Congratulations

Hey Shina, firstly congrats! and and I went through your entire blog, gives me some confidence, although I am not as strong in quants as you, how did you approach DS, any pointers?

Congrats. This is a great score.

Thank you guys =)

jaskaran, for DS the first step is to begin with solving the question itself. Most of the times it let's you know what further information is needed to find the answer. This is what I read on forum, used in practice tests and helped me on the dday - look only at the first option and see it gives you the answer, if yes then write AD down if not then BCE. Next look at second option in isolation, its easy to carry forward from the first one so need to be careful. If second option doesn't work then try together. The AD and BCE eases the stress by eliminating half the answers.

There are some typical questions that you get and some things you can keep in mind -

- In algebra where the options provide value of x and y, on solving the question, a lot of times value for only one of them is required. Don't get carried away into marking both are required when only one can give the answer. I got a question in which when I solved the equation all that was needed was value of y; the options were x=sthing and y=sthing.

- the number line questions are usually the scary ones, take them easy because half of them have simple answers. In number lines watch out for whether its mentioned whether its integers. If not consider fractions.

- Sometimes its easy to try with samples, use x and y as both negative, positive, one of them -ve other +ve, fractions if real. I use the following and cancel what doesn't fit. What this gives is whether I'm looking for an option such as 0<x or X>0 etc
x y
+ +
- -
+ -
- +

With quant its always practice and practice more

Hope this helps!