GMAT Exam (Focus Edition) study guide
GMAT Exam (Focus Edition) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The GMAT Focus Edition is a graduate business school admissions assessment administered by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the organization behind mba.com. It is aimed at candidates applying to MBA and business master's programs who want to demonstrate quantitative and verbal reasoning readiness before enrollment. GMAC describes the exam as "an assessment designed to sharpen the problem-solving and critical-thinking skills you'll need in business school and beyond," and mba.com frames a GMAT score as a way to "Demonstrate your potential, strengthen your application, and prove you're ready to succeed." The exam is organized into three sections: Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Insights. Note that the official GMAT Focus Edition page on mba.com currently returns a "page has moved" notice dated February 21, 2023, so verified specifications such as question counts, section time limits, scoring scale, registration fees, retake rules, and score validity could not be confirmed from the retrieved sources and are marked for review rather than estimated here. The GMAT Exam (Focus Edition) study guide has 3 sections and about 1,390 words.
01Quantitative Reasoning
Quantitative Reasoning on the GMAT Focus Edition is 21 Problem Solving questions in 45 minutes - about two minutes each. It is the exam's only math section, because Data Sufficiency now sits inside Data Insights.
495 words, about 2 min02Verbal Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning on the GMAT Focus Edition is 23 questions in 45 minutes, and it contains only two question types: Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning. Sentence Correction has been removed, so nothing asks you to repair grammar.
460 words, about 2 min03Data Insights
Data Insights is the GMAT Focus Edition's third section: 20 questions in 45 minutes, and the only section where an on-screen calculator is available. It absorbs the classic Integrated Reasoning question types plus Data Sufficiency, and it tests data literacy - reading a table or chart without misreading a column, deciding whether information is sufficient, and reconciling several sources at once.
435 words, about 2 min