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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!

I loved the course and learnt quite a lot of tricks. Learnt so much about how to approach the exam. I took classes from Paul Fisher and I must say he is a fantastic tutor. Quite approachable and answers all your queries instantly. Apart from this I think number of classes should be increased. Rest everything is good.

Everything on the course was great from course instructors to course materials. However, the extra coaching sessions I purchased was redundant and I had only been given 1 hour for the first session but the last 2 hours hadn’t been provided to me even though I emailed my coach about scheduling it. I think the only problem with the coaching sessions I believe is the organization and disconnect from the Manhattan Prep HR. However I learned a lot from the General Course and would recommend it to others. However I would strongly discourage people to add the coaching sessions to their general GMAT course through Manhattan Prep.

The school I applied to ended up waiving the GMAT for me, so I never took the GMAT. I completed the course which I still found very helpful, and I really liked the books and materials included with the course. The staff was very attentive, responsive and helpful.

My teacher was amazing and I feel like I learned a lot, but my score didn't really improve that much. Hopefully that'll change in the future!

Overall, the class was great. I learned a great deal from Avi and took some new methods in attacking the GMAT. I definitely took a different approach now when I'm doing exercises, which I never thought before. I do wish however that we had more time in tackling topics and strategies during class instead of solely looking at questions.

Good! Very helpful! Great CAT feedback and review tools

Overall, a great program. Instructor was very knowledgeable. Homework was an effective learning tool. The CATs are very realistic. I do wish the course was a bit more personalized to students needs. For example, smart numbers can be a useful strategy, but it is very ineffective for me. It would be nice if there was another alternative such as teaching more effective methods of doing quick algebra.