hi guys welcome to this new video from our side you're with me Arun Sharma and I a I am Bangalore alist author with MC grill for the cat series of books and also a 22 time cat qualifier several 99.9 plus percentiles my highest score has been 99.99 three times and of course I have Al also scored 100% tile in data interpretation many times and hence uh in today's video I'm going to talk to you about data inition logical reasoning uh it's a very important section for you it's very important because the fact that it's kind of a make or break section for the cat in fact uh for me uh in my 22 attempts at cat my first attempt cat also this was actually the section that got me through because I was good at PS and verble but but Di was was absolutely smashing for me and and if you can actually create this and you can have a smashing data information logical reasoning section it is in a way a shortcut to getting into the arms because of the fact that and getting into the top arms because of the simple fact that that the data ination logical reasoning Prep Prep cycle is the shortest of the three prep Cycles when you talk about preparing for verbal preparing for quants versus preparing for data ination logical reasoning if you get things right is the shortest of the three cycles and why it's so critical to do uh do well at this section is because of the fact that the section has four sets 20 Questions five questions per set and typically if you can get through the analysis required to get through one set in data interpretation you get all the five questions of the set so so the differential you're trying to solve a set not able to get it but through the preparation you are trying to solve the set and you're able to get get it because your preparation was solid and you're able to cross over the difficulties of doing that set and you can get to the outcome in the set so one set from not being able to solve it to being able to solve it if you can transform it what happens is you get 15 marks in the exam 15 marks in the exam at various scores is is worth somewhere around I mean in the lower scores it's even worth 15 percentile in at the higher level of scores it might convert a 97 percentile to a 99 percentile a 99 percentile to a 99.7 percentile Etc so it's going to be so when you when you take the cat you're going to face with the situation where the challenge would be that I'm picking up the set can I get through it if I can I'm G creating a huge impact on my on my score and no other section has this this thing maybe little bit in RC that you get a full RC set cor it does jump your score by 12 to 15 marks but otherwise in points to get the same effect on your score you need five questions done in one said done and and and that's that's the challenge so pick it up this challenge that's my first advice to you pick it up as a challenge that I'm going to be the one who's going to crack this section and in this video I'm talking to you about how to do it when you start doing your data interpretation logical reasoning solving in the cat or even for your practice and your and your preparation you'll start to realize that one of the key aspects of uh the difficulty that people face in data interpretation logical reasoning sets essentially is the fact that you have to execute a series of 10 to 12 steps in order to get one one set right and of course as I said if you get the set you get all the question of the set normally so the given the fact that it's it's a long series of steps that you have to do uh the the problem that most people face is the ability to execute all these series of steps but if you go deeper into that problem you start understanding what the problem actually is you'll realize that all of these 10 to 12 steps that an D set asks you normally to do almost 80% of those of the steps are school boy level steps which means even a school boy should be able to understand those level of steps it's only a couple of steps One Step here one step there in in inside a question which might be the reason why you are not able to solve sets so if you start breaking down why am I not able to solve sets inside drr you'll start realizing that you face certain situations in your solving where you get stuck inside the problem and that's where you have to actually apply some Advanced thinking some Advanced structures of thinking to be able to move out of it now the good part about preparation is that these situations that you face and these aspects that you face which which actually block your solving the school boy steps all of you will be able to do I mean even with this basic little bit of Common Sense you'll be able to do the school boy steps and then it's a matter of confidence that okay I'm I'm I'm I believe in myself and hence I'll be able to execute these these steps but what you need to learn and what you need to focus on your learning on are those couple of steps which are the speed Breakers or which are the the the barriers to getting through the through the set and and that that's people who are not able to get those through those barriers remain on the I can't solve di I can't solve LR uh group and people who can start Crossing those barriers so so it's one of the journeys that that you have to undertake in order to become good Di and the good news about these these barriers is that most of these barriers are are pretty repetitive and pretty pattern based it is not random barriers so most of the time you'll start seeing that inside a reasoning set or inside also logical di set there's one clue which you're not able to use partly or fully which is the reason you're not able to get through the set or maybe a a analysis situation and a logical di set has thrown up a multiple possibility situation for you and you not able to handle that multiple possibility situation because you have not trained yourself to think multiple possibility inside questions so and or maybe there there's a data interation set with some missing data and you not able to work out how to analyze and and work out all the clues to get the missing datas