Magoosh GMAT Question Bank Review

Magoosh sells about 800 GMAT questions, every one of them carrying a video explanation as well as a written one, and the cheapest way in is $199 for 30 days. That is worth paying if you learn by watching a problem worked out loud and you are starting from a low base. It is poor value if you already score above 650, because 800 questions is the smallest paid bank in GMAT prep and the hardest Verbal material runs out first.

Three things about this bank do not appear in any other review of it, and all three come from Magoosh's own pages read on 18 September 2026. The $199 plan is not on the pricing page. That plan cannot qualify for the score guarantee. And the practice tests are built out of the question bank you bought, not added to it.

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The Magoosh GMAT plans page at gmat.magoosh.com, captured September 2026.

Magoosh GMAT Question Bank Overview

Magoosh does not sell a question bank on its own. The bank comes inside the Premium plan, and the plan is the same product at every length, so what changes when you pay more is how long you keep it rather than what is in it.

Every Premium plan listed on the pricing page contains the same things:

• Over 800 practice questions across Math, Verbal and Data Insights.
• A video explanation and a written explanation for every one of them.
• Over 200 video lessons, updated for the GMAT Focus format.
• At least 2 full-length practice tests.
• A score predictor, progress tracking and pre-made study schedules.
• Ask-an-expert support, a mobile app, and the option to pause your plan.

Two features are unusual enough to name. Plans do not renew or auto-renew, so access simply expires and there is nothing to cancel, which is rare in a market where most subscriptions bill until you stop them. And an active GMAT Premium plan can be switched to Magoosh GRE for free, with the months you have left set by how long you have already studied, which matters if you are still deciding between the two exams. Our GMAT and GRE comparison covers that decision properly.

Magoosh GMAT Question Bank Review For 2026

The video explanations are the entire case for this bank

Most banks put a video on the questions where a written explanation is least likely to land. Magoosh puts one on all of them, which is the single thing this product does that nothing else at this price does.

That matters more than it sounds. The common failure with a cheap bank is getting a question wrong, opening the explanation, finding three lines of algebra with no reasoning attached, and learning nothing about your own error. A worked video forces the explainer to say why they started where they started. For a student who is still building method rather than speed, that is the difference between practice and drilling.

The material spans a wide difficulty range, and Magoosh's own FAQ describes it as running from easy, below 400 on the old scoring scale, up to hard, above 700 on the old scale, with a difficulty level shown on each question. The honest reading of that range is that the bank is built to carry you from a low base to a mid score rather than from a good score to a great one. Our full Magoosh GMAT course review covers the 200 video lessons that sit around the bank.

Your practice tests are made out of the questions you bought

This is the detail that changes how you should use the product, and Magoosh states it plainly in the FAQ on the pricing page: the tests are generated from your pool of unanswered questions, which is why Magoosh recommends creating up to 2 practice tests and saving the rest of the bank for practice.

So the "2 plus practice tests" on the marketing cards are not extra content. They are a mode. A full GMAT Focus exam is 64 questions, 21 Quant, 23 Verbal and 20 Data Insights, so two full-length mocks take 128 questions out of a bank of roughly 800. That is 16 percent of everything you paid for, spent on two sittings.

The fix is cheap. Take your full-lengths from GMAC's official practice exams, which are built on real retired questions and the exam's own scoring engine, and keep all 800 Magoosh questions for the job they are good at. This is not really a flaw, it is a design most students misread, and it only costs you if you bought Magoosh expecting it to cover both. Our Magoosh GMAT practice tests review looks at the mock engine on its own terms.

The 70-point guarantee is narrower than the number suggests

"Up to 70 points" is doing heavy lifting on the plan cards. The score guarantee page sets the promise on a sliding scale tied to what you scored last time: 70 points if you scored up to 575, 60 at 585, 50 at 595, 40 at 605, 30 at 615, 20 at 625, and 10 points if you scored between 635 and 655. Above 655 there is no guarantee at all.

The requirements narrow it further. You must already have a GMAT Focus score, it must be under 5 years old, it must come from the same exam format, you must email the score report when you sign up, and your test date must be at least 3 months after your purchase date with every task in the 3-month study schedule completed.

Read those conditions next to the plan lengths and the $199 plan stops making sense for anyone buying the guarantee. Your access ends two months before the earliest test date the guarantee will accept, so you would have to compress a 3-month study schedule into 30 days and then sit the exam with no materials left to revise from. If the guarantee is part of why you are buying, the 6-month plan at $249 is the cheapest one that fits the rules as written.

The 7-day refund is the more useful promise in practice. Email within 7 days of the original purchase date and you get everything back, no strings. Two conditions attach: paying in installments does not restart that window, and pausing your plan does not extend it.

Pricing

Magoosh shows three plans. There is a fourth.

The same 800 questions at three plan lengths. Source: gmat.magoosh.com, read September 2026.

