Using SmartestDesk MBA Entrance
Everything the Practice Exam and the Mastery Manual can and cannot do, how to use them, and what to do if something goes wrong.
💡 Quick tips
- Your access code (it looks like MBE-XXXX-XXXX) is on your payment confirmation page. Write it down. It is not emailed.
- It opens on up to two devices — for example a laptop and a phone. A third device is refused.
- Access lasts 180 days from purchase.
- Each section runs on a 45-minute clock: Quantitative Reasoning 21 questions, Verbal Reasoning 23, Data Insights 20. The clock keeps running if you step away.
- 🧮 The calculator appears in Data Insights only, as on the exam. Quantitative has none.
- Every sitting reshuffles the questions and answer choices, so a retake is a fresh test.
- 📌 Every question you miss is saved under Missed Questions on the exam home, on every device you use. Take a test of just those until the list is empty.
- An agent's code (it starts SD-) goes in the Agent code box at checkout. It never changes the price, and it is not your access code.
📖 How to use it
1. Buy
On the store, tick the box to accept the Terms, then click the edition you want — Acquire — $599 for the Bundle, $399 for the Practice Exam, $279 for the Manual. Pay on Stripe's secure page. If an agent referred you, their code is already in the Agent code box; you can also type it there.
2. Keep your code
The confirmation page shows your code and a button into what you bought. Save the code somewhere safe.
3. Enter
Open the Practice Exam or the Mastery Manual, type your code, add your name for the watermark if you like, and click Enter (or Open the Manual). The device stays signed in for about 12 hours; after that, enter the code again.
4. Take a section or the full test
Choose a form (1, 2 or 3). Take the full test asks your section order, runs all three, offers one 10-minute break after a section, and gives your results together at the end. Or choose one section alone. Each question must be answered before the next, and the next one depends on your answer, so there is no going back until the end. A question in parts counts only when every part is right: pick one circle in each row of a grid, one choice in each menu, one row in each column. Tabs switch between sources, and tapping a table heading sorts it. Along the top: . Choose an answer, use ⚑ Flag for review for questions to revisit, and move with ‹ Previous and Next ›. After the last question, Review ▦ shows every question — answered, flagged, current. If time is left, you may look at any of them and change up to 3 answers in the section; changing one does not change the questions you were given. Submit section › scores it.
5. Read your result
You see your percent correct, with any question you did not reach counted as not correct, and the difficulty you reached (our own measure, not a GMAT™ score), how many you got right, and every question with the correct answer and the reasoning. Retake (reshuffled) › starts the same section again in a new order.
📌 Missed Questions
Every question you get wrong in a practice test is saved with your code. On the exam home, under 📌 Missed Questions, you see how many are left and your Weak spots (the topics you miss most). Click Test all missed — or Test 10 missed / Test 25 missed when the list is longer — for a test of just those questions, oldest first, on a clock at the official test's pace. Answer a question right twice in a row and it leaves the list; miss it again and it stays.
6. The Mastery Manual
126 pages. Turn pages with ‹ Previous / Next ›, the slider, or your arrow keys; Contents ▦ jumps to any chapter. It remembers your page on each device.
🎙️ Voice commands
⛔ SmartestDesk MBA Entrance has no voice commands. Everything is done with the buttons shown on this page.
💬 Sample conversations
🛠️ Troubleshooting
| What you see | Why | What to do | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The page reloaded, or you closed it, in the middle of a test | /exam/ | Your answers, flags and place are saved on that device. The clock keeps running. | Open the exam again and choose Resume your sitting on the start screen, on the same device. |
| You sat the official exam and want to test again | Your inbox | A Practice Exam or Bundle buyer may renew the Practice Exam at one-half price within thirty days of the test date. | Forward the unaltered official result to support@thesmartestdesk.com from your checkout email. If you got no email, send an unaltered photo or PDF of the full report. The Refund Policy has the terms. |
| “That access code is not recognized” | A typo, or it is not an MBE- code. | Check each character (no letter O or I, no number 0 or 1 is ever used). Use Lost your code? | |
| “That is an agent code” | An agent's SD- code was typed where the access code goes. | Use the MBE- code from your confirmation page. | |
| “This code is already in use on 2 devices” | Two other devices have already used it (a cleared browser counts as a new device). | Use one of those devices, or write to support@thesmartestdesk.com from the email you paid with. | |
| “This code unlocks the Mastery Manual…” (or the Practice Exam) | Your edition includes only the other reader. | Open the reader you bought, or choose the Bundle. | |
| “Your 180-day access has ended” | The access window is over. | A new purchase starts a new 180 days. | |
| No 📌 Missed Questions on the exam home | Your edition is the Manual only, or you have not finished a practice test yet. | Missed Questions come with the Practice Exam and the Bundle; finish a section and they appear. | |
| A question I got right is still on my list | A missed question needs two right answers in a row to leave. | Take another Missed Questions test. | |
| “The reader is closed…” | The publisher has closed it for a short while. | Come back soon; nothing you have done is lost. | |
| “Please tick the box…” at the store | The Terms box was not ticked. | Tick it, then click your edition again. | |
| Paid, but the confirmation page did not load | The page closed or the connection dropped. | Your purchase is recorded. Use Lost your code?, or write to support with your Stripe receipt. |
✅ Can & ⛔ Cannot
- ✅ Three full practice tests for the GMAT™ exam (477 original questions), adapting question by question, each section on a 45-minute clock, in your chosen order, with a rationale for every question.
- ✅ The 126-page Mastery Manual, watermarked to you.
- ✅ Two devices, 180 days, your code shown again any time through Lost your code?
- ✅ 📌 Missed Questions: every miss saved with your code on every device, a test of just those, and your weak spots by topic.
- ⛔ No printing, copying or downloading — both readers work on screen only.
- ⛔ Scores, answers and a full test under way stay on the device you used; they do not follow you to your second device. Only your 📌 Missed Questions list does.
- ⛔ These are original questions, not the exact questions of the GMAT™ exam, and SmartestDesk MBA Entrance is not affiliated with the Graduate Management Admission Council. Our adaptive rule is our own, and we show no estimated GMAT™ score. No score is guaranteed. Please never send us questions remembered from a test.
- ⛔ No refunds once a code has been used (see the Refund Policy on the store's footer).
Questions? support@thesmartestdesk.com · Created by SmartestDesk under the direction of Richard Glenn Clark, JM · MBA · BA