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How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Munira Lokhandwala - Friday, 30 January 2009, 12:45 PM

Munira Lokhandwalas name needs no introduction to CAT 2009 aspirants. An IIM Calcutta alumnus,Munira has over six years of experience in teaching math and finance. She has been a consistent starperformer in CAT with huge percentiles piled up year after year- 2004 (99.99%ile), 2005 (100%ile),2006(99.99%ile), 2007 (99.99%ile) and a phenomenal score of 290/356 (100%ile) in CAT 2008.Munira is the founder of CATalyst Group Tuitions, Mumbai and Tesseract India, Mumbai whereshe coaches students for MBA and CFA, respectively. She is also a puzzle enthusiast and have stood

17th in the all India National Puzzle Championship, Sept 2007 and sixth Indian in the international

online sudokucup held on 17th Jan 2009. Munira has consented to write a series of articles on DI forTG.com. Here, we present the first article in the series- How to prepare for DI

Students are requested to practice the tips proposed by Munira and ask any queries they have thereof. She will answer them personally.-Total Gadha

How to prepare for DI



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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Ashwin A - Friday, 30 January 2009, 01:55 PM

Wow!! This is a surprise!!

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby mihir pande - Friday, 30 January 2009, 03:00 PM

good to see munira lokhandwala herself at TG....

TGis turning out to be the super-brain hub it seems

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Dagny Taggart - Friday, 30 January 2009, 05:09 PM

Hi Munira,

Welcome to TG.Com It has been a long time that I have done any calculations, this article has surely raised some alarms. :P I have

read it twice and have fiddled with numbers as well. It is working. Thank y ou.

Dagny

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby OnTheGo _Gadha - Saturday, 31 January 2009, 12:49 AM

Tats a sheer u l timatu m...

CA T 09' aspirants has a long way to go



Shree

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby ritika bajaj - Saturday, 31 January 2009, 11:37 AM

thank you so much ma'am

what a wonderful help.

thanks a lot

regards

ritika

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby raul dkwel - Saturday, 31 January 2009, 02:44 PM

Thanks a lot ! informative

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby mohd huzaifa - Saturday, 31 January 2009, 11:34 PM

hi mam, very informative. mam i would like to askyou a question that can anybody from science(bio) background prepare for CAT on its ownand can crack CAT. Is it possible. I will be very thankful to you if you plz give me the answer of my question. I am in my grad 4th sem. Is timefor 09 cat is sufficient for cat prep from now ?

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Anurag Rai - Sunday, 1 February 2009, 01:28 PM

a lovely article. lol

really intelligent

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Adam Adam - Monday, 2 February 2009, 11:18 AM

Dear Munira,

It's very Critical of your intelligence that you aprproximate that Way.

Certainlly,this article serves it's purpose well -they are is no denying .

We Would hope more from you ,in questions (like Critical Reasoning )

Keep up the good work.

Best Regards

Adam

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Nikhil Rajagopalan - Monday, 2 February 2009, 12:17 PM

Nice article

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby ujjawal kumar - Monday, 2 February 2009, 05:21 PM



Hi mam,

Good to see u here.

Really a nice article, and waiting for many more for the same.

Thanks.

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Gowri Nandana - Monday, 2 February 2009, 08:53 PM

Munira Ma'm,

Thank you so much for the wonderful article . It feels really good to have you as a part of our Gadha family

We have been taught the second method of aprxmtn at our coaching centre. But the first one is so simple esp so because most of the times weneed only an approximate answer.

The explanation given for the question is so lucid. I actually took near to 8 mts to find the answer of that particualr question during CAT. Butwith your method it takes less than a minute. Thankyou for sharing the tips to crack CAT DI.

TG is an excellent site for CAT quant and verbal preparation. With your arrrival, we can tame DI as well. Expecting more articles from you

Regards,

Gowri

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby sayekiren ravindran - Monday, 2 February 2009, 11:38 PM

good article.. thanx

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby B a D r I Life Is sO bEauTifUL - Tuesday, 3 February 2009, 06:59 PM

Hi Munira...when we expect next article..too eager to know.....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby srikanth baskaran - Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 12:37 PM

hi munira

how u approximated 557/900 as 2/3..thanks

srikanth

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Harpinder Kang - Monday, 9 February 2009, 08:47 PM

Dear Munirathanks Its excellent art you are sharing..kindly guide for the material i can get for 3rd factor of good practice..

