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Strategy notes, worked examples, recall material, and practice questions across quantitative reasoning, verbal reasoning, and data insights, with sources cited.
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64 original questions in the official format, 135 minutes in total, with a timer, your score and a worked solution for every question.
The syllabus
GMAT preparation, organized into the content areas below.
- Quantitative reasoning
- Verbal reasoning
- Data insights
Representative topics
- Problem solving
- Critical reasoning
- Reading comprehension
- Data sufficiency
Study notes
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- Data Sufficiency StrategyA free GMAT note on data sufficiency strategy: testing each statement alone before combining them, the five-outcome decision scheme our drills train, and the non-integer, negative, and zero cases that break hasty sufficiency verdicts.
- Critical Reasoning StrategyA free GMAT note on critical reasoning: splitting arguments into premises and conclusion, the four common question jobs (strengthen, weaken, assumption, inference), the negation test for necessary assumptions, and the must-be-true standard.
- Rates, Work, and MixturesA free GMAT quant note on uniform motion (D = rt), combined work through additive rates, and mixture problems as weighted averages, with the table setups that keep multi-agent rate problems honest.
Worked examples
Full solutions with the correct answer, the reasoning, and why each option is right or wrong. No account needed.
- Successive percentage changesTrack the changing base in a price increase followed by a discount, with an explanation for every answer.
- Find an alternative causeIdentify evidence that weakens a causal conclusion without disputing the reported observation.
- Is a ratio enough to determine a count?Separate a relative quantity from an absolute count in an original data-sufficiency exercise.
- Combined Work RatesA public work-rate question that shows why individual completion times must be converted to rates before combining two workers.
- Dilution MixturesA public mixture question that shows how to track the unchanged amount of solute with a proportion when a solution is diluted.
Guides
Free articles for GMAT test takers, each checked against official sources.
- GMAT percentages: keep track of the denominatorAn original set of examples on successive changes, weighted percentages and conditional probability, with a short checking routine.
- GMAT Exam Fee 2026: Test Center, Online and Reschedule CostsThe GMAT costs US$250–US$310, €275–€300 or £250–£275 depending on where and how you test. Fees by country, reschedule costs, refunds and the 24-hour rule.
- GMAT Syllabus 2026: Sections, Topics and Exam PatternThe GMAT syllabus: 64 questions in 2h15m across Quant (arithmetic and algebra), Verbal (RC and CR) and Data Insights (five question types), scored 205–805.
- GMAT Data Insights: The 5 Question Types ExplainedGMAT Data Insights has 20 questions in 45 minutes across five question types, with an on-screen calculator. Each type explained with a short example.
- GMAT Online vs Test Center: Rules, Fees and Key DifferencesThe online and test center GMAT share questions, timing and scoring. They differ in fee, scratch work, room rules, check-in and which schools accept them.
- GMAT vs CAT: Format, Fees, Attempts and Which to TakeGMAT vs CAT for Indian applicants: CAT runs once a year (29 Nov 2026, ₹2,700); the GMAT runs year-round, up to 5 times in 12 months. Format, fees, schools.
- GRE vs GMAT: which should you take?Most US MBA programs now accept either test, so the choice comes down to fit. What the two exams actually test, how they differ, and what the official pages say about acceptance.
- GMAT Focus Edition: what changedThe GMAT Focus Edition replaced the classic GMAT with three sections, a new Data Insights section, and a 205–805 score scale. Everything that changed, from GMAC.
- What is a good GMAT score?On the GMAT Exam's 205–805 scale, roughly 545–555 is the median and 655 is near the 90th percentile. What the official GMAC percentile data says.
- How many times can you take the GMAT?You can take the GMAT five times in a rolling 12 months, at least 16 days apart, with no lifetime cap. Current rules, exceptions, and examples for planning a retake.
- How long are GMAT scores valid?GMAT scores are valid for five years from your test date, so you can take the exam early and send it when you apply. See an expiry example and the limited reporting option for older results.
- GRE to GMAT score conversion: what the official tools sayThere is no single GRE-to-GMAT number, but ETS and GMAC each publish an official tool. How the ETS comparison tool and the GMAC concordance table work — and why a predicted score isn't a promised one.
- What's on the GMAT Exam? Format and timingThe GMAT Exam runs 2 hours 15 minutes across three 45-minute sections — Quantitative, Verbal, and Data Insights — with 64 questions and no essay. Exactly what the current exam contains.
- GMAT Exam scoring: what the 205–805 score meansThe GMAT Exam Total Score runs 205–805, and — unlike the old exam — Data Insights now counts toward it. How the score is built, and why you can't compare it directly to a classic GMAT number.
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Sources
- The GMAT Focus Edition: Exam Structure, Content & Features — GMAC. Accessed 2026-08-03. Use as a cited source for exam facts; do not imply affiliation or reproduce protected test material.
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