I really loved how TTP prepared me for the quant section of the GMAT. I hadn't studied most of the math-related coursework for 6-7 years, and I was concerned that I had forgotten many of the basic concepts that I needed to get through the GMAT quant section. TTP helped me go from a quant score of 46 to 50 by helping me relearn those basics in a comprehensive, easy-to-digest format.

TTP's teaching methods were more comprehensive than some of the other at-home courses I had tried. I really valued the opportunity to do all the learning on my own, while also having TTP staff on hand to help via chat/phone whenever I needed. Overall, it's a great service that I couldn't recommend more highly for someone trying to brush up on old quant skills before the GMAT!

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I scored a 47 in Quant on my first try. I wanted to improve to a 49-50 and won a 4 month course in Quant from the GMAT subreddit. I used this course throughout my prep for my second try and found it very helpful. The lessons are arranged neatly and the quizzes are beneficial if you want a quick review of a particular topic. Also, they're very personal and reach out to you personally if you need any help and even ask you how you did after the exam. I'd definitely recommend if you're thinking about an online course. If you're looking for that extra push in Quant, go for this one!

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I want to share my GMAT experience. I come from Georgia and live in a city where very few people know what the GMAT is. So when I decided to prepare, I had no materials, resources or someone who can give a good advice. I started to research some information and of course, I found GMAT Club and BEAT THE GMAT. I started using their resources, but still I felt that I needed some additional support for my study. I accidentally found e-gmat free trial and I constantly loved it. My first video was about verb-ed and verb-ing modifiers. I had no idea of these topics before e-gmat. I liked the free trial very much and decided to purchase Verbal course and several weeks later, I also purchased Quant course.

E-gmat has brilliant verbal course. Its videos are very informative and easy to understand. In SC, before e-gmat, I only focused on grammar error and never thought about the meaning. But after I went through e-gmat SC course, first I focused on the meaning and then on grammar. In CR, I loved the pre-thinking method. At first, it was really hard for me to pre-think the assumptions, but time by time I begin to pre-think before going to answer choices. The best part of e-gmat course was scholarinium. It is an incredible tool to practice, assess and see your performance. I also loved that the questions were divided in three parts: easy, medium and hard.

I also used Quant course. I always loved math and I thought I won’t have a problem in Quant section. But still I had some gaps in Quant and that’s why I bought e-gmat course. The best thing in Quant course is scholaranium. It has a very big pool of questions with incredible explanations. From questions, I learned different math rules and tricks. I also liked the question types (easy, medium, hard and very hard). Very hard questions were really VERY HARD and most of the time impossible to answer in two minutes, but these questions deepened my understanding of concepts.

So what happened to Exam Day? I thought I controlled my nervous, but I was wrong. I was very nervous. And it very much affected my score. I scored 660(Q48, V34).

Here’s my advice to avoid mistakes that I made:
• e-gmat verbal course was very helpful, but I found hard to transfer theory in practice. So practice and practice the way e-gmat suggests!
• LEARN YOU MISTAKES – I didn’t focus very effectively on my mistakes. I devoted little time to explore them deeply.
• Control your emotion – no quant or verbal understanding will guide you to your target score if you are unable to control your nerves. It is a very stressful environment and do your best to stay calm.

At the beginning of my GMAT experience, I took gmatprep and scored 540. At this time I had no idea and understanding of the GMAT. E-gmat helped me to go up till 660. So, I’m very grateful.

I think that the GMAT is very much doable exam if you find the course that fits you, if you practice effectively and most importantly if you manage to control your nerves.

Good Luck to future test-takers and Happy Holidays!

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Manhattan is one of the best Quant resources to practice with. The self study basics kit had the tricky questions of the GMAT pinned down. Learning the question patterns helped me recognize question traps on the GMAT. Very good practice resource especially for those aiming to score 700+.

The verbal review of Manhattan was also above average. However, it may not be as detailed as the math sections.

I recommend the Manhattan self prep for those targeting Gmat scores above 700. Also, the self study tool is helpful in tracking progress and mistakes throughout the review process. If you are an independent and disciplined individual, self study prep would be perfect for you! It is cheaper, but just as effective.

Good luck!

