GMAT^® Focus Edition

Sixty-Four Questions.
Three Sections.
Every One of Them Adaptive.

The Focus Edition dropped Sentence Correction, dropped the essay, and promoted Data Insights to a third of your score.
Most prep on the shelf still teaches the test it replaced.
This one is built on the current blueprint and generates every practice section fresh.

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Scored sections: 64
Questions, total: 205–805
Total score scale: 137
Skills we track

The structure

Three Sections.
Forty-Five Minutes Each.
Data Insights Is a Third of Your Score.

Quantitative Reasoning is 21 questions, Verbal Reasoning is 23, and Data Insights is 20.
Sentence Correction, geometry and the analytical writing essay are all gone; Data Sufficiency moved out of Quant and into Data Insights.

The section people underprepare is the one that changed most. Data Insights was assembled out of the old Integrated Reasoning section plus Data Sufficiency, and it now carries equal weight with Quant and Verbal. Candidates who studied from pre-2024 material arrive having drilled two thirds of an exam. It is the single most common way a Focus Edition score comes in under expectation.

What is covered

All Three Scored Sections, on the Focus Blueprint

Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning are taught as one course because the Focus Edition tests them as one habit of mind.
Data Insights gets its own, because it deserves it.

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Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning

90 minutes combined · 44 questions · item-adaptive · 72 tracked skills

What the blueprint covers

Arithmetic and number properties
Algebra — equations, inequalities, exponents, functions
Word problems — rates, work, mixtures, interest
Statistics, counting and probability
Critical Reasoning — assumption, strengthen, weaken, evaluate, paradox
Reading Comprehension — long and short business and science passages

What practice feels like

Quant is Problem Solving only now — no Data Sufficiency, no geometry. Verbal is Critical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension only. That narrower surface makes per-skill diagnosis unusually sharp: there are fewer places for a weakness to hide.

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Data Insights

45 minutes · 20 questions · item-adaptive · 65 tracked skills

What the blueprint covers

Data Sufficiency — relocated here from Quantitative
Multi-Source Reasoning — tabbed exhibits that contradict each other
Table Analysis — sortable tables under time pressure
Graphics Interpretation — reading a chart for what it does and does not say
Two-Part Analysis — two dependent answers, no partial credit

What practice feels like

Every question type here is multi-part and most give no partial credit, so a small misreading costs the whole item. Practice drills the sequencing — which exhibit to open first, when to sort, when to stop reading — because that is what separates 20 finished questions from 15.

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Scoring

The Scale Is New.
Do Not Compare It to an Old 700.

Focus Edition totals run 205–805 in ten-point steps, and every total ends in a 5.
The percentile attached to a given number is materially different from the old 200–800 scale, so a straight number-to-number comparison will mislead you.

GMAT Focus Edition total score bands and what they generally indicate
Score	What it generally means
685–805	Top-decile territory and competitive at the most selective programs. Above roughly 715 the marginal ten points buy less than the rest of the application does.
605–675	A strong score at most ranked programs, and the band where the three section scores start mattering individually.
545–595	Around the middle of the Focus Edition population. A structured eight to twelve weeks moves this number more than any other band.
205–535	Below the middle. Worth establishing early — the gain per hour at this end is the largest available anywhere on the scale.

Section scores are 60–90 each, and schools do read them. A total that clears a program's median while hiding a weak Data Insights score is a real pattern and a real risk. The readiness forecast is per section for that reason, and Autopilot will spend your weeks on the section that is actually dragging rather than on the one you enjoy practicing.

In practice

How the Course Handles the GMAT

Almost every Focus Edition candidate is preparing around a full-time job.
The design assumption is a schedule that breaks, not one that holds.

Unlimited adaptive full-lengths

Sections are generated per attempt and adapt item by item, the way the exam does. Official practice exams are a scarce resource you have to ration; these are not.

A forecast per section, on the new scale

Projected section scores with confidence bands, and a total on the 205–805 scale rather than a translated old-scale number. Aimed at your booked date.

Bookmark-and-review practiced, not just described

The Focus Edition lets you flag questions and change up to three answers per section. That is a budget, and spending it well is a skill — so practice sessions expose the same affordance instead of leaving you to meet it cold.

Shared ground with the GRE^®

If your programs accept either test, the quantitative and reading ground overlaps substantially. Both are in the same subscription, so trying both and keeping the better fit is free.

GMAT Questions

Is this the Focus Edition or the old GMAT?

The Focus Edition. The previous format was retired and is no longer administered. If prep material you are comparing teaches Sentence Correction, geometry, or the analytical writing essay, it is preparing you for an exam that no longer exists — and it is omitting a third of the one that does.

Why is Data Insights taught as its own course?

Because it is a third of your score and shares almost nothing with the other two sections. Data Sufficiency logic, multi-source exhibits and two-part analysis are their own skills. Folding them into a Quant course is how candidates end up underprepared for the section that changed most.

How does a Focus Edition score compare to an old GMAT score?

Not directly, and converting by eye will mislead you. The scales and the percentile distributions are different. GMAC publishes a concordance; use that rather than intuition, and compare against percentiles rather than raw numbers.

How many practice exams do I get?

As many as you want to take. Sections are generated per attempt rather than drawn from a fixed set, which matters more on this exam than most: official practice exams are limited, and burning one to discover a weakness is expensive.

Can I really change my answers?

Up to three per section, on questions you flagged, at the end of that section. It is a genuine strategic resource and it is easy to waste. Practice sessions expose the same mechanic so you arrive with a habit rather than a theory.

GMAT or GRE?

Most business programs accept both and publish no preference. Take a timed section of each — both are in this subscription — and go with the one where you sit higher relative to its population. That is a better signal than any general advice.

Do you handle registration?

No. Registration, rescheduling, score reporting and the online-versus-test-center choice all run through GMAC. We prepare you for the exam; they administer it.

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