I started TTP after getting a few Q49. I figured I would need to review from the ground up and strengthen my weakness in order to achieve the next level. I trusted the platform based on raving reviews, but I didn't see any noticeable result. Most people who use TTP are barely getting Q40~45 and they are happy with what they get. I don't think this program is for people who are at an advanced level.
I found the questions and lectures very repetitive. Questions are too easy and I don't think they prepare you well for the actual GMAT.

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I took the GMAT four times in the past year. My first score was 700 (45Q 40V) and final score was 740 (50Q 39V).

Target Test Prep helped me improve my Quant score from Q45 to Q50 in about four months.

The program is a lot of work, but if you work through all of the lessons, example questions, and tests, I'm sure it will help you improve too. I only completed about 54% of the program because there is so much to do (I think I completed 70% of the lessons and 50% of the questions or something like that. But the program taught me a lot of math concepts and tricks that other GMAT courses had not taught me.

On my first real GMAT attempt after doing TPP I got Q48 and then on my last try I ended up with Q50.

I would recommend the program anytime (I've already recommended it to a few friends). It is kind of expensive and a lot of work, but it definitely helped me.

P.S. Make sure you review each chapter multiple times. There is so much work that you can start forgetting things from early chapters if you don't review them.

P.P.S. I used two other GMAT courses before TTP (I ended up with Q45 after both of them) so I can't give TTP all of the credit but I will give them most of the credit for improving my quant score from 45 to 50.

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I am a 32 year old married management consultant based out of Melbourne. I move to Australia last year with my wife and have been clocking 12-14 hour work days consistently ever since I moved here. While an MBA was always a pipe dream, I wanted to get some cross-border consulting experience to add depth to my profile before taking the gmat, hence the move to Australia. The move came slightly late in life and my age made me realise the urgency around getting a good gmat score in the first attempt itself, so as to leave an adequate buffer for writing my applications. My insane work schedule along with having to settle down in a new country made very time-poor and fatigued. My first challenge when I took up gmat prep was to navigate around the information overload on the internet around choosing the right course material and formulating the most optimal plan of attack. A good friend who is in her second year at HBS suggested TTP for quant which is when I subscribed. It fit the bill very nicely for me - my target was to get a 720+ score with a month's prep as I could only use the December break of three weeks for dedicated study and the TTP platform enabled me to plan, push through and track my progress in the easiest manner possible. The TTP chapter tests were enjoyable as they were bite-sized and were organised around a gradually increasing difficulty level (the hardest level was brutal), gamified by benchmarking performance against that of other subscribers. 15 days into the prep, I gained enough confidence to take an official mock, scoring a 700, which was good enough for me to schedule my official exam in early February. I finished my TTP course by the 20th of January (exactly 35 days) and starting taking a series of mocks, scoring around the 730 mark (going as high as 760 towards the end). Test day came and I got a score of 730 which was just what the doctor ordered!
While I know that my prep was rushed and that it's not ideal to compress an almost 3 month long prep process to a period that's just a third long, I am sure there would be a lot of people who won't have the luxury of time, hence I can't stress the benefit of using TTP enough to optimise gmat prep and cut the clutter around choosing the right prep material going in.

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I'm not sure how somebody is humanly capable of completing TTP in less than 3-4 months. The course was exactly what I needed to hone my skills in Quant. I learned that the GMAT takes a combination of skill and ability, but not much knowledge outside of some formulas.

Both your skill and ability will improve dramatically with the amount of questions TTP will throw at you.

They help you build a skill and then test your ability, help build another skill and test your ability....rinse and repeat.

Proof is in the pudding, go check out my debrief below!

https://gmatclub.com/forum/110-point-increase-590-to-the-700-club-317183.html#p2464666

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Using only the Manhattan books with what I now realize was casual studying, I got a 680 (Q39 V44) with what you can see is a poor quant score. I ran out of time on quant and was penalized. I thought the GMAT would be relatively simple compared to the CFA, but really it's apples and oranges. It's tempting to white knuckle your way through the quant with tons of algebra and without a calculator, but for most problems, that's just not how it works. I took the test again a few weeks later but there was no improvement. Clearly I needed help with math.

