Integrated Reasoning
How will the Integrated Reasoning Section be Scored?
Some fast facts about the GMAT’s new Integrated Reasoning section. Fact: Right now, the GMAT has a Verbal Section (75 min), a Quantitative Section (75 min), and two Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA) essays (Analysis of Argument and Analysis of Issue, 30 minutes each). Fact: Right now, your GMAT...
How to Actually Improve Your Score on the GMAT Quant Section
Know the fundamentals To do well on the GMAT quant, you can’t guess your way through, relying on techniques such as process of elimination or approximation. At a certain point you have to know the properties of a right triangle or the difference between dependent and...
Integrated Reasoning Question Type: Bar Charts
Fact: One common way data will displayed on GMAT Integrated Reasoning questions is in bar charts. This post is a whirlwind overview of what you need to know about the varieties of bar charts in order to be successful with them on the new IR section. Bars &...
GMAT Integrated Reasoning: Bubble Charts
Fact: When GMAT Integrated Reasoning appears, starting in June 2012, one type of chart about which the GMAT IR can ask is a bubble chart. What in Sam Hill is a bubble chart? Scatterplots A bubble chart is a close cousin to a scatterplot. In a scatterplot, each...
Sneak Peek: New GMAT Official Guide 13th Edition Math
Advanced copies of the 13th edition of the GMAT Official Guide (turquoise cover) have been released. Changes in Problems Used The vast majority of the math questions in the 12th edition Official Guide appear verbatim but in a different order, than in the 13th edition. Here’s a...
Should I Take the GMAT Before It Changes?
Fact: On June 5, 2012, the current format of the GMAT will vanish and the “next generation” GMAT will replace it. Fact: the “next generation” GMAT will have only one AWA essay question, instead of two, and will have the new Integrated Reasoning questions. Fact: The ordinary Verbal...
GMAT Blackout
By Lucas Weingarten GMAC has posted a FAQ page on their website www.MBA.com regarding the upcoming Next Generation GMAT (which basically means the same ol’ GMAT with one less essay and one more section in its place). For those who have no idea what I’m...
New GMAT Integrated Reasoning: Overview and Practice Questions
What is integrated reasoning? The GMAT Integrated Reasoning section is a new section on the GMAT, and will be introduced on June 5th, 2012. Instead of making test takers suffer even longer, GMAC, the writers of the GMAT, have decided to replace one of the essays...
The New GMAT: Integrated Reasoning, pt. 4
By Lucas Weingarten In our final post of the New GMAT Integrated Reasoning question format series, we are going to dive into the fourth of four new question formats test takers will see as of June 2012: Multi-Source Reasoning. Previously, we looked at Graphic Interpretation...
The New GMAT: Integrated Reasoning, pt. 3
By Lucas Weingarten Previously, we looked at Graphic Interpretation and Two-Part Analysis question formats; two of the four new formats GMAT test takers will see in the Integrated Reasoning section poised to hit would-be management grad students in June. In this post, we will continue...
