GMAT Multi-Source Reasoning
Information split across two or three tabs — an email, a table, a report — with questions attached. The design is the point: most questions need information from more than one tab, and the answer is rarely visible on whichever one is open.
Read all the tabs first
- Open every tab before answering anything, and note in a line what each contains.
- Note any conflict between tabs — a figure revised in a later email is a favourite question.
- For each question, decide which tabs it needs before reading options.
- Check the answer against every tab that bears on it.
Several questions share the same tabs, so the reading is amortised. Answering the first question from the first tab alone is the most common way to lose the whole set.
What the tabs are doing
- One tab gives context, usually prose — who wants what, and why.
- One gives data, usually a table.
- One often revises something, which is where the trap lives.
- Questions may be a set of true/false judgements, in which case all must be right.
Where a later tab updates an earlier figure, the later one governs. Items are written specifically to catch the candidate who found the number on tab one and stopped.
Multi-Source Reasoning — FAQs
2 questions
For most questions, yes — that is the design of the item type.
No. All statements in such an item must be correct.
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Written from the test board's own published material and checked on 1 October 2026.