Manhattan GMAT's 9-week prep course was a great program. I began my studying quest about 4 months prior to signing up for Manhattan's class. This beginning entailed purchasing a prep book and spending about an hour every other night reading through it. After a few months, this clearly wasn't working and I signed up for Manhattan's class. The class did a great job at not only re-introducing all of the quant/verbal topics you haven't seen since high school, but also teaching strategies on how to approach each type of question and difficulty level.

My teacher at Manhattan GMAT was also great. He had a very firm grasp on all subject matter and laid out very realistic goals for accomplishing practice work. Overall, the combination of a very smart and encouraging teacher, a well structured study/practice regiment, and expansive internet resources allowed me to succeed on the GMAT.

The program is certainly recommended to anyone else looking for that push to finally get the studying done and sit for the test.

I took the Manhattan GMAT 9-session online course over a period of nine weeks because I am currently working in China. Although worried at first that I wouldn't learn as much through the online course as an in-person course, I am very pleased with the results of my online course. My instructors (Brett and Tim) were both very knowledgeable about the content they were teaching and you could tell they prepared for each class thoroughly. They also very well-informed about the actual CAT exam itself and gave helpful tips on how to manage one's time on the test. I am sure that I would not have done as well as I did on the test without their test-taking advice.

Manhattan GMAT also offers fantastic resources for their students. The CAT exams are very similar to the actual test and, in my case, a good predictor of your score on test day. I also really appreciated the notes for each class and the question banks. All in all, I am very satisfied with my Manhattan GMAT experience and would strongly recommend this course to those who want a practical and streamlined GMAT prep course.

Manhattan GMAT helped me get above a 700 in a short amount of time. Jon Schneider was a great instructor - easy to follow and always kept the class engaged.

I enrolled and started a 9-week prep class a week after the class had started and took the GMAT a week before my last scheduled class. Manhattan GMAT allowed me to take make-up classes until I got on schedule and reschedule the last class so I could take it before the test. I did not take a practice GMAT until my 2nd or 3rd week of class and had never even seen a GMAT problem before the course - the course went over each type of question and a strategy and a few ways to approach each problem.

Although I am a very bad at standardized tests, started the class knowing I would not be able to commit the recommended amount of time, and worked way more than full-time during it, my instructor - Jon Schneider - just kept encouraging me and even helped me decide what was important when I fell behind. He made sure that the class fully understood the problems discussed and was always willing to stay to explain a problem. It was clear that he really wanted all of us to do well and really like teaching the course. The materials were a great way to refresh the math & verbal skills that I had not used for years. The website/student center was filled with resources including practice tests that allow you to assess exactly what specific topics you really need to work on, online seminars that address specific problem types & strategies, free access to the GMAT essay grading tool, and a lot of other things I did not even get around to but am sure would have helped me even more.

I knew I needed a class to give me the structure, work assignments/materials, and motivation to study with such little time and am glad I chose Manhattan GMAT. I don't think another course could have prepared me with the limited amount of time I had to commit. The Manhattan GMAT course helped identify what to focus on and breaks down the material in an organized fashion. I would seriously consider the course even if you don't think you have the recommended amount of time to commit.

I work 70-80 hours/week at a tech startup and simply did not have the time to figure out what I needed to focus on studying for the GMAT. I signed up specifically for this course so I could exceed a 700 GMAT score and manage my time effectively.

Manhattan GMAT gives you all of this. You receive more than enough textbook material to bury yourself in studying for months, but the instructors and course structure really help distill the essentials for you.

My instructor, Kim Cabot, is a fantastic teacher and I found the energy she brought to the classroom as valuable as her excellent pacing and delivery of the material. She was always able to explain even the most advanced quant questions clearly, and I really valued her advice on sentence correction (PIMPSCV!)