Read the question/questions before examining the given information. This is important for 2 reasons:
Since this question type contains far more text than any other question type, reading the question first will help you focus on the important pieces of information while reading the text. It will also help in preventing you from getting lost in the information.
Additionally, reading the question first will help you in getting a better idea of the story the data is trying to tell. This additional context makes it easier to digest the information provided in the tabbed pages.
Be fully engaged with the content while reading the information in the tabbed pages. This is similar to the strategy used while reading RC passages.
Make sure to look for information that answers the question while you are reading the content. Summarizing key information is a useful step here, similar to the RC strategy.
Another reason why summarizing is important is that you are required to complete 3 or more different tasks. Summarizing will help you determine where to look while solving different tasks. [Please visit www.gogogmat.com for more tips for GMAT preparation.]
Another tip is to divide your scratchpad into different columns, one for each tabbed page of the information provided. This will help you note down the general summary of the information provided on each tabbed page.
If you do find the information to answer a particular question while reading the content provided on a tabbed page do not stop reading to answer the question. It may so happen that there may be additional information provided later on that would affect your answer choices.
Thus, only after you’ve completed reading through the information provided on all the tabs, proceed to complete the first set of tasks, then the second and so on.
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