Archive for ‘July, 2008’

Simple and Compound Interest

Simple and Compound Interest

This Simple formula will save a lot of time
(S.I for 2yrs/ C.I for 2yrs) = 2/(2+r) …… where r is rate of interest.

PGDCM and PGABM by IIM’s

PGDCM and PGABM by IIM’s

I have subscribed to various updates from IMS learning institute. They have started a new service called Saturday Update through which you will receive updates on different Institutes & Tests. So I thought why not share this service with the reader of this blog. So keep checking every sunday for all the updates. They [...]

Use Negative Remainders

Use Negative Remainders

Though Remainders are never negative but somtime some questions of finding the remainder become easy by using Negative Remainders.
First of all, What is Negative Remainder:
eg. When 14 is divided by 8
Then, 14= 8×1+6
or
14=8×2-2
Therefore, We have two remainder and they are +6 and -2 where (-2) is the Negative Remainder. I hope I am able [...]

Usage of Older and Elder

Usage of Older and Elder

As I was going through my wren & martin, I came across a very nice thing and i.e the usage of older and elder.
“Older and Oldest may be said either of persons or of things, while elder and eldest apply to persons only, and are besides, strictly speaking confined to members of the same family” [...]

Never say ‘comprise of’

Never say ‘comprise of’

A small mistake which most non-English speaking people make is by saying ‘His book comprises of 4 chapters’
Comprise : means ‘consist of’ or ‘composed of’
Never use ‘comprise of’ or ‘comprises of’ but ‘comprised of’ is allowed.
It already contains ‘of’ in it. So you have to say ‘His book comprises 4 chapters’.
But sometime people use ‘comprised [...]

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