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Conquering the GMAT Focus just got easier! This guide equips you with everything you need to excel, from predicting your score with our calculator to mastering the flexible exam format. Learn time-saving strategies, decipher your detailed score report, and understand how the new scoring system impacts your success. Master the GMAT Focus and achieve your dream score, thanks to our experts at GuideMe!
GMAT Focus Score Calculator
Using the GMAT Focus new algorithm, GuideMe's tech team has designed an easy-to-use calculator for all the GMAT aspirants. You simply need to enter your individual section scores and it'll give you the overall score.
Considering the fact that the final score has a rounding component attached to it, this calculator will come in handy when trying to improve scores.
For instance, if you are stuck on 615, and your individual scores are 81, 80, 80, and then to improve your score to 625 would need an increment of 2 points like 83, 80, 80 and a 1-point increment would not be enough.
Percentile Score Comparison Table: GMAT Focus Edition v/s GMAT Exam
Total Score Sorted by Percentile Ranking
Use this table to identify the Percentile Ranking for Total Scores from the GMAT Focus Edition and the GMAT Exam
The Structure of the GMAT Focus Edition
The GMAT Focus Edition consists of just 3 main sections, which can be taken in any order:
Data Insights: 20 questions, 45 minutes
Quantitative Reasoning: 21 questions, 45 minutes
Verbal Reasoning: 23 questions, 45 minutes
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How Are Scores Calculated?
The Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Data Insights sections are each scored on a scale from 60 to 90, in 1-point increments.
You will get four scores: a DI score, a VR score, a QR score, and a Total GMAT Score based on your three-section scores. The Total GMAT Score ranges from 205 to 805.
Your scores depend on:
Which questions you answer correctly
How many questions you answered
Each question’s difficulty and other statistical characteristics
An algorithm finds your scores based on the factors above. After you answer easier questions correctly, you will get harder questions to answer, letting you earn a higher score. The computer calculates your scores after you finish the exam or when your time runs out.
Number Of Attempts
All GMAT exam attempts across all editions of the exam, taken online or at a test center, will count towards your five (5) GMAT exam attempts during a rolling 12-month period and eight (8) total lifetime limits.
Selection Order
You can answer the three sections in any order, giving you a more personalized testing experience.
Considering permutations, all 6 options are on the table now!
Question Review and Edit
On the GMAT Focus, you cannot skip questions: you must answer (and confirm) each question before moving on to the next one. The Question Review & Edit tool gives you more control over the answers to your questions by allowing you to edit responses later in each section. With this tool, you can spend less time on questions you’re unsure about, knowing you can go back to these responses and update them.
Here is how it works:
As you move through a section, you can bookmark questions that you would like to review later.
When you have answered all questions in a section, you will proceed to the Question Review & Edit screen for that section. Note: If there is no time remaining in the section, you will NOT proceed to the Question Review & Edit screen and you will automatically be moved to your optional break screen or the next section (if you have already taken your optional break).
Each Question Review & Edit screen includes a numbered list of the questions in that section and indicates the questions you bookmarked.
Clicking a question number will take you to that specific question.
You can review as many questions as you would like and can edit up to three (3) answers.
Timing and Optional Breaks
You can also take one optional 10-minute break whenever you choose: after the first section, or after the second —but not both.
If you fail to select an option, then the break will be provided after the first section.
If you’re in a testing center, you are also not allowed to sit in the testing room during your break.
Scratch Pad Strategy
For the physical GMAT Focus test - you will get a scratch pad on the test day, which is 5 two-sided pages, so actually about 10 pages and a marker.
Your test order choice also feeds into your Pad strategy in the testing center.
You can raise your hand during any test section to switch out your used Pad for a fresh pad, but it’s a lot less disruptive to switch out your Yellow Pad just once, during your one break.
Since Verbal requires less writing – if you keep DI and Math on either side of the optional break, you can easily switch out your pad during the break. So you can use one Pad for Verbal plus whichever section you choose to do with verbal, and then use a second Yellow Pad for the third section.
