Manhattan GMAT

I felt MGMAT deserved a post for itself.

I just finished the "Number Properties" guide from Manhattan. Their guides are divided such that the first 8-9 chapters cover all the basics and the last 3-4 chapters cover advanced concepts. When I started out with aforementioned guide, I was not too excited about the initial chapters as they were not adding anything; However, once I started on the advanced chapters, I realized why everyone talks so highly of the MGMAT guides.

I can confidently say that MGMAT guides are the singular most important resource for anyone who wants to ace the GMAT and get a super high score. They explain the concepts very well in a simple clean manner; Also, their coverage of each topic is totally GMAT centric and it never deviates from that. For example, in number properties most of us know what GCF and LCM is but the trick is not knowing these concepts straight up; It is knowing them from front, back, top, down, inside and outside. What I mean is that you need to know every possible permutation and combination of the concepts themselves and their corollaries. You may be a math whiz but you must know all corollaries also if you want to finish the sums in well under 2 minutes.

I consider myself pretty good in maths; I have always aced maths. However, I have been very unhappy with my performance on the gmat quants, especially mgmat quants. I know my concepts well but not the corollaries. This means that I have to derive a necessary corollary during the exam and only then attack the problem; This results in precious time wasted. The wasted time in turn puts me under pressure to hurry up leading to silly mistakes in other problems. In the end when I have not done well in my quants section, I am pissed with myself for messing up and therefore go into the verbal section with a bad frame of mind which is the last thing you need when attacking your weak side.

Therefore, I highly recommend that you brush up not only your basic but become strong in related theory too in order to take on the quants section in a superconfident manner. This will also improve your verbal score.

The best tool to do the above is the mgmat guides in my opinion. Therefore, if you have decided to take the gmat, just go out and buy all their guides including the ones for verbal [No, I am not being paid by them for this]. I am planning to get the rest of the quant guides today.

Would appreciate some feedback on the post.

Cheers!