Sentence Correction GMAT Preparation Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guide: Sentence Correction)

Huge point - I did not see this mentioned anywhere: this book comes with access to 6 online Manhattan GMAT CAT Tests, which are very good quality - they are yours just for buying this book, which makes it a VERY good value!

Another important part to note right away that the book has VERY FEW practice questions. There is 1 or 2 that are used to carry the point across and then there are "In Action" collection of 10-25 sentences at the end of each chapter (plus some online practice) but the book assumes that you will be using the Official Guide or the Verbal supplement for the official Guide. You should get those books anyway, but beware that they are required for practice. If you have already gone through OG's, get The PowerScore Sentence Correction Bible - it is almost as good but comes with practice questions...Read more

The GMAT Sentence Correction is what massacres their most people's GMAT score. This book provides GMAT SC coverage better than any book I know.

The previous edition of MGMAT Sentence Correction was decent. But it only covered part of what is tested on the GMAT. This version has largely resolved that problem.

This book covers many areas such as "complex verbs that act as nouns" which is not covered in the previous version. The anonymous authors of this book are apparently high level experts of not only GMAT SC but also general grammar.

GMAT has changed over the years and it has become a substantially different test. The Official Guides no longer provides an accurate guidance of the type and the difficulty level of the actual GMAT questions. If you have taken GMAT Prep (provided free by providers of GMAT), then you will know what I mean.

I have purchased the previous MGMAT SC, PowerPrep SC, and this book. By a wide margin, this book...Read more

I tried sentence correction with several different books - Kaplan, Princeton Review, and others. The other books seemed to focus more on the tricks and shortcuts you can use to arrive at an answer. This book actually takes the time to teach sentence correction, which is exactly what I wanted. This book, plus a bit of effort, turned what would have been my worst section of the exam (based on pre-tests I took) into my best one.

The online material that Manhattan GMAT offers is really helpful to get some additional sentence correction practice problems. You also get access to sample math problems, but I didn't find those to be at all representative of the type of questions you would see on the exam.

Consistent with other recommendations, after studying with this book, get a copy of the GMAT official guide to try out some more problems.