Clear Admit Facebook Contest Winner Reports Back on Kaplan GMAT Prep Course
Last spring, in anticipation of the current MBA admissions cycle, we featured a contest on Facebook in which participants had the chance to win a Kaplan GMAT Classroom® Anywhere course to help them prepare to take the GMAT business school entrance exam. One lucky winner – Ebony Brooks – snagged the prize, a nine-session virtual prep course featuring access to 6,000 practice problems, nine CAT exams and more than 180 hours of practice and instruction.
Brooks, a PR manager in Atlanta, GA, signed up for and completed the course over the summer. We caught up with her last week to hear her thoughts on the class.
Kaplan’s GMAT Classroom® Anywhere course is held in a virtual classroom, featuring a live video feed to an instructor and teaching assistants. During online class meetings, students can ask questions and interact with their instructor and fellow students using the chat, polling and screen-sharing functions.
Brooks praised the structure of the course, the quality of the teaching and the flexibility of the online delivery model. “I was really impressed with the actual virtual classroom,” she said. “I didn’t take a lot of online classes during undergrad so I was a little nervous taking a class in a virtual way, but it was very accessible.” She liked being able to log into her own personal account, see her professor and communicate with other students via chat. She noted that the professor and TA were very accessible both in and out of class, replying to follow-up questions promptly each time she contacted them.
Asked what she might have changed about the course, she said that she would have liked it to include more time for students to do problems together in real time. “I get that the purpose was to allow you to do it on your own, but I have come to learn that everyone thinks differently. There were many times in class where two or three people would approach the problem in a different way and arrive at the same answer. I found that very helpful, so I would have liked more time to go through problems – especially quantitative problems – that way.”
She appreciated the fact that the course featured sections focused on each portion of the GMAT, including the test’s newly added Integrated Reasoning section. For Brooks personally, the sections on math were especially important, since many of those skills are not ones she uses currently in her daily job as a PR manager for a healthcare firm.
Thrilled to win her course and get to complete it for free, Brooks did say that she thinks it’s a great value at $749. “I think it is worth the money, and I think it is a cost-effective offering,” she said. She added that she would consider taking supplemental courses offered by Kaplan to continue honing the skills she’ll need to be successful on the GMAT.
Brooks is planning to take the GMAT this spring, leaving time to take it again if necessary before completing applications by the middle of next year. She hopes to stay in Atlanta for a part-time MBA program that would allow her to continue working at her current job. Her top choice is Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.
We wish her luck on the GMAT and in her application process!
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