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As a preliminary point, I would like to thank E-GMAT for their amazing support and the opportunity to extend my subscription till my GMAT date free of charge!

I have always been struggling with the GMAT and after a discouraging score (in the mid-500s) in my first official GMAT, I decided to attack my weak areas. I started off with a verbal score of V25 and had an ongoing problem to solve CR and RC questions in a timely manner. Not only did I not use a methodical approach to tackle CR and RC questions but also unnecessarily reread parts of an argument or passage several times. As a result, I ended up entangled in a medley of words and phrases I just couldn’t get the gist of. Long story cut short, it was continuous battle to cope with mid-hard difficulty questions and I couldn’t see an increase in my verbal score.

Determined to improve my score, I searched for proven ways to improve and took notice of the e-GMAT verbal course. Consistently positive reviews on GMAT forums and a comparably reasonable price reinforced my decision to give the course a try. I purchased the complete course including quant prep (wanted to hone my math skills further as well) and jumped right into it. Though my focus has been on verbal since then, the quant section was quite interesting and offered many methodical ways to efficiently and accurately solve 700-level-questions. -> A definitive recommendation!

As far as the verbal course is concerned, the course is very well structured and gives you a clear-cut course right at the beginning. While going through the Master Comprehension part I was able to immediately detect my “failure points” – the reason why I couldn’t grasp the meaning was simply that I employed the obviously wrong reading strategies. Moreover, the course gave me the required insights to analyze my mistakes and overcome the most common pitfalls. Now I understand why apparently correct and enticing answer choices are fundamentally incorrect – something I could not properly understand while studying on my own.

All in all, I have spent the last 6 months part-time (due to work) going through the concept files and diligently practicing in Scholaranium (e-GMAT’s practice and analysis section). I have not retaken the actual GMAT yet, but my practice tests scores in the verbal section have gone significantly up (my best score was V37 till now) and I’m confident to improve a little further (perhaps I can break the V40? :) ).

Therefore, I can in good conscience recommend the courses offered by e-GMAT especially if you have a hard fight to improve your verbal score and/or looking forward to boosting your quant score to Q50.

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Scott & Target Test Prep made a total miracle happen -- I was scoring in the low 600s when I started with them. Without the course's / Scott's insights, tricks, and tips, I would have never been able to pass the 700 threshold. In fact, I never, ever expected to even hit 720 - my final score was beyond my wildest expectations! I literally started from scratch and worked through the TTP course from Step 1. Scott continued to help sharpen all key skills and gave me some incredible time-saving tricks and tips which made all the different on test day. I had worked with Manhattan GMAT extensively -- Target Test Prep catapulted me to a whole different level. The course is very unique in that you can really drill down on key areas, a-la-carte. You are able to single out specific weak points and drill down on them easily through practice problems. I highly recommend trying their program - you won't be disappointed.

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A little about me: I'm an American male aerospace engineer living in the southern US. I received a decent GRE score (Q168/V158) ~710 GMAT equivalent I used for entry to my master's program at UCLA. I found GMAT material to be slightly tougher than GRE material, and needed all the help I could get in the midst of this supposed 'GMAT arms race' amongst the top schools. I have recently been accepted to one top-15 school and one top-10 school despite some crummy grades I had in undergrad because I lacked maturity (and still do!) The GMAT was doubly important and ended up proving to be a much-needed bright spot on my application.

I recently received a 730 (Q49V41) GMAT score after a 6-month journey. I owe some of this success to Stacey Koprince and the Manhattan GMAT live online course, which gave me an excellent introduction to some of the key principles that are paramount for successfully handling the GMAT.

I enjoy structure in my life and usually work harder when there's human interaction and accountability involved in some way. I used Manhattan live online for my GRE prep, and found it to be great. I thumbed through some reviews and found some very positive stuff about Stacey Koprince, and enrolled in her live online section.

