Data Interpretation & Verbal Reasoning

Word meanings in context, fill-in-the-blanks, incorrect word usage and one-word substitutions. The highest-volume verbal topic in the bank. Learn words in usage clusters rather than isolation — a word you can deploy in a sentence is a word you'll recognise under exam pressure.

Passages followed by inference, tone, main-idea and assumption questions — the single largest verbal topic here. NEAT RCs lean toward business and ideas-driven prose. Read for structure ('what is each paragraph doing?') rather than detail, and answer from the passage, never from what you already believe.

Reordering scrambled sentences and choosing the sentence that completes a paragraph. Solved by chains, not feelings: find mandatory pairs (pronoun→noun, general→example, question→answer), lock them, then check opening and closing candidates. Two locked pairs usually decide the whole order.

Spotting and fixing grammatical errors, plus cloze passages where every blank tests grammar *and* context simultaneously. The testable grammar set is small — subject-verb agreement, tense consistency, parallelism, modifiers. Read each option back into the full sentence; errors hide in the seams.

Meaning and usage of idioms and phrasal verbs — 'cut corners', 'read between the lines', 'put off'. Business-flavoured idioms show up often here, which suits the NEAT audience. Learn them in sentences, and watch for the literal-meaning trap option examiners always include.

Bar charts, tables, and business caselets — read the numbers, compute what's asked, ignore the rest. NEAT's DI leans commercial: revenue, growth, unit economics. Estimate before calculating; if options are spread out, an approximation picks the answer faster than exact arithmetic.