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For IBSAT Data Adequacy and Data Interpretation section, it is crucial to have a strong understanding of data interpretation, analysis, and problem-solving. Here are some important topics to prepare from:

• Data Interpretation: Tables, charts, graphs (bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts), and Venn diagrams.
• Data Sufficiency: This tests your ability to determine whether the given data is sufficient to answer a particular question.
• Data Analysis: Topics such as averages, percentages, ratios, and comparisons. Practice solving questions that require calculations, comparisons, and logical reasoning based on the given data.
• Logical Reasoning: It may include topics like seating arrangements, blood relations, coding-decoding, series completion, and analytical puzzles.
• Caselets: You need to read and understand the caselet and extract relevant information, and solve the questions based on the given data.
  

The IBSAT Verbal Ability section assesses your English language skills which includes reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and verbal reasoning. Here are some VA important topics you should focus on for preparation:

• Reading Comprehension: Practice reading passages and improve comprehension skills. Understand the main idea, identify supporting details, and draw inferences from the text.
  
• Vocabulary: Enhance vocabulary by learning new words, their meanings, and usage. 
  
• Grammar: This includes parts of speech, tenses, subject-verb agreement, sentence structure, and punctuation. Pay attention to common error types such as verb forms, pronoun usage, and modifiers.
• Sentence Correction: Practice identifying and correcting grammatical errors in sentences. This may include errors in subject-verb agreement, parallelism, modifiers, and pronoun usage.
• Para jumbles
• Critical Reasoning: Develop your ability to analyse arguments, evaluate evidence, identify assumptions, and draw logical conclusions.
• Idioms and Phrases: Familiarise yourself with common idioms, phrases, and expressions used in the English language. 
  

The Quantitative Ability section of IBSAT covers various mathematical problems and concepts like solving skills. Here are some important topics you should focus on while preparing for IBSAT Quantitative Ability section:

• Arithmetic: Percentages, Ratios and Proportions, Profit and Loss, Time and Work, Time, Speed and Distance, Averages, Simple and Compound Interest.
• Algebra: Equations, Inequalities, Functions, Quadratic Equations, Progressions.
• Geometry: Basic Geometry, Mensuration, Coordinate Geometry.
• Number System: Number properties, Divisibility, HCF and LCM, Factors and Multiples.
• Data Interpretation: Tables, Bar Graphs, Line Graphs, Pie Charts, Data Sufficiency.
• Probability and Statistics: Basic Probability, Permutations and Combinations, Averages, Measures of Dispersion.

You must practice a variety of questions from the topics mentioned above to develop your problem-solving abilities and improve your speed. Additionally, referring to previous years' question papers and mock tests can provide valuable insights to IBSAT exam pattern.