Since time is finite, studying efficiently for the GMAT was important. I feel the direction MGMAT offered was essential, with weekly homework assignments on key problems in their excellent guide books. When I first started with the verbal section, I usually had no strategy and ran out of time and couldn't find any rhyme or reason to why the right answers were the right answers. Stacey changed this. Stacey is a seasoned veteran who had a talent for explaining in the simplest language possible what was happening in the verbal section with respect to sentence correction and choosing the best answer for the RC/CR. If I was hung up on some caveat with sentence correction like parallelisms, she intuitively knew how I was thinking about the problem and was able to explain it and shift my focus to the 'correct' way of approaching the problem.
On the quant side, Whitney (the co-instructor of the course) offered some good tips and timing strategies that I ended up using to get my 730. The course and the practice tests were good at exposing where I was most weak in the quant sections, so I could focus my study time to those areas.
A couple of areas that weren't as strong in the course and experience were the MGMAT practice tests, and difficulty of the questions presented during the class sessions.
The MGMAT practice tests were good for practicing timing on the quant, but the truth is nothing can mimic the elegance and inherent trickiness that real retired GMAT questions have. Thankfully the course provides the OG, which is the best place to practice for the quant. Top schools require top quant scores, so heavy exposure to algebra-intensive problems is important, and during class sessions the pace can sometimes be a little slow- so I would just dive into the OG and start doing stuff until the class moved on. In defense of the course, they've got a lot of cats to herd.

Lastly, I want to say that I enjoyed my experience and the social interaction with Stacey, Whitney, and the other students in the course. I found myself looking forward to my Monday night GMAT course. The GMAT can be a long and painful journey, but Stacey encouraged me to not take it all too seriously and that persistence is what was important. Having the expert guidance and interaction with the MGMAT crew definitely put some wind in my sails:)

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After working on GMAT prep for a few months, I just couldn't break through a barrier of 47 or so raw score in quant. Practice test after practice test, I just couldn't improve. Until I found TTP. Using their detailed lesson plans and expansive quesiton bank, I hammered home all the points I was struggling on and broke that barrier. With other services, I'd have trouble with one concept (say - time/distance style questions) and only have a bank of a few questions to sift through. With TTP, I had hundreds, including really hard ones. Felt like other services were great to get me set on fundamentals, but TTP got me over the edge. On D-day, I ended up with a 50 raw score on quant, so about as well as I could do. Thanks TTP!

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This was my first time taking an online course, and it was great. I liked how organized everything was, from the syllabus to the lesson plans to the homework. The take home work was thorough yet doable. My instructor Liz was patient and student-centered, yet made sure to keep us on schedule. They offered many different strategies so that students could pick and choose in order to find which one works best for them. They also provided many other resources for tons of practice. I never would’ve gotten such a great score if it weren’t for Manhattan Prep and Liz. Thank you!

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I’ve heard a lot of stories from friends and through forums of people taking the GMAT and not being able to hit the score they desire the first time round. From the get go, I decided to engage with Target Test Prep to help me.

Only taking the exam once, I’m still in disbelief of how in the world I managed to get a 740 after only studying for 2 and a half months. I’ve never even hit that score in my practice exams before.

Can I just say, Scott Woodbury is amazing. I think his online curriculum on Target Test Prep is extremely comprehensive and easy to follow. It has a very effective and efficient structure that builds maths skills and knowledge from the ground up. Just going through my flash cards before the exam, I didn’t realise how well even just the lessons in the curriculum online flows and builds on one another. The question bank is very extensive and well managed with regards to the stages of the curriculum at which it prompts you to do them. The fact that I could do it any time in my own time was an extreme plus point as well. (I live in Asia, so between Scott and me, there’s a huge time difference).

I also had one class a week of private classes with Scott, totalling 7 sessions. All that time was spent efficiently clarifying any questions I had, especially on the other 3 sections of the GMAT. These one-to-one sections are fully flexible. He leaves it to you to decide where you think you may need the most help, while also highlighting areas he thinks you should focus more on improving.

Apart from being a friendly and approachable tutor, his encouragement and his wise, yet simple, advice made everything so much easier for me. The way he put things, it made me think “huh, I don’t know why I never looked at it like that before..” The verbal section was my weakest area. We only spent a total of 3 hours on it and my score improved significantly. To be honest, besides those 3 hours, I hadn’t done much other practice for that.

I highly recommend Scott and Target Test Prep. Especially if you’re looking for an easy-to-follow comprehensive curriculum, a supportive and effective tutor, and need that flexibility of doing it in your own time.

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