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GMAT Focus Edition

Free GMAT practice tests with worked solutions

Three full length GMAT Focus mocks and nine section papers for Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights, on the real clock and scored on the official scale. A worked solution for every question, and a personal instructor assigned to you from day one. Free, no card required.

5,000+ students
prepared across our network

  • Free full length practice test
  • Human instructor from day one
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Why TestLumo

Everything you need to raise a score, and nothing you don't

Most prep platforms give you a pile of questions and leave the diagnosis to you. TestLumo is built around the review loop, the part that actually converts study hours into points.

A human instructor from day one

You are assigned a personal instructor the day you join. They reach out by email, and everything after that happens there: they review your practice tests, adjust your plan when you fall behind, and answer your questions directly. No app to install and no calls to schedule. Not a chatbot, a person who knows your file.

Real conditions, real clock

The same section lengths, question counts, timed breaks and three-answer edit budget as the exam itself — including the parts candidates find out about on the day. What you practise is what you will sit.

Analytics that name the weak spot

See accuracy and pacing broken down by content area, question type and difficulty band, so you know whether to drill Data Sufficiency or fix your timing on Critical Reasoning.

Realistic timing and pacing alerts

Sectional timers, a question navigation panel and the same on screen rules as test day. Pacing reports flag the questions where you burned minutes you did not have.

Study on any device

Drill on your phone between meetings and take full length tests on a laptop. Progress syncs instantly, so a ten minute gap in your day still counts as study time.

A study plan that reschedules itself

Tell us your test date and weekly hours. TestLumo builds the plan, then rebuilds it around what you actually completed and where your accuracy is slipping.

How it works

From first diagnostic to test day in four steps

You do not need to design your own study plan. Take one test, tell us your target, and your instructor handles the sequencing.

  1. Step 01

    Pick a paper

    A full length GMAT Focus mock for a baseline, or a single Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning or Data Insights paper if you already know where the points are going.

  2. Step 02

    Take a free diagnostic

    Sit a full length practice test under real timing. You get a baseline score on the official scale and a section by section breakdown of where the points went.

  3. Step 03

    Meet your instructor

    A specialist for your exam emails you, reads your diagnostic, and builds a week by week plan around your test date and the hours you actually have. Your whole conversation with them runs over email, so you can reply when it suits you.

  4. Step 04

    Drill, review, retest

    Work through targeted question sets, send your instructor whatever is not landing, and sit full length mocks until your practice scores sit comfortably above your target.

A student reviewing her practice test score report at her desk in the evening

Score analytics

Stop guessing what to study next

After every test and every drill set, TestLumo breaks your performance down far enough to act on. The goal is simple: turn a vague sense that Verbal is weak into a specific, fixable list.

  • Every question, not just the wrong ones

    The report lists all of them: the answer you gave, the marked answer, and a worked solution. A question you guessed right is one you will get wrong under different conditions, and the report is where you find it.

  • The time you spent on each

    Recorded per question and shown beside the outcome. A correct answer that took three and a half minutes was a near miss, not a win, and the column is what tells you which ones those were.

  • Why the wrong answers were tempting

    Every distractor was written against one specific candidate error, and the explanation names it. Knowing why a wrong answer attracted you is what stops you picking its sibling next time.

  • Filterable, and permanent

    Narrow it to what you got wrong or ran out of time for. The report lives at its own link that does not expire, so you can compare a paper you sat today against one from last month.

Students prepared across our network
5,000+Students prepared across our network
Exams across TestLumo and our sister sites
13Exams across TestLumo and our sister sites
Human instructor assigned from day one
1:1Human instructor assigned from day one
Practice access on web and mobile
24/7Practice access on web and mobile

How preparation actually works

Why full length practice tests beat more questions

The single most common preparation mistake is treating question volume as progress. Here is what the evidence and our own students' results both point to.

Almost every admissions exam now scores you adaptively, which changes what preparation should look like. On an adaptive test, your score reflects the difficulty level you can sustain, not the raw number of questions you answered correctly. Grinding through hundreds of comfortable questions therefore builds confidence without building score. Working a smaller number of genuinely difficult questions, and understanding precisely why each wrong answer was tempting, is what moves the number.

That is why the review loop matters more than the question count. A practice question is worth very little on its own. It becomes valuable when you can name the pattern behind your mistake, and it becomes worthless when you simply check the answer letter, feel a flicker of recognition, and move on. Most candidates know this and still skip the review, because reviewing is slower and less satisfying than answering something new.

Three things that reliably raise scores

  • Full length tests under real conditions. Timed, uninterrupted, at roughly the time of day you will actually sit the exam. Stamina and pacing are separate skills from content, and they only develop under real conditions.
  • Reviewing wrong answers as patterns, not incidents. Three careless arithmetic slips is not three mistakes, it is one habit. Analytics that group errors by content area, question type and difficulty band make that visible.
  • Someone holding the plan. Self study fails most often between weeks three and six, when the novelty wears off and life intervenes. An instructor who notices you have fallen behind and reworks the schedule is the difference between a paused plan and an abandoned one.

How much time you actually need

Preparation time varies by exam and by how far you are from target, but the pattern is consistent across the tests we cover. Consistency beats intensity: four focused hours a week across twelve weeks reliably outperforms a compressed cram, because adaptive scoring rewards accuracy that has become automatic rather than accuracy you have to reach for under pressure.