in place so these are the typical patterns of of structures which which are the barriers to getting through the DI set and of course practice becomes an important part but smart practice will be very critical for you to be able to make sure that okay I got stuck in this barrier once I get stuck in stuck in this barrier twice but now I know how to cross this bar barrier and once I've learned how to cross this barrier I can the third time the fourth time the 10th time the 20th time when I face that barrier I know I know I've got I'm equipped I'm I'm mentally equipped to cross that that's the preparation structure and preparation strategy that you need to adopt so what's the road map of preparation for logical reasoning let's let's look at these two different subjects logical reasoning then data and ation and then of course inside the cat when you actually solve sets you'll find sets which have a mix of logical reasoning and data interpretation which I'll talk about in when I talk about the road map for Di so when you do logical reasoning essentially the first thing you do in logical reasoning is you fize yourself with the typical cat cat kind of sets or cat kind of puzzles so those include if you if you look at my book in logical reasoning I've put them in the first eight nine chapters of the of the book uh under chapter headings like Arrangements SEL c s uh puzzles quantitative reasoning uh Network diagrams set theory games and tournaments cubes and dice so these kind of chapters you will see and this is the list of chapters that you can see which uh which you actually do to to familiarize yourself di LR and once you have have done this and typically the the general thumb rule is you do around 20 20 sets on each of these question types so that you understand you get into your groove of what LR is all about and once you done with that the next step is to I mean please understand one thing while these are topics they are not chapters like in maths so there's no theory in these topics so you you really don't study Theory except I think SE theory is is the only chapter in LR which has some Theory otherwise there's no Theory it's just reacting to to logical puzzles and logical uh language that you that you face in in LR puzzle of of various kinds and you you start realizing that after some time all these structures start and all the language that you face start becoming repetive repetitive in nature so so once you done with those maybe 100 to 150 sets of uh of the basic uh on the basic topics you have to basically move move into into uh into miscellaneous or into mix solving of logical reasoning and because there's no Theory you don't study any Theory the focus you have only two tools to learn logical reasoning one is you do a I mean the essential tool is just problem solving which is of two types assisted problem solving where somebody is showing you how to solve a set so that you can get in the course in our mindworks program we have a lot of assisted problem solving from my side and all other teachers to to help students understand what LR is all about and then we also have self- problem solving which is which is where you you grapple with problems and learn how to cross over those those difficult questions when when Clues become difficult when when you have those barriers to solving questions uh placed inside the set you will always realize that a good quality set a well well structured set will always give you a way to get get past I I when I'm creating a tough question as a question Setter I always have to give you a solution to the question I cannot leave you without a solution to the question because if I do that then the question is wrong so please remember this every set you solving has a solution and if you take that attitude into your self- problem solving uh through a mix of assisted problem solving and self- problem solving you keep learning and you keep upgrading your problem solving skills for logical reasoning and typically the general thumb rule before you start evaluating where you are heading to in lar is you do around 50 sets of uh assisted problem solving and do around 200 250 sets of self problem solving I've seen people uh making sure that the LR is really good even at 100 sets of self problem solving but just general thumb rule the general advisory is that you should try to get through around 200 to 250 sets of self problem solving and uh based on your timeline of course the work Remains the Same whether you're preparing in a 12- month framework or a 6 month framework or a 3month framework the work will remain the same but you will vary the amount of work you'll do to make sure that these two numbers uh are adhered to and one very important Point while doing a self- problem solving is that based on your skill level you might not be able to solve every set that you come across so there'll be a rejection rate there will be a rate of not being able to solve questions so if you solve 100% questions try 100 questions you might be able to solve 60 60 question sets and not not solve the other 40 and like I always say the focus has to be not ke I'll ask somebody how to do this the focus has to be that it's part of my self- problem solving regime so I'll I'll get stronger I'll get stronger at at thinking on these uh situations and I'll come back and I'll crack these these sets if you do that then I think 200 250 sets should be more than enough and of course once you get through this much by that time you should also I mean if you in June July August you would also have started your uh doing your mock test and all and you'll also start looking at Beyond around this time you'll also start looking at past cat papers and the questions of the past cat papers and when you start doing uh those you will automatically be able to evaluate is your LR skills on on par with what is required or you're still deficient and in case you're still deficient at any point of time the the solution is to assisted problem solving plus self problem solving so if I if I find that I'm not so good at LR after doing 250 sets