It's very disappointing that
of all 67 questions in the GMAT Focus Official Starter Kit, there is not a single "logic-based" Data Sufficiency question.
My
GMAT Focus 2023-2024 official guide bundle finally arrived in the mail today, so I can now also confirm that
there aren't any logic-based DS questions in the entire GMAT Official Guide 2023-2024 or in the Data Insights guide. Additionally, none of the GMAT Focus questions in these official materials appear to be new—just recycled classic GMAT questions from previous years.
It seems that GMAC wants us to think that there are new question types on the GMAT Focus, when in reality there are not...at least not yet.
This "logic-based" DS thing might just be a last-minute attempt for the company to improvise a new question type. Maybe GMAC got caught flat-footed with the (valid) criticism that the test really hasn't changed at all, other than the shorter length, the altered scoring system, and the removed / rearranged sections, so it's in the process of testing out a new question type that isn't yet featured in any of the practice materials—all of which are confirmed repeats of prior GMAT questions?
UPDATE: I was able to access the GMAT Focus Practice Exams 1 and 2 using
this link and
this link, instead of directly through my mba.com account.
I clicked through both Data Insights sections, and did not find a single example of "logic-based" DS. Granted, the Data Insights section is now adaptive as well, so I did not see all the possible questions. However, this certainly brings into question GMAC's transparency about this supposed new question type.
If GMAC had planned to include logic-based DS questions on the GMAT Focus the whole time—and it weren't making things up as it goes—wouldn't we see at least
one example of this type of question
somewhere in the official practice materials?