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...
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!!
