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August 07, 2025
ManFriday25

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Verified GMAT Focus score:
695 Q83 V90 DI80 (Online)

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Strengths:

An exhaustive Error Tracker.
Ample chapter-wise problems.
Problems always include links to relevant lessons and concepts, making learning and revision easier.
Well-researched, evidence-based advice on the best study, revision, and test day practices.
A robust prep roadmap focused on "doing things the right way. "
Sufficient revision and reinforcement tests at regular intervals within the roadmap ensure that one retains all that has been studied up to that point.

Would make the product better:

Nothing, they know what they are doing!

In January 2024, I walked out of my test centre with a knot in my stomach. My score was 640, a number that, while not disastrous, felt like a poor return on the months of preparation I had invested. I knew I had worked hard, yet I couldn’t see where it had all slipped away. More than disappointment, I felt lost, unsure of what exactly needed fixing.
The months that followed were frustrating. The GMAT format had just shifted from Classic to Focus, and the material I had once spent hours on was slipping from memory. I knew I had to start over, but I didn’t know how. I wanted to power through it just to move on, but not without doing it right this time. That’s when I stumbled onto TTP.
In May 2025, I signed up for their five-day free trial. On the very first day, I took a GMAT Official Practice Exam and scored a 575, which translates to a 610 on the Classic scale. That stung. But it gave me clarity. I didn’t just need to practice more, I needed a better system. I signed up for the monthly plan immediately.
TTP opened with a few pages on how to study well. It wasn’t flashy advice. It was practical and grounded: real progress takes time, shortcuts won’t cut it. Since my mock Quant score was decent, I was placed on the fast-track plan. That meant I could skip full lessons and dive straight into chapter-wise drills. The Easy and Medium questions went fine, but the Hard ones took more time than they should have. I logged every mistake using their Error Tracker and followed the lesson links to relearn the concepts. This helped me zoom in on what actually needed work.
By the end of Quant, I had recorded over 150 mistakes. Some were concept issues, others were careless slip-ups. Looking back at those logs showed me patterns I wouldn’t have caught otherwise, like how I consistently fumbled PEMDAS by ignoring the left-to-right rule. Grouping mistakes by type helped me spot those blind spots and change how I approached similar questions.
Honestly, the Error Tracker was a game-changer. It felt like using a second brain. I could tag mistakes however I wanted, and by the end, I had only a dozen recurring problem types I kept coming back to. TTP clearly built this feature with real student feedback in mind.
Verbal was a similar story. I had trouble with the tougher Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension questions. Often, I’d make panicked guesses when the timer ticked down. But using the same system of logging, reviewing, and fixing, I slowly got better. The structure helped, but the discipline it built mattered even more.
With time, I developed something I hadn’t had before: a feel for time. I could glance at a question and instinctively know how long it should take. That awareness hadn’t existed in my first attempt. Now, it was second nature.
When I got to the Data Insights section, I applied what I’d already learned. I approached it with more patience and better pacing. Slowly, I got better at spotting which questions to tackle and which to skip. That one change transformed how I handled the section.
DI used to be the section where I’d run out of time. Now, I was finishing with time to spare and reviewing flagged questions. That feeling of being in control was new to me, and it changed how I viewed the exam.
That said, DI remained my weakest link. I wish I had spent more time on it. My final score reflected that gap. I had drilled Quant and Verbal deeply, but DI didn’t get the same attention. The same refinement didn’t happen there.
Part of the issue was the question pool. At the time, DI was still new and evolving, and the GMAT Focus format was also fresh. TTP’s DI content hadn’t fully caught up. But I can’t blame them. Given how fast they improve things, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s far better now.
After finishing the course, I turned to official mocks. TTP places a lot of importance on mocks and on pausing between them to analyse what went wrong. That loop of testing, pausing, and adjusting helped me understand not just the content but how I performed under pressure.
One big thing I figured out was section order. I used to think starting with Quant made sense. It felt logical, like easing into the test with the "easier" section. But every time I did that, I found myself mentally checked out by the time I reached Verbal and DI. I’d front-loaded my confidence and was left trying to drag myself through the rest.
Then I read something on TTP's exam tips section that some test-takers perform better when they save their strongest section for last. That clicked. I changed things up and started with Verbal instead.
My mock scores during that stretch were 655, 655, 645, 645, 625, and finally 685. Even as the scores dropped, I didn’t revert to my old order. I trusted the process. I trusted myself. I kept reviewing, kept adjusting.
That 625 told me everything. It wasn’t about knowledge; rather, it was about mindset. I was hesitating, unsure if the new strategy would work. Once I dropped the second-guessing, my silly mistakes stopped. That insight carried me into the final leg.
When I took my last mock, everything came together. I was calm. Focused. Balanced. The nerves were still there, but they had lost their grip on me. I had a rhythm. I knew when to fight for a question and when to move on. That final mock didn’t feel like a test, it felt like closure.
That 685 wasn’t just a number. It was proof that I had done the work. It gave me the confidence to book my official test.
This time, I chose the online version. I knew even small environmental details could mess with my performance. I didn’t want to go back to the same test centre where I’d first fallen apart. Home felt safer. I also reminded myself to keep the test in perspective, something I’d picked up from TTP.
Test day went better than I could have imagined. The tough questions didn’t shake me. I skipped what I needed to, guessed when it made sense, and marked questions with a steady hand. I wasn’t giving myself pep talks anymore. I was simply focused and executing without hesitation. I even finished early and had time to review everything I’d flagged. That hadn’t happened once during mocks.
And then the score came up. 695. That’s roughly equivalent to a 740 on the old GMAT Classic scale, meaning I saw a 100-point jump since my first attempt. I stared at the screen, stunned. I kept waiting for it to be wrong. But a few weeks later, the official score arrived, and it was real.
From walking out of a test centre in January 2024 feeling crushed, to leaning back in my chair at home on January 8, 2025, seeing the number I’d worked for, it’s hard to explain what that meant.
Even then, a part of me wondered if it had really happened, if maybe I had just been lucky that day. That doubt disappeared when I opened the score breakdown and saw it, a perfect 90 in Verbal. I had never achieved that before, not in mocks, not in drills. It was the GMAT itself telling me, in the clearest language it speaks, that the months of steady practice, the control over my nerves, and the rhythm I had worked so hard to build had all clicked at exactly the right moment.
All I’ll say is this: I wish I had found TTP earlier, before I gave my first attempt. It would’ve saved me time, energy, and a whole lot of frustration. Their system works if you let it. I’ve told every GMAT taker I know about them.
If you're still with me, I hope this gives you a clear picture of what this journey was like. I know this review is long. But anything shorter wouldn’t have captured how much this journey taught me, or how much credit TTP deserves. They earned my trust and helped me reach a score I once thought was out of reach. That 100-point improvement didn’t happen by chance. TTP may set the benchmark, but in my case, it was earned slowly through structure, consistency, and trust in the process.

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