Fractions, Decimals, & Percents GMAT Strategy Guide (Manhattan GMAT Instructional Guide 1) 5th Edition

I didn't take a class, but I have alot of friends who have and have used the Kaplan book and practice tests in addition to the Manhattan. Manhattan prep material and tests are head and shoulders above Kaplan. My only wish is that I had started with the Manhattan series and not even worried about Kaplan. Kaplan may have the brand name, but the fact that Manhattan focuses only on the GMAT shines through. The material goes wayyy more in depth, and it really leverages the other best source of practice material you have, the Official Guide (it has a great feature called rephrasing that references the OG problems directly to give data sufficiency help. It almost makes so much sense that it seems obvious but ingenious at the same time. Why not use the actual old test problems provided by the GMAC as much as you can?).I wasn't going to buy the whole series but was so impressed by the first book I used (Sentence Correction), that I bought a couple of the quantitative prep books. I was so impressed by those, that I ended up buying all the rest of them. I can not stress enough how much more focused and useful this material is than Kaplan. When used in conjunction with the Official Guide, you have everything you need to break 700.The things these books provide make so much sense as the best way to prepare, that it makes you wonder why everyone else doesn't do it. My guess is that Manhattan benefits from a focused business model of limiting itself to the GMAT. If you're not looking to score that well and only need to practice some and get used to the questions, the Official Guide is enough. But the Manhattan series is also nice in that it allows you to pick and choose the certain topics you need extra help with. Also, by only buying one book, you get access to six practice tests that are very difficult and provide invaluable information in its readouts of your performance (much more detailed and useful than Kaplan's. Hate to keep hating on Kaplan, but it's the only thing I have to compare to. It's not horrible really, it just pales in comparison to Manhattan. I think of the Kaplan material like I think of McDonald's, very well-known but pretty junky. It'll fill you up, but you won't feel great afterward...)I've never taken the time to review any items on Amazon.com before, but I have been so impressed with this product that I felt compelled to let others know about it.Don't waste your money on a class, get the Manhattan series instead. You'll save over a thousand dollars and be better prepared as well!Good luck!

The Manhattan series was the most helpful for me on my GMAT because other GMAT prep books only shows time saving or test taking tips but does not go into details about the various topics which I needed because I don't have a strong quantitative base. In fact, I didn't know even the basic idea of number properties or even odd plus odd is even (must have been asleep in math class) and so these guides were a must for me. Except for the critical reasoning guide, I give them all five stars +++!Too bad I found these guides too late (just 2 weeks before the exam) and by the time they arrived in the mail, I didn't have time to do any of the practice exercises but I still managed to improve my score from 500 to 640 from just skimming through these guides. 640 may not be a high score, but for someone who didn't know what a cube root is two weeks before the exam, these guides sure did a good job getting me up to speed. In my situation, these guides were heaven sent.If you're really good with math then they might be too easy and too basic for you. Even then, they would still serve as a nice 'refresher'. They are short and concise and it only took me about an hour or less to skim through each and so they are pricey if you're just using them for a quick review. But if you don't know math like I don't know math, BUY THEM ALL!!! THEY ROCK!However, their critical reasoning gmat guide did not go into much detail than the chapters of other verbal gmat prep guides out there and so I did not feel it's price was justified at all! The other guides costs lest than this guide and covers all the verbal topics and comes with tips as well. It also arrived after my exam date so I returned it.

I completely disagree with the other review, and if you do your research you will certainly come to the conclusion that ManhattanGMAT's books are a fantastic resource for the GMAT. While they are not necessarily a substitute for the class, they cover the material in great detail and include access to various practice problems online and 6 computer adaptive exams. You will most definitely need them for practice if you want to do well. The books are structured around content, not tricks, and are thus meant to teach the material from the ground up. I thought they were extremely useful. Raised my score from 630 to 740.

You will learn a lot from the GMAT.The book has great examples for you to understand.I would recommend this book to the young and the old.

This book has really helped me. One of my fears preparing for the GMAT was my rusty maths skills. This book has helped reduce those fears...I like the simplicity with which it was written and how it guides you through answering the GMAT questions without really solving anything...I'm glad I made this purchase.

This book covers well the concepts and has several advanced exercises of this part of the Gmat. Buying the book, you will have access to 6 online GMAT tests. The online tests are really good and come with detail explanations. The level of the questions in the online exams is higher than in the real exam.

I have an engineering background and I strongly suggest others with a similar one not to buy this book. I could complete this book and all of its 'exercises' in an hour. All it does is repeats very basic math knowledge which I bet you will not forget even after 50 years from now. All in all bad book for GMAT Fractions, Decimals, & Percents preparation. Now I have look for ways to sell this book which I bought two days ago... any buyers? not a scratch on the paper and is all in mint condition.

I really liked the book as it looked pretty new.. also quick shipping..Happy for purchasing from this seller..

Have previously used the 4th edition quant books, and the content here is similar but refreshed.I bought the Kindle version for my iPad to check before buying electronic copies of the rest of the 5th edition set. I will buy hard copies instead.This is a maths book, and it contains unusual layouts of numbers and equations. However, this does not work well on Kindle (or at least Kindle for iPad). I quickly found small but important and confusing layout problems.E.g. on Loc 252 (ie page 16), we have a simple table showing the Powers of 10. But the layout mashes it, and puts the '1' of the tens on a different line from the '0' and the exponent. This is a really basic layout problem that should be resolved.Check the reviews for the physical version of this book to see if the content is what you want, but this doesn't really work in electronic form. Would have been better as a PDF I guess. The subject is challenging enough without having to work around shortcomings of the format.

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consiglio vivamente queste edizioni della manhattan per due motivi- preparano bene per sezioni specifiche del gmat (in questo caso frazioni, decimali e percentuali, ma ne ho acquistati altri)- offrono 6 simulazioni d'esame. è qui che trovo il vero valore aggiunto del libroprezzo ottimo per la qualità resa