and 50 sets of assisted if I find I'm not so good at LR my solution will be okay I'll sit with 100 sets this week and I'll solve 100 sets and when I do that anybody solves 100 sets 50 sets you you have to think in those quantums you start thinking those quantums you'll start realizing that you'll keep getting better and keep getting stronger it will give you an outcome the moment you start doing that so this is the LR prep cycle and uh let's now look at the data and predition prep cycle the data and predation cycle goes parallel to the LR cycle and whether you start di along with your LR or you want to delay a DI a little bit depends on your Quant skills because data interpretation uh depends on a few chapters in quants specifically percentages averages allegations mixtures uh and uh and ratio proportion these four chapters become very critical and the language of those chapters become very critical to understand di the language that you'll see in di if you not very good at those chapters youve forgotten those then the advice is that first do those four chapters and then come to uh come to start data interpretation so your data information preparation can be uh can can be around can start around 20 25 days after your reasoning preparation if that is the case otherwise if you don't have a problem in understanding those Concepts and and the language from those chapters then you can start your di preparation along with your LR preparation and L di may even even the chapters the topics are not there in the sense that I don't think py chart is a topic because of the fact that if I represent something on a pie chart and ask you a question the same data I can put I can transfer to a table and ask you a question so table and py chart py chart are not really two t topics they're just data representations so you can spend maybe a week to 10 days to understand what data interpretations are but the gist of di is is to be structured through the same two tools assisted problem solving and self problem solving and you do a mix of the two and at the mindworks course we have in fact I have recorded more than 200 to 250 sets uh in all on L plus di for assisted problem solving so that and typically I've seen 50 sets should be enough for the student to understand what what to do but uh for the even for the worst case even for the for the slowest learner we have made sure that we have done 200 250 sets so that there's no dirth of content or high quality learning available to you but but bottom line is how much of a assisted problem solving you do if you don't do your 200 250 sets of self- problem solving you going to be dead in the exam because inside the exam the problem will test you and only your self- problem solving can give you the confidence to be able to cross over those those barriers that you face in the exam so the preparation cycle in in in di uh has to be split into two parts uh the first part is you start doing the traditional data interpretation uh sets so data ination is is in two parts traditional and logical data interpretation uh sets so what traditional data interpretation sets do is they focus on just your ability to read data and extract data based on the formulas presented in the question so so there's no not not much data analysis U maybe just 5% data analysis in a question and mostly it's about can you read the data and can you understand the data and can you extract the right numbers to do the calculations so typically my advice is in in this 25 sets of assessed problem solving followed by maybe around 100 sets of practice should should sort your traditional start 100s of practi you should then move your entire preparation onto logical di which is data interpretation with which which involves reading data it involves extracting data it also involves analyzing data and along with that it also involves logical reasoning Clues which are inserted into Data interpetation situations so that is traditional logical Di and and most of the times in cat you now have logical di questions but sometimes they do give traditional di questions also because uh this kind of division is not there in in the definition of cat it's something that we have observed I have observed and and built my books around that so so typically the thumb rule is 50 sets of assisted problem solving uh in logical di followed by around 150 to 200 sets of self problem solving so this should complete your your logical your your data interpretation uh C completely and then of course just like in reasoning when you hit the test the mock test Etc and you start doing the previous year cat papers you start asking yourself this question okay how am I at di have I sorted it out am I am I finding myself on a strong fitting inside my mocks I'm finding myself a strong fitting when I'm doing the past year mock mock papers past year cat papers and their sets if yes you close your di preparation you say that okay now I'm just maintaining and improving my efficiency but if you find yourself you are short you you still need more more then the tool is the same I pick up 25 sets I pick up 50 sets I pick up 75 sets more of logical Di and my book itself has has more than 400 500 sets in traditional plus logical di so you will have enough study material if you add the previous year cat papers and you add the mock test papers you more than sorted with respect to how much you need resource wise to learn it so this is the process and as I said evaluate uh keep doing the process evaluate and how quickly you need to do it depends on your timeline work will remain the same uh whether you're preparing a 3month framework or a 6month framework or a 10-month framework the work will remain the same but and the process would remain the same uh you'll have to do that work how much you do on a weekly basis Etc you can Define based on these numbers so I hope this video is useful for all of you uh do give us more ideas and do give us more love uh subscribe to the channel do press the Bell icon so that anytime we we come uh with with new content you can actually uh share this thing