GMAT Focus Edition: The One-Glance Format

The big picture

• GMAT Focus (2h 15m)
  • Quantitative — 21 questions · Problem Solving · 45 min
  • Verbal — 23 questions · RC + Critical Reasoning · 45 min
  • Data Insights — 20 questions · the new data section · 45 min
  • Choose your order — Take the 3 sections in any order
  • Review & edit — Bookmark and change up to 3 answers per section

Three equal sections, 45 minutes each

The GMAT Focus Edition has three 45-minute sections — Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights — for a total of 2 hours 15 minutes (about an hour shorter than the old GMAT). Each section is equally weighted in your total score.

You choose the section order

You pick which of the three sections to take first, second and third. Play to your energy: lead with your strongest section to bank confidence, or your weakest while fresh — but decide your order in advance so you're not choosing under pressure.

You can bookmark and edit answers

Within each section you can bookmark questions and change up to three answers before time runs out (using the question review & edit screen). This rewards a two-pass approach: answer everything, flag the shaky ones, then revisit.

It's adaptive and scored 205–805

The GMAT is computer-adaptive — each section adjusts difficulty to your performance — and your total score runs 205–805 in 10-point steps, built from all three equally-weighted sections. Business schools compare percentiles, so check your target programme's typical range.

Test yourself before you move on

Re-reading a note feels like learning and produces almost none. The retrieval below is what actually builds the memory, so cover the map above and answer these from memory — out loud or written down, not in your head, because "I know this" is the feeling that fails under exam pressure.

1. Without looking: what is Quantitative, and how does it connect to GMAT Focus (2h 15m)?
2. Without looking: what is Verbal, and how does it connect to GMAT Focus (2h 15m)?
3. Without looking: what is Data Insights, and how does it connect to GMAT Focus (2h 15m)?
4. Without looking: what is Choose your order, and how does it connect to GMAT Focus (2h 15m)?
5. Without looking: what is Review & edit, and how does it connect to GMAT Focus (2h 15m)?

Anything you could not produce is the part of this note you have not learned yet — regardless of how familiar it felt while reading. Re-read only that node, then re-test the whole set. Testing the whole set matters: recalling one idea in isolation is easier than recalling it among 5 competing ones, which is the situation the exam actually puts you in.

When to come back to this note

Spacing is not a scheduling detail, it is the mechanism. Meeting this material again just as it starts to fade forces the effortful retrieval that consolidates it, which is why a note reviewed four times across three weeks outlasts the same note read four times in one evening. The built-in scheduler resurfaces these questions at widening intervals for exactly that reason — the prompt arriving when you feel you have half-forgotten is the system working, not failing.

A practical rhythm for GMAT Focus (2h 15m): today, again tomorrow, then after three days, then after a week. If you fail a review, shorten the next interval rather than re-reading the note end to end — the failure identifies the gap precisely, and re-reading everything wastes the diagnosis.

Then apply it under pressure. Knowing a concept in isolation and using it in a timed paper are different skills, and only the second is examined. There are 90 free GMAT practice tests here covering 1,920 questions — counted from the test files, not estimated. Take a full timed GMAT mock →