Target Test Prep

Target Test Prep, which calls itself TTP, sells online self-study courses for four admissions tests: the GMAT, the GRE, the Executive Assessment (EA) and the SAT. Its homepage pitches the courses as a path to rapid score improvement and describes them as a single place for all the content and strategy a test-taker needs, taught with what it calls "unprecedented clarity and detail". Most of its readers are graduate school and business school applicants, and the site also lists live classes, tutoring and MBA admissions help alongside the self-study courses. The homepage counts 66,839 students in 140 countries and 6,734,460 lessons studied, while the GRE page invites visitors to join more than 190,000 students who have chosen TTP for GRE prep.

How the courses are built

The homepage describes the shared design of all four courses. Lessons combine time-tested teaching methods with learning science, are meant to be both thorough and easy to digest, and come with ample practice and step-by-step video solutions. Each course gives a detailed study plan, analytics and customized practice, and TTP says it analyzes a student's performance and targets weak areas at a granular level, so a student always knows what to do next and how far they are from their score goal. Students can focus on the content their own target score requires and move at their own pace.

The GRE course in detail

The GRE page shows the most about what a subscriber gets. The course is built for the newest version of the GRE and covers Quant, Verbal and the Analytical Writing Assessment:

• More than 4,000 Quant and Verbal practice questions written by experts, plus unlimited AI-generated questions.
• More than 2,000 instructor-led HD video solutions that show strategies applied step by step.
• Every Quant concept explained with strategies for each question type, and every Verbal question type and trap covered, including a vocabulary resource of nearly 1,200 common GRE words.
• GRE Visual Vocabulary, which pairs each word with an image to help recall, and more than 1,700 Quant and Verbal flashcards that can be studied by chapter or built into custom decks.
• Essay instruction with a formula for any GRE essay topic and the skills graders reward.
• Analytics on a personal dashboard showing speed, accuracy and topic mastery, a built-in error tracker that shows the most common mistakes overall and by topic, and custom test creation by question type, difficulty and time per question.
• A personalized study plan that sets out a step-by-step road map, so a student never has to wonder what to study next.

The newest addition is the TTP AI GRE Coach, an AI study assistant built into the course. It writes lesson recaps, makes personalized study recommendations and suggests time-management and test-taking strategies. It can generate practice questions without limit, with difficulty adjusted by AI to the student's needs, run interactive learning sessions for active recall, and build quizzes around a specific topic, lesson or error type. Students can ask it about any concept or problem in the course and get explanations of why answers are right or wrong. They can also upload a photo or screenshot of their own work and get feedback on what went well and where the knowledge gap is. TTP says the coach runs on its proprietary GRE knowledge base, "powered by 15+ years of teaching wisdom about every concept, strategy, and trap".

Students can also message a team of experts with questions, comments or concerns through what the site calls expert live support, and the GRE page gives an email address for anyone who needs help.

Results and guarantee

TTP publishes its own score figures and says where they come from. On the homepage, it reports that its users score 180 points above all test-takers on the GMAT, with an average reported score of 730, and 18 points above all test-takers on the GRE, with an average reported score of 324; the footnote says both come from TTP users who posted verified reviews on GMAT Club and GRE Prep Club. The GRE page breaks the 324 average into Q163 Quant and V161 Verbal. It shows a 5.0 rating on Trustpilot and labels the course "#1 Rated" and "5-Star Rated". The student stories it prints are specific: a GMAT taker from Australia who improved from 430 to 710, others who scored 740 and 760 on the GMAT, a GRE student who moved from Q155 to Q163, and one who earned Q168 and V166 and was admitted to Columbia and NYU. Reviews quoted from GRE Prep Club users include one who raised a Quant score by 9 points for a PhD application.

The GRE course carries a score guarantee: "Score 320 or higher on the GRE. Guaranteed." The site links to a separate Score Guarantee page for the terms.

Trial and pricing

The GRE page offers a 5-day full-access trial with no automatic billing. The offer line prices it at $1, while the buttons around it say "Try the course for free", so the cost of the trial is nominal either way. The page closes with the invitation to "Try Target Test Prep GRE for 5 days and see for yourself why TTP is a leader in GRE preparation." Full plan prices sit on a separate Plans and Pricing page, and the site also runs a refer-and-earn program, a question of the day and a blog.

Who it suits

TTP suits self-directed GRE and GMAT candidates who want a complete course they can work through alone, with enough analytics to see exactly where points are being lost. The GRE course in particular gives a lot of material for one subscription: thousands of questions and videos, flashcards, a vocabulary system, essay prep and an AI coach that keeps generating practice. Working professionals fit the model well, since the study plan tells them what to do each day. One GRE review on the page comes from a student juggling a full-time job, who credits the platform's organization and support.

It is built for independent study, so students who want a teacher setting the pace should look at the live classes or tutoring the site also lists. The GRE course is the one described in most detail; EA and SAT students will find less on the main pages about what their courses contain.