Kaplan GMAT 800

Product Review

Kaplan GMAT 800 is designed for students aiming to score in the top 10 percent on the difficult Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). Each year, more than 200,000 prospective M.B.A. students take the GMAT in hopes of gaining admission to a top tier business school. Considering the odds and the intensity of competition, it's no surprise that the legions of business school hopefuls who take the GMAT each year approach their preparation for this challenging exam very seriously. Kaplan GMAT 800 is a targeted study guide for students who want to score in the 90th percentile on the GMAT and get accepted to a top business school. Featuring hundreds of the toughest practice questionss with complete answer explanations and strategies for getting the right answers on test day, Kaplan GMAT 800 is an ideal supplement to Kaplan's basic GMAT guide and the perfect preparation for GMAT success.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review

(8 customer reviews)

62 of 65 people found the following review helpful

Not significatly different from Kaplan GMAT 5th edition, March 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Kaplan GMAT 800 (Paperback)

I just finished working through this book and took the actual GMAT yesterday. Essentially, this book does not differ substantially from Kaplan's GMAT 5th edition in the difficulty of its problems or strategies. Kaplan has taken previous material and remarketed it in an effort to appeal to those who wish to score very high on the GMAT. While the marketing is compelling, the material is not worth the purchase. I would stick to Kaplan's GMAT 5th edition, which includes a CD of workshops, drills and practice tests that are very helpful(and include a broader array of advanced material than this book).

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful

Disappointment, February 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Kaplan GMAT 800 (Paperback)

This book is a disappointment. I agree with the previous reviewer that you are better off sticking with the Basic Kaplan stuff. If you really want to get practice with 800-style questions, go to the back of each section of the Offical GMAT Guide. They put the most difficult questions at the back. Those are far better than anything offered here.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

Poor editing, not so challenging math examples, October 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Kaplan GMAT 800 (Paperback)

This book was truly disappointing. This was the last book I used in preparing for the GMAT and it was so riddled with errors and poor explanations that it made me want to pull my hair out. The math problems were easy in the book but the actual problems I saw on the GMAT were much harder (and I'm a freakin' engineer!) I would recommend the Official GMAT study guide with over 1400 questions and irrefutable explanations (they wrote the test so they should know). My score was 740 and I think the Official Guide was the most helpful. I also used the Princeton Review book but it was not nearly as bad as this Kaplan trash.