GMAT Videos in 2016

GMAT videos allow you to study for the b-school admissions test on your own schedule. With online GMAT courses often now providing mobile apps and downloadable content, there’s also the option of watching video content, regardless of your location – be it at home or in an airplane cabin.

Times have changed since TopMBA.com’s first GMAT video list was published in 2012; MBA applicants now have far more options when it comes to video-on-demand courses from GMAT prep companies. There are even a few free GMAT video options out there! In addition, those who offer paid video GMAT courses may also have free GMAT videos on their website, allowing you to preview some of their content before signing up for an entire course. Check out a new list of paid video-based GMAT courses (average ratings for which are given where available and are accurate to the time of writing) as well as your options in the realm of free GMAT videos below:

Video-based GMAT courses

e-GMAT Verbal Online

Cost: US$199.

Average rating on GMAT Club: 4.7 stars, (496 reviews).

Average rating on Beat the GMAT: 4.6 stars, (120 reviews).

On its website, e-GMAT dubs itself the “world's first prep course designed to help non-native [English] speakers level the playing field and score higher on GMAT Verbal.” You can view two sample lessons on the homepage. e-GMAT’s Verbal Online course includes over 100 hours of video content, plus 3,500 practice questions and seven practice tests. Students can also access round-the-clock personalized support.

Magoosh

Cost: Magoosh Premium costs US$199, with alternative packages looking at specific GMAT sections priced a little less than this. Free trials are offered.

Average rating on GMAT Club: 4.6 stars, (195 reviews).

Average rating on Beat the GMAT: 4.8 stars, (149 reviews).

Magoosh Premium includes 150 video lessons plus over 700 math and verbal practice questions, for which video explanations are offered. According to the Magoosh website, the content covers “every concept, pitfall and shortcut on the exam.” Viewers don’t just have to watch this content passively – they can also take notes, bookmark specific parts and read transcripts. The platform for this is fully supported on all the usual mobile and desktop platforms: PC, Mac, Android and iOS.

Target Test Prep

Cost: Prices range from US$99 for one month to US$399 for six months following an initial five-day period in which you can trial its course for US$1.

Average rating on Beat the GMAT: 5 stars, (136 reviews).

Target Test Prep’s online GMAT course is designed to help students master the test’s quantitative sections by familiarizing them with the concepts, strategies and techniques behind these problems.  The course includes 800 instructor-led HD videos (stretching to 30 hours of viewing in total).

Optimus Prep

Cost: US$499-$1,540 for 12 months.

Average rating on GMAT Club: 5 stars, (46 reviews).

Optimus Prep On Demand offers three packages, two of which come with five hours of tutoring in addition to the online course. The course itself spans 30 lessons and consists of over 180 hours of material. The videos go over each question type as well as offering guidance on how to reach the best solution. The company’s website says that the course is particularly helpful for non-native English speakers and/or those who have been out of school for several years.

EMPOWERgmat

Cost: US$99-$139 per month or US$399 for three months.

Average rating on GMAT Club: 5 stars, (39 reviews).

Average rating on Beat the GMAT: 5 stars, (31 reviews).

EMPOWERgmat’s on-demand course features expert-led video coaching sessions, explanations for every aspect of the course as well as thousands of interwoven questions. Topics covered by the video lessons include: the GMAT/CAT algorithm, data sufficiency, problem solving, sentence correction, reading comprehension, critical reasoning, integrated reasoning and the AWA essay. The courses’ questions are all retired questions from the actual GMAT test and there are six different study plans that allow you to map out your preparation across anywhere between one and three months.

Veritas Prep

Cost: US$950-1000 for 12 months of unlimited access.

Veritas Prep On Demand allows you to follow a customized 30, 60 or 90-day study plan that’s based on your ability level. The crux of the course is 12 interactive lessons, each of which is split into 30-minute subsections, with questions tracking your understanding of the material. Each lesson is accompanied by detailed study plans, personalized progress guides, live homework help, and GMAT practice tests. You can stream the lessons online and view them on your desktop or mobile device.

GMAT Pill

Cost: US$169 for the first month followed by US$99 each month thereafter, or US$437 for lifetime membership.

According to the Stanford-educated founders of the GMAT Pill, “the GMAT exam is not about memorizing concepts and formulas, it’s about how you think.” Its focus therefore falls on teaching students an efficient process that can help them attain a better GMAT score.

This six-unit course is built on a one-month study plan and uses a “video framework approach” to help you spot potential booby traps. You watch as an instructor outlines different parts of a problem and tells you where to place your focus. Course content can be downloaded onto your device so you can watch it on-the-go and can also be accessed through both web and mobile apps.

Free GMAT videos

GMAT Prep Now

GMAT Prep Now is a free GMAT video course which includes 500 videos stretching across 35 hours and one that is accompanied by practice questions and a step-by-step learning guide. Course content is divided into 16 modules, something that is designed to allow people to focus on specific improvement areas and skip the things you already know. The GMAT Prep Now website offers a list of ways in which you can use the course including, for example, combining its free content with private tutoring. Viewers who register on the GMAT Prep Now website can receive bonus materials from test prep companies and admissions consultants.

Video articles from Beat the GMAT

GMAT social network, Beat the GMAT, has a chronologically-arranged feed of GMAT videos from various test prep companies, including some of the ones already mentioned in this article (Magoosh, Target Test Prep, and GMAT Prep Now).

GMAT Videos from Khan Academy

Khan Academy’s GMAT videos cover the problem solving and data sufficiency portions of the test. The videos aim to walk viewers through over 400 problems from the 11th edition of the Official GMAT Review, published in 2005. Questions are read aloud while the math equations are written out blackboard-style.

Sentence Correction lesson from Veritas Prep

Veritas Prep has an online sentence correction lesson available for free online. Veritas’ website says that this is the very same lesson received by all its paying students, including those enrolled in the aforementioned Veritas Prep On Demand course.

GMAT Free

GMAT Free offers 600 videos alongside its 800 sample questions which you can access either on your laptop or mobile device. Course content is created by Andrew Mitchell, an MBA alumnus of Chicago Booth and a former director at Kaplan Test Prep. The course was last updated in 2014.

Free videos from EMPOWERgmat

In addition to its on-demand course listed above, EMPOWERgmat also dedicates a section of its website to free video content. Topics covered include: problem solving, data sufficiency, reading comprehension, critical reasoning and sentence correction.

CrackVerbal’s GMAT video library

GMAT prep company, CrackVerbal, has an online library of 10 GMAT videos covering how to study for the GMAT and its integrated reasoning and sentence correction sections.