diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQuery.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQuery.java
index cee8bc43d7ffd..8076da6ab970b 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQuery.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQuery.java
@@ -146,10 +146,11 @@ public void grow(int count) {
                     public void visit(int docID) {
                         // it is possible that size < 1024 and docCount < size but we will continue to count through all the 1024 docs
                         // and collect less, but it won't hurt performance
-                        if (docCount[0] < size) {
-                            adder.add(docID);
-                            docCount[0]++;
+                        if (docCount[0] >= size) {
+                            return;
                         }
+                        adder.add(docID);
+                        docCount[0]++;
                     }
 
                     @Override
@@ -231,7 +232,7 @@ private void intersectRight(PointValues.PointTree pointTree, PointValues.Interse
             public void intersectLeft(PointValues.IntersectVisitor visitor, PointValues.PointTree pointTree, long[] docCount)
                 throws IOException {
                 PointValues.Relation r = visitor.compare(pointTree.getMinPackedValue(), pointTree.getMaxPackedValue());
-                if (docCount[0] > size) {
+                if (docCount[0] >= size) {
                     return;
                 }
                 switch (r) {
@@ -279,7 +280,7 @@ public void intersectLeft(PointValues.IntersectVisitor visitor, PointValues.Poin
             public void intersectRight(PointValues.IntersectVisitor visitor, PointValues.PointTree pointTree, long[] docCount)
                 throws IOException {
                 PointValues.Relation r = visitor.compare(pointTree.getMinPackedValue(), pointTree.getMaxPackedValue());
-                if (docCount[0] > size) {
+                if (docCount[0] >= size) {
                     return;
                 }
                 switch (r) {
@@ -435,6 +436,10 @@ public boolean canApproximate(SearchContext context) {
         if (!(context.query() instanceof ApproximateIndexOrDocValuesQuery)) {
             return false;
         }
+        // size 0 could be set for caching
+        if (context.from() + context.size() == 0) {
+            this.setSize(10_000);
+        }
         this.setSize(Math.max(context.from() + context.size(), context.trackTotalHitsUpTo()));
         if (context.request() != null && context.request().source() != null) {
             FieldSortBuilder primarySortField = FieldSortBuilder.getPrimaryFieldSortOrNull(context.request().source());
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQueryTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQueryTests.java
index dd683d28f00f7..4b41079de18ef 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQueryTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/search/approximate/ApproximatePointRangeQueryTests.java
@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@ public void testApproximateRangeWithSizeUnderDefault() throws IOException {
                     }
                     doc.add(new LongPoint("point", scratch));
                     iw.addDocument(doc);
-                    if (i % 15 == 0) iw.flush();
                 }
                 iw.flush();
+                iw.forceMerge(1);
                 try (IndexReader reader = iw.getReader()) {
                     try {
                         long lower = 0;
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ public void testApproximateRangeWithSizeOverDefault() throws IOException {
                     iw.addDocument(doc);
                 }
                 iw.flush();
+                iw.forceMerge(1);
                 try (IndexReader reader = iw.getReader()) {
                     try {
                         long lower = 0;
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ protected String toString(int dimension, byte[] value) {
                         };
                         IndexSearcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(reader);
                         TopDocs topDocs = searcher.search(approximateQuery, 11000);
-                        assertEquals(topDocs.totalHits, new TotalHits(11001, TotalHits.Relation.GREATER_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO));
+                        assertEquals(topDocs.totalHits, new TotalHits(11000, TotalHits.Relation.EQUAL_TO));
                     } catch (IOException e) {
                         throw new RuntimeException(e);
                     }
@@ -210,6 +211,7 @@ public void testApproximateRangeShortCircuit() throws IOException {
                     if (i % 10 == 0) iw.flush();
                 }
                 iw.flush();
+                iw.forceMerge(1);
                 try (IndexReader reader = iw.getReader()) {
                     try {
                         long lower = 0;
@@ -255,6 +257,7 @@ public void testApproximateRangeShortCircuitAscSort() throws IOException {
                     iw.addDocument(doc);
                 }
                 iw.flush();
+                iw.forceMerge(1);
                 try (IndexReader reader = iw.getReader()) {
                     try {
                         long lower = 0;
@@ -281,12 +284,12 @@ protected String toString(int dimension, byte[] value) {
                         assertNotEquals(topDocs.totalHits, topDocs1.totalHits);
                         assertEquals(topDocs.totalHits, new TotalHits(10, TotalHits.Relation.EQUAL_TO));
                         assertEquals(topDocs1.totalHits, new TotalHits(21, TotalHits.Relation.EQUAL_TO));
-                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[0].doc, 0);
-                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[1].doc, 1);
-                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[2].doc, 2);
-                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[3].doc, 3);
-                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[4].doc, 4);
-                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[5].doc, 5);
+                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[0].doc, topDocs1.scoreDocs[0].doc);
+                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[1].doc, topDocs1.scoreDocs[1].doc);
+                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[2].doc, topDocs1.scoreDocs[2].doc);
+                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[3].doc, topDocs1.scoreDocs[3].doc);
+                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[4].doc, topDocs1.scoreDocs[4].doc);
+                        assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[5].doc, topDocs1.scoreDocs[5].doc);
 
                     } catch (IOException e) {
                         throw new RuntimeException(e);