General Studies Paper II (CSAT) · Subtopic
Charts graphs and tables
Official syllabus
Basic numeracy (numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.) (Class X level), Data interpretation (charts, graphs, tables, data sufficiency etc. — Class X level);
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What this covers
A chart encodes quantities through labels, scales and visual marks. Its visual height does not answer a question until axes, units, time span and denominator are read.
Key ideas
- axis
- unit
- legend
- denominator
- missing value