Hi folks,

I tried TTP this year and was able to score a 750 in my GMAT. Their materials were logically structured, extremely comprehensive, and easy to understand. I really enjoyed that I could learn at my own pace. They also customize your practice score so that you can goal seek basis your target score which was a helpful feature to measure progress.

I even studied verbal from TTP (SC and CR as they didn't have RC at the time). I found that the verbal materials were also thorough although I would have liked to have more practice material for SC.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this product to students hoping to get a 700+

Happy learning :)

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For someone who was coming from a 690 (Q46 V39 IR 5) and had been constantly stuck in the 670 - 710 range in all his mocks, eGMAT was a blessing!

It is easier to train someone who is completely fresh and new to GMAT vs someone who has certain fixed ways of approaching problems. The latter involves an additional step of unlearning a few things and then learning using new techniques. I believe this is where eGMAT aced it for me!

I got a personal strategy trainer as I was looking for a targeted 40 point improvement. I wanted a 730 and didn't have much time.

We started with a detailed analysis of the ESR from my 690 attempt. While my verbal scores were okay-ish, needed to work a bit on CR to improve it to an 80th percentile, it was ALG-GEO in Quant that needed a lot of attention.

Quant 2.0 really helped in this. I went through the concepts files and sectional diagnostic quizzes to understand my weak areas. There were some refreshingly new ways to solve problems quickly, like the Wavy Line method which drastically cut down the time taken per question.

The role of my strategy coach, DJ, was immense. He closely monitored my performance and kept pushing me to finish the modules in time. He then suggested Cementing quizzes. This, for me, is that did the trick. The targeted approach of 2 Medium + 2 Hard + 1 Mixed Bag quiz after each Quant section really hammered in the concepts. The fact that all the quizzes were timed really helped me since my biggest battle was to finish the Quant section within time limits and with the desired accuracy levels.

In CR, the pre-thinking approach I learned really helped me up my game.

The culmination of the preparation was doing Test Readiness Quizzes within Scholarinium. The flexibility of the tool helps you attack exactly what your weak areas are and helps you improve drastically.

A huge shout out to eGMAT's mentorship program and specially my mentor, Dhananjay. He is prompt with his replies, detailed in his analysis, relentless in his motivation and targeted in his strategic approach. He would give me day by day plan with detailed threshold limits and anaylsed my performance to pin point my exact weak areas.

The result?

690 (Q46 V39 IR5) -> 740 (Q49 V41 IR8)

I improved in all the sections! If I can do it, anyone can.

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Before signing up for the e-gmat course, I did extensive research on all available sources for core concepts and even attended trial sessions and webinars offered by different companies. However, I realized I needed something which would help me understand concepts from scratch and make my base strong. Since e-gmat's methods aligned with this need (as I learned in the free trial and during the webinars), I quickly clarified all my doubts with the team over a video call and jumped right in.

Fortunately, the course was way more detailed and concept-oriented than I had imagined and this became the core of my entire prep.

QUANT - An area I always thought I was weak in, was instinctively where I started from. Before jumping into key topics, I extracted everything I could from the Quant basics course which is great for anyone who wants to brush up their skills and gain more confidence in their quant foundation. The entire course is structured beautifully to take you through a detailed yet very simply explained journey via every single concept. The query section was almost always helpful in clarifying any confusion regarding the concept or a particular question. It was only once or twice that I had to reach out to the team to ask a doubt - which was also answered well within a day or so. Hence, I left the quant course with a huge shift in my confidence, as compared to where I had started from.

Payal does a wonderful job at patiently explaining each concept and helping one build a strong foundation. Not just the methodology but the core process skills of e-gmat are reiterated multiple times throughout the course, so they become muscle memory by the end of it. My improvement from a Q38 to Q50 can be majorly credited to mastering core concepts, making process skills second nature, and deeply understanding each question (rather than just focusing on the sheer volume of questions) - and the detailed solution videos provided after every question really helped with that.

VERBAL - Starting at a V33, I just thought I needed more practice with verbal until I actually went through concept files and adopted a different strategy.

Particularly for RC and CR, the approach taught in the files is a complete game-changer. For CR, the pre-thinking approach made a huge difference not just in the takt time but also in eliminating that confusion between 2 similar-looking answer choices. In RC, reading and making the passage summaries and overall summary, again was never the approach I followed, as I assumed it would waste time. Instead, it saved me a lot of time in the quizzes and in the actual exam and improved my efficiency significantly.

