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I took the Manhattan Prep GRE for MBA class with Jerry and it was a great experience. In addition to providing thorough instruction on all the academic material necessary to take the GRE, Jerry also equipped our class with effective mindfulness strategies that, to me, really made all the difference on test day. Additionally, all the materials provided by the MPrep team (books, online instruction, practice tests) were very useful. I highly recommend Manhattan Prep, and especially a class with Jerry.

I took the online GMAT course with Stacey staring January 2023. + Books are amazing. The 3 tiered structure of foundational, primary and advanced material works well. + There are SO many useful strategies that are covered on the Manhattan Prep online portal during and during class. This applies to each section of the GMAT. These are game changers, since it really helps you structure your studies. GMAT is about more than just the study material. + The big benefit for me of using the course vs self study , is the structure that is enforced. We all have content areas we are weak at and tend to ignore. But the course gives you a clear study plan, diverse set of homework assignments every week and improves skills like time management. + Stacey - The biggest benefit for me was taking the course with Stacey. She is the primary author on most of the books, takes the time to reply to every query in great depth and helps tailor a study plan for you. Every class was amazing.

Elaine was an amazing tutor for the GMAT. On a weekly basis, she helped me tackle each question type with the right strategy and mindset. She helped me improve my scores across each section and did a good job of adjusting our lessons depending on where I was struggling. Elaine was ultimately a big reason I was able to achieve my target score.

I used Manhattan Prep to help me prepare for my GRE and I couldn't be happier. The website and material is just fantastic. I also did some private tutoring sessions with Gregg who helped me a lot. I strongly recommend Manhattan Prep!

Gregg is a phenomenal tutor. He is brilliant and finds joy in almost all GRE problems, making it easy to motivate to study and learn. He has a unique teaching style that helped me improve my scored from the low 300s to a 320+. He is encouraging, while also keeping students honest in their studies. While the Manhattan Prep materials are excellent in and of themselves, Gregg added incredible value with multiple permutations of each lesson to ensure I understood the material. If you are thinking about taking the GRE, Gregg is an elite choice.

I started studying for the gmat on my own years ago and struggled to make much improvement due to the boring nature of the exam. I took an in-person 9 week course which genuinely made the content enjoyable. I looked forward to my three hour class every week and slowly saw my score improve. After the course ended, my instructor met with me twice one-on-one (for free!!!) to help me specifically prepare for the actual exam. After taking the exam for the second time, my score had improved 130 points since the beginning of the course (580 —-> 710). Shoutout to my instructor Reed who went above and beyond. I highly recommend Reed and any Manhattan prep in-person course!!!

The GRE coursework is really good. I started with the 5 Lb. Practice Problem book, and signed up for the first 15 online modules of interact program being offered with the book. This got me hooked and I started attending live GRE prep hour classes as well, completing the entire suite of prep materials offered by manhattan prep - Book, Interact, Live online GRE Class! Pros:- The GRE live instruction is better than what the best can be! GRE curriculum is supposed to be a bit dry, vague and boring. But Manhattan makes it more interesting and engaging. I am not a bright student myself, but I ended up practicing problems even after the class was over! Trust me, it's really difficult for someone to make me do that. Lol... I am not sure if I will see myself like that ever again! The process is made so joyful and well worth the expensive price tag! Attending the live classes, in my opinion, is most crucial for one to make best use of their flagship book, 5 Lb Book of GRE Practice Problems. Approaching the problems in that book, after attending live classes on that topic, is really good and makes the most difficult problems seem more easy. And the problems in that book actually mimics the original GRE questions. Cons:- What I am not a big fan of, is the "Drill it" part of Interact program. It basically throws endless questions on a topic (in a sense but not exactly), and yet, does not have a proper explanation of the solution. Manhattan prep boasts ~100,000 practice problems, but having all of that without a proper explanation of answers seems a bit weird. It's more like a flashcard. A question will be given, and you can turn a card to reveal the answer. That's it! No explanation of how one could get that answer. And even with endless problems, what actually happens is that, within a said topic, let's say fractions, it keeps giving multiple questions of same type and concept, but with different numbers. The template is same, and the system keeps plugging in different numbers and generates different questions. It's really not that challenging to actually call it as "GRE Style question", and I am not sure if it qualifies to be called as "endless questions". It seemed a bit ambiguous. General opinion:- The interact program is a bit different from the on demand counterpart, which is being offered by other test prep companies like Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc., Interact is a learning module which teaches, as well as keeps testing your understanding every now and then. Although many students might find it helpful, I find it a bit intimidating and annoying, that it pops up a question every 2 minutes, while watching the video lesson. In a sense, it felt like watching youtube with frequent ads! I could not keep my hands free, learn continuously for an hour or so and then take a half hour quiz. No, that's not interact! You need to keep switching your brain between learning mode and testing mode every 2-3 mins. You can't keep your mouse down. The advantage to this, is that it makes best use of your valuable time, as the course keeps updating and adapts to one's strengths and weaknesses, so that one won't have to waste time in learning what one is already good at. For instance, if you are good in a specific topic, and keep giving correct answers to the intermittent quizzes, which occur between the videos, then the course will go faster, and will skip the basics for you. But if one is weak, then he / she might end up spending more time in completing the same chapter. It might be engaging for some, but the disadvantage that I felt, is that the continuous testing of concepts, is so frequent, that it makes me have it in my short term memory, just trying to get over with the speed breaker quizzes, and I doubt if I will be able to retain it in my long term memory. But attending an hour long video lesson and spending the next 30 mins in drilling the quizzes works best for me. But I don't want to judge Manhattan prep on this regard, as this is completely subjective, and what works for others might not work for me. My Verdict:- If the price was a bit lower, or if we could find frequent sales being run by Manhattan, the course would have been a chef's kiss!