GMAT Focus section
GMAT Focus Verbal Reasoning practice questions
GMAT Focus gives you 23 questions in 45 minutes: Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning, with no Sentence Correction.
What the section tests
The Verbal Reasoning section gives you 23 questions in 45 minutes across two formats, Reading Comprehension and Critical Reasoning. GMAC dropped Sentence Correction from the Focus Edition, so the section no longer tests grammar; it measures how well you read for structure, evaluate arguments, and draw the conclusions a text supports.
Each Reading Comprehension passage comes with several questions, and each Critical Reasoning question stands alone with a short argument. Both formats use five answer choices and adapt to your answers, and together they produce a Verbal score from 60 to 90 that GMAC weights equally with Quant and Data Insights in the 205–805 total.
- Under 500Foundation700+ questions
- 500–599Core1,600+ questions
- 600–699Advanced1,600+ questions
- 700+Expert550+ questions
GMAX rates difficulty on the GMAT Focus total-score scale. Counts refresh about once an hour.
Question types in Verbal Reasoning
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The other sections
Quantitative Reasoning
GMAT Focus gives you 21 Problem Solving questions in 45 minutes: arithmetic and algebra, with no geometry and no calculator.
Data Insights
GMAT Focus gives you 20 questions in 45 minutes across five formats, with an on-screen calculator. The section counts for a third of your total.