Data Interpretation

[pearl]

DI is my weakness. Can someone advise me how to improve upon it?
Wat should be the strategy?
Regards,
PEARL.

[couger]

DI is a section which is generally not that easy...
to master DI or as a matter of fact to clear the cut offs of DI u need to have lots and lots of practice....it is all about speed there...it is not about knowing the concept of formulae as in Quan.....

try to be good in the reciprocals and other calculations like roots etc... and practice lots of DI related probs... thats the only way to clear DI...

[super6]

hi pearl
PRACTISE is the only keyword for DI...
there is no short cut for this...one thing is u really need to be good in numbers
all the best
cheers

[srikrishnan]

Guys i've posted a similar message on another thread and no reply. so iam posting this in this more specific thread.



HELP

DI seems impossible to even practice.
dont know how to go about preparing for DI. Is the material given by TIME enough.(iam a time student). Is there a book better than time's material. Time's class handouts seem tooooooooooooooo difficult.

[shivamhdave]

Originally Posted by srikrishnan

Guys i've posted a similar message on another thread and no reply. so iam posting this in this more specific thread.



HELP

DI seems impossible to even practice.
dont know how to go about preparing for DI. Is the material given by TIME enough.(iam a time student). Is there a book better than time's material. Time's class handouts seem tooooooooooooooo difficult.

dude it happens in starting that u tend 2 get bored by the amount of numbers on di, but u just need 2 relax and keep on practising more. and believe the material given by TIME is more than enough.
atb

[rich]

People ,DI is not only about practise ,but also about the right approach..........by right approach i mean that you actually do not have to spend your life calculating stuff,but even merely approximating helps a great deal and so does practising your quants !!!!!
Eg.3485*295
here you can approximate 3485 to 3500(-) and 295 to 300(-).....the(-)sign is to indicate that the actual no. before approximation is less than the approximation i.e. 3485<3500 and 295<300.
Hence you just have to do 3500*300=1050000(-) .Here the(-)sign indicates that the actual answer is little less than 1050000.
Even small tricks help.
Eg.To find 33.33%of 3600
Just do 3600/3
Anyways this was just a small eg. I m sure you will find loads of egs. in your mat.
Enjoy
Rich

[Praveen]

Folks,

Just a friendly advice..if you notice the DI trends since Cat 2001, the days of the calculation intensive DI sets are over. They have become more logical (count & do types). You don't have to be nimble with numbers to crack them, instead a cool open mind and confidence is all that is needed. Treat them no differently than you would to a LR puzzle.

I too was terrible in DI...so I made a work-around. Since DI has DS and LR as well.
Here is what I used to do:
1. I started of with DS and tried to do as many of them as possible.
2. Scan and do all (or almost all) LR sets that I can.
3. Pick ONLY those DI sets that I am comfortable (similar to approach you follow to pick RC passages) and do them alone.

This greatly increased my score (if not too much atleast it was enough to comfortable clear the cut-offs).

regards,
Praveen

[panjan1980]

Guys,

DI is the section that can be cracked easily.In my last 2 attempts of CAT DI stood > than 99 percentile... Sad that my other sections could not matchup to that...
Choice of questions are very important.Attempt as many DI sets as possible.In all the sets pick two or three questions that are easy. DS is goldmine(trap also...be careful).Attemt them.Cracking one or two analytical sets will be great.

In the last 2 years any score in DI of more than 20 have given a percentile greater than 99....

Good luck guys....

Regards,
Sriram

[komalthecoolk]

I read this is the may edition of management compass that "students need to concentrate more on DATA INTERPRETATION than DATA CALCULATION. Students thinkin bout calculation too much leavin out the ' I ' part of DI faced hell during CAT especially the CAT -2004".
Sure learnt somethin from that !

[chharshad]

Hi pearl
I have the very same problem and need practice material..if u r based in Mumbai, may b v can meet up some day and xchange notes.

All the best ...









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