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Executive Assessment Prep:

Integrated Reasoning
Kathleen.Fitzgerald@chicagobooth.edu
November 2020
Executive Assessment
https://www.gmac.com/executive-assessment/about/assessment-structure
The assessment evaluates the data-driven skills you use every day that are critical both at work and in your business program. The
assessment is composed of three sections: Integrated Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Quantitative Reasoning, totaling 40 questions. The
scale for each section of the assessment is 0 to 20. The total scale ranges from 100 to 200, and all three sections are equally weighted in
determining your total.
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Integrated Reasoning
• Study
• Four types of questions

• Two-part analysis
• Multi-source reasoning
• Graphic interpretation
• Table analysis

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Resources
• GMAC website
• Create an account
• https://www.gmac.com/executive-assessment/about-ea
• Free practice questions

• https://www.gmac.com/executive-assessment/take-ea/preparation
• Other online prep or tutoring – do a Google search

• https://brilliant.org/daily-problems/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• https://ea.empowergmat.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA-rj9BRCAARIsANB_4ACwRtK0mPng1-
NLJlVJH_s7pez1p1QJl4z9Io5ZUjNmOZ1myu1WvGEaAmMmEALw_wcB
• https://www.manhattanprep.com/executive-assessment/

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Two Part Analysis
• Similar to basic math questions, but involve a two-step analysis
• Can be wordy

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Multi-Source Reasoning
• Pull information from several sources and arrive at a solution.

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Graphical Interpretation
• Use information from a graph to answer questions.
• Choose the solution from the pull down menu.

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Table Analysis
• Uses dynamic charts
• Sort tables by clicking on the top row
• Differentiate between essential and non-essential information

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GMAC Math Topics
Checklist
1. Simplifying Algebraic Expressions

2. Equations
3. Solving Linear Equations with One Unknown
4. Solving Two Linear Equations with Two Unknowns
5. Solving Equations by Factoring
6. Solving Quadratic Equations
7. Exponents
8. Inequalities
9. Absolute Value
10. Functions

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GMAC Math Topics
Checklist
1. Properties of Integers
2. Fractions
3. Decimals
4. Real Numbers
5. Ratio and Proportion
6. Percents
7. Powers and Roots of Numbers
8. Descriptive Statistics
9. Sets
10. Counting Methods
11. Discrete Probability

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Math Topics
Math Topics
1. Functions
2. Sets
3. Counting Methods
4. Discrete Probability

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Functions
• Describes a relation between 1 or many variables
• A rule that assigns to each element in the domain one and only one element in the
range
• Domain – Rule – Range

Input – Rule – Output
Independent Variable – Rule – Dependent Variable
• Notation: f(x), F(x), g(x), U(x,y), etc...
• Utility, Cost, Demand, Supply, Production…

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Functions
Types of functions
Linear functions of 1 variable

• 1 independent and 1 dependent variable
• Neither raised to any power > 1
• Neither in the denominator
• No term is a product of the independent/dependent variables
Quadratic functions
Exponential functions
Plotting

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Quadratic Functions
x2 + 4x + 3
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/dz0kvw0qjg

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Factoring

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Quadratic Equation

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Sets
What is a set?
Notation:
Subset:

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Sets
Union
Union of A and B:
Set of all elements that are in A or B or both
Intersection of A and B:
Set of all elements that are in A and B
Disjoint or Mutually Exclusive:

Sets that have no elements in common

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Venn Diagram

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Venn Diagrams and Probabilities

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Counting
Methods for counting objects and sets of objects without actually listing the elements to
be counted.
If choosing one object from a set of m objects and another object from a set of n objects
then there are mn ways of choosing both simultaneously.
4 entrees
3 desserts
How many combinations?

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Factorials!
If n is an integer greater than 1, then n factorial, denoted by n! is defined as the product of

all integers from 1 to n.

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Factorials!

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Discrete Probability
Experiments with a finite number of outcomes, e.g., flipping a coin, rolling a die.
0 ≤ P(E) ≤ 1, where P(E) is probability of an event
P(heads) =
P(5) =

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If E has no outcomes then P(E) =
If E is for sure then P(E) =
P(E) = The number of outcomes in E

Total possible outcomes
Example: The probability of rolling an odd number

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Probability of E not occurring = I – P(E)
P(E or F) = P(E union F) =
P(E and F) = P(E intersect F) =

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Example
Roll a die: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Set of Odds =
Set of Primes =
P(Odds & Prime) =
P(Odds or Prime) =

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P(E and F) if mutually exclusive:
So…. P(E or F) =
Independence:
P(E and F) =

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GMAC Example
P(A) = 0.23
P(B) = 0.40
P(C) = 0.85
A and B are mutually exclusive
B and C are independent
What is the P(A or B)?
What is the P(B or C)?

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GMAC Free Practice Problems

Graphics Interpretation
https://www.gmac.com/executive-
assessment/take-ea/preparation/ir-sample-
questions.aspx
Practice Problem
https://www.mb a.com/the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-format-timing/integrated-reasoning/samples/sample-
275.aspx?next=yes&__hstc=81503688.f9d3309d1aee0ba8f373bc28aa32d0d1.1509903896121.1509908201639.1
510464793908.3&__hssc=81503688.3.1510464793908&__hsfp=729754126

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Practice Problem
https://www.mba.com/the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-format-timing/integrated-reasoning/samples/Sample-471?next=yes

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Practice Problem
https://www.mb a.com/the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-format-timing/integrated-reasoning/samples/Sample-701?next=yes

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Practice Problem

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Two-Part Analysis
questions.aspx
Practice Problem
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Practice Problem

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Table Analysis
questions.aspx
Practice Problem

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Practice Problem
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Multi Source Reasoning
questions.aspx
Question 1
https://www.mb a.com/the-gmat-exam/gmat-exam-format-timing/integrated-reasoning/samples/sample-803-
03.aspx?next=yes&__hstc=81503688.f9d3309d1aee0ba8f373bc28aa32d0d1.1509903896121.15099082016
39.1510464793908.3&__hssc=81503688.3.1510464793908&__hsfp=729754126#

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Question 2
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Executive Assessment Prep:

Executive MBA Program

• Four types of questions

Executive MBA Program

• Free practice questions

• Other online prep or tutoring – do a Google search

Executive MBA Program

• Similar to basic math questions, but involve a two-step analysis

Executive MBA Program

• Pull information from several sources and arrive at a solution.

Executive MBA Program

• Use information from a graph to answer questions.

• Choose the solution from the pull down menu.

Executive MBA Program

• Uses dynamic charts

• Sort tables by clicking on the top row

• Differentiate between essential and non-essential information

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1. Simplifying Algebraic Expressions

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• Describes a relation between 1 or many variables

• Domain – Rule – Range

• Notation: f(x), F(x), g(x), U(x,y), etc...

• Utility, Cost, Demand, Supply, Production…

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Linear functions of 1 variable

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Disjoint or Mutually Exclusive:

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How many combinations?

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If n is an integer greater than 1, then n factorial, denoted by n! is defined as the product of

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0 ≤ P(E) ≤ 1, where P(E) is probability of an event

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If E has no outcomes then P(E) =

If E is for sure then P(E) =

P(E) = The number of outcomes in E

Example: The probability of rolling an odd number

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Probability of E not occurring = I – P(E)

P(E or F) = P(E union F) =

P(E and F) = P(E intersect F) =

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P(Odds & Prime) =

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P(E and F) if mutually exclusive:

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What is the P(A or B)?

What is the P(B or C)?

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