The Official Guide For GMAT Review

I ordered this book from Flipkart.com one afternoon and got it within the next evening. Book was in good condition except for the top left corner of the cover page slightly folded, which might have happened during the shipping. But other than that the standard of order processing was good.

Coming back to the book I'm more than half-way in to it. Its got easier questions than the Kaplan ones but I guess since its from GMAC it should mirror the standard we can actually expect on the GMAT. Most of the questions are pretty easy if you have solved Kaplan before. Explanations are thorough and satisfactory. I found some reviews on Amazon.com and they say that its just a re-publication of the previous OGS. I can't comment on that because I haven't gone though the previous ones.

A bit bulky to carry around, if you are planning to carry it on your business trips. However its good value for money and a must-have for anyone preparing for the GMAT.

P.S. For Heaven's sake please don't buy the Barron's book. Go for Kaplan if you want more practice.

The Official guide is the closest simulation you can get of the real GMAT exam only because its written by the GMAC itself. It features about 800 past retired questions which will really give you great insight onto what you can expect when you go to write the real exam. You have to go through this book at least once before writing your GMAT, or else your preparation is incomplete or probably flawed severely.

Just to sum this book,
Pro's:
1) It provides REAL GMAT questions, hence, simulating the actual difficulty level of the real GMAT.
2) The questions are arranged from the easiest to the toughest
3) It provides an overview of the question types that are most tested on the GMAT
Cons:
1) The explanations are sometimes cryptic, especially for Sentence correction. With Sentence Correction in particular, you would definitely need something to supplement this section of the book, just to understand the official explanations
2) The concept reviews before the start of each section is pretty useless. Its good if you want to understand topics are being tested, but if you really want to learn the concepts, from scratch I suggest you add another book to your study schedule.
3) The current GMAT Verbal section has been revised, and idioms are not being tested as heavily as it was before. Instead GMAC has put more focus on meanings, and scope shifts in questions in the verbal section, so the official guide Sentence correction section doesn't accurately cover the topics that the revised GMAT is testing.

Personally, I found the book very helpful. Its essential to incorporate this in your study schedule and I recommend it to all. But beware that you do need to use other books to complement your study schedule, this book alone wont do it.

Its a good book for beginning preparations for GMAT and considering that it comes from the official GMAC, the book is definitely useful.quite a bulky book and each section has explanation to the topics.
there could have been a greater number of practice exercises, nevertheless it is worth it. the beginning also has a diagnostic test and details about the exam and how to go about it which is also pretty useful.

as for the Flipkart service, it surpassed my high expectations by delivering the book in less than 24 hours!! The packaging was great to ensure no damage to this bulky book! :)
Go for it if you want to prepare for GMAT.

Excellent Service by Flipkart...........Got the book in an excellent condition.

This is the best book to give an idea for a GMAT beginner regarding the GMAT pattern.......Contains questions which gives an idea regarding the level of questions that can be expected.

I ordered this book !! and got it in 4 days !! awesome the book was perfect as if bought in a shop !