Because the GMAT is a standardized examination, it is necessary that the makers of the test rely on certain principles to guarantee that the GMAT is as consistent as possible from year to year. The creators of the Veritas GMAT Course have completely deconstructed the GMAT and designed an effective way to tackle it based on that deconstruction. Veritas students actually learn to think like the makers of the test.
The Veritas Full Course™ consists of 42 hours of live instruction spread over fourteen class meetings. Veritas students receive lesson booklets that total more than 1400 pages. In addition, students receive fifteen computer-adaptive practice exams to complete outside of class. No other GMAT prep company in the world offers as much as Veritas.
The Veritas test-taking experts designed all of the strategies and created all of the materials in the Veritas program. Students receive a separate booklet with each GMAT class (for a total of 14 booklets), each focusing on a different subject of the test. For instance, one booklet teaches you everything you need to know about Geometry, while another will describe proven techniques for Reading Comprehension success.
Lesson One: Arguments
Lesson One not only introduces students to the GMAT, it also establishes the framework for the entire Veritas GMAT Course. Students learn about GMAT Logic. After just one day, Veritas Prep students leave far better equipped for the GMAT than when they began.
Lesson Two: Arithmetic
The introductory lesson to the Quantitative portion of the GMAT covers the basic definitions students must know for the GMAT, including integers, fractions, decimals, percents, and ratio problems. Unlike the students relegated to shorter GMAT courses, Veritas Prep students have the time to meticulously develop a set of analytical tools that will serve as a solid foundation for all future math lessons.
Lesson Three: Critical Reasoning 1
Veritas Prep students learn that all Critical Reasoning problems fall into distinct and identifiable categories. SWIMME/R™, a potent and proprietary method developed by Veritas Prep, allows students to properly identify and solve the GMAT’s logical puzzles with speed and skill.
Lesson Four: Algebra
Algebra is another lesson designed to develop important fundamentals. In this lesson alone, students learn methods applicable to more than half of all the quantitative problems on the GMAT. Students learn how to solve equalities and inequalities with multiple variables and multiple solutions, quadratic equations, exponents, and roots.
Lesson Five: Sentence Correction 1
Lesson Five introduces students to Sentence Correction problems and the areas of grammar typically tested. Veritas Prep students also learn IMPACTS™, a tool that allows them to focus on the most common Sentence Correction errors. Sentence Correction 1 includes grammar drills, explanations, dozens of practice problems, and the 46-page GMAT Grammar Basics review.
Lesson Six: Geometry
The Geometry lesson is the last of the fundamental quantitative lessons. It covers everything examinees need to know about geometry for the GMAT, including lines, angles, triangles, circles, quadrilaterals, volumes and coordinate planes.
Lesson Seven: Reading Comprehension
It is never too late to become an adroit reader, and the Reading Comprehension lesson shows how. Veritas Prep has made it easier by categorizing all of the passages into three groups and providing a distinctive strategy, STAMP™, for each of those groups. Veritas Prep students become active readers, demonstrating a purposefulness that others may lack.
Lesson Eight: Data Sufficiency 1
Data Sufficiency requires students to learn an entirely new approach to quantitative analysis. Veritas Prep teaches an extremely efficient methodology to attack these problems. In class, students go over drills with the instructor in an interactive format and learn the most effective way to solve a wide variety of different types of Data Sufficiency problems.
Lesson Nine: Critical Reasoning 2
Critical Reasoning 2 delves into argument structure and advanced GMAT logic. Students build on the concepts presented in Arguments and Critical Reasoning 1, pitting their skills against the most challenging Critical Reasoning questions available. Veritas Prep engineered its advanced Critical Reasoning methods for those students who seek a score in the 99th percentile on the verbal section of the GMAT.
Lesson Ten: Problem Solving
Veritas Prep students learn both general and specific approaches to Problem Solving questions. Students learn when it is appropriate to fully solve problems, when to use shortcuts, and when to plug in numbers. Furthermore, students learn how to effectively translate rate problems, work problems, mixture problems, measurement problems, and more, into easily solvable algebraic equations. The Problem Solving lesson explains how to handle interest rate problems and basic statistics like mean, median, mode, and standard deviation.
Lesson Eleven: Sentence Correction 2
This lesson does not navigate new territory; rather, it builds on the foundation developed in Sentence Correction 1. Students hone their skills at error recognition, particularly idioms – the most commonly tested aspect of grammar on the entire GMAT. Sentence Correction 2 includes advanced grammar drills, explanations, and dozens of practice problems.
Lesson Twelve: Permutations & Combinations
Advanced statistics and probability have grown increasingly more common on the GMAT. Veritas Prep is the only major test prep provider that devotes an entire lesson to this topical subject. Students will learn about probabilities and combinatoric methods including permutations, combinations, and factorials. The Veritas Prep GMAT Guide on advanced math, project GMAT, is the ideal companion piece to this lesson.
Lesson Thirteen: Analytical Writing Assessment
This lesson provides a complete game plan for Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) success and introduces students to the Veritas AWA Template™ and Veritas AWA Support Matrix™. The AWA lesson also includes the entire list of possible GMAT AWA essay topics and ample time for a complete verbal review.
Lesson Fourteen: Quantitative Review
Students review the most important mathematical concepts and methods, ensuring that they have mastered them before they take the GMAT. In addition, students work with advanced statistical methods, learning when to use (and when to refrain from using) different counting techniques. Finally, instructors reveal crucial time-saving shortcuts to the most complex quantitative problems ever given on the GMAT.
Students that need additional GMAT help can take advantage of our toll free support line, the online review class available to every student, as well as additional private GMAT tutoring.