During your GMAT Focus exam, you are not allowed to set up anything on your scratch pad during the break.
You will have a 30-second introduction screen right before each section starts.
Use this time to take a deep breath and set up your time management strategy on your scratch pad for the next section.
Time-Saving Keyboard Shortcuts on the Practice and Real GMAT Focus Exams
If your mouse stops working for some reason? Or maybe you just would like to spend less of your precious time clicking or tapping.
Simply type the letter of your answer (A, B, C, D, or E) on your keyboard, and the exam will register that choice! (You can also use 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 if you prefer.)
Then, just type Alt-N to choose "Next."
You can then use Alt-Y to select "Yes", and Alt-N to select "No."
Boom!
You're quickly on to the next question, without a single click of the mouse or tap of the trackpad.
GMAT Focus is an Adaptive Test
All three GMAT sections are computer-adaptive. This means the test chooses from a large bank of questions to adjust itself to your ability level, so you will not get many questions that are too hard or too easy for you. The first question will be of medium difficulty. As you answer each question, the computer uses your answer, along with your responses to earlier questions, to choose the next question with the right difficulty level.
Computer-adaptive tests get harder as you answer more questions right. But getting a question that seems easier than the last one doesn’t always mean your last answer was wrong. The test must ask you many types of questions on different subjects, so it will not always give you a question of the perfect difficulty level.
The GMAT Focus is also section adaptive, even though GMAC would prefer we not talk about that: the beginning questions of the 2nd and 3rd sections are affected somewhat by your performance on the prior sections.
This information should affect your section order choice, of course.
GMAT Focus Official Score Report - The New Enhanced Score Report (ESR)
The GMAT Focus Edition includes detailed performance insights with your Official Score Report, at no additional cost! In addition to your total and section scores and percentile rankings, you’ll get insights by section, question type, and content domain (meaning, a specific area of knowledge), details on your time management, and data on how you performed compared to others that applied to the same program.
Performance summary charts provide a view into your performance across the entire exam:
Performance by Section
Performance by Program & School
Subsection charts provide details about how you performed on specific domains within the Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning, and Data Insights sections. It is important to note that not all subdomains are present within each of the three sections.
Performance by Content Domain
Performance by Question Type
Performance by Fundamental Skills
Time Management & Performance
Summary of Question Review & Changes
GMAT Focus vs classic GMAT: Decoding the Scores!
This comparison dives into the scoring mechanisms and how they differentiate top performers for each GMAT version.
Old GMAT
Tight Score Range: Percentile jumps dramatically within a narrow band (around 48-51), potentially clustering top scorers in Quant and making it harder to distinguish them. Higher scores become increasingly challenging to achieve.
Ceiling Effect: Small score increases lead to significant percentile jumps, creating a "glass ceiling" for progress.
Top Percentile Difficulty: Breaking into the top percentiles is tougher due to the compressed scoring at the high end.
GMAT Focus
Linear Percentile Distribution: Percentiles increase more evenly with score, allowing for better differentiation among high scorers and a clearer reflection of their ability.
Balanced Scoring: The test aims for a more uniform difficulty across the scoring range, potentially making it easier to reach moderate percentiles.
Clearer Path to Top Scores: Achieving high percentiles is more straightforward with the linear score-to-percentile link, provided you can secure the corresponding score.
Mitigated Ceiling Effect: The GMAT Focus reduces the impact of the "glass ceiling" by spreading out percentile jumps across the scoring range.
Uniform Impact of Score Increases: Each point increase has a more consistent effect on your percentile, unlike the Old GMAT's disproportionate impact at the top.
Overall
The GMAT Focus offers a more balanced and differentiated scoring system, potentially making it easier for high scorers to stand out.
However, the concept of "toughness" is subjective. While the GMAT Focus may be less forgiving of mistakes for top percentile aspirants due to its linear scoring, it might be less punishing for those aiming for moderate to high scores.
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