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Manhattan Review – The Best ISEE Prep Available in South Africa

Manhattan Review is a worldwide leader in test prep services for the ISEE, as well as other undergraduate or graduate university admission tests. Our instruction and teaching materials have aided countless students in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Pretoria, and all over South Africa improve their ISEE skillset while enhancing their overall ISEE scores. Manhattan Review's ISEE learning plans have opened doors of opportunities for higher education and assisted in acceptance to the finest universities in South Africa, the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and several other countries. Our previous students are now successful and prominent working professionals in an array of industries in Cape Town, such as Standard Bank Group, FirstRand, and Sasol, just to name a few. While we don't mind going on about our past, we are much more focused on the future and today's test-takers, always striving to bring the most cutting-edge, innovative, and efficient methods to test prep teaching and learning.

Because students have a wide variety of special learning needs, Manhattan Review's ISEE instruction comes in several formats, consisting of on-site group classes, private tutoring, as well as remote study for those who prefer to study online in Cape Town and South Africa. In addition, we offer ISEE practice tests that replicate the structure, content, and timing of the actual exam. At Manhattan Review, we know all too well that student engagement is the cornerstone to truly effective learning, so our instruction centers on the encouragement of higher order thinking as well as scrupulous analytical abilities. Clients in Cape Town and Johannesburg who complete our ISEE courses become better all-around students who are more prepared to excel in all of their subsequent academic pursuits. Manhattan Review's test preparation includes original and innovative teaching modalities based on cutting-edge educational research. We are also known for the quality of our course materials. No matter if you live in Cape Town or elsewhere, there is probably a Manhattan Review branch near you. Frankly, we are South Africa's premier outstanding provider of professional ISEE preparation services, which will help you move leaps and bounds in ISEE performance at a reasonable cost of money, time, and effort.

Best ISEE Instructors in South Africa

We take on only the best at Manhattan Review. Naturally, we want instructors who have attained high test scores (generally in the top 1%), but high scores in and of themselves are not enough. Some test prep companies in Cape Town hire on exam performance alone, but at Manhattan Review, we delve much deeper into a potential teacher. We want to know a great deal about a prospective teacher's academic achievements and background. Where did she go to university? In what subject did she major? What was her GPA? These are only a handful of the questions we ask in the hiring process. We also consider former teaching experience, and we only hire individuals who have meaningful prior teaching profiles. Our classroom instructors and individual tutors are highly distinguished graduates of the most esteemed universities in the English-speaking world. Furthermore, they possess subject-matter expertise in a variety of different academic disciplines. Finally, we choose instructors with personalities and outside interests that make them well-suited for test prep instruction, particularly in the areas of classroom presence approachability and approachability. All educators, teachers, and tutors are comprehensively trained in Manhattan Review's unique methods and materials. We believe our highly selective hiring process produces educators of rare ability to meet and exceed the requirements of our Cape Town and Johannesburg student population when it comes to test preparation.

History of Manhattan Review

Manhattan Review began in New York City in 1999 by Joern Meissner, who at the time was a venerated doctoral student and educator at Columbia Business School. Meissner received consistent praise from his students for his practical explanations of complex ideas. As a result, a group of these students thought that his style of instruction would be ideal for Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) preparation, as in those days GMAT prep was boring and mundane. Meissner went on to devise a series of GMAT lectures that incorporated his trademark method of teaching. Early returns were remarkably positive, and these lectures would become the early foundations of Manhattan Review's first test prep classes.

Manhattan Review has since broadened into the world's premier global test prep company, with offices not just in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and throughout South Africa, but in cities all over the world providing services for all of the major standardized university admission exams. Manhattan Review has aided thousands of students in preparing for acceptance to the universities of their choice by enhancing their ISEE, ACT, SAT, SSAT, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, TOEFL, and/or IELTS scores. We've also published a variety of distinguished test prep textbooks, assisted business professionals enhance their language skills, and strengthened university applications with our top-notch admissions consulting offerings. We aim to integrate the resources of an international company with the customized service of a local firm, meaningfully serving the educational needs of the London community in which we teach.

About our Founder

Joern Meissner is a globally distinguished business school professor who holds a Diploma in Business Management from the University of Hamburg as well as a PhD in Management Science from Columbia Business School in New York City, one of the top Ivy League Schools. After completing his doctoral degree, he chose the career path of an academic and has now over 25 years of experience as a postsecondary educator. His passion for teaching is apparent, and he has taught business classes at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, the University of Hamburg, Lancaster University Management School, as well as the University of Mannheim. Meissner's published research on dynamic pricing, supply chain management, and revenue management has been featured in several well-known and respected academic journals. While Professor Meissner thoroughly values his research, he believes that grasping an idea is only half of the fun; imparting knowledge to others is even more rewarding. This philosophy was crucial to the establishment of Manhattan Review, and continues to remain its most cherished principle today.