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GMAT Focus Edition: Format & Question Types

The GMAT Focus Edition is the current GMAT, used for business-school admissions. It has three equally weighted sections and is fully question-adaptive, including the famous Data Sufficiency format.

Format

Three 45-minute sections, 64 questions in 2 hours 15 minutes, no essay. You choose the section order.

Sections

Quantitative

21 questions — problem solving, no on-screen calculator.

Verbal

23 questions — reading comprehension and critical reasoning.

Data Insights

20 questions, including Data Sufficiency plus graphics, tables and multi-source reasoning.

Signature question types

  • Data Sufficiency
  • Multi-source reasoning & table analysis
  • Critical reasoning

New to these formats? See the question-type glossary for how each one works.

Is it adaptive?

Item-adaptive: each question’s difficulty responds to your previous answers, and your score reflects the difficulty of the items you handle.

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Frequently asked questions

What is GMAT Data Sufficiency?
You decide whether the information in two statements is enough to answer a question — without necessarily solving it. It is a logic format unique to the GMAT.

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