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Title: Cracking the Gmat 2003 (Cracking the Gmat With Sample Tests on Cd-Rom) by Geoff Martz, Adam Robinson ISBN: 0375762507 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 18 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.21
Rating: 3
Summary: Good place to start
Comment: The textbook and CD-ROM have copious amounts of practice questions, but the explanations lack the depth of Kaplan. Moreover, while Kaplan provides useful summaries of the content in the page margins, Princeton provides silly anecdotes about life at b-school. Having been through an MBA program at a top school already, I can only say that the anecdotes are neither true, nor helpful in deciding what school to attend. That's the book.
The CD-ROM has four practice CATs and some practice quizes. That's it. Questions and brief explanations. Kaplan, on the other hand, provides an in-depth interactive tutorial with thorough explanations for each quiz question. They also explain why wrong answers are wrong, while Princeton only explains why right answers are right. On the positive side, Princeton's questions are better worded and more like real GMAT questions than Kaplan's.
If you want to invest in two books, this may be a good one to start with, but if you only have time to study one, choose Kaplan. Whatever you choose, the Powerprep software that comes free when you register for the exam provides the best practice.
Rating: 4
Summary: Either the best or second best "unofficial" GMAT guide...
Comment: Each year, we poll our admissions clients and consultants and each year the Princeton Review and Kaplan GMAT guides are rated as the best 2 "unofficial" GMAT prep books on the market. This book would probably easily out poll the Kaplan guide if it didn't contain so many typos and other such mistakes.
We like this CD ROM because it contains 4 practice tests (note: the 2001 edition only contains 3 practice tests) and provides instant scoring. Additionally, the test-taking strategies are very insightful and are designed to help you eliminate the "decoy" answers ETS wants you to incorrectly choose. Process of elimination techniques are also very well explained in this guide.
We should warn you, however, that we found the practice questions to be much easier than the real GMAT questions as well as the practice questions contained in the Kaplan guide. (Not that the difficulty of the Kaplan questions really matters, because they're still not comparable to the real GMAT questions in the official ETS book.) As a result, we would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our strong belief that you will be best served by also reviewing an official GMAT guide published by the Educational Testing Service.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too easy, weird strategies, and CD-ROM malfunctions
Comment: Firstly, the questions are much easier than in other books, such as Kaplan. Although it may be argued that Kaplan is harder than the actual test, there's nothing like being prepared for hard questions and then breezing through the real test.
Secondly, I thought the book was too focused on being able to "out-psyche" the test-makers, giving you tips on recognizing how the test-makers try to fool you with wrong answer choices. This may be good if you are completely lost on how to solve most problems. But these strategies don't work on a great many real GMAT questions (the test-makers know of these strategies, I assume), so I'm a big fan of a tutorial telling me how to find the right answer rather than how to find the wrong ones.
But the worst thing about this book would have to be the Practice Tests on the CD-ROM. With the computer-adaptive GMAT, it is very helpful to practice on good computer tests. The ones on this CD-ROM have a look and feel that is different from the real test. But hands down, the biggest frustration was when a popup box (like when you try to 'Open' a file in Word) opened in the middle of a test and asked me locate the missing file q0.cst or some such nonsense. The test malfunctioned after that and the last two and a half hours of my life were wasted. I couldn't even find out if I had answered the previous questions successfully or not.
My advice: work through the Official Guide and Kaplan first. Then, if you have time, look at this book.
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Title: Kaplan GMAT 2003 with CD-ROM by Kaplan ISBN: 0743230310 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: The Official Guide for GMAT Review (10th Edition) by Educational Testing Services ISBN: 0446396664 Publisher: Graduate Management Admission Pub. Date: 25 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Verbal Workout for the GMAT (The Princeton Review) by Douglas French, Doug French ISBN: 0375754172 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Kaplan GMAT Verbal Workbook by Ingrid Multhopp, Inc. Kaplan ISBN: 0743216865 Publisher: Kaplan Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: GMAT Math Workout (Princeton Review Series) by Jack Schieffer, Jack Schieffer, Princeton Review ISBN: 0679783733 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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