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Kaplan GMAT 2009,
September 11, 2008 Barbara Paitich "Barbra" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kaplan GMAT Premier Program, 2009 (Book & CD-ROM) (Paperback)
Re: Kaplan GMAT Premier Program 2009 Edition
It's amazing to me that a company of the stature of Kaplan would have so many errors in a book intended to train for a test. It's hard to have confidence in their services.
Here are some of the numerous errors I found in the math section of this book.
The math section is a pathetic study guide. The errors are so numerous, that it's hard to know when it's right. See below - and this is only as far as I got. I will return this poor "study guide" and request my money back.
I contacted Kaplan; they said they would have an errata sheet posted early Sept 2008; it's now mid-Sept, and no errata sheet is posted.
I'll try another publisher.
Page 272, prob 10, error in first line; fist x-intercept missing (3/2)
Page 279, prob 6; 8x-2 should be 8x-3
Page 289, prob 4; units are meters in the sketch and inches in answers
Page 322, prob 7; missing "+" sign in equation
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Better math editor needed,
July 19, 2008 Reading is fun (Cary, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kaplan GMAT Premier Program, 2009 (Book & CD-ROM) (Paperback)
There are excessive math errors in the book. Several times they use the same figure (ex. Triangle) with the exact same measures (congruent triangles) to show how the two figures are different. How can they be different when the 3 sides and the 3 angles are identical? One time they say find the "equation with and -5". Nothing between the two words.
They tend to introduce new concepts in the practice problems and then don't explain them in the answer explanations.
The english portion was OK.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Fine if you don't really want to get into that Business program of your dreams,
December 7, 2008 B. Balazs - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kaplan GMAT Premier Program, 2009 (Book & CD-ROM) (Paperback)
Ugh, Worst. Study guide. Ever. Here's why...
I've started studying on the Math portion of the book first because I know it'll take me longer to retain it, but there are so many errors in the study guide that it just confuses me and makes me second guess myself. NOT what you want in your study manual!!
So far, I've been through about 40 pages of the math section and have discovered 9 errors. Sometimes it may be them leaving out pertinent information for a question, sometimes the wrong symbol is used (ie: 1/2 x 30(x=32)=870 ,no, really that's straight from page 339), Sometimes the answers won't match the question because the problem was typed out incorrectly, and I'm no math whiz, but I'm pretty sure that they have a wrong answer in the answers section.
Another annoyance is that in their practice questions, they'll ask questions to skills that they've not yet covered in the review. But most of the time they just assume that you still remember formulas...Read more
