GMAT Integrated Reasoning

Evaluating the Given Information

The Integrated Reasoning section of the GMAT exam tests how good are you in integrating data to solve intricate problems. This is important to validate your skills to absorb large data and come up with the perfect solution. With integrated rezoning section you will be able to demonstrate your skills to:

• Synthesize information presented in graphics, text, and numbers.
• Evaluate relevant information from different sources.
• Organize information to see relationships and to solve multiple, interrelated problems.
• Combine and manipulate information from multiple sources to solve complex problems.

In this section you will need to solve the total 12 questions of four different types, most of them might even require multiple responses. This section is supposed to be completed in 30 minutes.

Different Question Types in the Integrated Reasoning Section

There are four types of questions in the Integrated Reasoning Section:

• Multi-Source Reasoning
• Table Analysis
• Graphics Interpretation
• Two-Part Analysis

The questions include both quantitative and verbal reasoning, either separately or in combination.

There are two distinctive features of this section:

• Most of the questions are multi-responses questions.
• Candidates are allowed to use online calculator containing all the basic functions to answer the questions.

On an important note, remember that these questions are intended to test your skills to integrate data and solve intricate problems so there is no partial credit, therefore, you are required to answer all responses to questions correctly.

Multi-Source Reasoning

These questions test the candidate to assess data from different sources (text passages, tables, graphics, or a blend of the three) and to study each source warily and answer multiple questions. Some of them might need you to spot inconsistencies among different sources of data. Others might ask you to draw conclusions or may require you to determine whether data is relevant or not.

Table Analysis

Tests your skills of sorting and analyzing a data table, just like a spreadsheet, to help you decide which parts of the information are relevant and come across the demand evenly.

Graphics Interpretation

Tests your skills to understand the information existing in a graph or other graphical image (scatter plot, x/y graph, bar chart, pie chart, or statistical curve distribution) to separate relations and create conclusions.

Two-Part Analysis

Tests your skills to solve intricate problems whether they are quantitative, verbal, or a mixture of both. The format contains a wide range of content to test your credibility in evaluating trade-offs, solve simultaneous equations, and discriminate relationships between two entities.