Is there any way to get copies of real GMAT tests? I know you can get real copies of the LSAT and SAT but can real copies of the GMAT be purchased?
How does the GMAT work? Do the questions start to get easier if you answer wrong? Can the test still be taken on paper and not on a computer?
This thread came right after one called “Why do knats bite?”
The cultural diversity of the board is revealed in its spelling variations. 
Thanks for the link. I don’t see anything about getting copies of old tests, is that possible?
Publishers like The Princeton Review and Barron’s have practice books which claim to have discountinued actual tests in them.
Discountinued? Make that discontinued.
A couple of years ago I bought “The Official Guide for GMAT Review” published by ETS and/or GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council), who are the same lovely folks who bring us the actual test.
The sample tests in this book used “retired” questions from the test. It was very much in line with the questions in the downloadable software on www.mba.com and like the actual test.
I also had the “Barron’s” guide and another. Pure crap. When you go through the English section of the ETS guide, you will see that they hit a handful of English concepts pretty hard (like parallelism), and you should get very well acquainted with how to look for, for example, parallelism problems in the sentence correction section. The Barron’s (or the other, can’t remember which), skipped a couple of the concepts and hit some that aren’t covered in the test. The one that really ticked me off was the emphasis on getting “who” vs “whom” correct, which didn’t show up once on any of the ETS tests, practice or real.
If you do get another guide, start with the ETS one first. If you hit a question in another guide which didn’t seem to fit with the ones in ETS, ignore it. If you find a lot of those, toss it, like I did.
I forgot that they claimed that. Like I said before, my impression was that they were off the mark in several respects. I think they published ones much older than current versions. I suspect ETS holds on to the recent questions for their own guides now and Barron’s has to use oldies.
Yep, if you follow the like to “Sign up” and then register, you can download the “Powerprep” software which, IIRC, has two tests in it. It is the same software you will take the real test on.
Since it is administered like the real thing, you might want to save it for when you want to do a benchmark test (as it give you your score).