When I first started my GMAT prep, I was extremely overwhelmed. I explored question forums like GMAT Club for question banks to practice, which helped me get a sense of what to expect on the test, but it lacked the structure I needed to actually learn the fundamentals properly. I felt like I was shooting randomly and trying a bit of everything, with no clear direction of improvement.
Discovering Target Test Prep changed everything.
I started with the free trial and made the most of it, spending the entire day of each trial day fully studying and exploring the platform. I was immediately sold. Unlike the scattered approach I’d been taking, TTP provided real structure, organizing topics that had felt random into a coherent course. It rebuilt the fundamentals of math I’d forgotten since high school, established that basic toolkit, and then systematically expanded it to cover every type of question I could encounter on the GMAT.
That structured, building-block approach made all the difference. Instead of guessing what to study next, I always knew exactly where I stood and what came next in my preparation. I’d recommend Target Test Prep to anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed at the start of their GMAT journey and wants a clear, methodical path to improvement.

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The honest truth is that none of this is a magic shortcut; it asks you to slow down and actually study your own mistakes, which takes discipline. But the single greatest thing e-GMAT gave me was the personal attention of a mentor, which felt genuinely different from any online course I had tried. Rather than a generic plan, my mentor Dhruv went through my data with me, spotted that my Quant issue was one of diagnosis rather than approach, and shaped a targeted plan around each individual weak point, down to firm timing rules that took the hesitation out of every question. Between cementing quizzes that pinpoint the real problem, analytics that tell you the truth, and mentorship that turns that truth into a plan, e-GMAT is the rare prep that fixes the cause instead of the symptom. If you are practising hard but cannot see exactly what is costing you points, this is the program that finds the leak and closes it.

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Target Test Prep was a great choice for my GMAT preparation. The course is very comprehensive and covers the concepts thoroughly, which helped me build a strong understanding rather than just memorize shortcuts or formulas. I particularly liked the structured approach and the depth of practice questions, as it made it easier to identify and work on my weak areas.

Another thing I appreciated was the support from the TTP team. Whenever I had questions or got stuck on a problem, the team was very helpful in explaining the reasoning and helping me understand where I was going wrong. This was especially useful when I encountered questions that I couldn't figure out on my own.

Overall, I found TTP to be a well-rounded course that covers everything needed for GMAT preparation. The combination of comprehensive lessons, extensive practice, and responsive support made my preparation much more structured and effective. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a course that provides both strong content and good support throughout the preparation process.

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From 485 to 675 (95th Percentile) — e-GMAT Course Review
My first full-length mock, in December, came back a 485 — V73, Q84 and DI65, around the 21st percentile. On 30 July I scored a 675: V83, Q88 and DI80, which puts me in the 95th percentile. Section-wise: Verbal 73 to 83, Quant 84 to 88, Data Insights from the 8th percentile up to the 83rd. I fitted all of it around rotational shifts at a refinery, so time was my scarcest resource. Component by component:
e-GMAT PSP (Personalised Study Plan)
A) When my first attempt fell short at 635, a fresh plan was built off my official score report: 63 hours across three weeks, 47 of them earmarked for Critical Reasoning alone.
B) Its value was triage — with very little runway, it told me what could realistically be fixed and what could not.
The Course and its Module Grades
A) Quant is four modules: Number Properties, Algebra, Word Problems and Advanced Topics. I cleared all four plus their cementing quizzes within three weeks. Algebra hard accuracy climbed 45% to 80%; Word Problems finished at 80% from a 60% base.
B) The grading is what I under-used at the start. Each completed activity carries a grade, and my mentor had to point out that all my finished CR modules were graded C. I had been reading a C as an acceptable result rather than an instruction to redo the topic.
C) The DI course treats each of the five question types on its own. That is how I learned a Table Analysis set carries a single question here, not the three or four a comparable CAT passage carries — those sets had been eating six to seven minutes each.
Pre-thinking (CR and Two-Part Analysis)
A) I could always narrow a question to two choices, and the survivors would be nearly identical in wording and reasoning. Pre-thinking means forming your own answer first, then hunting for it among the choices, rather than weighing two options against one another.
B) CR hard accuracy moved from 35% to 70%, clearing the 65% that had been set for me as an ambitious target. The same habit carried straight into Two-Part Analysis.
Scholaranium and Neuron
A) The cementing quizzes and subsection-level analytics are where movement becomes visible. My hard Data Sufficiency scores ran 40%, then 70%, 60% and finally 90% over eight days. On Neuron I held above 60% on Hard and roughly 70% on Medium, which confirmed the concepts had landed.
B) One honest limitation: I exhausted the bank eventually, began recognising solutions, and once or twice switched a correct answer because I remembered getting it wrong before. I raised it and we shifted to sectionals.
SIGma-X Mocks and Sectionals
A) Twelve DI sectionals across nineteen days are what made that section hold up against a clock. They also revealed I was never getting as far as question 19 or 20, so I began giving up one Verbal Two-Part Analysis near the close of each section to get there.
B) The SIGma-X full-lengths are a little harder than the official mocks, that I'll admit — I scored consistently lower on them. My ranking would be SIGma-X hardest, then the real exam, with the official mocks last. Hitting your target on SIGma-X means you are in a good place.
e-GMAT Mentorship (Last Mile Push)
A) I would sincerely thank Jagadish for the guidance through the closing stretch. He got me maintaining the e-GMAT error log properly, which I had avoided for being too long, and nine days out he overruled my own diagnosis and stopped me drilling the wrong topic.
B) Thanks also to Dhruv, who read one of my logs and spotted that I had converted a two-minute let-go rule into a solving deadline, quietly damaging the front half of my sections.
C) In my opinion this is where the programme earned its money. My error log deserves more credit for the jump than the practice does.
Overall, I would highly recommend the e-GMAT course — particularly if you already have real fundamentals but have plateaued, you are fitting prep around shift work, and you have been reviewing your mistakes in a notebook rather than logging them properly.

