Practice

10 full-length dMAT mock tests

Both modules of the exam, because every APS India candidate sits both. 5 Core Module papers — 20 Figure Sequences, 20 Mathematical Equations and 16 Latin Squares each, with the clock enforced per subtest exactly as the real exam does — and 5 General Academic Module papers of 30 questions each. 430 unique questions in total, none repeated between tests, and the first paper of each module is free.

Core Module — 5 papers, 280 questions

Figure Sequences, Mathematical Equations and Latin Squares. 56 questions in 70 minutes, timed per subtest.

General Academic Module — 5 papers, 150 questions

The module every APS India candidate sits after the break. 30 questions in about 90 minutes, across academic passages and applied questions.

What the Core Module actually puts in front of you

The real exam's Core Module is 60 questions in 75 minutes — 20 items and 25 minutes in each of the three subtests, which works out at a flat 75 seconds an item. The clock is enforced per subtest rather than across the sitting, and that distinction is the whole difficulty: you cannot borrow ten minutes from Latin Squares to rescue Figure Sequences.

Source: the official g.a.s.t. preparatory materials, as at 7 July 2026 — 25 minutes for 20 items stated separately for each of the three subtests.

Our Core papers are 56 questions in 70 minutes, not 60 in 75. Figure Sequences and Mathematical Equations match the exam exactly at 20 and 20 items in 25 minutes each. Latin Squares is 16 items in 20 minutes — the same 75 seconds an item, so the pacing you practise is the pacing you will sit, but four items shorter than the real subtest. We would rather print that here than have you discover it on 26 September.

Two of those three are not multiple choice, which most published guides still get wrong. We checked each against the official demo exam — the full list of claims that do not survive that check is in eight things most dMAT guides get wrong.

Difficulty is graded across the five, on purpose

Sitting five papers of identical difficulty teaches you very little after the second. The mix shifts deliberately: Mock 1 is weighted towards the low band so it works as a diagnostic, and Mock 5 carries the heaviest share of high-tier items — four-figure sequences, four-unknown systems with a mixed plus-minus equation, and grids needing three or four chained deductions.

Why the questions are generated and verified rather than written

Hand-writing 280 Figure Sequences items that each have exactly one defensible answer is not realistic, and hand-checking them is worse. So the items come out of a rule engine that encodes the published behaviour — how a figure accelerates by x+1, what happens when it meets a boundary, why it can never switch from one diagonal to another — and every item then goes through a verifier that enumerates every rule consistent with the four visible matrices and rejects the item unless they all agree on the hidden pair.

Two guards in that verifier are worth knowing about, because they are the difference between a question that is correct and one that is answerable. If a boundary event happens only in the hidden matrices and never in the visible ones, the item is discarded — you could not have deduced bounce from slide. And items are budgeted for workload: an early version produced medium items that were provably correct and still demanded roughly twenty mental moves and nine boundary reflections inside 75 seconds with nothing to write on. Those are now capped.

The worked solutions are the actual product

A score out of 56 tells you almost nothing you can act on. What you can act on is knowing why you missed an item. Every one of the 430 carries a derivation rather than an answer key: the movement rule behind each figure named in plain English, the substitution order that unwinds each equation system, the forced cells of each grid listed in the order they are forced with the reason each one is forced.

These come out of the builder — the only thing that knows how the item was constructed — so they cannot drift away from the question the way a hand-written explanation eventually does.

The General Academic Module

All 5 General Academic Module papers are live, and GAM Mock 1 is free with an account. Every APS India candidate sits the General Academic Module as well as the Core Module, so it is a full module here rather than a sample: take the free GAM mock — 30 questions across academic passages and applied questions, four options each, worked solution on every item.

The full GAM module is now live. There are 5 General Academic Module papers — 30 questions each, 150 in total — assembled from a bank of 34 passage sets. GAM Mock 1 is free with an account and the other 4 are on the pricing page at ₹449 for the module, or ₹749 for both modules together. The five Core papers listed above are a separate module and are also ₹449; whichever you buy second is always ₹300, so nobody pays more than ₹749 in total. What the module actually contains is written up in full.

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