What is the difference between √x and (x)^1/2 ?

This is a very critical concept. There is a very crucial difference

√x : √ sign (the radical sign) is called the “Principal root” and always results in a non-negative number.

(x)^1/2: The x to the power of 1/2 is the result of the equation, y^2 = x. In this case the result could be “positive or negative or zero”.

So here is the conclusion

√x : Always non-negative

(x)^1/2: Can be positive or negative or zero

As in ScoreChase GMAT Workshops, we don’t believe a concept is complete without working on an example. Here is a question that will help you understand this topic a little bit better:

Q. For a negative integer x, what is the value of  x * √(x^2) ?
A) x^2
B) -x^2
C) x
D) -x
E) -1

Once you have found an answer. Please highlight the text below to see the solution

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Since x is negative, -x will be positive
Since √(x^2) yields positive result and x is negative, the result will be -x
So, x*√(x^2) = x * -x = -x^2
(B)

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Simple enough!

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‘Google Lookup’ is a SpreadSheet function of Google Docs. Using this function you can find Google/Internet (pun intended) right from your spreadsheet. Tutorial Video is embeded below. It’s you who has to think how you can exploit this new function provided by Google. After watching the embeded video I chuckled and thought that – now this is the power of Tech-Age. Well, let me cover ‘GoogleLookup’ in Q&A form:

Q. What is Google Lookup?

A. A google-docs spreadsheet function which searches Internet and brings the attribute you want to find. For Eg. if you want to kow the capital of ‘India’: you will put ‘India’ (event) in one column of spreadsheet and ‘Capital’ (which is attribute) in other column header. After this you will use ‘=googlelookup(“India”,”Capital”)’ in a cell and it will bring the result – New Delhi in no time.

Q. Why Google Lookup?

A. To name a few:

For Students: create GK Sheet, Project Research, Holidays List etc.

For HouseWife: know Festival Dates, Squares & Cubes (;)), songwriter etc.

For Professionals: Know Stock Price, Event Date, Move Release Date, Capital of a Country, GK Sheet etc.

Hfffff! I think I’ve provided enough reasons of why googlelookup?

Q. Limitation of Google Lookup?

A. You can do upto 1000 lookups in a single spreasheet. Even Google’s official blog didn’t talk about it. I found it when I tried to go beyond it. Here’s the proof.

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Lets start with the short answer : Most B-schools publish their average GMAT score and the 80% range. This usually gives a pretty good picture picture of where your GMAT score lies. If your score is within the 80% range, you have good chance, however realistically speaking, the further below its from the average, the lower your chances of getting in. Lets look at an example of an imaginary B-school – “Jane Doe School of Business”

Average GMAT: 705
80% range : 640-750

However the above is just a thumb rule, there are some other factors in the play:

- GMAT Score and Academic performance
- Industry and experience (Resume)
- Application pool

These are a lot of permutations and combinations to consider and since most schools don’t publish a minimum GMAT score, the situation gets murkier.

- Academic performance:
If you had a stellar academic performance, a lower GMAT score can be compensated. This can really help if you are still on the lower side of the 80% percentile range of the previous years GMAT score. But if it has been more than 5 years since you graduated, your academic performance may not matter much, as is shown by a recent study for GMAC : “When are Grades No longer Valid”

- Industry, experience and Application pool:
What is your industry? Some industries like IT, Finance are too heavily represented in MBA applications. As a result, if you belong to any of these industries, your low GMAT score may be detrimental to your acceptance probability. On the other hand, if you belong to non-profit sector, your GMAT score may not be as bad.

- Application pool:
Similarly, as schools press for diversity, if you belong to an international pool with lesser number of applicants, your chances of getting away with a low GMAT score are pretty good, however, if you are from the India / China applicant pool, your chances may be severely hampered.

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This time I am bringing something very different for all of you. This is especially for those who tried to prepare last year for CAT 2009 but somehow could not. This is also for those who have started their preparation and are facing difficulties in adjusting their preparation into daily routine. This is also for those who want to give up their preparations.

This is how one of my students started preparing for CAT and what all challenges/problems came his way. This will also tell you how he tackled those challenges. This article will also act as a time manager for you.

I have written this article keeping myself in his shoes. So now on where ever you read ‘I’ it’s he actually. He does not want his name to be mentioned here and his friends call him ‘Quiz Master’. So I will also call him Quiz Master.

