PEA204:ANALYTICAL SKILLS

L:2 T:2 P:0 Credits:4

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to

CO1 :: illustrate procedural fluency with number system and mathematical operations to solve
the stated problems

CO2 :: select an appropriate approach to solve problems related to percentage and profit and
loss.

CO3 :: demonstrate the various logical reasoning techniques to solve problems related to series
completion, coding-decoding and analogy in minimum possible time.
CO4 :: use the analytical skills to calculate the simple and compound interest.

CO5 :: analyze the presented data and evaluate it in the correct manner to solve the problems in
stipulated amount of time.
CO6 :: observe and solve logical reasoning problems of direction sense and blood relation.

Unit I
Approximation and Simplification : BODMAS, problem based on digit sum, approximation based
on percentage
Numbers System : rules of divisibility, multiplicity and squaring of numbers, HCF and LCM of
numbers, type of numbers
Average : average of numbers, arithmetic mean, real life example of average, application based
question
Unit II
Percentage : concepts of percentage, comparison based question, application based question

Profit and Loss : conceptual formulae, profit or loss detection, cost prices, selling price, calculation
of profit and loss percent, application based question
Unit III
Series Completion : alphabet series, alphanumeric series, number series

Analogy and Classification : word analogy, sentence analogy, number analogy, finding the
analogous pair, word classification, number classification, alphabet classification, word pair
classification
Coding-Decoding : deciphering message word codes, number and symbol codes for messages, letter
coding, direct letter coding, number/symbol coding
Alphabet Test : alphabetical order of words, letter - word problems, word formation using letters of
given word
Unit IV
Ratio and Proportion : basic concepts of ratio and proportion and ages, problems based on ratio-
proportion and ages, problems based on partnership, profit sharing
Simple interest : concept of simple interest, general formulas, application based questions

Compound interest : basic concepts and formula based questions, difference between simple
interest and compound interest
Unit V
Data Sufficiency : reasoning based data sufficiency, mathematical based data sufficiency

Data Interpretation : table chart, bar graph, pie chart, line graph, basics of data interpretation

Unit VI
Number, Ranking and Time Sequence Test : numbers test, ranking tests, time sequence test

Direction Sense Test : direction puzzle, sense the directions correctly

Blood Relations : relation based puzzle, coded relation

Text Books:
1. VERBAL & NON-VERBAL REASONING by DR R S AGGARWAL, S. CHAND & COMPANY

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Text Books: 2. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE by DR R S AGGARWAL, S. CHAND & COMPANY

References:
1. HOW TO PREPARE FOR QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE FOR CAT by ARUN SHARMA, MCGRAW
HILL EDUCATION
2. QUICKER MATHEMATICS by M TYRA, BANKING SERVICE CHRONICLE

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