Veritas vs. ManhattanGMAT?

[Alex]

How are Manhattan GMAT instructors different from Veritas Instructors who also have 99% scores?

[Danielle - MGMAT]

Both Veritas and ManhattanGMAT maintain a score standard of 99th percentile (750+) on the GMAT. This is obviously very important, as a high score indicates a mastery of the skills tested by the GMAT.

However, there are many skills involved in teaching a class that do not relate to intelligence or one's GMAT score. Many people that do very well on the GMAT are not naturally gifted in being able to teach others how to do the same.

Manhattan GMAT understands that the high test score is not the only factor of success, so we hire REAL TEACHERS (who have scored a 99th percentile) to teach our courses. To reflect our emphasis on teaching skills, the company rejects 4 out of every 5 applicants who meet the score threshold.

Furthermore, each MGMAT instructor has to go through over 100 hours of unpaid training in order to be able to teach a student. The company can impose such high standards and requirements because it pays $100 an hour to start, the highest in the industry.

If you check any of the job postings online for Veritas instructors, you will see that they may pay a minimum of $40/hr to their instructors and DO NOT require teaching experience.

http://www.vault.com/jobs/jobboard/view ... 5237582943

I hope that this answers your question. Let us know if there is any other information that we can provide. - Danielle

[rahul]

Hi ,

I have taken the course @Veritas and honestly it sucks i felt like i wasted $1400 for nothing. On the
contrary i brought Manhattan series books and so far didn't get enough time to work with them.
But i worked through the first 2 chapters of sentence correction and Manhattan GMAT is way better.

If any student looking for Verbal Help Veritas is a bad choice.

[Danielle (MGMAT)]

There a posting on the blog that may be instructive for students interested in finding out more about the differences between Veritas and MGMAT:

http://www.manhattangmat.com/blog/index ... gmat-more/

Danielle

[GCHall840]

I also took a the Veritas GMAT prep course two years ago that cost $1350 at the time. I really got lost in that class because the instructor paid attention to all of the engineers and project managers in the class. What that meant was that he skimmed over a lot of material in the math section, leaving someone like me in the dust. In addition, I really got lost in the shuffle there when it came to finding a bridge in the gap that was left for me because those "mathematical" wizards kept prompting the instructor to go over very advanced math questions, etc. My point in the comparison is that there was a gap between the so called content material and all of the practice problems that we were supposed to have completed each time. They would assign 50 problems for each class session in just one subject area. I learned little or nothing from Veritas.

Manhattan GMAT, on the other hand, puts out their great math and verbal strategy guides. The content material that you need to know for the GMAT is very well covered. What I like the most about that approach, is that they cover the content material in each chapter, then you complete their 15 practice question set, and move on to problems in the Official Guide to the GMAT. If you do all of the questions that are assigned at the back of each MG strategy guide, you will have completed every question that is in that guide. In my opinion, Manhattan GMAT is the only test prep company that prompts you to use the Official Guide to the GMAT. That was one BIG difference when I think of how Veritas would assign all of those problems sets for each class session. Even though those questions were all from the Official Guide to the GMAT, you didn't know which ones that they were. There were all mixed up.

Greg Hall

[GCHall840]

One big plus that I would give to Manhattan GMAT is that the online course that I am taking right now, has provided me with the kind of structure that I did not find when I took the Veritas course. I think that to become successful preparing for a test like the GMAT, a certain logical structure works the best for me. The MG strategy guides and the way that they use all of the supporting material, makes for a very nicely outlined way of studying for the GMAT. The Veritas course had no structure as far as I am concerned. I am sure that you know that I would definitely not recommend Veritas at all. It is not worth the money.

[tmmyc]

I have actually taken both courses and have written a pretty comprehensive head-to-head analysis between the two. You can find it here:

http://tmmycgmat.blogspot.com/

It is a bit long, so you can scroll to the bottom for the summary, or to whatever section you find most relevant to your situation.

[relentlesspursuito700plus]

I also took a Veritas course. It was OK at best. May be my analysis of the course may be skewed at this point since I took the class before knowing much about the GMAT. After almost a year of studying (not throughout the entire period of course) and having found MGMAT, I must say that the Veritas' method is inferior to that of MGMAT. Vertias seems to be much better than some of the other places like Kaplan or Princeton Review, but it simply ignores the most essential elements of the test. For example, I do not recall seeing much, if at all, about prime factors, consecutive integers, quadratics, etc. MGMAT really breaks things down and helps its students focus on what is important for the test. I feel like I am preparing for the test again for the first time (started studying again in the past 3 weeks). Thanks for putting together such a great curriculum, MGMAT. You guys are the best.

[Guest]

HEY PPL

I really want to take MGMt test but i am not sure which one to take iether self study plan is better or online 9 session ourse is better ??/ please provide me feed back regarding the importance for either one of the planes???