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Sentence Correction GMAT Preparation Guide (Manhattan GMAT Preparation Guides)

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This is the greatest book explaining all underlying rules for GMAT Sentence Correction among the books I used to prepare for GMAT. It provides very in-depth but easy-to-understand explanations for almost all aspects of English tested on GMAT.
The only reason why I was slightly disappointed with this product was examples and problem sets. It looks like they were not proof-read and thus they are inconsistent with the grammar rules described in the corresponding chapter.
So my advice would be - buy this book, use it as your primary grammar guide, but don't be too much concerned with the problem sets and explanations on the correct answers.

Finding it extremely helpful for my GMAT prep. Stresses on the grammar basics with good examples. The downside is you have to buy the GMAT official or Verbal book for exercises, manhattan standalone does not have many exercises for you to practise.

This is the best book for sentence correction, specially if English is your second language. Provides a great overview of important concepts, a grammar exercise on each topic and then points to a bunch of relevant questions in the Official Guide and GMAT Verbal review.

If you don't want to be at a serious competitive disadvantage or if you are not already god at SC, my advice is that buy this book as early as you can in your GMAT preparation period.

I took an expensive prep course and still fell short of needing better material to prepare for the GMAT. My tutor recommended this to me and it is bar none the holy grail for conquering sentence correction on the GMAT.

Really good book. all the concepts clearly explained. I think its better to read this book once you have covered at least one other book like princeton, kaplan etc. (the gmat guides).

Simply, it is the best GMAT Sentence Correction among those of the Princeton Review, Kaplan, Arco, Nova, and Veritas Prep. Just buy this SC and the GMAT official guide, then you are set.

I've purchased similar guides from Kaplan and Princeton but Manhattan GMAT is simply the best. With this book my SC has improved tremendously. Their strategies are simple and easy to apply. It works. Highly recommend it.

The book is very straight forward and provides a lot of good techniques to take the GMAT. It's a good buy.

It is good book to build basics, but does not have practice questions. You can read this book in one day. For the money, it is nothing compare to the Official Guide.

Sentence Correction is a very important part of the Verbal section of GMAT. It is not only used in the direct SC questions, but also in the incorrect answer choices of RC & CR. The SC Guide from Manhattan GMAT is very useful in understanding the concepts of grammar and how they are applied in GMAT. Best feature is that it takes you through a sequence of chapters, thus addressing all the concepts, with some examples at the end of each chapter. However, the examples are plain incorrect sentences and not the GMAT style questions with answer choices.

Good thing is that every page has a useful tip on the side and the format of the text and style makes it easier to grasp the important tips & tricks.

There are no practice questions in this book. At the end of each chapter there is a list of Question numbers from The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition & its Verbal Supplement, which corresponds to the concepts taught in that chapter. There is also a big matrix in Appendix, which tabulates these questions to concepts. I didn't find it of much use, since in real exam, you don't have time to think that which chapter the question is from. Moreover, the actual exam questions use more than one concept.

In addition to the text, you get a code to go online to Manhattan GMAT website and get access to 6 full-length tests and one SC exercise. Some may find this useful. However, I found their questions to be a bit more difficult than those in OG.

In summary: very useful book. Recommended to buy along with the OG and its verbal supplement.