What You Need To Know about the GMAT Official Guide

The Official Guide for GMAT® Review is a study guide produced by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the creator of the GMAT. The 2021 edition is now available. Here’s everything you need to know.  

What is the Official GMAT Guide?

The Official Guide for GMAT® Review is a study aid for GMAT test-takers. Get more information about the GMAT test here.

Produced by GMAC, the official GMAT guide includes practice questions from “retired” GMAT exams, a math/grammar content review, sample essay answers, and a diagnostic test.

Math and and verbal supplements, The Official Guide for GMAT ®  Quantitative Review and The Official Guide for GMAT ® Verbal Review,  are sold separately. You can also purchase the entire series as a bundle.

What’s new in the 2021 edition?

GMAC says that the 2021 edition features 181 more questions across the three guides from the 2020 editions. New-to-the-guide questions are pulled from past GMAT exams. The 2020 series consisted of:

• The GMAT™ Official Guide 2020 contains 998 questions (An additional 174 questions are available in the Online Question Bank).
• GMAT™ Official Guide Verbal Review 2020 contains 347 questions.
• GMAT™ Official Guide Quantitative Review 2020 contains 373 questions.

• Additional questions on content that were not as extensively covered in previous editions.
• The questions in the Diagnostic Test that used to appear in Chapter 3 of the main GMAT Official Guide have been moved into their own section within the Online Question Bank.
• The Online Question Bank for the Official Guide 2021 series can now be accessed on mobile devices through the Wiley Efficient Learning mobile app and used in offline mode.
• Over 150 additional flashcards in the Online Question Bank.

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