GMAT Focus Mock Tests, Syllabus & Complete Exam Guide

The GMAT, run by GMAC, is the most widely used admissions test for MBA and graduate management programmes. Since early 2024 the current version is the GMAT Focus Edition — a shorter, more focused test of about 2 hours 15 minutes with three equally-weighted sections: Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights. It reports a total score from 205 to 805 on a new scale, so a Focus score is not directly comparable to a score from the older 200–800 GMAT.

Focus deliberately trimmed the old test: the Analytical Writing essay was removed, Sentence Correction was dropped from Verbal, and Data Sufficiency moved out of Quant into the new Data Insights section, which also brings in the old Integrated Reasoning item types. The result is a test that rewards clear reasoning and data literacy — exactly the skills business schools care about — over memorised grammar rules.

Quantitative Reasoning is now Problem Solving only — arithmetic, algebra, word problems and number properties, with no calculator. Verbal Reasoning is Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning: understanding arguments, assumptions and inferences. Data Insights blends Data Sufficiency, Multi-Source Reasoning, Table Analysis, Graphics Interpretation and Two-Part Analysis — reading and combining information from tables, graphs and short passages, with an on-screen calculator available in this section.

The test is question-adaptive: each question's difficulty adjusts to how you have answered so far, so you cannot skip freely, but you can bookmark questions and edit up to three answers per section at the end. Because pacing is tight and every section counts equally, timed practice that builds both accuracy and speed — especially on Data Insights, which is new to many test-takers — is the most efficient way to raise your total.