On the SAT, the DS&P items are one of four basic types:

A Graph(ics) item is any item that is accompanied by a graph or chart. The majority of these items simply test whether you can understand and interpret the information being presented to you. These are the Just Read It Vanilla items we covered in the last section. More difficult items will ask you to perform some type of operation on the graph or chart. These are the Chunky Operations Chocolate items.

This is what a typical Graph(ics) item looks like:

Data Puzzler items involve sets of numbers and usually ask about mean, median, mode, range, or any combination of them. The reason we call them puzzlers is because the correct answer usually requires you to find some missing piece of information that was not asked about directly. A typical Data Puzzler item will look a lot like this:

No Problem with Probability items ask about the chances of a certain event happening or not happening. The majority of answer choices for this item type will be in fraction form:

What the #!*@? items deal with factorials, permutations, and combinations. As we already mentioned, these items almost always appear at the end of Math sets, because they are pretty difficult. A typical What the #!*@? looks like this:

Each of these item types requires a different strategic approach to solve for the right answer. Your goal is to familiarize yourself with both the item type and the strategies that are specific to the particular item.