How do GMAT data sufficiency questions work?
You get a question and two statements. You don’t need the answer itself: you decide whether statement 1 alone, statement 2 alone, each one alone, only the two together, or neither gives enough information to answer it. The answer choices cover those possibilities.
Data sufficiency used to sit in Quant. Since late 2023 it’s part of Data Insights.
The other four question types
- Multi-Source Reasoning: information spread over tabs of text, charts or tables. You switch between tabs to find and combine what you need.
- Table Analysis: a sortable table with yes/no or true/false statements. Every answer must be backed by the table.
- Graphics Interpretation: a graph or chart with text, answered from drop-down menus.
- Two-Part Analysis: two linked questions in a table. You pick one answer in each column, and the same choice can be right for both.
What happened to Integrated Reasoning?
It was a separate section on the old GMAT. GMAC folded it into Data Insights, so the IR question types above count toward your total score now.
GMAC’s tips for Data Insights
- Learn to read each kind of data: tables, graphs and charts.
- Pick the quickest method, and don’t get stuck on long calculations, even with the calculator.
- Practice under time pressure.
- Keep an error log.
- Read the question carefully. You can find the right answer to the wrong question.
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Sources: GMAC and 3 more. Checked October 2026.
- GMAC: GMAT Data Insights (January 2024) ↗
- GMAC: Details of the new GMAT exam (March 2023) ↗
- GMAC: GMAT exam overview ↗
- GMAC: GMAT sample questions (June 2026) ↗
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