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

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I have used a ton of GMAT prep books and in general, aside from the official guides produced by the makers of the GMAT, most of the other study guides are just plain horrible. On the other hand, this book is top notch. It breaks down all of the major areas on sentence correction in an easy to read format and cross references problems in the official guide to hone your skills.

Sentence correct was my greatest weakness on the GMAT. In 2001 I took the GMAT and scored a 65% percentile on the verbal portion and this past January I scored in the 89% percentile. My only regret is that I did not get this book soon enough. I purchased this book two weeks before the test. Two weeks was enough time for me to cover everything in the book (and I am in law school with a horrid class load) but I wish I had it a few weeks earlier to practice more.

Another plus to the book is there is a link and code that gives you access to some online materials that will give you additional practice.

I do recommend you get the Official Guides to supplement this book. Every chapter has problems but the chapters also refer to real problems in the Official Guides which is a blessing to address weak points and to improve your skills.

On a negative note the price was a bit high at $30 but it was money well spent and I would pay that much again if I needed to. The price did not effect my rating - it helped my score and in the end that is what matters.

I am surprised that this book is not as popular as it should be. I was looking for a refresher Grammar book to explain the concepts, but English Grammar is too vast. This book explains the grammatical concepts that are tested on the GMAT very well. I recommend using this book as a supplement though. You want to get practice on questions from other books. This book does refer to the Official GMAT book indicating which sentence correction questions test certain concepts.

The Kaplan book is really lousy explaining the concepts. The Princeton review explains it better but this book is even more detailed.

I'd read on a GMAT blog that the Manhattan GMAT Sentence Correction Guide was the most helpful book out there for S.C. problems, and I can easily see why it has gotten that reputation! Very clear and analytical, broke the problems down in a way that I haven't seen elsewhere (and I own some of the big books), I found it very useful.

I bought this book to practise more and liked that there was a seperate book for each GMAT section. But, I was shocked to see that there were no practise exercises in this book. This book (and the other book I bought in the series) refers to 2 different books for practise exercises!! If there is need for fair disclosure, it is now!! I now have to go through the pains of returning the 2 books!!

I bought the whole set based on some posts I saw at a GMAT forum along with the Princeton Review GMAT books, and the Official Guides.

After doing all three of them, I've this to be the most disappointing. There's a couple of reasons:

1) there's some typo errors, which should be fixed as this is a study book

2) there's questions and sometimes even entire passages copied STRAIGHT out of the Official Guide. I'm not sure the copywrite law on this but it was really tedious since I already went over the OG. Also, it was a waste of my money to have bought both the sets.

3) the explanations are mediocre at best. There's also little follow-up and in depth explanation.

4) The level of the questions were too easy. If you're looking to boost your 500 to a 600 this book might help. If you're looking to get a 700+, these books have almost no material dealing with that diffculty.

Either way though, if you have the official guides (11th edition), you basically have these books

This book was pure joy. It gave the right concepts for tackling
GMAT Sentence Completion questions. Also, they order official GMAT Guide questions by category, which is really very very helpful.
I can confidently say that this book will help you quite a bit.
Very very satisfied reader.

(Also, i bought all their 7 books. They are just classics. If you dont have the money to enroll for expensive preparation courses, just buy the 7 GMAT books from these guys. They seem to know what
they are doing)

Covers almost every type of grammatical mistake in sentences.

However , given that the GMAT throws complex questions (involving more than two error types) once you are in the 700+ range , More (and tough)Practice Questions are needed.
THE 6 ONLINE CATs are somewhat difficult.

I took the GMAT in November and did very well on the verbal section (in the 85 percentile). I credit a lot of this to the Manhattan verbal preparation, of which this book was my favorite. I worked the chapters a couple of weeks before the exam and felt very comfortable correcting sentences. Definitely worth a try if you feel like brushing up before the test!

Great book to have for a quick review before the GMAT exam. Great examples and homework assignments at the end of each chapter.

The book beautifully explains most of the grammatical concepts tested in GMAT. The concepts coupled with sentence correction strategy from Princeton review is a deadly combination to tackle SC.