Why is Manhattan prep verbal not recommended? I’ve seen this a couple of times but I dont know why I shouldn’t use their verbal. Does this include not doing their practice problems or just not following their strategies?
ETS puts a lot of effort while making their questions thus, it is very hard for some other institutions to emulate their writing style.
You can even look at ets careers to take a look at the type of people they recruit :
- They got people from AI , Education background, Psychologist etc.
https://etscareers.pereless.com/83080/talent.cfm
Also, if you want to use their official material , you have to pay $225 per question :
https://www.ets.org/legal/permissions/licensing/
Hence, you can see why that the third party test prep just can’t bridge the gap between their material and official.
Thank you for your reply,
Lemme ask you this, would you still do the verbal practice problems or would you not do those either?
I think what you should focus is on applying the strategies well
When I was preparing, I only did official + Big Book for verbal.
But sometimes people waste official question bank & then they struggle to find material to practice ; at time you can use any 3rd resource you like.