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What the platform did for me, what it did not, and why my first reaction to the score was disappointment.

When the 665 came up on the screen my first reaction was disappointment. It was better than the 615 I walked in with, but I had written 725 on my plan back in April, and the thought that went through my head in that first second was that I might have to do all of this again. The gap between those two numbers had felt large when I set it. I have always believed that if you aim for the stars you at least reach the moon. I reached the moon. I was still hoping for more.

I had already sat the GMAT once and scored a 615 before I came here. I looked at other options, TTP among them, and I chose e-GMAT because it cost less. That was the reason.

Quant is where the course earned its money for me. I went from an 81 to an 87. What did it was practising hard questions in Scholaranium, the practice engine where you build your own timed quizzes at whatever difficulty you pick. It pushed me well past the level I was comfortable at, and the effect showed up on the day: Quant felt close to a breeze. If you take one thing from this review, take that. Questions pitched above your level are what this platform is for.

That difficulty is also why the exam itself felt manageable. The Sigma-X full-lengths run harder than the real thing, and by test day the questions in front of me were not the hardest I had seen. The one caution is that it works on the scores too. Four days before my date my best mock was a 585, and I scored a 665.

Verbal is where I fell short. My target was an 87 and I got an 81, after roughly six weeks on the section. Some of that was the day itself: it was the first time I had taken Verbal as my last section with no break before it, and I felt the difference. Some of it was method. The course teaches pre-thinking, working out what a correct answer would have to do before you look at the five options. I understood the idea and I could find the gap in the argument, but under exam pressure I dropped the prediction step and went straight to the choices, because the number of things the answer could say felt endless and building that list felt too slow with the clock running.

On Data Insights I want to correct my own mock data, because it makes the story look different from what happened. One of my DI mock scores was a 66, and that was a section I had to abandon halfway through for a meeting. My DI did not improve here. I had an 81 before e-GMAT and I scored an 81 on this attempt. It was already one of my stronger sections.

The mentorship is the part I would put hardest to anyone considering this. I was on the LMP program with Jagadish, and he was there consistently: supportive, easy to reach, steady with the guidance week to week. It kept me focused and kept my confidence up when the numbers were not doing that. When I sent him a thirty-six question Critical Reasoning error log he came back with one diagnosis for the whole thing, that I was reaching the options before I had pinned down what the right answer needed to do. He was right.

At the start of August I made a call about the last stretch. My R1 deadline was fixed, I had spent a long time on modules and cementing quizzes, and what I needed was to be sitting full-lengths. So I told Jagadish I was going to take the remaining preparation into my own hands and put it all on test-taking. If I had the time again I would go slower through the modules and work them properly. What I would not change is what came after: about a week out from the exam I came back to him, and we spent the closing stretch on sectionals and full mocks with the logs read line by line. Going into the exam off the back of that week was the right way to finish.

One habit that helped was the error log. I started keeping an error log because I had seen several YouTube interview videos emphasizing how useful they are for GMAT preparation. It helped me identify patterns in the mistakes I was making and, more importantly, gave me something to refer back to so I wouldn't keep repeating the same mistakes.

I would recommend e-GMAT to anyone preparing seriously, and especially if what you want is practice above the level of the real exam so test day feels manageable by comparison. The question bank, the hard sets in particular, is good and it is what moved my Quant, and the LMP mentorship is worth taking if you are offered it. The one change I would ask for is on the learning modules: they could be more concise and more engaging, with a stronger focus on the concepts that matter most and less repetition.

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What changed most, though, was judgment. I used to force answers on questions that were never worth the time. By the end I could tell within seconds whether a question was inside my range at that moment, and I let the rest go without ego. The Last Mile Push mentorship had a lot to do with that. My mentor, Shubham, went through my data with me and reframed every sitting as just another practice attempt, so I walked into the real exam calm instead of desperate. One honest note: the questions here run harder than the official ones, and that stings in the middle weeks. On test day it means the real paper reads a step easier. If you are somewhere between 650 and 685 with decent fundamentals and a nagging sense that your effort is going into the wrong places, this is the course I would point you to. It shows you the exact blocks that are costing you points, and lets you fix only those.