The pricing page itself shows only the 6-month, 12-month and Premium plus Admissions plans. The 30-day plan appears nowhere on that grid. The only route to it on the whole site is a link inside one FAQ answer, the one that asks how long you get access, and following it opens a checkout page for a 30-day Premium plan reading $199.00 with the expiry date printed on it.

That is worth knowing because the per-question arithmetic runs the opposite way to the per-month arithmetic. The 12-month plan is the cheapest month at about $29 and the dearest question at 43.6 cents. The 30-day plan is by far the dearest month and the cheapest question at 24.9 cents. The bank does not grow with the plan, so whether the long plan is good value depends entirely on which of the two you are actually buying: time with the material, or the material itself.

Every listed plan can be paid in 4 monthly installments. Magoosh also runs promotional codes frequently, so the prices above are the base ones and what you pay may be lower on the day. Before you commit to any length, the free 7-day trial gives you 20 or more questions and lessons, which is enough to find out whether the video explanations suit you.

Who Magoosh GMAT Is Best For

• Students who learn by watching a problem worked rather than reading a solution, which is the one thing this bank does better than every competitor.
• Beginners building Quant method from a low base, where the lessons teach where a formula comes from rather than asking you to memorise it.
• Retakers sitting in the 500s who want a guarantee that actually applies to them, since the sliding scale pays out most at scores up to 575.
• Anyone who wants a cheap, honest month of structured practice and is happy to take the unlisted 30-day plan at $199 and use the refund window.
• Students still choosing between the GMAT and the GRE, because the plan switches across for free.

When You Might Look Elsewhere

• You want real GMAT questions. No third-party bank has them. GMAC's Official Guide question bank is the only source of retired official items and belongs in every study plan whatever else you buy.
• You want volume for your money. Manhattan Prep's Qbank is 1,000 or more problems for $39 with 6 months of access, which is about 4 cents a question against Magoosh's 25 to 44 cents. No videos, no lessons, but the explanations are strong and the price is not close.
• Verbal is what is capping your score. This is Magoosh's weakest section and the criticism is consistent above the 650 level. e-GMAT Scholaranium holds roughly 2,500 Verbal questions on its own, more than Magoosh's entire bank.
• Quant is your bottleneck and you are aiming high. Target Test Prep is the deeper Quant bank, with an error tracker that logs why you missed a question rather than only that you did.
• You are spending nothing. GMAT Club gives 8 adaptive questions a day free forever, and our free GMAT Quant practice questions will tell you where you stand before you pay anyone.

Final Verdict

Magoosh earns its reputation for explanations and loses points for everything downstream of its size. A video on every question is genuinely rare, the Quant lessons teach method rather than recipes, and the score predictor has a good record. Against that, 800 questions is the smallest paid bank we compare, two mocks eat 16 percent of it, Data Insights coverage is thin for a section that now carries a third of your score, and some Sentence Correction material is dated against current official questions. Our 3.7 rating is that trade, priced honestly.

If you are still choosing, our GMAT question bank comparison ranks seven banks on cost per question, the study plan generator maps your weeks against your test date, and our guide on how to study for the GMAT sets out what a working week looks like. The GMAT hub has the rest, and our review methodology explains how we score products.

Magoosh GMAT Question Bank FAQs

How much does the Magoosh GMAT question bank cost?

The bank comes with a Premium plan: $249 for 6 months or $349 for 12 months on the pricing page, and $199 for 30 days on a checkout page that the pricing grid does not link. Premium plus MBA Admissions is $449 for 12 months. All four contain the same 800 or more questions, so the shortest plan is the cheapest way to buy the bank and the longest is the cheapest way to buy time with it.

How many questions does Magoosh GMAT have?

Over 800, spread across Math, Verbal and Data Insights, each with a video explanation and a written one. That is the smallest paid bank among the seven we compare, and it is the reason cost per question runs from 24.9 cents to 43.6 cents depending on the plan you pick. Most students who improve significantly work through several thousand questions, so plan on pairing Magoosh with official material rather than treating it as your whole supply.

Do Magoosh practice tests use questions from the bank?

Yes, and it is worth planning around. Magoosh generates each full-length test from the questions you have not answered yet, which is why it recommends creating no more than two of them. At 64 questions per GMAT Focus exam, two mocks consume roughly 16 percent of the bank. Take your full-lengths from GMAC's official practice exams and keep the Magoosh questions for drilling.

Does the Magoosh 70-point score guarantee actually apply to me?

Only under specific conditions. You need a previous GMAT Focus score under 5 years old in the same format, a test date at least 3 months after you buy, and every task in the 3-month study schedule completed. The promised increase slides down as your old score rises: 70 points up to 575, 30 points at 615, 10 points between 635 and 655, and nothing above that. The 30-day plan cannot satisfy the 3-month requirement, so the $249 plan is the cheapest one that can pay out.

Can I get a refund from Magoosh?

Yes, within 7 days of the original purchase date, in full and with no questions asked. Two limits apply: choosing 4-payment installments does not restart that window, and pausing your plan does not extend it. That makes the first week the real trial period, so use the bank hard and decide before it closes.

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