No doubt the Integrated Reasoning section of the GMAT is a bit daunting to many students. This was not part of the traditional GMAT but was added around 12 years back. The section involves reading charts, tables, graphs, email tabs etc. The reason why it is challenging is that sometimes it takes a bit more time in understanding the charts, tables etc. while the time to answer relevant questions is limited.
The best way to attack this section is to practice before hand as much as possible. If it’s a graph that you are looking at, make sure to carefully understand what the x-axis and y-axis are telling you. If it’s the email tabs you are looking at, make sure to integrate the information in different tabs to answer a specific question if that’s the requirement. If you are looking at a table, make sure to sort the column that may help you in scanning the required information.
The section’s name “Integrated Reasoning” itself tells us that we are required to synthesis information from different visual sources and answer questions related to that information. You will certainly get questions such that a few of them relate to the same graph or table. In such a scenario if you do not understand the graphic representation clearly, you may end up getting a few questions wrong. Hence, once again, understand what this section is all about and practice as much as you can in order to do well.
