You Can Strengthen Your Aptitude in 10 Days
Awesome step-by-step systematic aptitude performance improvement guide for College students
I have heard many people find it difficult to crack aptitude. It’s not about mathematical or analytical skills, it’s about practice.
Practice makes a perfect person
Before my placements, I was concerned about my aptitude skills. So I followed an efficient method to track and keep me on the same line of progress, it worked great and I could easily pass through the Aptitude rounds everywhere in fact I’m lucky to impress people with my aptitude skills.
Baby step 👶
The more you explore more you learn. Read the formulas for each possible section. You might feel comfortable in a few sections but most of the time the ground reality differs.
Eg: Let say person A travels from city X to Y with a speed of 100 km/h and returns at the speed of 50 km/hr. What's the average traveling speed?
Guessed 75 km/hr? hold on.
Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman on his book Thinking fast and slow says that we try to address the question either intuitively(fast) or using complex reasonable logic(slow).
If you have recently been in touch with intuitive answers, you would have correctly guessed. Most normal people will get trapped on 75 km/hr. You can crack the question, check the formula.
Few people might ask you to work on particular aptitude topics like Heights and distance, trigonometry, etc … But I feel it is good to have formulas handy for all sections.
Note: Preferably have the formulas noted on a single sheet of paper.
Nurturing step 🌺
On initial days, read formulas for a section and practice different types of questions on that topic. Solve different patterns of questions like choose it, reasons and assertions, match the following, etc… these will boost your consciousness level on the topic.
We have a process to boost your confidence
Remember to read the formulas for all sections, daily. Thereby you are gonna be in touch with formulas, patterns, methods for all sections and slowly getting specialized in each section.
Testing step 🧪
- Fetch the online questions papers for each topic and evaluate yourself against it. A few famous sites for your quick view AssessmentDay, Faceprep, IndiaBix
- Solve the mixed set of questions and record the results
VIP Step 🛎️
Practice again. To stick to the plan, I solved at least one aptitude question paper daily, even during my tight busy days. Recommending you to practice daily. My college was 20KM away, so I used to practice daily during my travel in public transport(bus), consistency is the key to aptitude improvement.
Review Step (2.0)
Just solving the questions doesn’t add value if you are not reviewing and acting on your mistakes. I used to track my work using the below sheet,
After classifying the questions, try to classify the mistakes.
- Answered properly ~ Congratulations, you are doing good. Keep reading the formulas on a daily basis
- Fluke answers correct ~ Check the original method to address the question, you will learn now.
- Calculation mistake ~ Practice again with the solution in place and see where you are going wrong. Work on the area where you are feeling difficulty in the calculation.
- Applied wrong method or formula ~ Think what made you apply the wrong formula, find the root cause and try to distinguish it with the correct method.
- Don't know the process to solve ~ Read the solution
Although my score remains the same for the initial days, I can see that my fluke solving rate is decreasing and the actual solving rate increases. It helps me to boost my confidence.
Reviewing the fluke answers and working on the different categories of mistakes will help you to a great extent in systematic performance improvement. The success rate indicates where you are doing good and where you need to work.
Keep practising, you will surely see the change within 15 days.
Note: Time constraint plays a crucial role in aptitude. Make yourself comfortable and practice with strict time constraints. I followed 30 questions in 20 min.
Bonus 🔥
I thought it will be great if I can share the sheet with you all. Here I'm attaching the sheet for your kind reference, use it positively my friend. All the best for your preparation. You can do it.
