{"id":8465,"date":"2012-04-21T14:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:15:25","slug":"gmat-impact-all-about-integrated-reasoning-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/gmat-impact-all-about-integrated-reasoning-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Impact: All About Integrated Reasoning, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to the GMAT, raw intellectual horsepower helps, but it is not everything. In this weekly blog series,\u00a0Manhattan GMAT<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Stacey Koprince<\/a>\u00a0teaches you how to perform at your best on test day by using some common sense.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Part 2 in a series; read the Part 1 here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Because GMATPrep 2.0 has launched, we now know exactly what an Integrated Reasoning (IR) section is going to contain. First, some terminology: we have question prompts, which are what we have to read to answer a question, and then we have the questions themselves. Some question prompts have just one question, but some question prompts have multiple questions (like Reading Comprehension [RC]).<\/p>\n

Overall, the section includes four different kinds of question prompts: Multi-Source Reasoning, Two-Part Analysis, Graphics Interpretation and Table Analysis.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have one Multi-Source Reasoning prompt per IR section, and three separate questions associated with this prompt. One of the three questions will be a standard, five-option multiple choice question. The other two will each contain three \u201cEither\/Or\u201d statements (true or false, yes or no, etc.).<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll also have four Two-Part Analysis prompts, each with one question. For each question, we will have to make two selections, not just one, but we\u2019ll be choosing from the same set of answers.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be given three Graphics Interpretation prompts, each with one question. For each question, we will have to make two selections from a drop-down menu; there will be a separate drop-down menu for each.<\/p>\n

Finally, we\u2019ll see two Table Analysis prompts, each with one question. Similar to Multi-Source Reasoning, these questions will also contain three \u201cEither\/Or\u201d statements.<\/p>\n

These prompts can come in any order, but all Multi-Source Reasoning questions will come in a group (like RC).<\/p>\n

We have a total of 30 minutes for this section. I used 29 minutes on this first test; while I do expect to become a bit faster as I practice IR, I\u2019m guessing that I\u2019m still going to need most of the time to complete the section. I think most people will struggle with timing on this new section just as much as we already do on the quant and verbal sections.<\/p>\n

Because we have 12 questions, we have an average of 2.5 minutes per question\u2014including the time it takes to read the prompt. It took me anywhere from about 1 minute to a bit over 3 minutes to answer the 12 questions, with most in the 1 minute 45 seconds to 2 minutes 15 seconds range. Only a couple were close to 1 minute\u2014these questions are pretty complex.<\/p>\n

Next time, we\u2019ll talk about some high-level strategies for IR, including some key adjustments we have to make compared with standard quant and verbal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Because GMATPrep 2.0 has launched, we now know … Read More  <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGMAT Impact: All About Integrated Reasoning, Part 2 | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/gmat-impact-all-about-integrated-reasoning-part-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GMAT Impact: All About Integrated Reasoning, Part 2 | mbaMission - MBA Admissions Consulting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When it comes to the GMAT, raw intellectual horsepower helps, but it is not everything. 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