Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability

No. of Questions: 40

This was by far the most difficult set in the paper. The key to this section was to analyse the question and decide quickly whether to solve it or not. Students who did not get “Stuck” on any question would have done quite well in this section. The DI sets were almost ‘undoable’ and should not have been attempted. The caselet on “Sales of Small cars” looked lengthy and contained confusing symbols, but once the concept of “Expected value” was understood, it was simple. The caselet on “Books and More” was one of the easier ones and could have been attempted. The set on “Portland cement” appeared easy, but contained some tricks, especially the definition of “Profit Rate”.The caselet on “Bond prices” was lengthy and was better left alone. The case on “Flowers” was very straightforward, but needed some horrendous calculations. There were two tricky questions on DS. QA was the saving grace in this section. The questions covered a wide variety of areas and many of them were tricky and time consuming to say the least. However, there were some simple questions (e.g. Circular field, four digit positive number, Amarendra and Dharmendra) and should have been attempted. Locating such easy questions and solving them would be the key to scoring well in this section.

The expected score for this section should be around 4-5 in about 40 min. A score of 11+ should be considered excellent. The cut-off is expected to be around 6-7.