GR-1.2 Aptitude: quantitative
You can work a placement-style quantitative paper at speed — arithmetic, percentages, ratios, time-speed-distance, time and work, simple data interpretation — and you know which chapters cost you marks.
The aptitude paper is the first filter at most campus drives, and it tests school arithmetic under time rather than anything from your degree. The mistake is to treat it as maths to be learned; it is speed to be built, and speed comes from timed sets, not from reading. Funcognito writes no question banks, so every checkpoint here points at a free bank that exists and tells you how to work it.
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Take one untimed set of twenty mixed arithmetic questions and mark the chapters you could not finish
A diagnostic before any practice. The point is the list of weak chapters it produces, which decides where the next ten hours go; the score itself is beside the point.
Percentages, profit and loss, and simple and compound interest: one timed set each, fifteen minutes for fifteen questions
The three chapters most papers lean on, worked under a clock from the first set. Fifteen in fifteen is the pace the real paper asks for, and the first attempt is meant to feel impossible.
Ratio and proportion, averages, and mixtures and alligation: one timed set each
Three chapters that share one move, turning a word problem into a ratio. Once that move is automatic the three become one chapter, which is why they are practised together.
Time, speed and distance, and time and work: two timed sets each, and write down the one identity you used most
The chapters students lose the most time on, because each question hides which quantity is fixed. Writing the identity you keep reaching for is how the hiding stops working on you.
Data interpretation: read a table or a bar chart and answer ten questions on it in twelve minutes
A different skill from the arithmetic: reading a chart for the number you need without reading the whole chart. Most of the twelve minutes goes on the first question, and that is normal.
Keep an error log: for every wrong answer, the chapter, the reason, and the fix, in one line each
The single most useful page you will produce in this topic. Most errors repeat, and a log shows you which three reasons account for most of yours long before more practice would.
Sit a full thirty-question mixed paper in thirty minutes and compare the chapters you missed with your diagnostic
The same measurement as the first item, taken after the work. The comparison is what tells you whether the hours went where the diagnostic said, and which chapters still need a second pass.
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