I am calling this article ‘My Life, My Journey, My CAT preparation’

Enjoy reading it.

Vaibhav K Mittal

CEO – Zion Education Services

‘My Life, My Journey, My CAT preparation’

Majority of us want to live life to the fullest; best job or business, beautiful house, luxurious car, great family and be able to travel to places of our dreams. I was no different when I started working. Being a fresh graduate from an engineering college, I thought that I would take the whole world in my hands. But soon I realized that it was not easy to grow in an organization. Time and again you have to proof your worth to your managers in order to excel. This is when I started to observe my managers to learn from them and be like them. After a few discussions the fact came out that they all had a vast experience of at least 5-7 years before coming to this role. The other fact that also came out was that those who did a post-graduation in finance or with an MBA degree from a reputed institute got placed as managers earlier than those who were just graduates.

This is when I decided to prepare for CAT and pursue MBA; after all it was shortcut to becoming a Manager!! Shortcut? You may ask!! There is no shortcut to success. Yes, everyone knows there is no shortcut to success but doing an MBA from a prestigious college is no shortcut. It requires great hard work pre and post admission into these colleges.

When I started preparing for entrance exams, I faced another challenge. I was almost out of my home for 13 hours working and traveling to work. Coming back from office I was left with no energy to study. However the words of one of my school teacher echoed in my mind who said “We would spend endless number of hours searching for the Gucci T-shirt that SRK wore in DDLJ even on a hot summer day but we would not study in the comfort of our home knowing that one day it will help us earn enough to afford that same T-shirt and many more things”.

This, indeed, is a fact that most of us achieve what we want to if we are passionate about it.

Since I was passionate about preparing for MBA entrance and getting in a good B-school, I started analyzing my time and the way I can utilize it to the maximum.

There after my mornings would start with a prayer and then a quick walk to the park. I prepared cards with word meanings, its synonyms and antonyms, and would read them while having my breakfast. Since I used to travel to office in a company bus, I carried a newspaper and the cards I prepared for vocab, and read both during the journey to office. For those of you who drive yourself to office; you can download some Mark Gorman motivational lessons or David Swartz’s ‘Magic of Thinking Big’ audio-book and play them either in your mobile or your car’s CD player. This would keep you motivated throughout the day. I used to listen to them while coming back from office as there was not enough light to read during my evening journey back home.

Once I was home, I did not waste much time and focused on the main topics of mathematics, data interpretation/sufficiency, logical reasoning and verbal ability. I spent on an average 2 hours a day studying these subjects. I tried studying both Maths and English on a daily basis but on occasions I would study them on alternate days.

Since I was regular with Maths, DI/DS and LR and English including grammar, RC and vocabulary; the only thing that was left was my business aptitude. Since partially it was taken care off by the newspaper readings, to get the complete insight of the business arena I subscribed myself in Business Today Magazine.

During the weekends I would read books of renowned authors, revised the topics I studied during the week and solved some crossword-puzzles and sudoku. These puzzles are important for your mental abilities.

As most management entrance exams test a person’s time management skills; I had to test mine before the D-day. A mock-CAT series is what helped me in trying different strategies for the main exam.

I am sure that this experience of mine will help you in your preparation for CAT exam. I know that people get nervous by just thinking about the exam. All I would like to mention before I sign off is a thought that someone shared with me:

‘It doesn’t matter where and who you are, all that matters is where and who you want to be’.

Courtesy: Quiz Master.

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First of all, following are the various type of case studies, you may come across:
1. Finance based
2. Marketing based
3. HR based
4. Ethical Dilemma
5. Social issue
6. Legal issue

Most common of all, is the HR case. The reason for that is, that anyone can speak on HR issues without technical knowledge of HR function. And they want to give chance to everyone to speak, because without you guys speaking they won’t be able to judge you.

Now, irrespective of which type of case study has been given to you, following are the steps, I will suggest you should be following:

1. Identify the problem in the case.

If a case study has been given to you, there has to be a problem or concerns which you are suppose to tackle. You need to clearly identify this. Please note, it seems identifying problem is easy. Trust me it is at times not that easy.

Eg: ‘Excessive exposure of female anatomy should be banned in the advertisements’

Think for a minute, before reading further, that in this GD(not case study) topic what is the main concern.

