Guides
GMAT Focus guides
The GMAX team writes these guides to be short and specific. Each one gives you a procedure you can run on test day, names the traps that cost the most, and ends with where to practice the format free. We start with Data Insights because it carries a third of your total score and its five formats reward routines you can learn in a few weeks.
Data Insights
GMAT Focus Data Insights: what the section tests and how GMAC scores it
The five formats, the all-or-nothing scoring rule, why the section carries a third of your total, and a format-by-format preparation plan.
GMAX team · October 27, 2026 · 6 min read
Data Insights
Data Sufficiency on the GMAT Focus: a decision procedure
Classify the question, rephrase what you need, test each statement alone, combine last. The procedure, the number-testing habit, and the six traps it blocks.
GMAX team · October 27, 2026 · 6 min read
Data Insights
Graphics Interpretation and Table Analysis: reading charts under time pressure
A 20-second frame read for charts, a sort-first routine for tables, how the dropdown options set your precision, and the all-or-nothing traps.
GMAX team · October 27, 2026 · 6 min read
More free resources
- GMAT error log template and review routine: turn missed questions into specific next steps.
- GMAT Focus question types with live counts: what each format tests and how many questions GMAX has at each difficulty.
- Problem of the Day: one 705+ question every day.
- What the free plan includes: five adaptive questions and one rated match a day.
Put a guide to work today
Reading a procedure is step one. Running it on five adaptive questions a day, with an explanation after each, makes it automatic.
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