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GRE Data Interpretation practice

Six original data sets (tables and charts) with twenty questions: reading values, percent change, ratios, and averages. Each answer is worked from the figure. Free, no signup.

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Question 1 of 20
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books

Books Lent by the Maplewood Library Branch, January through May
According to the figure, how many books did the Maplewood branch lend in March?
How to approach it

A method for Data Interpretation.

Read the labels before the numbers

Axes, units, and footnotes decide the answer. Many misses come from a truncated axis or a percentage read as an absolute value.

Percentage versus amount

Decide whether the question wants an absolute change or a percent change, and compute the percent from the correct base.

Pull only what you need

Each question uses a small part of the figure. Find the two or three values that matter and ignore the rest.

Questions

Data Interpretation, answered.

A set of questions based on a shared table, graph, or chart, appearing in both Quant sections. The questions test reading and computing from the data.
Percentages, ratios, averages, and fractions of a total, applied to the values you read from the figure.
Read values from the stated numbers and axis labels, not the visual size of a bar, since axes can be truncated.
Yes, and Data Interpretation is where it helps most, for multi-step percentage and average work. Still confirm which base a percentage uses.