What is the GMAT Data Insights section?

The GMAT Data Insights section measures your ability to analyze, interpret, and combine information from multiple sources. Questions may involve numerical data, tables, graphs, written passages, or a combination of these formats. The section tests data literacy, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and your ability to make decisions using incomplete or complex information.

How many questions are in the GMAT Data Insights section?

The GMAT Data Insights section contains 20 questions. You have 45 minutes to complete the section, which gives you an average of 2 minutes and 15 seconds per question. However, some question formats take longer than others, so effective pacing requires managing your time across the entire section rather than spending exactly the same amount of time on every question.

What types of questions appear in GMAT Data Insights?

GMAT Data Insights includes Data Sufficiency, Table Analysis, Graphics Interpretation, Multi-Source Reasoning, and Two-Part Analysis question types.

Can I use a calculator on GMAT Data Insights?

Yes. An on-screen calculator is available throughout the Data Insights section. However, the calculator is most useful for checking calculations, percentages, ratios, and multi-step arithmetic. It cannot determine which information is relevant or which calculation you need to perform, so estimation and data interpretation skills remain essential.

Is Data Insights the same as Integrated Reasoning?

No. Data Insights is part of the current GMAT exam and is not simply a renamed version of the former Integrated Reasoning section. Although both sections assess the ability to interpret information, Data Insights has a broader role in the current exam and includes Data Sufficiency questions alongside Multi-Source Reasoning, Table Analysis, Graphics Interpretation, and Two-Part Analysis.

What does GMAT Data Sufficiency test?

Data Sufficiency questions test whether you can determine if the information provided is sufficient to answer a question. You usually do not need to calculate the final answer. Instead, you must evaluate two statements separately and together while avoiding assumptions that are not supported by the question.

What is Multi-Source Reasoning on the GMAT?

Multi-Source Reasoning questions present information across multiple tabs or sources, such as emails, reports, tables, charts, or short passages. You must identify which sources are relevant, compare information, resolve apparent contradictions, and draw conclusions without becoming distracted by unnecessary details.

What is GMAT Table Analysis?

Table Analysis questions provide a sortable table with several true/false micro-questions attached to it, testing your ability to read precise values from dense data under time pressure.

What is Graphics Interpretation on the GMAT?

Graphics Interpretation questions require you to read information from charts, graphs, diagrams, or other visual displays. You may need to identify a trend, estimate a value, compare data points, calculate a rate, or complete a statement using the information shown. Common traps include misreading the scale, ignoring units, or confusing absolute and percentage changes.

What is Two-Part Analysis on the GMAT?

Two-Part Analysis questions ask you to select two connected answers from a table of options. The problem may involve equations, ratios, logical relationships, verbal reasoning, sets, probability, or business scenarios. Both selections must work together and satisfy the conditions of the question.

Is GMAT Data Insights difficult?

Data Insights difficulty varies by question type and individual preparation. The section challenges test-takers to extract relevant information from complex sources under time pressure.

What is the current GMAT exam format?

The current GMAT consists of three sections: Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, and Data Insights. All three sections contribute equally to your total GMAT score.

How important is Data Insights for the total GMAT score?

Data Insights is one of the three equally weighted sections of the current GMAT exam, alongside Quantitative Reasoning and Verbal Reasoning. A weak Data Insights result can therefore significantly limit your total score, even when your Quantitative and Verbal performance is strong.

What math do I need for GMAT Data Insights?

Data Insights uses many of the same fundamental concepts found elsewhere on the GMAT, including arithmetic, ratios, percentages, averages, rates, statistics, probability, algebra, and word problems. The main challenge is applying these concepts to tables, graphs, written sources, and unfamiliar business-style scenarios.

How can Examero help me prepare for GMAT Data Insights?

Examero provides structured Data Insights lessons covering tables, graphs, units, Data Sufficiency, Multi-Source Reasoning, Two-Part Analysis, conditional reasoning, and data organization. You can create targeted practice sessions, complete timed mock exams, review your answers, and use performance analytics to identify recurring mistakes and weaker question types.

What does GMAT Data Insights measure?

How well you analyse and combine data from tables, graphs, text and several sources to make decisions. It mixes light math, logic and careful reading.