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Underpinning both sections is the analytics, which turned each wrong answer into a signal: I could trace whether a mistake was a repeating trend or a one-time slip, and target the cause rather than the symptom. The honest caveat is that none of this is a quick fix; it rewards patience, and the urge to rush ahead to mocks before your foundation is solid is real and worth resisting. But the single greatest advantage e-GMAT gave me was a mentor, Dhruv Joshi, who built a plan tailored to me and gave me a clear answer in exactly those moments when I could not tell what was going wrong. For long stretches I could not diagnose my own gaps, and he could. Between content that fixes the real problem, analytics that tell you the truth, and mentorship that meets you at your hardest moments, e-GMAT is the rare prep that can flip your weakest section into your best, which is exactly what it did with my Data Insights.

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Quant was the worst section I had. On my first attempt it came back an 80, the 64th percentile, below both my other sections. On 1st August it came back an 87, the 94th, and it was the strongest thing on my report. My plan had asked for an 88. Effort was not what closed that gap; I had plenty of effort. What I did not have was resolution, meaning a way of seeing which part of my preparation was actually failing.

If you are holding a decent score that feels like it should be higher, you will recognise the position. Preparation sits in pockets. You pick a topic, do some questions, and never really know how much of it has landed until much later, when it either converges or it does not. The first thing e-GMAT did was stop me wasting time. PACE is a set of short diagnostic quizzes you sit before studying a topic, and basis how you do, it tells you which lessons to skip and which ones you genuinely need. I never re-learned percentages, which I was already fine at.

What changed things was Scholaranium, the practice engine. My first timed Number Properties quiz there came back 2 correct out of 10, and my instinct was to go and sit the whole subsection again. That is not what the numbers were saying. Scholaranium does not report a subsection as a single score. It splits it into blocks, which are groupings of closely related skills scored separately, and Number Properties arrives as four of them: basics and even-odd, LCM and primes, divisibility with remainders and unit digits, and statistics. Two of those four were responsible for nearly all of it. The other two were healthy. I carried those two into Neuron, the library where every official-style question comes with a complete step-by-step solution, held my route against theirs, and switched to the shorter one. 50% became 90%. Advanced Topics repeated it exactly: three attempts frozen at the same figure, one block underneath causing it at 2 correct out of 11, next attempt doubled.

This is where e-GMAT stands apart for me. Scholaranium is pitched above the real exam. My accuracy there sat some 15 points below what I posted on official-style questions, and the difference is deliberate. It pressure-tests you. The sectional mocks, which are full timed sections rather than short quizzes, then convert what you know into something you can deliver against a clock. The testing is accurate too. I sat exactly one full-length, 6 days before the exam, and it predicted my real score to within 10 points.

The mentorship is the part I would pay for again. I always turned up with my own analysis. I would work a mock through on my own and come holding a hypothesis about what had broken. Dhruv's value was reading the same numbers and resizing that theory. I had called it nerves; he showed me I was spending adequate time on the questions I was getting wrong, which made it a process problem I could actually go and fix. Jagadish took the error logs I had been keeping and compressed 30 entries into 2 habits, so on test day I was watching 2 specific slips instead of a list.

It is not a light course. The content is heavy, it took far longer than I had estimated, and there were weeks where it felt taxing. If you have real fundamentals and you are stuck without knowing why, I would still highly recommend it.

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Where e-GMAT proves its worth is in the machinery that turns practice into a real score, because the program is honest that what you do between mocks matters more than the mocks themselves. The error log is central to that: it made me record not just which questions I missed but why, so a recurring habit, in my case ignoring a stated condition in Data Sufficiency, became visible enough to fix. The sectional and full-length mocks then rebuilt my execution under the clock, and a time-management module retimed how I paced Data Insights, which carried DI from a 67, a negligible percentile, all the way to an 81. Just as importantly, the daily light drills on the Neuron question bank kept Verbal and Quant sharp while I moved on to new sections, so nothing went cold, and when I took a two-week break after falling ill, a short review showed the skills were only rusty rather than gone. That is the payoff of a system designed around retention, not just teaching.
The honest caveat is that the program is demanding and the process feels slow and unnatural before it feels automatic, but that friction is the entire reason it holds up on exam day rather than only in practice. The other half of what carried me was the mentorship. Every day I sent my mentor Shubham a note on what I had studied, and he would identify exactly where I slipped and lay out the next day's plan, steadying me through a rocky mock trajectory and the test-day nerves that had undone me in past exams. That daily loop of doing, analysing, and adjusting, guided by someone who had seen my whole journey, is what a self-study book can never replicate. If you are staring at a starting score that makes your target feel impossible, this is the program that closes that gap, provided you trust the process even when your instincts resist it.

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One honest caveat, because a review should be believable: e-GMAT will not let a strong-at-math ego coast. Its data will tell you the uncomfortable truth that your concepts were probably never the problem, that your application and your timing were, and sitting with that honesty is demanding. But that is precisely what moves the score. The transformation here is the classic one this product is built for — a candidate certain his concepts were the issue learned instead to picture what a question is really after and to respect the clock over his pride, and a Q79 became a Q88. If you are good at math but the GMAT humbled you, this is the program that shows you the real gap and closes it.

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