Course code Course title L T P J C

STS 2201 Numerical ability and cognitive intelligence 3 0 0 0 1

Pre-requisite None Syllabus version
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Course Objectives:
• To develop the students’ logical thinking skills and apply it in the real-life scenarios
• To learn the strategies of solving quantitative ability problems
• To enrich the verbal ability of the students

Expected Course Outcome:

• Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills, such as problem
solving related to their subject matters
• Students will be able to demonstrate competency in verbal, quantitative and
reasoning aptitude
• Students will be able to perform good written communication skills

Programme Outcomes 5, 9 and 16

(PO):

Module:1 Logical Reasoning 10 hours PO:5

Clocks, calendars, Direction sense and Cubes
• Clocks
• Calendars
• Direction Sense
• Cubes
Practice on advanced problems

Data interpretation and Data sufficiency - Advanced

• Advanced Data Interpretation and Data Sufficiency questions of CAT level
• Multiple chart problems
• Caselet problems

Module:2 Quantitative Aptitude 19 hours PO: 9

Time and work - Advanced
• Work with different efficiencies
• Pipes and cisterns: Multiple pipe problems
• Work equivalence
• Division of wages
• Advanced application problems with complexity in calculating total work

Time, Speed and Distance - Advanced

• Relative speed
• Advanced Problems based on trains
• Advanced Problems based on boats and streams
 • Advanced Problems based on races

Profit and loss, Partnerships and averages - Advanced

• Partnership
• Averages
• Weighted average
Advanced problems discussed

Number system - Advanced

Advanced application problems on Numbers involving HCF, LCM, divisibility tests,
remainder and power cycles.

Module:3 Verbal Ability 13 hours PO: 16

Sentence Correction - Advanced
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Modifiers
• Parallelism
• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
• Verb Time Sequences
• Comparisons
• Prepositions
• Determiners
Quick introduction to 8 types of errors followed by exposure to GMAT level
questions

Sentence Completion and Para-jumbles - Advanced

• Pro-active thinking
• Reactive thinking (signpost words, root words, prefix suffix, sentence
structure clues)
• Fixed jumbles
• Anchored jumbles
Practice on advanced GRE/ GMAT level questions

Reading Comprehension – Advanced

Exposure to difficult foreign subject-based RCs of the level of GRE/ GMAT

Module:4 Writing skills for placements 3 hours PO: 16

Essay writing
• Idea generation for topics
• Best practices
• Practice and feedback
Total Lecture hours: 45 hours

Mode of Evaluation: FAT, Assignments, 3 Assessments with Term End FAT

(Computer Based Test)
Text Book(s):
1. FACE, Aptipedia Aptitude Encyclopedia, 2016, 1st Edition, Wiley
Publications, Delhi.
2. ETHNUS, Aptimithra, 2013, 1st Edition, McGraw-Hill Education Pvt.Ltd.
3. SMART, PlaceMentor, 2018, 1st Edition, Oxford University Press.
4. R S Aggarwal, Quantitative Aptitude For Competitive Examinations, 2017, 3rd
Edition, S. Chand Publishing, Delhi.

Reference Book(s):
Arun Sharma, Quantitative Aptitude, 2016, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill Education Pvt.
Ltd.

Programme outcomes:
1. Having design thinking capability
2. Having problem solving ability- solving social issues and engineering
problems
3. Having a good working knowledge of communicating in English

Recommended by Board
of Studies
Approved by Academic Date
Council