I just Beat The GMAT!

I chose TTP after extensively reading posts and watching videos on test prep reviews. TTP had an overwhelmingly positive response and flexible monthly plans which were fairly reasonably priced.

Though I didn't get the score I aimed for, I'm hoping my experience can help those just starting out.

I'd done the GMAT for the first time in December, 2021 after 3 weeks of prep, and ended up scoring a 690 (Q:42, V:40). I thought it was a decent score after 3 weeks prep, and gave me enough motivation to prepare harder and do it again. If I bumped my quant from a 42 to a 48/49, it would translate to a 30/40 point jump in my GMAT.

So naturally, I wanted to select a course that was excellent in Quant. And TTP is known for quant. So after an extensive comparison of courses available on the market, I signed up for the TTP trial and immediately felt comfortable with the format of the course (combination of text, videos, quizzes, and practice tests - lots of it). The error log is also fairly powerful. And make no mistake, my quant skills improved dramatically. After finishing everything TTP asked for in Quant, my score jumped from a 42 to a 48/49/50 consistently. I never scored below that in all the practice tests I took. The lesson here is that Quant is fairly mechanical so extensive work here with a fair bit of intelligence should translate to a fairly high score.

The trick is in mastering verbal. This, for those not inherently accustomed to a high proficiency in the language, is a far more challenging task than mastering quant. If you adopt a mechanical approach to verbal, as I kind of did (mainly because I kind of neglected verbal because I had scored a V40 in my previous test which is 90th percentile), it is sure to result in a poor performance. Verbal requires maximum awareness, for which one needs to really reflect on where he/ she is going wrong and calmly but confidently improve in those areas. I would recommend starting early. When I spoke to Marty (kind of the star man behind TTP), who scored a 800 on the gmat, he chuckled and said, "to unlock your verbal potential (drastically), you need to change yourself". While I wouldn't take him TOO seriously, there is merit in the essence of what he is trying to communicate. In other words, to master verbal, start early, be consistent, and above all, try to get in a frame of mind, which is fully open to suggestion. For quant, simply doing the course in a reasonably intelligent manner, will get you a good score. For verbal, you need to think outside the box, within the framework of the course.

One last pointer to get in a great score: Try to get in a streak of correct answers no matter what (doesn't matter if it takes an extra ordinary amount of time initially). Hopefully, your persistence, leads to 'something clicking' where in you get THAT confidence of answering correctly no matter what, within the required time. BEST OF LUCK!