CUET Quant: Percentage & Ratios Shortcut Tricks

📝 Why master Percentages and Ratios for CUET?

In the CUET General Test (Section III), you don't get marks for writing long steps. You get marks for finding the right option fast. Percentage and Ratio & Proportion are not just individual chapters; they are the foundation of entire arithmetic.

If you master the tricks in this PDF, you will automatically solve questions from Profit & Loss, Simple/Compound Interest, Mixtures, and Data Interpretation (DI) up to 3x faster.

• Fraction to Percentage Table: The ultimate hack. Learn how knowing that 14.28% is exactly 1/7 can solve a 2-minute calculation in 5 seconds.
• Successive Percentage: Direct formulas (A + B + AB/100) to solve population change, successive discounts, and compound interest problems without heavy multiplication.
• Ratio Merging (A:B:C): The easiest 'N-method' trick to combine multiple ratios into a single continuous ratio instantly.
• Income & Expenditure Tricks: Cross-multiplication methods to solve age-related and salary-saving ratio questions without using 'X' or 'Y' variables.

Pro Tip: Never use long division in the exam hall. Always look at the options first. If the options are far apart, use approximation and ratio scaling to tick the right answer!