Test Prep Resources
GMAT and GRE Resources
Below is a series of links for a variety of resources that you may find helpful, including GMAT and GRE forums, official GMAC and ETS resources, books that we recommend and use with our students, and admissions consultants who we have worked with and recommend.
GMAT, GRE and Admissions Forums
This is probably the single best resource for GMAT prep and b-school admissions. All of the official GMAT questions that have ever been released can be found in the forums and there are ways to search for those questions and do them directly on the site (your answers and response time can be recorded and exported to excel). It’s also a place to find explanations from experts to official GMAT questions, including some from us.
This is a great resource for information on the GMAT and business school admissions. There are prospective GMATers and applicants as well as GMAT professionals and admissions consultants.
This is ManhattanGMAT’s forum so you will tend to get their bias or the bias of their instructors, but the forum has explanations to most of the questions from the GMATPrep exams so it is a good resource for that among other things.
Probably the best website specifically for information on mba programs and business school admissions.
Official GMAT and GRE Resources
This is the official site of the maker of the GMAT. You will need to come here to register for the test and there are many GMAT related resources (some of which are specifically referenced below).
This is the main page where you can access all of the official GMAC study materials. Note that some of the resources, including the books, can be purchased more cheaply from other sources, such as Amazon.
This is the official site of the maker of the GRE. You will find sample practice questions and official practice tests on the site.
GMAT and GRE Books
What follows is certainly not a complete list of the books that we use or would recommend to others (we draw upon a wide variety of resources and the specific books that our tutors choose to use depend on the particular needs of each student), but below are some of the books that we use with our clients and/or recommend to those who are self-studying.
This is essentially the GMAT Bible. It is a must have and is the main source of practice questions for anyone taking the GMAT. We’d also recommend it if you are taking the GRE and want anything close to a high Quant score. Yes, this is an older version, but the advantage of this book is that it can be used with the resource that follows…
Not many people use this resource and few tutors seem to recommend it, but it’s a great book that essentially gives you better, more strategic explanations to the Quant questions in the OG (the OG explanations tend to be very formulaic and really don’t do justice to the creative ways that you can solve many of the problems). Also, just note that you can also use the MGMAT Navigator, which is more expensive but which provides online explanations (including some via video) to the OG questions.
This is a set of 3 books that includes the main GRE Official Guide as well as the Quantitative and Verbal supplements. If you are taking the GRE you MUST have these books as they are really the only resource for official questions.
This is probably the best “textbook” for someone wanting to learn most of the “content” that is covered on the GMAT. Like many of the other resources listed, it’s good for the GRE too, although there are some Stats concepts that are tested on the GRE that are not really covered in this book.
This is a good book if you are very weak on Math content and need a pretty basic primer. It doesn’t go overboard and try to cover every minute detail, but the coverage is pretty comprehensive (for the content only) and there are A LOT of questions that they give you to reinforce the techniques. And it’s good for someone taking the GMAT or GRE (in fact the book used to be called the GMAT/GRE Math workbook).
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