Exam facts verified 23 August 2026 against g.a.s.t. (d-mat.de) and APS India (aps-india.de). Answer formats checked against the official dMAT demo exam. The dMAT is a first-year exam and its rules move — confirm anything date-sensitive at the official source before you act on it.
Verified 23 August 2026 against g.a.s.t. and APS India.
As of 30 August 2026, a widely-read dMAT guide advises working through the official g.a.s.t. sets and then topping up with TestAS, GRE analytical or GMAT sample questions.
For one of the three Core subtests that is defensible. For the other two it is close to useless, and for the third it trains a habit the dMAT does not allow. Worth taking subtest by subtest.
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Figure Sequences shows a series of matrices in which figures move, rotate and change colour according to rules, and asks you to produce the next two. Neither the GRE nor the GMAT contains this task type at all. Neither has a visual-matrix reasoning section.
Twenty of the 56 Core Module items are Figure Sequences. GRE and GMAT practice contributes nothing to them.
A 5×5 grid, letters A to E, each appearing once per row and column, one cell marked with a question mark. Neither the GRE nor the GMAT contains this format. Sudoku is closer than anything in either bank, and even that differs in what you are asked to produce.
Another 16 items. So 36 of 56 Core Module questions have no GRE or GMAT analogue whatsoever.
Here there is genuine overlap. Both the GRE and the GMAT test simultaneous equations, and practice at manipulating them is not wasted.
But the answer format differs in a way that matters more than the content overlap. GRE and GMAT quantitative questions are multiple choice. dMAT Mathematical Equations are not. You type a value for every letter on an on-screen keypad. No options are offered.
We verified this against the official g.a.s.t. demo exam on 23 August 2026.
That difference is not cosmetic. On a multiple-choice quant question, the efficient strategy is often to work backwards — substitute the options until one holds. It is faster than solving and it is a genuinely good exam technique. On the dMAT it is unavailable, because there is nothing to substitute. Practising on GRE and GMAT questions rehearses a reflex you cannot use.
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The GRE and GMAT provide scratch material. The dMAT permits no notes, no paper and no calculator at any point.
This is the single largest difference between the exams and it changes what practice means. Solving a four-variable system on paper trains one skill; solving it holding intermediate values in working memory trains another. The dMAT tests the second. Any practice done with a pen in hand — on GRE material or anything else — is training for a different exam.
Two things, honestly.
Timed-test temperament. If you have sat a GRE or GMAT, you have practised staying calm under a clock and abandoning an item rather than sinking into it. That is real and it carries.
Arithmetic fluency. Comfort with mental arithmetic helps in Mathematical Equations, whatever built it.
Neither is a reason to work through GRE question banks. Both are reasons not to panic if the dMAT is your first standardised test in years.
Start with the official g.a.s.t. preparatory materials, which are free and contain worked examples at three difficulty levels for every Core task type. They are the only officially sourced questions in existence and everyone should work through them first.
Then practise the same formats under the real constraints: per-subtest timers, no notes, and the actual answer format for each subtest. That is what our mocks do, and it is also the standard to hold any other provider to. The question to ask about any dMAT practice material is not how many questions it has, but whether it makes you type the equation answers and takes your pen away.
Only partially. Neither the GRE nor the GMAT contains Figure Sequences or Latin Squares, which is 36 of the 56 Core Module items. There is overlap on simultaneous equations, but the dMAT answer format differs.
Because GRE and GMAT quant questions are multiple choice, where working backwards from the options is often the fastest route. dMAT Mathematical Equations require a typed value for every letter, so there is nothing to substitute and that technique does not exist.
The official g.a.s.t. preparatory materials, which include worked examples at low, medium and high difficulty for every Core task type. Work through those before anything else, then practise the same formats under real timing and no-notes conditions.
No. The exam permits no notes, no paper and no calculator at any point. Practice done with a pen trains a different skill from the one being tested.
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