About Course

This course provides the basic skills required in solving the problems of Aptitude required by various companies for Campus Recruitment and competitive tests. The contents of course include solving problems on different concepts such as –Averages, Problems on ages, Ratio and Proportion, Chain rule, Alligation or mixture, Percentages, Permutations and combinations, Clocks and Calendars. This course also lays foundation for fundamentals of Mathematics.

Course Syllabus

Numbers

Operation on numbers, HCF and LCM of numbers, Decimal fractions.

Ratio and Proportion

Ratio, Proportion, Variations, Problems on Ages.

Averages, Mixtures and Alligations

Averages, Weighted average, Difference between mixture and alligation, Problems on Mixtures and alligation

Percentages, Simple Interest (SI) and Compound Interest (CI)

Fundamentals of Percentage, Percentage change, SI and CI, Relation between SI and CI.

Profit and Loss, Partnerships

Basic terminology in profit and loss, Types of partnership, Problems related to partnership

Permutations and Combinations

Fundamental counting principle, Definition of Permutation, Seating arrangement, Problems related to alphabets, Rank of the word, Problems related to numbers, Circular permutation, Combination

Clocks

Introduction, Finding angle between hands of clock, Gain or loss of time.

Calendar

Calendars method- 1, Calendars method -2

Time, Speed, Distance and Work

problems on trains, boats and streams, pipes and cisterns

References

• Aggarwal R.S. Quantitative Aptitude for competitive examinations, 2017 edition, S.Chand.
• Abhijit Guha, Quantitative Aptitude for competitive examinations, 6th Edition, McGraw Hill Education.
• Dinesh Khattar, The Pearson guide to Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations, 3rd Edition, Pearson Education.