How many questions are in Data Insights?

20 questions in 45 minutes, across five question types: Data Sufficiency, Multi-Source Reasoning, Table Analysis, Graphics Interpretation and Two-Part Analysis.

Is a calculator allowed in Data Insights?

Yes. A basic on-screen calculator is available throughout the section. It helps with arithmetic, but deciding what to calculate is still up to you — and many questions are faster without it.

Is Data Sufficiency part of Data Insights?

Yes. Data Sufficiency moved from the Quant section to Data Insights. It uses the same math as Quant but tests whether information is enough, not the final answer.

Do multi-part questions give partial credit?

No. For questions with several parts — such as Table Analysis or Two-Part Analysis — you must answer every part correctly to get credit for the question.

Is Data Insights the same as Integrated Reasoning?

Not exactly. It builds on the former Integrated Reasoning question types and adds Data Sufficiency, and unlike Integrated Reasoning it counts towards your Total Score.

Can I change my answers in Data Insights?

Yes. If you have time left at the end of the section, you can review your answers and change up to three of them.

How much time do I have per Data Insights question?

About 2 minutes 15 seconds on average. Aim to finish roughly 7 questions every 15 minutes, and don’t let one long Multi-Source Reasoning set eat into the rest.

How is Data Insights scored?

Section scores range from 60 to 90 in one-point steps. Data Insights, Quant and Verbal count equally towards the Total Score.

How does Examero help with Data Insights?

Video lessons that turn each question type into a repeatable routine, a quiz after every lesson, custom practice sessions, timed mock exams, performance analytics and AI recommendations that point out weak topics.

Can I practise specific Data Insights question types?

Yes. You can build sessions by section, topic, difficulty and past performance, and revisit questions you missed to confirm the weakness is fixed.

Is the Data Insights course suitable for beginners?

Yes. It starts with data-literacy foundations — units, ratios, percents and averages — before moving on to tables, graphs, multi-source sets and Data Sufficiency.

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01 — What’s tested

Reasoning with data, not just reading it

Data Insights mixes light math, logic and reading. Most questions combine numbers and text, and many have several parts that must all be answered correctly.

Data Sufficiency

Decide whether the information given is enough to answer a question — you rarely need to work out the answer itself.

Sufficiency Number logic Word problems

Tables & graphs

Table Analysis and Graphics Interpretation: sort, read and compare data quickly, and spot the traps hidden in scales and units.

Tables Charts Percent change

Multi-step reasoning

Multi-Source Reasoning and Two-Part Analysis: combine information from several tabs or solve two linked parts of one problem.

Multi-source Two-part Trade-offs

02 — Question types

How Data Insights questions are actually built

Five question types share one section. Try three of them — pick an answer to see the solution.

Type 1 · Data Sufficiency

Enough information, or not?

A question followed by two statements. Decide whether each statement alone, both together or neither gives enough information to answer it. The five answer choices are always the same.

Try it · Data SufficiencyPractice question

A shop sells notebooks for $3 each and pens for $2 each. Maya bought at least one notebook and at least one pen and spent exactly $20.

(1) Maya bought more pens than notebooks.

(2) Maya bought fewer than 5 pens.

How many notebooks did Maya buy?

AStatement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.BStatement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.CBOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.DEACH statement ALONE is sufficient.EStatements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are not sufficient.

Correct.Not quite — the answer is A. 3n + 2p = 20 with at least one of each item has three solutions: (n, p) = (2, 7), (4, 4) and (6, 1). Statement (1) leaves only 2 notebooks and 7 pens — sufficient. Statement (2) still allows (4, 4) and (6, 1) — not sufficient. The answer is A.

Type 2 · Table Analysis

Sort the table, judge each statement

A sortable table and three statements, each marked true or false (or yes or no). Sort by the column that matters and check every statement against the data. Here, pick the one statement the table supports.

Try it · Table AnalysisPractice question

Store results, 2025
Store	Region	Revenue ($k)	Staff	Rating
A	North	420	12	4.1
B	North	380	9	4.5
C	South	510	15	3.9
D	South	290	7	4.6
E	East	460	11	4.2

Which of the following statements is supported by the table?

