Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Tips to improve your Data interpretation skills



     
Data interpretation tricks for cat and Bank PO


Data interpretation questions have since long given sleepless nights to candidates appearing for competitive exams. Improve your Data interpretation score by following these simple tips and see your DI score improve by considerable number

Tip 1: Give DI its place and time.

Data interpretation require lengthy calculations and often students keep this section for the later half of the exam.While doing this they tend to forget that DI is the most scoring set and also a set where you are most sure for the answer marked.

So at expertmasterji we suggest you to start the DI portion first and then follow up wih quant and verbal, during the first half of examination the concentration level is at zenith and you will be able to solve tough mental calculations easily as compared to solving these calculations in the later half of the exam when your concentration level starts decading.

Tip 2 : Read the question carefully.

Most of the questions asked in DI are to the way you analyse data and the way you formulate data, so read the question carefully and formulate the data in a manner you are comfortable with.At expertmasterji we suggest you to formulate the given data in form of simple tables. You will be surprised that once you formulate data in a simple form, you will be able to solve several questions even without lengthy calculations.

Tip 3 : Pay close attention to unit of measures used.

Many a times question paper setter changes the unit of measure for certain quantities and makes a simple question a bit difficult, difficult because candidates tend to overlook the unit of measure and end up doing the entire set incorrect. We at expertmasterji suggest you to jot down all the unit of measure for all the entities involved and ensure all the entities are in compliance to same unit of measure.

Tip 4 : Improve your calculations 

Most of the calculation intensive DI sets are actually easy and dont require much brain to solve them, so improve your calculations, focus on shortcut tricks mentioned below and you will be able to solve a good number if calculation intensive questions in short span of time.

Some important calculation techniques

  1. how to multiply any number by 9, 99 or 9999 in 2 seconds
  2. How to multiply number by 11 in 2 seconds

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