OG 2023 release date?

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Does anyone know when will the OG 2023 be released? I have OG 2020 hard copy and want to get an ebook version due to a travelling job. waiting for OG2023 seems to be the right call as the release timeline is not that far based on last year's release date. Thoughts?

Is there a possibility of buying the Old OG pdf access from someone who doesn't need them anymore?

Is there a possibility of buying the Old OG pdf access from someone who doesn't need them anymore?

EMPOWERgmatRichC · Answer

Hi JB2711,

Neither Wiley nor Amazon has a listing up yet for the GMAT2023 version of the Official Guide (normally, the listing goes up months in advance of when the new OG book will be available - so it might not be safe to assume that a newer OG will be available in the next couple of months). The last couple of version of that book have been remarkably similar though (and the overall practice content was almost identical in the GMAT2021 and GMAT2022), so if you're interested in an e-book version for your studies, then you would be fine with either of those two options.

Since you have an older print copy of the OG, how long have you been studying? Have you taken the Official GMAT and/or any practice CATs/mocks yet?

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AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi  JB2711 ,

Have you already used the code in your OG 2020? If you have, you could pick up a new copy (or even a different edition as that's not a big deal) just for the code (more features on the platform, but access limited to one year). Alternately, you could get the Kindle version from Amazon.

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

A bit difficult to exactly pinpoint which month the OG 2023 will come out in. That being said OG 2021 was released in June and the OG 2022 was released in April if that provides any insight.

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bb · Answer

Good question and good timing! I have not seen it up On Amazon or other spots. Usually, books will go up months in advance of the publication and release. A number of years ago, official guys would go up six months before their release date and available for pre-order. What year was a little funky and the official guy didn’t go up until maybe two weeks before publication release. It was available for sale in mid May 2021. So I wouldn’t necessarily say that there will not be an official guide this year… but so far we have not seen it.

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mcelroytutoring · Answer

There are indeed some signs that there will not be an OG 2023 this year, which is not super-surprising, given the fact that the OG 2022 didn't contain a single new GMAT question — sadly, they were all recycled questions.

That being said, this news would still be somewhat surprising, given that GMAC has published a new edition of the OG every year since 2012: https://gmatclub.com/forum/gmac-officia ... 40610.html

My suspicion is that GMAC / ACT Inc. has decided to spend most of its time and resources authoring fresh questions for the GMAT online, which has necessitated that twice the amount of "live" questions are available for test takers, since the question banks for the online and test-center exams are presumably separate.

Last year the digital edition was published in mid-May, but the paper edition was not released until June. Thus, though it's certainly possible, I wouldn't assume just yet that there is no OG 2023, since GMAC isn't generally known to pass up opportunities to profit from planned obsolescence — even when it's essentially a repackaged version of the prior year's edition, with some problems switched out, very minor edits to the content review, thinner pages to fit more questions, and a couple of new but unnecessary features, such as online flashcards.

Even GMAC has admitted that previous editions of the OG are fine to use: https://www.mba.com/frequently-asked-qu ... #question2

UPDATE, 6/13/22: It appears there will be no 2023 edition of the GMAT OG (Official Guide).

bb · Answer

I agree, there is no harm in using old editions. For an average GMAT test-taker, an OG is a collection of 900 fresh questions. Any OG is fresh to them. It is people who have been preparing for a long time or those of us who wait for the new editions are somewhat of outliers. GRE afterall hardly updates their books... hope this is not a pattern though as it has been nice getting some fresh questions each year... though I have to say those fresh questions were not always new. Sometimes/often the new questions to the OG came from very old tests, sometimes surfacing old discussions that were based on paper tests or other sources, so even the new 300 questions are not really new and representative of any kinds of trends of what is being produced for the test. It seems it would be more logical for them to be the discarded questions that are no longer used.... which if they have to produce 2x the questions for online/offline tests (not sure if that is indeed the case since they can mix in diff ways), that would be beneficial in a number of years when they start retiring questions and it will be an ample source of practice for test-takers.

mcelroytutoring · Answer

Agreed. Once "retired," these test-center GMAT and GMAT online questions can no longer be used on live exams — so why not just put them in the next edition of the OG?

It appears that GMAC is sitting on a huge bank of newer (but no longer "live") GMAT questions that it doesn't yet want to publish, for one reason or another.

Maybe GMAC is planning to transition from the paper-based OG model, where the number of practice questions is limited by physical publishing restrictions, to a yearly subscription model like LSAT Prep Plus, where LSAC charges $99/year for full digital access to every LSAT PrepTest ever published.

Would I pay GMAC $99/year for unlimited access to all 7,000+ official GMAT practice questions? Yes, I would.

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mcelroytutoring · Answer

UPDATE: According to Amazon the release date is 3/28/23, nearly a year later than usual.

https://www.amazon.com/GMAT-Official-Guide-2023-Question/dp/1394169949

https://www.walmart.com/ip/GMAT-Official-Guide-2023-2024-Book-Online-Question-Bank-Paperback-9781394169948/1611331772

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MarianoAguilar · Answer

The Amazon link above is broken. Does anybody know the updated release day of the OGs 2023?

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