Further, one KEY FEATURE which the e-gmat platform provides is clear, drilled down, micro-level data - for timing-based, difficulty-based, subsectional, and topic-wise weaknesses. Scholaranium 2.0 is a brilliant tool to evaluate your performance. The dashboards will show you clearly where you are lacking and what topics/ types of questions need more work. As guided in the videos, it is crucial to do the quizzes as per the instructions provided to extract the maximum benefit out of them. Doing detailed reviews of a quiz and then analyzing the metrics from the dashboards before moving on to the next quiz was key to my learning process and gave me a visible 10-20% improvement in my accuracy level with each quiz.

Last but not the least, it is worth mentioning that the e-gmat has been truly commendable - with the prompt responses and constant support throughout the journey. It did not feel like this was just an online platform as I always could sense the team behind the screen not just providing video lessons but constantly accessing my performance, making me feel accountable, and providing appropriate feedback when needed.

Towards the end of the course, I wanted to revise a few things and reluctantly asked the team if a one-week extension was possible. I was grateful to receive a free extension without having to worry about payments or formalities, especially in the last few days before the exam. That's what makes e-gmat so unique. It provides a supportive environment and top-quality experts and materials and yet is affordable, relatable, and super easy to use!

I would like to thank Aftab, Juhi, Atreya, DJ, Archit, and Manas for helping me throughout the journey. And of course kudos to Payal and Rajat for building this and bringing so many people one step closer to their dreams.

Would 10/10 recommend E-GMAT to anyone starting their GMAT journey! :)

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Starting my preparation one month before the test, I was very late to the GMAT prep game. Harry was very critical of my work, making me walk him through my problem-solving process and questioning my rationale when a step that I took was logically flawed. Harry also made me aware of the most efficient way to answer questions, and he was adamant in ensuring that I used the most efficient method. Words cannot describe how grateful I am for achieving such a dramatic improvement in both verbal and overall scores within a period that is less than half of the typical minimum!

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When I started my MBA Prep journey, I was preparing in a very unstructured manner. I bought an Official Guide and had a few other resources from a friend but it was all scattered. That's when I decided I need to get enrolled in a course to get everything streamlined and I came across e-gmat. I found the reviews really good and read stories about how it had helped people score good in their first attempt.

The course is well-structured and cover most of the basics. The modules have illustrative videos which help you grab the concepts quicker. The quizzes between different sections are really helpful to test what you have understood and tells you if you have to revisit the concepts. The videos and the methodologies explained really helped me to solve questions faster. I would like to specially highlight their methodologies for the verbal sections. They are well taught and help you understand the question and analyse the question really well. Every question is broken down into several parts in the concept videos and that has really helped me get a good grasp of the concepts.

Another useful tool in the e-gmat course is the Scholoranium which has a good collection of questions and is designed in a way to help you get valuable insights about your performance - on average time taken to solve questions, sectional accuracy, topic-wise accuracy, performance graphs over a shorter period of time, etc. It's definitely the USP of e-gmat.

Mock tests are also available with the course which further helped me acclimatise to the GMAT test. The questions and the flow of questions are quite representative of the official GMAT test.

To sum up, e-gmat really helped me and I managed to score a 700 in my first attempt. However, I plan to seek mentorship guidance from e-gmat further to improve my score to attain my target score.

Additional Feedback after I took the mentorship -

To add on, I took a mentorship from e-gmat and my mentor is Dhananjay Lowe from e-gmat. After I took the mentorship, Dhananjay provided me with a study plan which was personalized based on my weaknesses and abilities. He helped me analyze my key areas on improvement and suggested ways in which I could improve on my weak areas. In my first attempt of GMAT, I was not so confident but in my second attempt of GMAT, I was much more confident and was able to complete the sections in time. This was possible only after working on my weak areas continuously and taking custom quizzes as suggested by Dhananjay. I followed his instructions and was able to perform better. I got a better idea on how to analyze customized tests and mock tests after he shared videos with me.

To sum up, e-GMAT really helps you prepare in a hyper-personalized manner, constantly focusing on what areas you are faltering in.

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I honestly don't know how I can sum up the experience I had with GMAT Ninja into words, but the title probably does that job okay. I owe literally everything to Harry Duthie and the guys at GMAT Ninja. 

When I embarked on the long and brutal journey that is the GMAT, I am not even slightly exaggerating when I say I couldn't remember that two negative numbers multiplied together made a positive result. I sat my first GMAT practice exam in order to get my baseline score in December 2020 without any prep beforehand, and scored a dismal 390 (Q14, V27). I knew there was a long road ahead of me and a lot of work to be done if I was to hit my target score of 600. 