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Abhishek Dutta - Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 04:26 PM

The article provided by u was awesome but I would also like to know from u how to handle questions on Data SUfficency.

Eagerly waiting for another wonderful article.

Thank u very much for the wonderful article on Data Interpretation for CAT.

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Munira Lokhandwala - Thursday, 12 February 2009, 11:46 AM

Hi,



From mid Feb y ou have more than enough time for y our CAT prep; just ensure that y ou put in 3 hours every day . Y ourbackground (arts/science/commerce) does not play a role in y our cat prep. It is y our aptitude, attitude and self discipline that ismore important.

Take Care,

Munira.

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Munira Lokhandwala - Thursday, 12 February 2009, 11:51 AM

That approximation is a very very approximate number that y ou can see without any calculation. So here y ou can see that557 /900 is close to 600 / 900 so 2/3.

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Swati Tangerala - Friday, 13 February 2009, 11:57 PM

can any1 explain me....

also the 10% growth for women will tilt towards 10%...

why?...

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby bhargav ch - Monday, 16 February 2009, 10:32 PM

simply awesome...especially coz CAT gives questions which need in depth calculations...this really is gonna help...!

Thanks mam....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Muskan Tayal - Sunday, 22 February 2009, 05:39 PM

your article was indeed helpful.. can yo throw some light on the books which can help me in di other than the all India mock papers.. am weakin di.. and ready to practice to any extent.so kindly tell me some books for it

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby ravi puri - Sunday, 22 February 2009, 08:26 PM

great!1!!

Thank you very much... Please Do keep guiding us ma'm........

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby shilpi garg - Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 12:57 PM

Your article is really interesting and opens new gates of thinking process.

I am eagerly waiting for your next post.....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Dignified Madness - Saturday, 28 February 2009, 01:25 AM

MuniraWhy do u waste a seat for CAT aspirants every year!!! Had u not marked ur answers, 1 aspirant could have gotten a GD PI call. I know it doesntsound a big deal, but this cud have been an opportunity of a lifetime for that one person.

Please think about it!!!! It is a request

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Ritayan Mukherjee - Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 02:38 PM

come now dignified.....this is not cool.I have seen Munira's result this time and she had no IIM calls. Perhaps the ovals for college selection in the CAF were left blank.So please refrain from making such comments unless u are aware of the facts.

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby shank jos - Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 04:35 PM

HI TG Teamcan u please tell me where shall i start preparing in this forum .

can any one guide me which thread to read first .. its to confusing to start .. (

Thanksjos

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Amit Jain - Wednesday, 4 March 2009, 05:21 PM

When can we expect next part of this article?

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Manohar Karanam - Sunday, 8 March 2009, 11:15 PM

Hi Munira,

Take a bow for the excellent article.

Waiting for the next one eagearly.....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby dilpreet sethi - Monday, 9 March 2009, 01:53 AM

hey!

wat about starting da prep for cat '09 from mid march? how much tym do i have 2 give everyday?......kindly help!......

thanku!

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Gkchamp Champ - Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 06:34 PM

Hi Munira,

Why have not directly calculated the percentage of Europeans from 2010 and 2003 ? I mean to say, question doesn't specifically say that weneed to go into the details of Men and Women, It has just asked about the %.

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby saurabh tibrewal - Sunday, 22 March 2009, 11:08 PM

557/857..we can simply approximate by raising 20% in denominator as well as in numerator..20%of 857=857/5=17020% of 557=557/5=110(557+110)/(857+170)=667/1020====66%(approx..)

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Ankita Chowdhury - Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 02:16 PM



Hi TG Sir,

Can you please suggest a book for Quant for JMET, where there will be Higher level maths as well to solve....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby samir ahmed atashbajiwala - Sunday, 29 March 2009, 03:14 PM

hello,i want some tips for cat examination.about section asked in cat.and course asked in cat examination.can you give me the books name which are best in D.I.

thanks

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Sanket S - Friday, 3 April 2009, 08:23 PM

Dear Munira mam,I could not find way to contact you, therefore, asking the query this way.Hope you dont mind.I found the following article on orkut stating that quiet less weighttage is given to CAT in the selection process for IIM-A. If this is the case, am iwasting my time in trying with my tooth n nail to make it into IIM-A?

