| Every year, Indian Institutes of Management | | | | analysis. |
| conducts common admission test to determine a | | | | In this section, students have to read quickly and |
| candidate's presence of mind as well as mental ability | | | | correctly the data represented by many kinds of |
| to perform during high pressure. An individual can get | | | | charts, graphs, tables etc. Data pertaining to any |
| success this exam by reducing the number of | | | | situation can be presented many ways i.e. Bar |
| negatives and selection of right questions during the | | | | Diagrams, Numerical Data Tables, Pie-graphs, |
| test. CAT Entrance Exam can be categorized into | | | | Cartesian graphs. In CAT Entrance exam, there are |
| various areas like verbal ability, problem solving, Data | | | | 15 to 20 questions on Data Interpretation. These |
| Interpretation, Logical reasoning, Data Sufficiency etc. | | | | questions will test the ability of students for speedy |
| We can better understand the concept of Data | | | | analysis and calculation. For the preparation of this |
| Interpretation from our daily life experiences. In our | | | | section, one should know speed-calculation |
| daily lives, we normally come across statistics, | | | | techniques. One should also remember tables up to |
| figures, statement of all sorts using for the | | | | 20, fractions, cubes and squares of numbers. |
| preparation of expenditure details of an organization, | | | | Additionally, an aspirant should also learn the |
| company, industry etc. These figures, statistics are | | | | speed-multiplication and division techniques. Once you |
| known as Data and finding some meaningful | | | | command over these areas, you can start taking |
| information from this data is called data interpretation. | | | | tests by different types of DI sets. I hope, this way, |
| It also involves many scientific methods for analyzing, | | | | that you can definitely get success in CAT entrance |
| organizing and summarizing data and drawing valid | | | | exam. |
| conclusions for making reasonable decisions for such | | | | |