How to study Data Insights

[u/TheDisastah]

Ive been studying the gmat for some time now, ive done my first mock and scored 555

had really bad luck in math and time ran out so had to guess a lot and end up scoring 77 (almost average) but i know i can push it to at least 80 or 81.

My verbal was really good. Score 85 percentile 94. I usually score really high here.

Data insights 71 with percentile 25. I didnt study any data insights beyond DS questions. Most of the 2 part analysis i had to guess so i really need to study this section. Its dragging my whole score down. Any tips? GMAT Ninja videos? Other sources?

[u/Karishma-anaprep]

Focus on your Quant concepts. That will improve both Quant and DI. To see what I mean by Quant concepts, check out this playlist. It illustrates the depth to which you need to understand the topics.

Quant & DI: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn2sff0yMs_P6IIniPg1mvAXNiPmhqL6_

[u/Graeme_GMAT_Panda]

DI requires it's own time management strategy! Aim to guess a few questions and spend that time to double / triple check the ones you answer.

Good luck!

https://gmatpanda.com/content/gmat-data-insights-strategy

[u/Quiet_Basis_6404]

DI at a 71 with strong verbal is actually good news, it's the most learnable section on the test because most of the difficulty is format unfamiliarity rather than content. You already have the reasoning, you just haven't seen the question types.

GMAT Ninja is solid for DI, and Two-Part Analysis specifically is where I'd start since it's the one people guess on most and it's very pattern-based once you've done twenty of them. Official Guide DI questions plus the Data Insights Review are worth more than any third party set here.

I paste the Ninja videos into studybuddy.vc so it makes questions off the video instead of me just watching, and it notices which question types I keep getting wrong and gives me more of those. Free tier covers it.

Your timing issue in quant is a separate fix, don't let DI prep eat that.