Typical preparation windows. Your instructor sets a specific plan after your diagnostic.
ExamTypical study timeCommon timeline
GMAT Focus100 to 170 hours2 to 4 months
GRE General80 to 150 hours2 to 3 months
TOEFL iBT / IELTS40 to 100 hours4 to 10 weeks
PTE / TOEIC / CELPIP30 to 80 hours3 to 8 weeks

Whichever exam you are sitting, book the test date before you start studying. An open ended timeline is the most common reason preparation drifts, and a fixed date turns a vague intention into a schedule that can actually be planned backwards from.

Every TestLumo exam starts the same way: one free full length practice test under real timing, a score report you can act on, and an instructor who reads it and emails you what to do next. That is the honest starting point, whether you go on to study with us or not.

FAQ

Questions candidates ask before they start

If something is not covered here, our team answers support questions within one business day.

GMAT Focus prep runs here on TestLumo. TOEFL, IELTS, PTE, TOEIC, CELPIP and GRE prep run on our dedicated sister sites, all built by the same team on the same practice engine. The Duolingo English Test, Digital SAT, ACT, LSAT, MCAT and Executive Assessment are in active development. Pick your exam from the chooser and we will take you to the right platform.

Yes. Every exam includes one full length practice test at no cost, and you do not need to enter a card to take it. It is a complete, properly scored exam rather than a short sample, because a baseline is only useful if the conditions are real.

You are assigned a specialist for your exam when you join. They read your diagnostic results, build your week by week study plan, review your full length mock results with you, and adjust the plan when life gets in the way. Everything runs over email: they email you first, and you reply with questions on specific problems whenever you hit one. There is no separate inbox to check and no appointment to book, which is the point — it works across time zones and around a full time job. It is a person, not an automated system, and they stay with you through to test day.

It varies by exam and by how far you are from your target, but most candidates need somewhere between 100 and 170 hours spread over two to four months. Consistency matters more than intensity: four focused hours a week across twelve weeks reliably beats a compressed cram, because these exams reward accuracy that has become automatic rather than accuracy you have to reach for.

Our full length tests are scored with models calibrated to each exam's official scale. In practice a practice score is most useful as a trend rather than a single prediction. Take three or four full length tests under proper timed conditions and the average is a far better estimate than any one result. Scores taken untimed or with interruptions will run high and should be discounted.

Yes. Question drilling, flashcards and review all work on mobile, and progress syncs instantly across devices. We recommend taking full length practice tests on a laptop or desktop, because sitting them under the same conditions as test day is a large part of what makes them useful.

Nothing, they are the same thing under two names. Mock test is the common phrasing in India, the UK and much of the Commonwealth, while practice test is standard in the United States. Our sister sites use the mock test naming because that is what their audiences search for. Whichever term you use, what matters is that the test is full length, properly timed and scored on the official scale rather than a short untimed sample.

Four to six full length tests is the range that works for most candidates. Fewer than three and you have no reliable trend to read. More than about eight and you start burning questions you could have used for targeted drilling, and fatigue begins to distort your results. Space them roughly a fortnight apart, always under real timing, and spend at least as long reviewing each one as you spent taking it. The review is where the score comes from.

No, and that is deliberate. The GMAT Focus Edition adapts question by question; our papers are fixed form, so everyone sits the same questions. That costs you one thing and buys two. It costs the sensation of a test that stretches to meet you. It buys scores that compare — your second attempt against your first, and yours against anyone else's — and a worked solution published for every question, which an adaptive pool cannot offer without burning the items it depends on. Difficulty still follows the measured shape of the Official Guide, so a paper is never quietly easier than the exam it stands in for.

For most candidates it is more effective, for two reasons. You can study in the gaps that actually exist in your week rather than travelling to a fixed class time, and the analytics show you precisely where your points are going in a way a classroom cannot. The one advantage in-person courses have historically had is accountability, which is exactly why every TestLumo plan includes an assigned instructor rather than leaving you to self study.

Book the test date before you start studying, not after. An open ended timeline is the single most common reason preparation drifts and eventually stops. Test centre slots in busy months also fill weeks in advance, so booking late can force you into a date that does not suit your application deadlines. Choose a date two to four months out, then plan backwards from it.

We do not, and we would be cautious of anyone who does. Score guarantees are usually structured so that the conditions to claim them are hard to meet, and they encourage a focus on the guarantee rather than on the work. What we offer instead is a completely free full length diagnostic so you can judge the platform on your own results before spending anything.

Yes. Candidates who begin with the GMAT and move to the GRE, or who add an English proficiency test alongside an admissions exam, are common. Tell your instructor and they will rebuild your plan. Where the new exam runs on one of our sister sites, we will point you there and carry across what is relevant from your diagnostic, since Quant and reading fundamentals transfer even when the format does not.

You get your scored report immediately, broken down by section, content area, question type and difficulty band, along with a pacing view showing how long you spent on each question. Your instructor sees the same report. The debrief is the part that moves scores, so the report is built to be read with someone rather than skimmed alone: it surfaces the two or three patterns that cost you the most points instead of listing every question you missed.

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Find out where you stand, in one free test

Sit a full length GMAT practice test under real timing, and get a baseline score with the section breakdown that tells you what to fix first.

  • No card required
  • Full length and properly scored
  • Instructor assigned on day one