when you wish to increase your score significantly and when you have only little time. I am in a similar situation. Came across this site - gmatadvice.blocked. Some useful tips.

You'd better add OG into your list of preparation materials.