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congratulations for score... all the best with applications
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Congrats and all the best with applications
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Thank you for sharing and 150 points is very strong 💪
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Congrats on the 685. Going up 150 points is a big deal on its own, and doing it around a military schedule with the hours you describe is no small thing. That result is a credit to how consistently you showed up.

What comes through in your write-up is that you understood your own progress really well. You'd put in months of honest work before you ever found a structured path, so you already had a lot of the material in your head. Sounds like getting it into a clear sequence is what helped the pieces click, and the comprehensiveness gave you the confidence that nothing on the exam would catch you off guard. Both of those are things you recognized and used well.

Calm, steady timing on test day is usually the payoff of that kind of preparation, and it clearly showed up for you when it counted.

Good luck with your applications. The discipline you built getting here will serve you well past the GMAT.


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Wanted to write up my GMAT experience in case it's useful to anyone still grinding through prep.

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For starters I did not have a lot of confidence in my standardized test abilities... I took the ACT 10 years ago but didn't prepare seriously for it at the time. I'm in the military and so when planning to transition out to business school I knew the GMAT would be a necessary evil in the process and require a lot of investment.

I studied on my own for 5-6 months using free resources on YouTube and the Official Guides. Studied about 2 hours a day during the week when I had time. Took my first official practice exam and got a 535, which was genuinely so disheartening. I felt like I had wasted so much time up to this point. I reached out to a couple mentors (what I should have done from square one) and both of them told me to take a look at Target Test Prep. Immediately I into my free trial I realized this was going to change my process dramatically.

What made the difference

1. The structured curriculum. This was the single biggest change. TTP doesn't just hand you a pile of practice questions, it teaches foundational concepts in a deliberate order, and each one builds on the last. By the time the questions got genuinely hard, I wasn't guessing at a technique. I was applying something I'd already built from the ground up three chapters earlier. It's the difference between memorizing solutions and actually understanding the machinery underneath them, and contributes to true mastery .

It also keeps things incredibly consistent and efficient. My schedule (like I'm sure most people on this website as well) is unpredictable and my hours are long, and having a clear sequence meant I never wasted energy deciding what to work on. I just opened the platform and executed the next block.

2. The comprehensiveness. There was not one concept on any of my practice / official exams that didn't show up somewhere in my prep. Zero surprises. If you've ever had that moment mid-exam where a question type appears and you realize you've never encountered it before — that didn't happen once. That really helped my confidence going into test day.

Test day and closing thoughts
I tested in person. I was calm, my timing held up, and the exam felt genuinely similar to what I'd been doing in practice for months. Final score: 685. A 150-point jump from where I started. I can confidently say I would not have seen this improvement if it weren't for the TTP Dedicated Self-Study product, and I will always refer people to the program as their first step in GMAT / GRE prep.

Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to reach out.
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