GMAT Product Update: Kaplan’s New GMAT Course

July 2, 2012 by



GMAT Prep, NEW GMAT, Product UpdateBeing the best means never letting up—always moving forward and always striving to be even better.  It is with great excitement that we officially launch our new and improved GMAT prep course offerings.

As always, you can choose to study with Kaplan GMAT On Site, Classroom Anywhere, On Demand, or GMAT One-On-One – and we have revamped all of these GMAT prep course packages. From the textbook to the number of class sessions, our students get more and better of everything.  Let’s take a look at some of the features and details of the new course:

  • 11 class sessions: We have added 2 sessions.  Our new GMAT course is now comprised of  11 class sessions. If you’re in an instructor-led course (On Site or Classroom Anywhere), your session structure will include Fixed and Flex sessions to heighten personalization, convenience, and in-depth, structured training (more on this in a moment). (If you’re studying with the On Demand course, then all of your sessions are on demand – you’ve opted for maximum flexibility. These Lessons-On-Demand are included in the On Site and Classroom Anywhere courses, also.)
  • Integrated Reasoning (IR): Our courses now feature a dedicated  IR teaching session and a Lesson-on-Demand in addition to full-length, scored Integrated Reasoning sections on all 9 practice tests. It’s the most IR preparation you’ll find anywhere.
  • 9 full-length practice tests: Students have access to 9 full-length test.  In addition, we offer the Official Test Day Experience – students can take any of their practice tests at a Pearson/GMAT testing center, the same place they will sit for the actual GMAT exam.
  • Free make-up sessions: You can schedule makeup sessions at your convenience, because we know how hectic and unpredictable GMAT students’ lives can be.
  • Adaptive Learning Technology: With our proprietary Smart Reports™ technology, we answer two questions: How am I doing? and, What should I do next?
  • Brand new coursebook: Written with extreme pedagogical care and expertise and influenced by feedback from students and faculty,  our new coursebook has doubled in length and serves as the comprehensive reference and practice guide for GMAT success.
  • Guarantee: As always, every course comes with our exclusive Higher Score Guarantee. (Which reminds me: this guarantee also covers those of you who are finishing up your course. If you’re hungry for our overhauled study program, you can use your guarantee to repeat “into” the new program.)

All this and more make up our new GMAT course—one of our biggest projects to date.  Innovation and commitment to excellence have yielded a powerful GMAT prep arsenal for our students, and we can’t wait to see the scores roll in. Take a look at some of our GMAT links below for more information:

GMAT Advantage – On Site

GMAT Advantage – Classroom Anywhere

GMAT Advantage – On Demand

GMAT Private Tutoring

GMAT Private Tutoring – Anywhere

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Lucas WeingartenAbout Lucas Weingarten
Lucas Weingarten teaches students how to beat the GMAT, GRE, and LSAT for Kaplan Test Prep and is proud to have earned “elite instructor” status. Lucas writes extensively for Kaplan’s GMAT blog (http://blog.kaplangmat.com/), and in addition to the GMAT and business school as primary subject matter, he regularly explores topics within higher education, economic systems, sustainability, and current events. Lucas spent his formative years in North Carolina and currently resides in Milwaukee, WI, though he has not yet found the part of the world wherein to bury his roots. He has an MBA with a dual concentration in entrepreneurship and finance from DePaul University in Chicago and is fortunate to have secured an adjunct teaching position there out of the department of management. Family, friends, and a seemingly endless stream of new hobbies keep Lucas busy and happy outside of the classroom. You can reach out any time by email (lucas.weingarten@kaplan.com) or through the comments thread after his blog posts.

  • swingin4a10

    I recently extended my course and noticed the new course is extremely different from the old one. As I was smack in the middle of my studying using the old course, I’m a little confused as to where I should start in the new course. For example, I still had to complete the advanced sentence correction section from before, but that’s completely gone now. Is there a roadmap showing what portions of the old course went into the new course so I don’t end up repeating a ton? Thanks for your help.

    • Lucas Weingarten

      Thanks a ton for the comment and query @swingin4a10! If you were studying using the old course and just need a little extra time — a couple of weeks, say — before taking the GMAT to feel ready (perhaps you missed a couple of classes, for example), then you will continue to use the old course material during the brief extension. However, if you are using our High Score Guarantee, which basically resets your account with us and we treat you as a new student, then you will use the new course material and retake the entire course. A direct roadmap linking the two does not exist. If you are an “HSG student,” then you will want to cover everything in the new course and relish the chance to review some previously covered info!

      If you are just extending your account a little to get in some extra prep/make-up work, then you ought to be working from the account you began with. If the tech folks have migrated you to the new course, then call 1(800)KAPTEST and ask them to return your account to its original form.

      Hope this helps and thanks again for the question!!