Integrated Reasoning Flashcards
What should you do before you start any real work on a Table problem?
SEE (Sort, Eyeball, Estimate)
How should you approach Integrated Reasoning questions:
UPS: Understand, Plan, Solve
How should you approach the Understanding stage of a Multi-Source Reasoning Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Understand:
- Glance at table Headers and Columns in first source
- Briefly glance at next tabs to see if they also have graphs?
- Go back to first tab start reading
- Create a tab map:
- Main point/ subject
- How do the tabs connect
- Scan through the 3 statements that accompany the question
How should you approach the Plan stage of a Multi-Source Reasoning Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Plan:
- Identify which prompts will be needed to answer the question
- Record the relevant text
- On math quesions you may be able to work backwards, use Smart Numbers, or test cases
How should you approach the Solve stage of a Multi-Source Reasoning Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Solve:
- Be careful for what the question is asking for
How should you approach the Understanding stage of a Table Analysis Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Understand:
- Glance at Table headers / rows
- Read the blurb
- What’s being shown? So what?
- What types of info / What connections?
- Glance at statements before reading question
- Read question / Jot down what will keep you focused
How should you approach the Plan stage of a Table Analysis Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Plan:
- Can I solve simultaneously?
- Which one seems easiest to address?
- Can I eyeball without calculating?
How should you approach the Solve stage of a Table Analysis Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Solve:
- SEE: Sort, Eyeball, Estimate
- If I do have to calculate, do it on paper not in my head
- Write down calc before plugging into calc
- What is the main feature of a Table Analysis Problem?
- What type of problem?
- Key Strategy?
- Table
- One Either-Or question
- SEE: Sort, Eyeball, Estimate
What are the below key details of a Graphics Interpretation Problem?
- What is the main feature?
- Content?
- Type of Problem?
- Key Strategy?
- Graph, diagram, or visual of some sort
- Can be standard math or analytical
- One Fill-in-the-Blank question
- SEE (Select, Eyeball, Estimate)
How should you approach the Understanding stage of a Graphics Interpretation Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Understand:
- Glance at Visual, am I familiar? Review drop down choices
- Read Title andb blurb. The what? So What? Types of Info?
- Jot down what makes you remember big picture. If you don’t understand guess and move on
- Glance at graph. Notice anything surprising?
- Read question stem. Jot down anything useful
- Do not read statements without lookinng at answer choices. Know the relationship between blanks
How should you approach the Plan stage of a Graphics Interpretation Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Plan:
- Which blank is easier? Can I solve simultaneously?
- What part of graph do I need?
- Am I finding and identifying, or calculating?
How should you approach the Solve stage of a Graphics Interpretation Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Solve:
- Solve in a form that matches drop down options
- If I do have to calculate, do it on paper not in my head
- Eyeball and estimate where youcan
What are the below key details of a MSR Problem?
- What is the main feature?
- Type of Problems?
- Two or Three Tabs
- Types of Problems: Typically three problems (though can be two or four)
- 1 standard multiple choice
- 2 either-or problems
- What is the Main Feature?
- Content?
- Type of Problem?
- Key Strategies?
- 5 or 6 answer choices dipslayed in a table at the bottom
- Can be quant, verbal, or logic-based
- Two-Part multiple choice
- Same as for Quant and Verbal sections of exam
How should you approach the Understanding stage of a Two-Part Analysis Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Understand:
- Glance at answer choices to see if #’s or Words or Sentences
- Glance at question stem
- Read through prompt and reread question stem, jot down notes
How should you approach the Plan stage of a Two-Part Analysis Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Plan:
- Simultaneous or Individual solving options?
- Follow typical Quant or Verbal approaches for applicable problems
- If logic based problem, eliminate answer choices by given constraints
How should you approach the Solve stage of a Two-Part Analysis Problem?
Follow the UPS process. But also leverage the below strategy:
Solve:
- Standard Quant / Verbal Approaches
- Logic:
- Narrow options, by given constraints
- Work through remaining answers by testing each one
What do I want to remember when I get a rates at work question like this?
Rates at work formula: Rate * Time = Work
- The rates of each person has been given
- You can convert this to time, however these will give you large fractions to work with
- Work with small fractions based on whats given
- M takes 2 hours to paint 1 room
- In terms of hours her rate is 1/2
- L takes 2.5 hours to paint 1 room
- In terms of hours her rate is 1/2.5 or 2/5
- Add 1/2 + 2/5 = 9/10 now plug this into the formula
- 9/10 * t = 1
- t = 10/9
- 10/9 * 60 = 200/3 = 66.67 / 60 = 1 hour and 7 minutes
- M takes 2 hours to paint 1 room
- Do the same for the other resource
What do I want to remember when I see a two part question like this?
- It’s super important to write down the constraints on your paper
- Once you have the contrainst identified it’s easy to fill in the blanks
What do I want to remember when addressing a 2 part question like this?
- Make sure your comparing the right metrics!
- You can only compare revenue to revenue, or profits to profits
What do I want to remember when addressing an IR problem like this?
Identify that this is a ration question. Build your ratio table, and test cases to see which solutions work
What do I want to remember when addressing an IR question like this?
- Keep in mind which years the questions are referring to
What do I want to remember for IR problems like these?
Remember the constraints of the statement. The manager is only considering stone cutters that they sell
What do I want to remember when I see a problem like this?
Algebraic translation can be much more complicated and time consuming.
- This question is asking for an average speed of each train and we know that one train was 3 hours less than the other.
- Work backwards in calculating the time for each train, from the answer provided
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