Contents

Preface

1 Data interpretation tests and the winning approach

2 One hundred and forty warm-up data interpretation questions

Data set 1: The Lagoon Hotel

Data set 2: Means of travel to work

Data set 3: Sea breezes, balls, balloons and submarines

Data set 4: Distribution of women across professional and managerial grades

Data set 5: Distances from New Zealand by sea

Data set 6: Facts of light

Data set 7: Booking a flight

Data set 8: Predicted change in employment by industrial classification

Data set 9: Mary’s Gums

Data set 10: Railway enquiries

Data set 11: Households and their use of instruments of mass media

Data set 12: Marco glass

Data set 13: Data files

Data set 14: The web-building company

3 Twenty mini data interpretation tests

Mini test 1: Speeding vehicles

Mini test 2: The mail order company

Mini test 3: Analysis of a population by economic activity and district

Mini test 4: What young people find most and least interesting

Mini test 5: Global sales by world regions

Mini test 6: The recruitment agency

Mini test 7: Population growth

Mini test 8: Pi Corporation

Mini test 9: Worldwide.com

Mini test 10: Number of couples celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary

Mini test 11: Employment trends by region

Mini test 12: Observations of cetaceans

Mini test 13: Average propensity to save

Mini test 14: Paper is big business

Mini test 15: The aged debt recovery process

Mini test 16: World population

Mini test 17: A survey of age and attitudes

Mini test 18: Where there is muck there is money

Mini test 19: The reasons young people commit crime

Mini test 20: All good things come to an end

4 Three full-length realistic data interpretation tests

Test 1

Test 2

Test 3

5 Answers and detailed explanations

Chapter 2: One hundred and forty warm-up data interpretation questions

Chapter 3: Twenty mini data interpretation tests

Chapter 4: Three full length tests