Decision making and problem solving
Whole chapter · 6–10 focused hours
Decision making and problem solving
School arithmetic and working reading fluency, with rusty Class X mathematics; first focused CSAT preparation. Learners needing basic literacy or foundational numeracy remediation need a separate diagnostic budget.
Includes
- Assigned explanatory sections and selected worked examples
- Available mapped CSAT questions with untimed then timed attempts
- Mistake analysis and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Full-length timed papers
- Later spaced revision
- All optional textbook exercises
- Advanced mathematics beyond Class X or competition-specific high-difficulty extensions
- Optional supplementary CSAT-book exercises beyond available mapped practice
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
Whole chapter reading
- NCERT Psychology, Chapter 7: Thinking ↗
Problem Solving and Table 7.1, printed pages 113–114 (PDF pages 5–6); stop before Reasoning
- Psychology 2e, section 7.3: Problem Solving ↗
Section 7.3: Problem-Solving Strategies and Table 7.2
- Psychology 2e, section 7.3: Problem Solving ↗
Section 7.3: Pitfalls to Problem Solving, mental set and functional fixedness; the candle-task sentence should describe overcoming fixedness, not using it
- Introduction to Psychology: Decision Making and Problem-Solving ↗
Strategies for problem solving: means-ends analysis and Tower of Hanoi example
- NCERT Psychology, Chapter 7: Thinking ↗
Decision-Making, printed pages 115–116 (PDF pages 7–8), from the Decision-Making heading: evidence, alternative costs/benefits, priorities and outcomes
- Introduction to Psychology: Decision Making and Problem-Solving ↗
What is Decision-making? and Problems in Problem Solving: criteria, alternative comparison and relevant facts
- Concise CSAT—General Studies Paper II, seventh edition, ISBN 9789355327161 ↗
Chapter 4: Decision Making and Problem Solving; selected scenario practice
Book required · Supplementary