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This document outlines a course on numerical ability and cognitive intelligence. The course aims to develop students' logical thinking and problem solving skills through modules on logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude, and verbal ability. The course objectives are to enhance critical thinking, quantitative and reasoning aptitude, and writing skills. It will be evaluated through assignments, assessments and a final exam. The course addresses program outcomes related to design thinking, problem solving, and communication skills.

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1-Material STS 2201

This document outlines a course on numerical ability and cognitive intelligence. The course aims to develop students' logical thinking and problem solving skills through modules on logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude, and verbal ability. The course objectives are to enhance critical thinking, quantitative and reasoning aptitude, and writing skills. It will be evaluated through assignments, assessments and a final exam. The course addresses program outcomes related to design thinking, problem solving, and communication skills.

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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
1
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

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