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GMAT Focus Edition — Verbal Reasoning Section

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Verbal Reasoning Foundations & CAT MechanicsYou are here

Learn the 23-question format, 45-minute timing, item-level adaptive scoring algorithm, and the question review and edit feature.

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Critical Reasoning Argument Deconstruction

Master argument structure, unstated assumptions, strengthen/weaken logic, causal fallacies, boldface roles, and paradox resolution.

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Reading Comprehension Structural Mastery

Build paragraph mapping skills for business, science, and humanities passages, and practice primary purpose, detail, and inference items.

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Timed Section Pacing & Error Log Analysis

Execute full-length 45-minute verbal practice sets adhering to the 117-second pacing rule and analyze question review edit choices.

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Estimated total study time
40 hours
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GMAT Verbal Exam Details

GMAT Focus Edition — Verbal Reasoning Section

Administered by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)

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No pass/fail; Verbal Reasoning is scored 60–90, and the GMAT Total Score ranges from 205 to 805
Passing Score
23
Questions
45
Minutes
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Study time: No official requirement; this guide's study path plans about 40 hours of Verbal Reasoning preparation

Exam Content Breakdown

Based on the official Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) content outline

Critical ReasoningNot published by GMAC (mixed throughout the section)

Short passages, usually fewer than 100 words, that test making arguments, evaluating arguments, and formulating or evaluating a plan of action through questions on assumptions, strengthening, weakening, flaws, inferences, discrepancies, and argument structure.

Reading ComprehensionNot published by GMAC (mixed throughout the section)

Passages, often on business, science, or social science topics, that test the six reading skills GMAC names: main idea, supporting idea, inference, application, logical structure, and style, plus following quantitative concepts.

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