GMAT Official Guide 2025-2026

Description

Power up your prep with the GMAT Official Guide, the only study guide that features real exam questions. You’ll get exclusive tips and tricks directly from the exam creators and gain access to more than 975 practice questions to set you up for success on test day.

Highlights:

Comprehensive Data Insights Review, Quantitative Review and Verbal Review chapters to master each section of the GMAT exam
Access to an Online Question Bank to create custom practice sets by questions type and difficulty level so that you can plan your individual practice
Exclusive access to online diagnostic evaluations to discover your strengths and focus on areas that provide direction in your GMAT preparation journey
Detailed answer explanations to master the reasoning behind the answers

About the Author

The Graduate Management Admissions Council^TM (GMAC^TM) is a mission-driven association of leading graduate business schools worldwide. Founded in 1953, GMAC creates solutions and experiences that enable business schools and candidates to better discover, evaluate, and connect with each other. GMAC provides world-class research, industry conferences, recruiting tools, and assessments for the graduate management education industry, as well as tools, resources, events, and services that help guide candidates through their higher education journey. Owned and administered by GMAC, the Graduate Management Admission Test^TM (GMAT^TM) exam is the most widely used graduate business school assessment. Currently 7000+ programs worldwide trust the GMAT exam to build diverse classes.

Table of Contents

Book Review

Letter from the President and CEO, GMAC^TM

1.0 What Is the GMAT^TM Exam?

1.1 What Is the GMAT^TM Exam?

1.2 Why Take the GMAT^TM Exam?

1.3 GMAT^TM Exam Format

1.4 What Is the Testing Experience Like?

1.5 What Is the Exam Content Like?

1.6 Quantitative Reasoning Section

1.7 Data Insights Section

1.8 Verbal Reasoning Section

1.9 How Are Scores Calculated?

2.0 How to Prepare

2.1 How Should I Prepare for the GMAT^TM Exam?

2.2 Getting Ready for Exam Day

2.3 How to Use the GMAT^TM Official Guide 2025--2026

2.4 How to Use Other GMAT^TM Official Prep Products

2.5 Tips for Taking the Exam

2.6 Section Strategies

3.0 Math Review

3.1 Value, Order, and Factors

3.2 Algebra, Equalities, and Inequalities

3.3 Rates, Ratios, and Percents

3.4 Statistics, Sets, Counting, Probability, Estimation, and Series

3.5 Reference Sheets

4.0 Quantitative Reasoning

4.1 Tips for Answering Quantitative Reasoning Questions

4.2 Practice Questions

4.3 Answer Key

4.4 Answer Explanations

5.0 Data Insights Review

5.1 Data Sets and Types

5.2 Data Displays

5.3 Data Patterns

6.0 Data Insights

6.1 What Is Measured

6.2 Question Types and Test-Taking Strategies

6.3 Online Question Bank Instructions

6.4 Practice Questions: Data Sufficiency

6.5 Answer Key: Data Sufficiency

6.6 Answer Explanations: Data Sufficiency

6.7 Practice Questions: Two-Part Analysis

6.8 Answer Key: Two-Part Analysis

6.9 Answer Explanations: Two-Part Analysis

7.0 Verbal Review

7.1 Analyzing Passages

7.2 Inductive Reasoning

7.3 Deductive Reasoning

8.0 Verbal Reasoning

8.1 What Is Measured

8.2 Question Types

8.3 Tips for Answering Verbal Reasoning Questions

8.4 Practice Questions: Reading Comprehension

8.5 Answer Key: Reading Comprehension

8.6 Answer Explanations: Reading Comprehension

8.7 Practice Questions: Critical Reasoning

8.8 Answer Key: Critical Reasoning

8.9 Answer Explanations: Critical Reasoning

9.0 GMAT^TM Official Guide Question Index

Appendix A Answer Sheets

Quantitative Reasoning Answer Sheet

Data Sufficiency Answer Sheet

Two-Part Analysis Answer Sheet

Reading Comprehension Answer Sheet

Critical Reasoning Answer Sheet