Reddit reviews The Official Guide for GMAT Review 2016 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video
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First, yes, the material is still very relevant. There have been some slight deviations in sentence correction, but nothing too substantial. Specifically, if you have the Manhattan set, I think the SC book was revamped but otherwise I don't think they haven't changed much over the last couple of versions (other than updating the suggested OG question lists as the OGs have changed).
Second, still go out and buy the new 2016 GMAT Official Guide because it contains only real test questions and they are the most accurate compared to the real verbal section (many 3rd-party questions verbal are average at best and many more are terrible). If you already have an older official guide, that can still be helpful, but this likely has mostly different questions (about 25% get swapped out most years). Also, you can get the official guide 2016 bundle with the individual quantitative and verbal books if you want more official practice questions, but those tend to be on the easier side, so the main official guide is more important.
Third, www.gmatclub.com is pretty helpful (and free!) and the forums have some resources and, more importantly, contain almost every GMAT question that's on the internet. Again, avoid 3rd-party verbal questions, but 3rd-party math questions are often really useful (and often you can find harder than GMAT questions, which helps to push up into the high 40s in quant). You can search the forum by tag to specify which type of questions you want, or you can use the directories:
Fourth, mba.com official GMATPrep tests are the most accurate. You get 2 question banks for free (and you can attempt each of them multiple times with varying levels of question overlap among retries) and you can buy 2 more (but it's expensive, like $50 or something). If you want more tests, Veritas, GmatClub, Manhattan, Princeton Review, Kaplan, etc. all have at least one free test available.
Fifth, if you want the set of Manhattan tests and the codes don't work, first talk to them. I've heard of them extending access and such, but I don't know how reliable that is. If that doesn't work, buy a kindle version of any of the Manhattan books in the set for like $10 and get a new code instead of paying full price for the same tests (again, I heard the SC book was vastly restructured, so that might be one worth getting if you decide to buy one for a code).
So, for the price of the OG 2016 book and maybe one Manhattan book, you should be good to go.