Editorial standards

Nobody at GMAC or ETS has a say in this

GMAT GRE Prep is published independently. There is no partnership, licensing deal, content agreement, or review arrangement with the Graduate Management Admission Council, with Educational Testing Service, or with any prep course company whose product is discussed here. Nothing on this site has been submitted to any of them for approval, and nothing here should be read as an official statement about either exam.

What pays for this

Every guide, practice question, and study plan is free to read. There is no paywall, no account, no email gate, and no display advertising. The site carries no sponsored posts and sells no placement: a course cannot buy its way onto the comparison page or improve how it is described there.

As of today the one revenue source is affiliate commission. Some outbound links on thecourse comparison page may pay a commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you, and that page carries the disclosure at the top where you will see it before you read a verdict. Running costs, the domain and hosting, are paid out of pocket and the affiliate links offset them when they earn anything. If the cheapest option is the right one for a reader, the page says so, which is exactly the outcome that earns the least. Should any of that change, whether a sponsor, an ad slot, or a paid placement, this page says so before the change goes live anywhere else on the site.

Every exam fact traces back to the source

Anything factual about either exam, section structure, question counts, timing, score scales, retake rules, score reporting, and fees, comes from the official publishers:mba.com for the GMAT andets.org for the GRE. Not from other prep sites, not from forum threads, not from memory of an older format.

• Details that drift get flagged, not frozen. Fees, appointment availability, and score-reporting policy change without notice, so those are marked as approximate and pointed back at the official page rather than presented as settled numbers.
• Format pages get re-checked, not left to rot. The standing rule here is that exam-format content is read back against the official sources twice a year, and straight away whenever GMAC or ETS announces a change to either test. This site is new, so treat that as the commitment it is rather than a track record.
• An updated date means the page was re-read. The date on a page moves when the content was actually checked or changed, not when the site was rebuilt.
• No official questions are reproduced. Retired and official practice items belong to their publishers and stay there.

How a practice question gets built

Every item in the practice bank is written for this site. None of it is lifted from official material, from a retired exam, or from another provider's question bank. That is partly a copyright line and partly a practical one: a question you can find the answer key for in three clicks is not practice.

• Written to a target. Each question is written against a named topic and question type first, so the bank covers the formats the exams actually use rather than whatever was easy to write.
• Solved twice, independently. After it is written, the question is worked again from scratch, without looking at the intended solution, to confirm that exactly one answer choice survives and the stem is not ambiguous.
• Wrong answers are engineered. Each distractor maps to a specific mistake: a dropped negative, a reversed ratio, an unwarranted assumption. That is why the worked solutions name the trap instead of just declaring the right answer.
• Difficulty is a judgement, not a statistic. The Easy, Medium, and Hard labels reflect how many reasoning steps a question demands. This site has no response data from test-takers and will not dress up an editorial guess as calibration.

The claims you will not read here

Most of what makes test prep untrustworthy is the promises. These are the ones this site does not make, and if that policy ever loosens this page changes first:

• No score-gain numbers. No point improvements, no average gains, no guarantees. There is no way to measure what any reader scores, so any figure of that kind would be invented.
• Nothing about the size of the audience. Student counts, user numbers, and download totals are unverifiable from the outside, and testimonials only appear if a real person agreed to be quoted.
• Star ratings and review scores stay off. The course comparison is qualitative on purpose. A decimal point implies a measurement nobody here has taken.
• No insider framing. Nothing here claims knowledge of unpublished scoring algorithms, item pools, or what an admissions committee is thinking.
• Nothing publishes unread. A page goes up only after it has been read end to end and, in the case of a question, solved.

What you get instead is narrower and more useful: what a question type tests, where the time actually goes, what a study week demands of you, and who a course genuinely suits.

Tell us when we are wrong

Corrections are the most valuable mail this site gets. If a practice answer is wrong, an exam detail is stale, or an explanation does not hold up, send the page URL and what looks off to [email protected].

• Corrections are read first. They jump the queue ahead of topic requests and everything else in the inbox.
• Confirmed against the source before anything changes. A disputed exam fact gets re-checked at mba.com or ets.org; a disputed question gets re-solved. If the report is right, the page changes and its updated date moves with it.
• No promised turnaround. This is a small operation with no support desk, so there is no reply-within-24-hours pledge here. Every correction gets an answer, including the ones we end up disagreeing with, and we will say why.
• Substantive fixes get said out loud. If a page was wrong in a way that changed the advice, the fix is noted on the page rather than quietly swapped in.