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The GMAT does not release past papers in the Indian sense. What it provides instead is official practice material, and it is worth more.
GMAT · checked 19 September 2026
The dates, vacancies and rules below are read on the conducting body’s own site and rewritten as each notice appears. The guide beneath carries the full pattern, syllabus, cut-offs and free mock tests.
Checked 19 September 2026
Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), at test centres and online, year-round
Business schools worldwide, and Indian executive and international programmes
Three 45-minute sections — Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, Data Insights — 2 hours 15 minutes plus an optional 10-minute break; section…
Total 205–805 in ten-point steps; sections 60–90; question-adaptive with a review-and-edit allowance
Past papers
Because the test is adaptive and administered year-round, there is no annual paper to work through. GMAC instead publishes official guides and practice questions drawn from retired test material, and these are considerably more valuable than third-party imitations — the logical precision of GMAT critical reasoning and data sufficiency questions is difficult to replicate, and material that gets it slightly wrong teaches slightly wrong habits.
For every critical reasoning question, articulate the argument’s structure before looking at the options: what is the conclusion, what supports it, and what gap sits between the two. Candidates who go straight to the options are choosing between five plausible sentences; candidates who have named the gap are checking which option addresses it. The second process is slower for the first few weeks and considerably faster and more accurate thereafter.
For data sufficiency, the discipline is to resist solving. The question asks whether the statements would suffice, not what the answer is — and computing the answer is both unnecessary and a reliable way to run out of time. Practise stopping at the point where sufficiency is established, which feels wrong at first and is the entire technique.
At this level, the useful classification is what went wrong rather than what the question was about: misread the scope, accepted an unstated assumption, computed unnecessarily, or lost the thread of a long passage. Those are the failures the GMAT is built to expose, and naming them is how they get corrected.
Exam resources
Six resource pages, each kept in step with the latest official notification.
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