Critical Thinking & Reasoning

Every competitive examination a child will eventually sit — JEE, NEET, CAT, UPSC, banking, campus aptitude rounds — tests reasoning before it tests subject knowledge. Almost no school teaches it as a subject in its own right.

This course does. Verbal and non-verbal reasoning, analytical reasoning, decision structures, and the algorithmic thinking that underpins both mathematics and programming. Taught live, in small batches, with puzzles worked on a board rather than answers memorised from a key.

The side effect that parents notice first is in ordinary schoolwork: a child who can break a problem into steps stops freezing when a question is phrased unfamiliarly.

1 Verbal Reasoning View

•Coding-Decoding, Classification, Homogeneity Test

•Number and Letter Series, Blood Relation, Direction Test

•Logical Puzzles, Incorporation of Justice, Logical Way Diagram

•Mathematical Logics, Input-Output, Hierarchy and Sequence

•Linear, Circular and Complex Composite Systems

2 Non-Verbal Reasoning View

•The Series, The Dice, Classification, Analogy

•Counting Pictures, Cutting and Folding Papers, Picture Completion

•Turn Diagram, Water Reflection, Mirror Reflection

•Calendar, Clocks, Cube and Cuboid

3 Analytical Reasoning View

•Introduction to Analytical Reasoning

•Statement and Logic, Cause and Effect

•Statement and Action, Statement and Conclusion

•Assertion and Reason, Statement and Assumptions

4 Decision Trees and Decision Tables View

•Decision tree structure and construction

•Decision table structure and construction

•Difference between a decision tree and a decision table

•Considerations for use and configuration

5 Algorithms and Flowcharts View

•What an algorithm is and the rules it must follow

•Flowcharts and the signs and symbols used in them

•Practice writing algorithms for real problems

•Practice designing flowcharts from algorithms

Worked board sessionsPuzzle setsFlowchart toolsTimed practice papers