OG QBank vs. Official Practice Q Bundle vs. Advanced Q

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for clarification on the differences between the Official Guide (OG) Question Bank, the Official Practice Question Bundle, and the Advanced Questions – specifically with regard to the online access that comes with the codes in the books. I’ll be doing all questions online to benefit from tracking, filtering, and analytics.

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1. OG Online Question Bank Access – What Do I Get With Which Product?

If I purchase the Official Guide (OG) – say the general OG book ONLY – does the shipped online access include the full question bank?

Or do I need to buy the full OG bundle (i.e., General OG + Verbal Review + Quant Review + Integrated Reasoning Review) to access the full set of questions in the online system?

From what I understand:

The General OG provides ~900 questions.

Each of the three companion books adds ~100 questions. So the total for the full OG bundle should be 1200+ online questions – correct?

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2. How Does the Official Practice Question Bundle Compare?

Now if I already have the full OG bundle (with those 1200+ questions online), how does the Official Practice Question Bundle differ?

It seems to offer 300 additional questions.

But price-wise, it’s nearly the same as the OG bundle – yet gives far fewer questions?

Are these 300 questions completely new, or are they overlapping with the OG/Advanced questions, are they worth it??

Also:

When I redeem the access code, do the 300 questions integrate with my existing OG question bank?

I.e., will I have one unified QBank with 1500+ questions and they are mixed into the OG questions when training?

Or are the Practice Bundle questions in a separate tab/section and not mixed with OG question Bank while practising?

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3. What’s the Deal With the Advanced Questions Book?

This one seems priced fairly (~20 EUR) and says it includes another 300 tough questions. Sounds like a good deal.

But are these questions also completely exclusive and available via online access (with the code)? Or do they overlap with the OG/Practice questions?

Would you recommend? And are thy up to date for Focus edition?
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My Goal:

I’m just trying to get the maximum number of unique, realistic official GMAT questions in one place online for analysis/tracking. I won’t use the books for solving, only for reading the non-question content.

If anyone has details about overlap, integration, or question volume per product based on online access, I’d really appreciate your help!

Thank you so much and sorry for the long question, I am just very into it.

GmatKnightTutor · Answer

The questions in the main Official-Guide 2025-2026 will not overlap with questions from the Review 2025-2026 guides. For example, the Verbal Review 2025-2026 Guide: "Practice with 275+ additional Verbal Reasoning questions and detailed answer explanations, not included in the main Official Guide 2025-2026." - MBA website

yogi.0195 · Answer

I purchased the printed OG and there was an offer going which provided me with the 3 review books at only twice the OG price. Worked well for me with the additional questions. I supplemented my official mocks with these hard questions.

Fjfjjfjrjrjr · Answer

Hii,

So you would buy all 4 OG books, including the specific sections books? So also the online question bank is dependend on whether you also buy the review or not?

yc168 · Answer

Hi  Fjfjjfjrjrjr ,

1. There are over 1,700 questions in the 4-book bundle:
The total 1,775 questions are distributed across the four Official Guides as follows:
Main Official Guide: 801 in-book + 232 online-only
Quant Official Guide: 203 in-book + 18 online-only
Verbal Official Guide: 289 in-book + 24 online-only
Data Insights Guide: 165 in-book + 100 online-only
(Source: you can look up review by GMAT Genius in  GMAT Official Guide 2024-2025 Bundle: Books + Online Question Bank  on Amazon US. There are some screenshots attached to the review, from which you'll get a clearer idea about the structure of the online question bank.)

2. The questions in Official Practice Question Bundle do not overlap with the 1,700+ questions in the 4-book bundle. They offer additional practice but are much more expensive on a per-question basis.

3. The Official Advanced Questions book was published in 2019, so in the GMAT Classic Era(there are Sentence Correction questions in the book). The other questions are still usable though - around 250 Hard questions for PS, DS, CR, RC. No Data Insight questions.

Some previous comments have mentioned that these are valuable Hard questions rarely from official source. In fact there is a comment by bb in the Amazon product page. You can also search for more reviews and comments on the GMAT Club.

Price is indeed quite decent for 250 questions, although I seem to remember seeing a comment somewhere that the online question bank is no longer supported. You can practice off the paper book, or search for them on GMAT Club though.

In conclusion, I'd suggest you go for the 4-book bundle initially. That's usually sufficient for most people and best bang for the bucks. You can always add the other resources later on if a need arises, or let's say pick just the DI Practice Question Pack only because official DI questions are in short supply. There are plenty of official Quant and Verbal questions on GMAT Club where you can practice for free.

Hope this helps a bit.

Fjfjjfjrjrjr · Answer

Thank you so much for the detailed explanations — that really helps a lot!!

Right now, I’m using the Magoosh course, which gives me my first 800 questions to work through. The idea is to use these unofficial questions to build a solid baseline, and once that’s done, I’ll switch over to the 1,700 official questions from the OG bundle. That way, I can make the most of the official material — kind of like saving the good stuff for when I’m truly ready, instead of wasting it early on.

I also want to hold off on doing the one official mock exam until I’ve built that foundation. Then I’ll go through all 6 of the official CATs step by step, making sure each one is used meaningfully to track my progress.

If I still need more practice after that, I’ve been looking at the Kaplan or Manhattan Prep question banks. They offer over 1,200 questions for just $39, which seems like a solid deal. Of course, they’re not official, but honestly, I think that’s still a better value than the extra 300 official practice questions for $80.

What do you think of this approach? Does it make sense to you, or would you tweak anything?

yogi.0195 · Answer

Value is a very subjective term here. Nothing replaces 300 official practice questions, not even 4 times of similar questions. You are likely to encounter questions similar to those 300 more than those in the 1200 questions set.

yc168 · Answer

Hi, glad that those are somewhat useful.

I have not used Magoosh, so can't comment on its content. But I do believe that any of the reputable online programs can help you build your foundational knowledge. One thing to add is that when you are studying the concepts/strategies, you learn them by topic. So when you practice, it would probably be most effective if you also practice questions one topic at a time.

Re: mock exam I think that's fine. I am also in the school that a "completely cold" mock does not make too much sense, except for leaving room for a score improvement that you can boast about later on. In case you are not aware of, each of the official mocks can be taken twice, without seeing repeated questions. So in a sense you got 12 official mocks in total that you can plan accordingly.

If you need more questions to practice, I'd suggest changing the priority a bit. The DI practice question pack should be the first one you get if you run out of official DI questions. People generally would advise to stick to official questions for Verbal and DI. But for Quant and Verbal, there is a huge inventory of official questions available, including old OG's and GMAT Prep (Classic) (previous generation of official mock exam questions), so it's unlikely that you'll need the practice question packs for Quant and Verbal.

Only if you exhausted all official DI questions and still want to practice, you go for 3rd-party questions. Among the third-parties, I believe Manhattan Prep will be one of the few providers with trust-worthy quality and updated questions.

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