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12 Aug 2020, 13:04
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The first thing I tell anybody when they say they're just 'bad' at DS questions is not to label themselves that way. It immediately disempowers you and assumes that there's some intangible and invisible reason why your DS scores are lower than your PS scores.
The truth is most people who struggle with DS are simply skipping key steps that apply to all quant problems and especially to DS questions.
1) It all starts with how you capture and pre-process the prompt and the statements. When you leave readily available information on the table, you immediately make it impossible for yourself to quickly answer the question correctly.
2) Recognize who your 'opponent' is -- the psychometricians and test writers who are experts in how people fall into traps on DS questions and can design questions that lead you down the wrong path by taking advantage of peoples' natural tendencies in working a questions (like writing Statement 1 in a way that makes you think it was part of the prompt when you're looking at statement 2)
3) Visualize as much as possible. Words are the weapons that test writers use to confuse you. But translating questions into visualizations, you'll neutralize that weapon and give yourself a much better chance of a right answer.
Improving your process is the most valuable way to spend your time prepping especially if you have a very short time frame to improve your score (hello Round 1 application deadlines). Obviously expert coaching can play big role in spotting your weak areas and guiding key improvements in the fastest way possible.
The truth is most people who struggle with DS are simply skipping key steps that apply to all quant problems and especially to DS questions.
1) It all starts with how you capture and pre-process the prompt and the statements. When you leave readily available information on the table, you immediately make it impossible for yourself to quickly answer the question correctly.
2) Recognize who your 'opponent' is -- the psychometricians and test writers who are experts in how people fall into traps on DS questions and can design questions that lead you down the wrong path by taking advantage of peoples' natural tendencies in working a questions (like writing Statement 1 in a way that makes you think it was part of the prompt when you're looking at statement 2)
3) Visualize as much as possible. Words are the weapons that test writers use to confuse you. But translating questions into visualizations, you'll neutralize that weapon and give yourself a much better chance of a right answer.
Improving your process is the most valuable way to spend your time prepping especially if you have a very short time frame to improve your score (hello Round 1 application deadlines). Obviously expert coaching can play big role in spotting your weak areas and guiding key improvements in the fastest way possible.
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