I started tutoring with Harry on a weekly basis in January 2021, and we went in at the deep end. Quant was my weakest section by far, so we started there. We spent our weekly sessions with roughly 1.5 hours on quant, and then 0.5 hours on Verbal (just to keep that ticking over too). I would then work my way through ~ 20 hours of homework every week, which we would then go through in our next session, and that's really how we worked from January all the way through. At the beginning it was incredibly overwhelming, but I cannot overstate how patient and encouraging Harry was with me. His teaching style is clear and he has this amazing ability to break everything down from scary functions and horrible fractions to some truly evil inequalities and awful data sufficiency problems, all into simple processes that begin to feel (dare I say it?) easy. After about 6 or 7 weeks, it suddenly felt like the lights had been turned on, and everything started making sense to me. I was able to make connections, my mental maths got faster, and he was always encouraging me to keep at it (even through the bleakest moments when I toyed with the idea of giving up entirely). 

I sat my first GMAT at the end of April. It was online, from home, using the old exam format where you got no break at all between the sections. That, combined with a particularly difficult proctor, meant that I didn't hit my target score on that first go. No matter though, we kept the tutoring up and began to focus more on exam technique and speed now that the content had been covered. Again, Harry was such an invaluable resource for all of this - we would go through practice exams and he would take the time to watch how I'd attempted the problem, and then show me faster, more efficient ways of doing them (I had a tendency to read a Quant question and panic and just start randomly doing useless sums, so this was a very helpful lesson!). I continued to sit a practice exam every week, and by mid-June, I hit my all time high score of 680 (Q42, V41). This was genuinely something I never, ever, EVER thought I was capable of even getting close to, and it was 100% down to Harry. To put that into perspective, my quant score went from 14 to 42... a 28 point difference.

In the end, after two more attempts and my nerves getting the better of me in the exam room both times, my final real GMAT score was 550. Despite me not hitting what I *thought* I needed, I still managed to get into the school of my choice with that score, and so all was well in the end. 

Harry is honestly the biggest legend. He was always there for me, he took time out of his own busy schedule to debrief with me after post-exam tear-filled sessions, he deflected my frustrations and turned them into encouragement, but most importantly, he gave me the confidence and the skills I needed to get through the last nine months. If you are reading this and you are even mildly considering getting tutoring, I cannot implore you enough to go with Harry, or anyone from the GMAT Ninja team. There really is no alternative (and trust me when I say I did a LOT of research before choosing them). I can say with absolute certainty that I would not be doing an MBA right now if it wasn't for them. Charles Bibilos, the founder, not only deserves a nobel prize for education for all the work he's put into making the GMAT accessible for people (he is the reason I scored in the 40's for verbal, check out his sentence correction series on YouTube if you haven't already done so), but he deserves a huge shout out for being so supportive along the way. With his ever-open door policy, he was an incredible sounding board for me and was my very own cheerleader from the sidelines. 

No matter your background, no one can deny what a painstakingly tough process this exam can be, nor can you underestimate the pressures it puts on your mental and physical health. Make your life easier and get tutoring with Harry, and if you're anything like me (and I can't believe I'm even writing this) you might even begin to miss GMAT prep once it's all over (!).

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I cannot thank Mike Maietta enough for helping me get above my goal score!

Before tutoring with Mike, I originally started my GMAT studying with MPrep. After a week of studying, I scored 670 (Q45, V36), which I was excited about, as I was aiming for a 730 with two months of studying. After a month of taking the MPrep course, I retook the CAT and scored...630 (Q43, V33). I was shocked, to say the least, thinking that maybe it was an off day. A week later, to prove that theory, I took my third CAT and scored...620 (Q45, V31). At this point, I knew that I couldn't keep studying as I had been to reach my goal score. I don't blame MPrep's course at all, and I think it was more that I needed individualized 1-1 tutoring, which led me to GMAT Ninja.

Here's how Mike helped me out--
I have a pretty strong background in Quant, but my approach was hindering me. I had a tendency of banking/saving time, missing easy questions, while still missing the harder questions. After a couple of sessions of Mike reminding me this, it finally clicked and my scores improved.

I was considerably weaker on the Critical Reasoning and Sentence Correction portions of Verbal. Mike helped me drill down strategy for CR, helping me understand how to break down arguments to get to the right answer. He also helped me build my SC pretty much from the ground up.

