Editorial standards
We are a small, independent team building the most useful, honest, and current free GRE resource on the open web. This is a your-money-your-life topic: a wrong requirement or an inflated score estimate can cost someone an application cycle. So accuracy, sourcing, and honest labelling come before polish, before growth, and before our own convenience. These are the standards every page is held to, written plainly so you can hold us to them.
Independence
GREMockTests is independent and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to ETS, the maker of the GRE. GRE is a registered trademark of ETS. We are not a reseller, an affiliate program, or a lead-generation front for a test-prep company.
We do not accept payment from test makers, universities, or prep companies to feature, rank, recommend, or soften our assessment of them. When we compare products, including paid competitors, we say plainly what each one is good at, where it falls short, and where we differ. If we ever add affiliate links or sponsorship, we will label it clearly on the page it appears, and it will never change a ranking or a recommendation.
How we research before we publish
Nothing time-sensitive goes up on a hunch. Before a page is written we pull the real data: the official ETS publications first, then the live search results and the top-ranking pages for the query, so we can see what is already covered, what is stale, and where the genuine gaps are.
Every factual claim about the test itself, its format, timing, scoring scales, percentiles, fees, and the test-optional landscape, traces back to a single internal source-of-truth document that is built from primary sources (the ETS test-structure pages, the ETS interpretive-data and snapshot PDFs). If a claim is not in that document, or contradicts it, it does not ship.
We write to beat the current best page, not to add another thin one. A few hundred genuinely useful, accurate, current pages are worth more than thousands of shallow ones, to you and to us.
Original content only
Every practice question on this site is original and written by our team to match the official GRE format and difficulty. We never copy, scrape, or paraphrase real, test-secure ETS questions: doing so is both a copyright violation and a disservice, because memorising leaked items teaches nothing transferable.
AWA practice uses the publicly published ETS pool of Issue topics, which ETS releases on purpose, but every model essay and every piece of feedback is our own. Each question ships with a full worked solution, the concept it tests, its common traps, and a difficulty tag, never an answer key alone. Every item is independently re-solved and verified before it reaches a live mock.
How we score, and what is exact versus estimated
This is the part most likely to mislead if we are sloppy, so we are explicit about it.
Verbal and Quant are objective, so we mark them deterministically against the answer key, using the official all-correct rules for multi-answer and numeric items. We then map raw performance to the 130 to 170 scaled range and to a percentile. The test is section-adaptive, so your first section of each measure sets the difficulty of the second, and only the hardest track can reach the top of the scale, exactly as on the real GRE.
The percentile we show for a given scaled score is exact: it is the official ETS figure from the interpretive-data tables. The scaled score itself is an estimate, because ETS does not publish its equating function; our model is reverse-engineered and calibrated to the official population means, and we state an estimated tolerance of about two scaled points. We will never present an estimated score as an official ETS score.
The Analytical Writing score is an AI estimate produced against the official 0 to 6 rubric dimensions. See the next section for how it works and where its limits are.
How we use AI, and where it stops
We use AI in two places, both labelled. It writes worked-solution walkthroughs and the AWA score estimate. It does not decide whether your Quant or Verbal answers are right; that is deterministic marking against a verified key.
The AWA grader reads your essay against the published ETS holistic descriptors, treats it as a timed first draft (an occasional slip does not lower the score, only severe and persistent problems do), and returns a 0 to 6 estimate with a breakdown. It is an estimate, not an official score, and it does not replicate ETS's e-rater engine, whose internals are proprietary. The real test scores with one trained human reader plus e-rater. Treat our number as directional feedback for practice, not a prediction of your official AWA score.
Sourcing and accuracy (YMYL)
Any score, requirement, fee, percentile, or deadline cites an official source and links it, with a visible last checkeddate. University pages lead with whether the GRE is required, optional, or waived for the current cycle, sourced to the program's own admissions page, because that is the single thing most competitor pages get wrong or leave stale.
If a fact is unknown or unverifiable, we say so rather than guess, and we never invent a cutoff. We also never present prep-marketing claims as established fact: figures like "most retakers improve by X points" or "a higher score raises acceptance by Y percent" are applicant beliefs or vendor marketing, so we attribute them or leave them out.
Freshness and corrections
Time-sensitive pages carry visible updated and last-checked dates and are re-verified on a schedule. Test-optional university pages get a standing quarterly re-check, because requirements change by department and by year. When a page's ranking, traffic, or accuracy drifts, it goes back into the queue for a refresh rather than being left to rot.
If we get something wrong, we fix it and note the correction rather than quietly editing it away. Found a stale requirement, a wrong number, or a flawed question? Tell us at our contact page and we will check it against the official source and update.
Accessibility and the free promise
The mocks, the worked solutions, the percentile data, and the tools are free and need no payment. That is a deliberate stance, not a trial: cost is a real barrier for the international majority of GRE takers, and a genuinely free, honest resource is the gap worth filling. A future personal layer (saved progress, a study plan) will add to the free pages, never gate them.
We build to a real accessibility floor: semantic markup, visible keyboard focus, sufficient colour contrast in both light and dark modes, and respect for reduced-motion preferences.
Why we are anonymous
We publish as a small independent team rather than under a personal byline. The work is a collective effort, the standards on this page are what we answer to, and the content should stand on its sourcing and usefulness, not on a name or a credential. Anonymity also keeps the focus where it belongs: on whether the page is accurate and genuinely helps you, which you can judge directly.