Kaplan vs. OG vs. GMAT Prep

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Kaplan vs. OG vs. GMAT Prep

by SShah » Tue May 12, 2009 8:32 am
Hello,

I have to rant this morning!

1) I work full time, I teach Internet Marketing at the local University, I already have my MBA, I am a Vice President for a local non-profit organization, and I am working on trying to get my PhD. This test is the only thing in my way. I think that it is a huge scam. I have spent a few months and many hours working on learning this exam.

2) Now that I have calmed down... I am taking Kaplan classes and find them to be semi-useful. I am also working out of the OG 11th ed. and I have been reviewing the GMAT Prep Practice tests.

3) I say Kaplan is semi-useful because there are a couple tricks that I learned that have helped a little bit, but we spend 3 hours each Sunday looking at problems from the book and the teacher just works through the answers instead of really helping with strategy. Has anyone else taken the Kaplan course and have you found it to be helpful?

For those that have taken the test what is most useful? The Kaplan CAT’s aren’t the same as the GMAT Prep tests. I am down to a little over a week before I take the actual test and I need to do well. I am going to work out of the OG book and the GMAT Prep tests to get a feel for actual exam. At this point I am irritated about Kaplan and I am not sure where to best spend my remaining time.

I see so many people doing well on the exam (reading posts on here) and I can’t seem to break a 500. This past Saturday I got 23 out of 37 questions correct on the Math and 21 of 41 correct on the Verbal on the GMAT Prep. By far this is the best that I have ever done on ANY of the 8 exams that I have taken (both Kaplan and GMAT Prep). I managed to get a 480 even though I got a lot of questions correct.

Talk to me guys! Let met know what you think or what I am missing!!!
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