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| Author: Kaplan
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $42.00
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 480
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 672
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 141955204X
Dewey Decimal Number: 650
EAN: 9781419552045
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Terrible Math Content July 29, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excessive is an understatement. After using this book for review I can safely say avoid at all costs for math content review. There are many omissions, = where - should be, p in place of [pi] randomly in questions and answers, faulty assumptions in the answers that were not provided in questions.
I would rejoice for Kaplan when I made it through a single page turn without finding a SERIOUS error.
Not only do they need a new editor, they need a content creator with better than 25% accuracy.
made me more confused August 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The primary reason I bought this guide over the others was for the computer adaptive practice tests included on the cd-rom.
On my first practice GMAT, I found that a few of the explanations of the math problems used information not presented in the questions.
On my second practice GMAT, I found that it was recycling questions from the first practice exam. On the verbal section it gave me too many reading passages. On the math section I kept getting hard questions, depite a streak of several wrong answers.
I also found the editing in the math section to be very sloppy, and thus confusing to read.
Sooo many errors October 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have to say that I am disappointed in this book. I've found NUMEROUS typos and errors...this is supposed to be a review guide. Simple things like getting PEMDAS correct (it is referenced as PEDMAS on page 224). On page 263 there is an error in the associative law example...that 3Y should be 3X...people have enough problems with math itself than to have to read a study guide that throws erroneous problems at them. It's a waste of time and honestly I have no faith in continuing to review from it. Now I see even more errors found by other owners and it's truly disappointing.
 Horrible November 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've heard that kaplan under calculates your CAT scores by 100 but when I actually did it, I found the practice tests pretty ridiculous. Its not because the questions are harder, but the fact that the scoring algorithm intentionally underestimates your score significantly.
Ex: the official practice test gave me a 660, where as kaplan gave me a 560.
Also the CAT math sections are full of errors. The verbal sections have a real problem it comes to double spacing. Its really annoying when you have spend time to distinguish between when the passage ends and when the actual question begins. I also found a reading passage where the final paragraph was full of wingdings and incomplete sentences. Some Critical reasoning questions are really unsolvable. I remember one question that assumed a higher draft pick always resulted in a better team winning record.
Another problem I have with the test is the horrible explanations. Really really dissapointing, especially on sentence correction.
Comparing Kaplan to Manhattan GMAT, which has really tough questions but also very detailed explanations, Kaplan seems to have been written by some of the most careless people ever. It really takes a lot of guts for a company to publish something that was this full of errors.
Some useful content, marred by an exceptionally sloppy execution October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'd like to underscore the comments of others regarding the numerous typos and overall sloppy editing of both the book and CD. It's one thing to have some typos, but it's another thing to have information missing from graphs and completely garbled reading comprehension passages. That some of this information was intended to be there is usually made obvious by the explanations. This will prove frustrating if you're trying to get an accurate gauge of where you stand, especially with the computer based testing. (i.e. If you get wrong answers because information was missing or mistyped, you are still wrong and get different questions than you would have otherwise.)
Given the above disclaimer, I did find the test taking strategies and advice useful. Moreover, the explanations for the answers are helpful when you legitimately got the questions wrong.
Truth be told, the strategy and explanations make this guide useful, but that's only because of the dearth of better products. So, while shoddily executed, the book is a useful, if frustrating, second source.
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