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Hello Hard-Working GMAT Student,
Congrats on completing your Integrated Reasoning Lesson on Demand! You covered a lot of ground and
are now well on your way mastering one of the trickiest sections on the GMAT. The ReKap notes are
below for your review. Continue applying all of the approaches that were covered in the video session,
both in your review work and on your practice CATs. With practice, you’ll be far ahead of the curve by
Test Day.
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Session Notes
Section Overview
You have an average of 2.5 minutes per Integrated Reasoning question, which is generally not
sufficient time to tackle every question thoroughly (especially multi-part questions, for which
there is no partial credit). Going into the test, know which question types you’re best at and
plan to guess on a few questions so that you have extra time to do the questions that you
choose to complete.
The Integrated Reasoning section is not adaptive, but you cannot go back to already completed
questions—you need to decide when each new question appears whether you want to
complete it.
While there is an onscreen calculator in the Integrated Reasoning section, avoid using it unless
absolutely necessary. You can only input numbers with mouse clicks, which takes more time
than you have, and most of the questions are best solved using rounding and estimation.
Question Types
Graphics Interpretation
Graphics Interpretation questions test your ability to analyze data in a variety of types of graphs.
Each Graphics Interpretation question asks you to answer two questions using drop-down
menus.
Before you read any Graphics Interpretation question, make sure that you’ve examined the
titles of the graph and of each axis, compared the scale of the numbers on each axis, and
identified any obvious trends in the data.
Glance at the answer choices before you begin answering questions but don’t get overly hung
up on them.
Multi-Source Reasoning
Since Multi-Source Reasoning questions require you to synthesize data from multiple tabs of
information, take brief notes (similar to what you’d write in a Passage Map for Reading
Comprehension) on each tab before you go to the questions.
Before you use any data to analyze each of the multiple-dichotomous statements (for which you
must choose between two answer choices, often “yes” and “no” or “true” and false”), make
sure that you’ve characterized exactly what analysis would result in each answer choice.
For each question or part of a question, use your map to guide you to the tabs that contain
relevant information.
Table Analysis
Table Analysis question sets test your ability to cull relevant pieces of information from
spreadsheets.
Table Analysis sheets are similar to Graphics Interpretation sets, in that you need to read the
titles of the graphs and axes before you go to the questions.
Each table has a sort function that you can use to sort by each column heading.
Some questions will require you to sort the data multiple times while some questions are solved
more quickly by estimating and not sorting at all. Generally, questions that ask about the range
of a set or the median, least, or greatest value in a set are good questions on which to use the
sort function.
Two-Part Analysis
Two-Part Analysis questions ask you to find values or solutions for two different components of
a scenario. You can potentially see both Quant- and Verbal-based questions.
The same answer choice can be the correct answer to both of a question’s components.
It’s not possible to predict the correct answers to a Quant-based Two-Part Analysis question or
to solve for precise answers using only the information in the question stem. The correct
answers will be the two answers that, when taken together, fit the context of the information
given in the stem.
On Quant-based Two-Part Analysis questions, write equations with the information in the stem
and then Backsolve answer choices to test them out.
On Verbal-based Two-Part Analysis questions, write down key points or rules to be sure that
you’ve understood them correctly. This will also help you to combine rules when necessary.
Once you’ve identified the two correct answers, make sure you double-check to confirm that
you’ve matched each answer to the proper column; it’s easy to get a question incorrect just
because you’ve assigned the answers to the incorrect columns.
