GMAT Exam Pattern

The GMAT Focus Edition, administered by GMAC, runs 2 hours and 15 minutes across three equally weighted 45-minute sections: Quantitative Reasoning (21 questions), Verbal Reasoning (23 questions) and Data Insights (20 questions). Every question has five answer choices, there is no penalty for a wrong answer, and the total score is reported on a 205 to 805 scale. Two sections are reproduced here in full. Quantitative Reasoning is 21 Problem Solving questions, which is the whole of the real section: the Focus Edition removed geometry from the syllabus and moved Data Sufficiency out of Quantitative Reasoning altogether, and neither appears in this section here. Verbal Reasoning is 23 Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning questions, again the whole of the real section, since Sentence Correction was dropped in the Focus Edition. Data Insights is the exception and is deliberately partial. Of its five question types, only Data Sufficiency is a plain five-option multiple-choice question, and it is built here as a defined 12-question set in 25 minutes rather than as a replica of the 20-question section. Multi-Source Reasoning needs tabbed sources, Table Analysis needs a sortable table, Graphics Interpretation needs drop-down completion and Two-Part Analysis needs a two-column selection grid; rendering any of them as an ordinary multiple-choice question would misrepresent what the format tests, so they are omitted rather than approximated. The section is named for the format it contains so that no one reads it as the real Data Insights section. Data Sufficiency questions always offer the same five answer choices in the same order, which is why the answer key for that block is not spread the way the rest of the paper is. Two further differences from a real sitting are worth stating. The GMAT is question-level adaptive within each section, so difficulty responds to performance and no two candidates see the same 21 questions; this mock is fixed-form, which means a raw score here has no conversion to the official scale and is useful for diagnosis rather than for prediction. And candidates choose the order in which they take the three sections on the day, so the order used here is a presentation choice rather than the exam order. The real test also lets a candidate bookmark questions and change up to three answers per section; this platform allows unrestricted review within a section until its timer ends, which is more permissive than the real thing. The pattern is marked review-pending because mba.com is refused by the network the environment that maintains this catalogue runs behind, so the counts, timing and scoring above rest on consistent secondary-source corroboration rather than a directly read GMAC page.