I discovered Target Test Prep through a forum, and I'm happy to endorse the work that Scott, Jeff and the rest of their team have done with the platform. Rather than piecing my way through books, it was much more effective to use an integrated, online interface where you could learn the content and do practice problems. Everyone will advise that you track your progress and keep an error log, and TTP basically does this for you. If you're limited on time, I think you'll see a solid improvement with just the easy/medium problems. I will say, though, that having drilled their hard problems, I consistently got Q48/Q49 in my mocks. The math felt relatively simple — at that point, my inefficiencies were more about test-taking skills and falling for the GMAT's tricks rather than a gap in knowledge.

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Overall the course is a good math review but it didn't help me improve my quant score. At the end of the course I felt as if I had learned math concepts but failed to learn how to improve my quant score. I am certain that many will improve their quant score with this course but it just did not work for me. I started off at q 39 (practice test averaged about 41) and after completing all the lessons and about 2,000 practice problems I ended up with a q 38. If you need a solid review of math concepts this is a great tool.

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Target Test Prep is the fastest way to get to a perfect or near perfect Quant score. I started off at the <50th percentile because I had forgotten / never learned many of the key concepts of the GMAT and found myself scoring a 780 on the official GMAT within 6 weeks. I have five other friends who used Target and all of them score 50 or 51.

I definitely recommend a software like Target over a tutoring course. Everyone I know who has used a tutoring service ends up taking 4+ months to complete their GMAT study because you have to go at the tutor's pace and then feel a sense of completion once the tutoring is over. Target lets you go at your own pace - I put 2-3 hours in every day to cover the material quickly (an approach I would highly recommend) and always knew exactly how much material I still had not covered.

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I had not done any math for almost a decade, and had signed up for another, much more expensive GMAT prep course. I took the actual test, and scored a 580. My weakness was the quant for sure, so I tried Target Test Prep. My goal was to get a 44 on the quant. In six months of studying, Target Test Prep helped me pull my quant score up from a 36 (580 total) to a 47 (680 total). I didn’t expect to do that well, but the Target Test Prep system is structured so that all you have to do is follow their curriculum and you will see significant improvement in your quant score. If quant is an issue for you, Target Test Prep is the most effective way to learn and make positive progress. I recommend using TTP first to improve your foundational quant understanding, then leveraging a more broad program to help with the verbal. The GMAT takes time and effort, but you can do well on it if you work hard!

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Could not recommend this product more. I work long hours and tried to fit in GMAT exclusively on the weekends but realized that I would get rusty even in just the 5 days I wasn't looking at material during the work week. The program forces repetition which is a huge element of prep I was missing. The program is designed to build upon itself and, while I was doing it, I was annoyed by how it discouraged me to jump ahead. In hindsight, it was the intense repetition and thoughtful progression of the program that made it so effective and thus I highly recommend following the course exactly as its laid out. I improved 13 points in Quant (from a 36 to a 49) and attribute it 100% to Target Test Prep. I was able to complete 85% of it in about 7 weeks.

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Because quant was my weakness, I need to find a quant course that teaches me the ins-and-outs of GMAT quant and will help me build the foundation for me to solve harder questions. After reading multiple reviews on quant courses, I settled with Target Test Prep because of its price and user-friendly interface. The course is quite lengthy with a lot of material and practice quizzes but it was well worth the time and money. In a test where timing is critical, being able to find more efficient ways to solve the questions is one of the key skills you need to score high on quant. TTP is incredible at this with its equation cheat-sheet and certain techniques to solve certain types of problems. All of its quizzes are designed to make you effortlessly solve quant questions on test-day. After I finish TTP's course, I scored Q48+ on all but one of my mock tests and eventually a Q49 on my actual GMAT. Personally, I think this is by far the best quant course out there. I highly recommend this course if you want to score Q48+. It's a shame that TTP does not offer a verbal course.

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