{"id":8630,"date":"2012-05-12T15:14:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T21:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=8630"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:15:24","slug":"gmat-impact-all-about-integrated-reasoning-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/gmat-impact-all-about-integrated-reasoning-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Impact: All About Integrated Reasoning, Part 5"},"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

And on we go\u2014this is the fifth entry in what began as a three-part series on the GMAT’s new Integrated Reasoning (IR) section. I can\u2019t help it\u2014they keep releasing new and important info\u2014so we\u2019ll just keep going until either we get sick of the topic or GMAC stops giving us new things to discuss.<\/p>\n

GMATPrep 2.0 has been out for nearly a month now, and we\u2019ve got some important details to share. First, if you haven\u2019t heard already, the new software is Mac compatible (finally!). Second, I got a bit of a nasty surprise when I took my second GMATPrep\u2014the IR questions were exactly the same ones I saw on the first test!<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s our first big tip for you: Save 12 official IR questions for your second GMATPrep: one Multi-Source Reasoning with three questions, and three each of the other three types. (Note: this is not the exact guaranteed mix on the real test, but it\u2019s one of the possible mixes.) You can get these questions from within the practice section of the GMATPrep software or from the OG13 IR question bank.<\/p>\n

You can also just skip the IR section on the second test, but the problem is that this might give you an artificial advantage on the quant and verbal portions (because you won\u2019t be as mentally fatigued as you\u2019d normally be). As such, we strongly recommend that you save 12 questions to make the second\u00a0GMATPrep experience as much like the real test as possible.<\/p>\n

An \u201cupdates available\u201d feature is built into GMATPrep 2.0. If you see that icon pop up, click on it<\/em>. Eventually, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll add a second \u201creal\u201d IR section to the test, so you want to get that update when it\u2019s available!<\/p>\n

Finally, a little OG news. The\u00a0Official Guide for GMAT Review<\/em>, 13th edition, (OG13) has a code for an online question bank consisting of 50 IR questions. Your access is good for six months from the date of activation, so don\u2019t activate the set until you\u2019re ready to do your first OG IR problem.<\/p>\n

Also, if you\u2019ve already bought OG12 but are planning to take the new test, good news: you can purchase access to just the online IR question bank for $10<\/a>. This option will be available until June 5; after that, the 50-question IR bank will be available only with the purchase of OG13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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And on we go\u2014this is the fifth entry in what began as a three-part series on the GMAT’s … 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-8630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nGMAT Impact: All About Integrated Reasoning, Part 5 | 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-5\/\" \/>\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 5 | 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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