Does anyone have good recommendations for GMAT exam prep books?? I’m not looking to spend a lot but definitely willing to invest in something helpful. Thanks all!

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If you’re looking for the 99% scores (750+) manhattan prep is awesome. They give you the hardest questions and practice exams (Manhattan’s practice exams I was getting 700-710) and got a 760 on the real thing. Keeping an error log on questions where you can’t explain the concept behind the answer was also key

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Kaplan also has a high score one. I bought the regular and high score Kaplan second hand, so it came out cheap and I got a 780. And I second the error log, just write the reason for the correct answer, that way reading through it becomes positive reinforcement.

Not a book but used Magoosh online, was pretty happy.

I’ll definitely look into it, thanks for the help

I like kaplan

Personally found Kaplan to be easier than the real thing but YMMV

I would do Manhattan & Magoosh. Depending on where you score you may want to try Target Test Prep.

Buy the official gmat.com practice questions and tests. They are the only tests actually scored off the gmat algorithm. Others mentioned here are great too but felt the gmat.com tests were best indicator of my scores. My actual scores ended up always being like 40pts higher than what I was scoring on Manhattan Prep. Could be a me thing though?

Thank you all so much, your insight is so helpful and appreciated!

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