AThe store with the most staff also has the highest revenue per staff member.BStore B has the highest revenue per staff member.CEvery store rated above 4.0 has revenue below $450k.DThe South region has the highest average revenue per store.ERevenue rises with the number of staff in every case.

Correct.Not quite — the answer is B. Revenue per staff member ($k): A 35, B ≈ 42.2, C 34, D ≈ 41.4, E ≈ 41.8 — B is the highest. A fails because Store C, the largest team, has the lowest figure; C fails because Store E is rated 4.2 with $460k; D fails because East averages $460k against $400k in the South; E fails because Store A has more staff than Store E but less revenue.

Type 3 · Graphics Interpretation

Read the chart, complete the sentence

A graph or chart with one or two statements to complete from drop-down menus. Read the title, axes and units before the numbers — the traps are usually in the scale.

Try it · Graphics InterpretationPractice question

From January to June, monthly active users grew by approximately ___.

Correct.Not quite — the answer is C. June’s 90 thousand is 2.25 times January’s 40 thousand, so the increase is 125%. 225% is the ratio of the two values, not the percent increase.

Pacing at a glance

About 2 minutes 15 seconds per question

45 minutes for 20 questions. Multi-Source Reasoning sets and multi-part questions take longer, so bank time on Data Sufficiency and single charts.

by question 7: 15:45
by question 14: 31:30
by question 20: 45:00

03 — Curriculum

The Data Insights curriculum, module by module

21 video lessons in 4 modules, each lesson followed by a quiz. Open a module to see its lessons — pick any one to start watching with a free trial.

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Module 04

Data Interpretation and Tables

6 lessons · 6 quizzes

Module 07

Graphs, Units, and Measurement

5 lessons · 5 quizzes

Module 10

Multi-Source Reasoning

6 lessons · 6 quizzes

Module 13

Conditional Reasoning and Data Organization

4 lessons · 4 quizzes

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Questions about GMAT Data Insights

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The Data Insights section

What does GMAT Data Insights measure?

How well you analyse and combine data from tables, graphs, text and several sources to make decisions. It mixes light math, logic and careful reading.
How many questions are in Data Insights?

20 questions in 45 minutes, across five question types: Data Sufficiency, Multi-Source Reasoning, Table Analysis, Graphics Interpretation and Two-Part Analysis.
Is a calculator allowed in Data Insights?

Yes. A basic on-screen calculator is available throughout the section. It helps with arithmetic, but deciding what to calculate is still up to you — and many questions are faster without it.
Is Data Sufficiency part of Data Insights?

Yes. Data Sufficiency moved from the Quant section to Data Insights. It uses the same math as Quant but tests whether information is enough, not the final answer.
Do multi-part questions give partial credit?

No. For questions with several parts — such as Table Analysis or Two-Part Analysis — you must answer every part correctly to get credit for the question.
Is Data Insights the same as Integrated Reasoning?

Not exactly. It builds on the former Integrated Reasoning question types and adds Data Sufficiency, and unlike Integrated Reasoning it counts towards your Total Score.
Can I change my answers in Data Insights?

Yes. If you have time left at the end of the section, you can review your answers and change up to three of them.
How much time do I have per Data Insights question?

About 2 minutes 15 seconds on average. Aim to finish roughly 7 questions every 15 minutes, and don’t let one long Multi-Source Reasoning set eat into the rest.
How is Data Insights scored?

Section scores range from 60 to 90 in one-point steps. Data Insights, Quant and Verbal count equally towards the Total Score.

Preparing with Examero

How does Examero help with Data Insights?

Video lessons that turn each question type into a repeatable routine, a quiz after every lesson, custom practice sessions, timed mock exams, performance analytics and AI recommendations that point out weak topics.
Can I practise specific Data Insights question types?

Yes. You can build sessions by section, topic, difficulty and past performance, and revisit questions you missed to confirm the weakness is fixed.
Is the Data Insights course suitable for beginners?

Yes. It starts with data-literacy foundations — units, ratios, percents and averages — before moving on to tables, graphs, multi-source sets and Data Sufficiency.

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