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Great to practice for quant but should not take the scores seriously. Has very challenging quant tests, excellent for practicing 750 level quant questions. Verbal section isn't at the same level as Official Guides. But definitely great to practice hard math questions and develop higher order thinking skills. Manhattan math sections are time consuming , but what I’ve heard from my peers is that GMAT math level has gone up a few notches (I still can’t believe it, but their scores seem to validate it a bit). So, you can’t really say that Manhattan quants would be significantly tougher than the actual questions.
Students end up scoring more on the real GMAT than in the Manhattan tests. So MGMAT tests can act as a benchmark for improvement or as a morale breaker, depending on how you want to view it. The questions are good (considered tough) by students. Both Quant and Verbal questions are hard to solve. he score reports show that a candidate gets more number of questions in the 600+ level. This is unlikely to happen on the GMAT except for high scorers for whom its inevitable . Indeed its likely a person would do good after practice from manhattan guides and then the exams from here
THESE TESTS PROVIDE GOOD ASSESSMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL
AND HELPS TO BUILD CONFIDENCE. QUESTIONS ARE GOOD BUT NEED SOME VALIDATIONS.
THE QUALITY AND PATTERN OF QUESTIONS ESPECIALLY IN THE CR SECTION AS FEW OF THE QUESTIONS GOT A SLIGHT AMBIGUITY . THE SCORING PATTERN CAN BE IMPROVED HERE TO SOME EXTENT.
MORE OR LESS THESE MOCKS ARE GOOD BUT ONLY AFTER ONE ATTEMPTS THE OFFICIAL ONES . SCORING ALGORITHM IS NOT APT TO THE OFFICIAL ONES THOUGH.
THE QUALITY AND PATTERN OF QUESTIONS ESPECIALLY IN THE CR SECTION AS FEW OF THE QUESTIONS GOT A SLIGHT AMBIGUITY . THE SCORING PATTERN CAN BE IMPROVED HERE TO SOME EXTENT.
BOTH QUANT AND VERBAL QUESTIONS ARE SUPER HARD TO SOLVE HERE. STUDENTS END UP SCORING MORE ON THE ORIGINAL GMAT THAN ON THE MOCK TESTS.
GETTING A 750 PLUS LIKE GETTING A LOT OF BENEFIT
Manhattan Prep Mocks can be reset and reused. But you do not see a lot of familiar questions, so the question pool is very rich.
Verbal is too good. The questions are as sophisticated as those in Official GMAT Prep. There are detailed explanations for each question. The explanations walk you through the reasoning process, especially in CR, and shows how to eliminate the wrong answers.
Quant sections is stricter. With four mistakes, I got 48. In typical GMAT Prep tests, you get 49 or 50.
Analaystics are also provided by the test for each question type. You can obtain combined analytics for multiple tests.
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After going through a lot of reviews and posts on various forums on Internet, I subscribed to gmatclub.com for my GMAT preparations and to Manhattan Prep CATs to evaluate myself periodically. The quality of questions was really good, and the rave reviews for the Manhattan Quants section are not unsubstantiated. Although each question may take more than 2 minutes to solve, it provides good practice for the brain and reduces the surprising element up to some extent. I scored Q49 finally which was above what I thought of scoring depending on my Manhattan CATs performance, in which I consistently scored around Q46-Q47. Manhattan provides 6 CATs, and I solved all of them. I scored consistently around 660-690 in Manhattan CATs, and my Official GMAT Score was 690, which was very much aligned to my performance in Manhattan CATs. Now I am planning to attempt GMAT again to improve my overall score, and thus will be attempting the Manhattan Mocks again after a gap of 6 months, as it also provides the option of resetting the exam on the lines of GMATPrep.
As the word-on-street is, Manhattan CATs indeed have tough Quants but fair verbal sections.
I have consistently score Q45-47 in Manhattan vs Q49-51 in GMAT club tests and Q49 in GMAT Online test as well. Specially the DS section is brutal in Manhattam. But dont think that more the difficulty the better you are prepared - even after taking 6 Manhattan CATs, my Quant score did not really improve, whereas my Verbal score did improve from 30s to 35s. Manhattan Verbal is a fair game and lands in same range/ difficulty for GMAT/ Kaplan/ GMAT club.
Still I would suggest Manhattam CATs because (1) they are cheap (2) prepares you for tough Quant and time management
Manhattan has 6 CATs, which you can reset multiple times. I personally have reset it twice, maybe even more are possible
I scored a V32 on the actual GMAT.
Manhattan Mock Tests are a fair indicator of your verbal scores.
In my opinion, all of the tests give pretty much close to my actual verbal score except for the 1st mock, which gave me an inflated score i.e. V41.
The quants section is a bit tougher than the actual thing. I would suggest to the take the quant section untimed if you face major challenges.
From my experience, I can say that it is imperative to work on stamina. In the actual exam, people often get tired up, making mistakes on the question they can otherwise solve.
Manhattan Mocks is a decent product to build your stamina and get an assessment of your verbal scores.
All the best!
Questions seem to be taken from past year OGs and hence not an accurate estimate of the test taker's level. Mock interfaces are not mimicking GMAC tests . Its my personal view
Could be improved: Reducing the unecessary tough level of quant and not copying OG questions in their mocks might help.
Rest MGMAT's own questions are of very good quality and picks your brain just like official questions would. So kudos on that front.
The official GMAT Prep CATs provide test-takers with the best score prediction. Even though they have tweaked the scoring algorithm, Manhattan GMAT and other test-preps historically provide test-takers with lower scores than does the actual GMAT or GMAT Prep practice tests. Still having said it you can try for MGMAT tests but dont take the quant score too seriously
I got MGMAT CAT's and tried full length tests there. Honestly, Quant was brutal. One eye off and they start giving you PS, indicating, you did previous question wrong. There is definitely a lot of difference when we compare it with GmatPrep official question bank but if you are just casually doing them, they do give a run for your life .
For verbal, i find their RC's good enough. SC is on same level like GMATClub Tests but CR was a bit cranky there. Sometimes, i felt like the arguments were not as strong as they are in official Gmat guides.
IR was fun though. They are identical to official guides and i find them pretty much fun to solve.
So, I've been using Manhattan for quite a while along with other gmat prep tests, such as Veritas, Gmatclub, gmatprep, kaplan, but I found Manhattan test to be more closer to actual gmat test.
Their algorithm is quite unique, i really doubt if actual gmat uses same algorithm but for sure the test of test matches with actual gmat test (I am a retaker), when it comes to verbal.
While for quant, there's a different story. Out of all the tests I've tried, I found manhattan quants level on slightly higher side. so someone scoring a 46-47 in manhattan can easily score 49-50 in actual test. That's what i liked about these test that they prepare you for the worst.
Try solving all 6 tests and use their analysis tool to analyse your weak areas. It's really helpful.
Thank you!
