{"id":9074,"date":"2012-06-09T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/?p=9074"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:15:07","slug":"gmat-impact-integrated-reasoning-has-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbamission.com\/blog\/gmat-impact-integrated-reasoning-has-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Impact: Integrated Reasoning Has Launched"},"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

Well, this is it: Integrated Reasoning (IR) finally launched this week, on June 5. We\u2019ve been talking about IR a lot<\/strong> in recent weeks (see posts here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>), but I have a couple of things to add (or repeat) now that IR is live.<\/p>\n

(1) Do not stress about IR. For the first year, we expect the schools to gather data but not use it. They simply don\u2019t know enough about how to interpret the scores or how much emphasis to place on them during the admissions process. So for at least the next six months, IR is slightly more important than the essays but much less important than quant and verbal.<\/p>\n

(2) The major \u201cdanger\u201d spot for IR right now is that we have to complete this section before we can get to quant and verbal\u2014the main event. We do want to study IR enough that we won\u2019t get either psyched out or tired out: know what the question types are, how to handle them in general, how to make educated guesses, how to handle the timing. Beyond that, don\u2019t even think about going for an amazing IR score or trying to get everything or almost everything right.<\/p>\n

(3) A lot of people view IR as an extra quant-based section, and if they don\u2019t like quant, they\u2019re pretty stressed about this new section. Actually, IR is a pretty even mix of quant and verbal, so if verbal is your strength, you will have an advantage on some of the questions in the section. You\u2019ll be asked to make inferences, to strengthen or weaken something, and so on. Conversely, if quant is your strength, you\u2019ll also have some advantages from the start. Either way, you\u2019ll have some basis to feel not too terrible about IR.<\/p>\n

(4) When you first try a couple of these IR questions, you\u2019re going to think, \u201cWow! That\u2019s really hard. These feel kind of bizarre!\u201d Don\u2019t panic. I felt the same way when I first looked at IR questions. They\u2019re different<\/em>, that\u2019s all. You\u2019re going to have to get used to them, but you will, as long as you\u2019re diligent in your study.<\/p>\n

In short, yes, you\u2019re going to have to study for IR, but no, this is not going to completely derail your GMAT study. For IR, be prepared enough<\/em> that you can answer some questions and guess on others without tiring yourself out or getting anxious—you don\u2019t need a great score here. Quant and verbal are still your priorities.<\/p>\n

Good luck and happy studying!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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