CAT not the way to IIM-A

IIM-A is the dream destination of every MBA aspirant in India BUT its really disheartening to say that even cracking the toughest entranceexam-CAT cannot assure you a call for even GD/PI.

According to this,final weightage given to CAT score is only 27.27%.rest 72.72% has already been decided by ur 10th and 12th scores(talkingabt general category).

In simple words suppose Mr. A cracked CAT 08 with 100%ile overall and 99+%ile in all 3 sections,has a work-ex of 10 yrs. in finance, with 90%in graduation,89% in 10th and 79% in 12th..THEN he wud not hav got a call this yr. EVEN AT THIS PROFILE !!!using the formula given by IIM-AC.S score wud b 16 which is less than cut-off C.S. score...

So much weightage has been given to PAST academic performance that more than 2 lakh of the people who filled forms could hav neverqualified for CAT even if they topped it!

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Pranav Baj - Wednesday, 8 April 2009, 06:33 AM

hey munira

thnx for this mesmerisin walk to remember in DI...m pretty uncomfortable with fractions n ll surely try ur approach

kp enlightnin us

tc

Pranav

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Mahendra Awasthy - Friday, 10 April 2009, 05:07 PM

hi

this is really working !!!!!!

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Anuj Das - Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 10:11 AM

THANX A LOT....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby arnab qwe - Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 11:43 AM

please suggest some study material for di



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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby ankit vijay - Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 01:21 PM

i m a 2nd yr engg student..my 4th sem is nearabout to complete.. i have a very huge interest in preparing for cat exam and wanna get selectedat any cost for one of the respected iim's.mam would u plzzzzzz guide me for if its the right time 2 start the preparation what i should do tostart working towards my ambition.your rply will provide a good help to me...thanks

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby sidharth khare - Friday, 24 April 2009, 07:06 PM

Hi Mam,the article is a great learning and inspirational in itself.Mam i am a working exeutive how should i plan myday for cat 09? I mean howmany hrs a day.

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby pankaj jaiswal - Friday, 24 April 2009, 07:40 PM

thanx ma'am ..

u r the champ....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby pankaj jaiswal - Saturday, 25 April 2009, 05:31 PM

hi ma'am please tell how to prepare for DI...

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Deepika Khandelwal - Monday, 25 May 2009, 05:13 PM

really gud article !!!!!

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby nakul kothari - Saturday, 1 August 2009, 12:25 AM

dear tg, I read the article by munira mam....no doubt about her credentials......but where mam has gone......I mean looking at the post there has notbeen one after 25 may'09.....and also some of the queries are left unanswered....check this out!!!!!

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Ravi Sharma - Friday, 7 August 2009, 10:31 PM

Hi Munira Ma'm

Please Tell us when will you post your next article.Cat is knocking our doors.Please fulfill your promise.

Waiting eagerly for your response

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby aashita verma - Saturday, 29 August 2009, 11:53 PM

Hi....A very helpful article.Can u plz tell me where are the solutions for DI quiz on totalgadha ???i really need the solutions....

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby sadhanandhan n - Saturday, 5 September 2009, 03:18 PM

it's superb...!!

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by Netra Mehta - Sunday, 6 September 2009, 12:33 AM

Hi Munira Mam!

Can u plz explain me the 2nd DI set based on pie chart.. I dint get it fully..Plz tell the answers to the questions too..i mean the approach..

Thnx..

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby nice Smile - Tuesday, 29 September 2009, 10:42 AM

Hi TG/Munira,

Please let us know when u guys are planning for the next article on DI. We are eagerly waiting for ur next post on DI

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Pankaj Kumar - Sunday, 11 October 2009, 06:57 PM

Thanks for the article, with crisp and useful information. Looking for the next article in follow-up of same, like short and easy solution approachto solve different kind of sets.

Thanks again

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby Rajyavardhan Mishra - Saturday, 14 August 2010, 08:20 AM

hey...

when are we getting the second installment of this article

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby misty hue - Saturday, 14 August 2010, 11:49 AM

Hi,

Please can someone explain me the reasoning behind the first DI question. I need to understand the logic for that approximation..How can weapproximate growth rate as 7% and then 7*7= 49%.Can we make such assumptions..please explain...

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Re: How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CATby samar samar - Wednesday, 27 October 2010, 08:09 PM

yaar sanket plz give me the link to this article plz.....

i ve looked for minimum criteria for iim-a call and it sayscat min-99% 10th/12th >=70% that's it

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