When I scored only a 710 (Q50, V36) on my first official GMAT attempt, Mike helped me come up with strategies to deal with my stress and make sure I stick with the test-taking strategies I had learned. I came in with the mindset knowing that I would struggle a bit with the tough questions, but that I could still get a good score by being consistent. On my second attempt, I improved my V score by 6 points with one additional month of tutoring, scoring an overall 750 (Q50, V42).

I could not have done this without Mike's help. If you're in need of 1-1 tutoring, ask for Mike!!!

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Having gone through several posts and reviews, I decided to go with e-GMAT for my GMAT preparation needs after hours of deliberation. I am happy to write that the course offerings provided me with all the expertise and skills to perform well in the exam.

Study Plan - As my review subject reads, "Well Begun is Half Done". Having a good study plan took a lot of pressure away. I was provided with a study plan (by e-GMAT Mentor) at the start of the course. The plan helped me focus completely on the execution part and stay organized.

Sentence Correction -
The course module is very well structured and provides you with all the necessary rules/skills to ace the sentence correction section. I was able to eliminate answer choices on deterministic grounds after going through the module. The meaning based approach (with understanding of the sentence structure) is a powerful tool to have, especially when you encounter certain idiomatic usage you're not familiar with.

Critical Reasoning -
A process driven approach with pre-thinking as a step in the process helped me answer critical reasoning questions with more confidence. While it may not be feasible to pre-think all the scenarios, pre-thinking helped me understand the argument better and identify the conclusion.

Reading Comprehension -
I did not finish all the modules in the RC section, but I was provided with quite a few helpful tips on how I could improve my performance in the RC section. The Master Comprehension module helps a lot with the RC section as well.

Quant 2.0 -
The Quant modules are quite extensive and cover all the concepts you need to master the Quant section. Each topic has a diagnostic test to test your current level of expertise, making it easier to personalize the course. I personally ended up spending quite a bit of time on the Quant course and would recommend doing all the modules. Every section has something to offer.

e-GMAT Mentor - Dhananjay
I worked with Dhananjay (DJ) throughout my preparation. You can find a lot of other reviews on the forum praising him for his support. While I won't be adding anything new here, but I do want to add a few words. It was really wonderful to have an expert along side during the last stretch of the preparation. DJ provided me with short study plans to address address areas of concerns and test readiness towards my last leg of preparation. The last mile push is definitely something that helps with the exam day performance. He responded to my queries and concerns in no time. e-GMAT mentor support is an invaluable and a standout feature.

e-GMAT Support
I also interacted with the Support team for concerns related to my subscription. The support team always got back to me in less than a business day.

e-GMAT mentor support is invaluable and a standout feature.

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Target Test Prep is the best comprehensive quantitative GMAT prep you could ask for and it helped me achieve an unbelievable 740 score. The course stands out from its competitors due to the thorough and challenging content and the user-friendliness of the product.
I studied for about 8 months and improved my score from Q39 to Q48. After studying the humanities in college and working for four years in non-technical roles unrelated to business, I knew that I needed a structured plan to approach studying for the GMAT's quantitative section. The TTP course is an unbelievable value because it has so much content, including hundreds of challenging questions and personalized analytics. The hard questions absolutely humbled me, but TTP does a great job of coaching you to analyze and overcome your weaknesses. By the end of my time studying for the GMAT, I could tell that I was approaching questions not only with increased knowledge about math and statistics, but also with an understanding of how to efficiently tackle questions I had never encountered.
In addition to the quant content being outstanding, TTP also offers a very user-friendly product and customer service experience. The user portal is very easy to navigate and has a minimalist look that allows you to focus solely on your prep while you use it. The course content is laid out in a very organized way that allows users to spend maximum time on studying and answering questions instead of wasting time on navigating the site or figuring out where you left off your studies. It's very easy to engage with support staff via chat in the portal and the staff is always prompt and friendly in their responses.
Overall, I would 100% recommend TTP for the aspiring-MBA who is very serious about significantly improving their score. I didn't dream of achieving a 740 before I started the course and now I am well on my way to my dream school. 

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TTP is the reason I was able to improve my verbal score from V32 to V42 and my overall score from 670 to 730. The questions in SC and CR (and the solutions) are of finest quality. Further, the quant course is very detailed. The quality of questions for both verbal and quant is really good. The hard TTP questions are really tough, but they challenged me to really understand the concepts. In addition to this, the flexible payment plan is amazing. I highly recommend this course to all GMAT aspirants.
Thanks to the entire TTP team. It was a great experience.

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