Data Interpretation accounted for 50 marks questions in the Common Admissions
Tests (CAT) since CAT 2001. CAT 2005 had 30 questions in this section. 10 of the
30 questions were 1 mark questions and the remaining 20 were 2 marks questions.
Data Intrepretation section can be broadly classified as comprising two types of
questions.
Data Interpretation (DI)
In these questions data is presented either in the form of a table or a bar
chart or a pie chart or a line graph or as a combination of one of these
formats. Following each of these data presentations, there will be 4 to 6
questions. You are expected to answer the questions by interpreting the data
given in the table or graph. Here is a sample data interpretation question.
Click here for sample DI question
Data Sufficiency (DS)
Every Data Sufficiency problem consists of a question followed by two
statements. You have to decide NOT WHAT THE ANSWER IS, BUT WHETHER THE
QUESTION CAN BE ANSWERED based on the information given in the two
statements.
CAT exams till 2004 had DS questions either as part of the quant section or
as part of the DI section. CAT 2005 did not have any DS questions at all.
However, one cannot rule out such questions in future CAT exams.
Click here for sample DS question