Is it exposure?
Or is it excessive exposure?
Or is it females?
Or is it exposure of females?
Or is it excessive expose of females?
Or the advertisements are the issue?
Or females in advertisements are the issue?
Or is it exposure of females in the advertisements?
Or is it excessive exposure of females in the advertisements?

Trust me it’s neither of the above. When I took this GD topic, in my class a couple of weeks back, almost everyone in the class of 40 said something or other written above.

The problem/concern in the above topic is ‘Banned’ or ‘Banning’. Think over it.

2. Identify the cause of the problem.

Once you have identified the problem, your next step should be identifying the cause of the problem. Note that cause of the problem may or may not be explicitly mentioned in the case. If it is mentioned, nothing like it. If it is not, then you have to take assumptions.

In the above example, following can be the causes:
Exposure is spoiling the society.
Models are ill-respected.
Society heads are raising questions.
Laws does not allow.
Etc.

3. Work on solution.

There are two ways of doing it.
a) Work on the cause. If cause can be well taken care of, then the problem itself is taken care of. In this case develop strategies to address the cause. You should at least develop 2 strategies for this. Once primary and the other secondary.

b) Work on the problem. May be the cause is intrinsic. That means the cause and problem are interlinked, in the sense that solution to one thing gives rise to other. In this case, you will have to work on minimizing the effect of the problem or eliminate the problem working on something else but the cause. Again I will suggest develop at least 2 plans/strategies to work on it.

4. Implementation plan.

This means how are you going to implement the plan you have made. What will be the stages involved. What will be the order in which you will implement it? Etc.

5.Backup plan.

A manager has to be always ready with the backup plan. If the main plan back fires than the back plan has to be used. In a case study discussion you will only mention what is your back up plan. You need not talk of its implementation plan, reason being its implementation comes into picture only when the primary plan fails and that’s something we can’t say in discussion only.

That’s it.

All the best

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We do that by a simple fission reaction.
Let us break the bigger set of CAT into two subsets: Math and English.
The two subsets can be further divided into smaller sets.
In case of English, identify the core areas of study followed by the thumb rules and strategies. Once you identify- the ‘whats’ of the core areas, move to the next step- the ‘hows’ of your study plan. Make a day plan-make sure that your hobby is a part of your day plan. If you love playing video games-ensure that playing video games is a part of your day plan.
I suggest that study Math and English everyday because you will not take Math and English exams separately. It is important to allocate few hours to both subjects each day. As for reading, I strongly suggest that you should not read what you love instead you should learn to love what you read. Let us summarize:

1. Break the big set of CAT into subsets and smaller units
2. Identify the core areas
3. List the thumb rules and strategies
4. Progress from the ‘whats’ to the ‘hows’
5. Make a day plan. Don’t forget to include your hobby
6. Study both subjects every day.
7. Don’t read what you love instead learn to love what you read

Dream comes true when passion multiplies!

Cheers!

Neha Sharma
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Today, I am giving you tips on ‘How to write an effective CV/Resume/Biodata’ to be carried to GD-PI centre of various institutes.

First and foremost, Most of the B-schools give you a check list of what to bring and what not to bring to the GD-PI centre. Most of those institutes which required a biodata from you, will explicitly ask for it. And many won’t. My students ask me if they should be carrying a biodata to the institute which has not asked for it.

Answer to this is quite tricky. See, if you have a lot of credentials which you like boasting about, I will suggest carry your biodata, which carries these achievements, to the GD-PI venue. This is to ensure that they at least get to know the achievements which you have gathered in so many years. And also to invite questions on them.

Second case, if there are things in your life, in your biodata, which you do not want an interviewer to prick you on, I will suggest better don’t carry biodata in that case. I am sure I need not explain it further.

Another case, you don’t have much to write on your biodata, in that case I can say it hardly matters that you carry the biodata or not. My suggestion is better don’t carry. Why will you like someone to see that there is nothing much you can talk about, about yourself, on paper?

Another point, when I am saying above that don’t carry your biodata, Please note I am saying don’t carry it in the folder you are going to show to them. You FOR SURE should carry a biodata in every case, though you may keep it at the back of the folder or in a different file in case it’s not asked for and at the same time you decide not to show-case it.

Now, some important DO’s and DON’t OF WRITING BIODATA:

1.

Always write the biodata in reverse chronology. That means – latest first. For e.g. if you are an engineer with 2.5 years of work ex and 2 companies, you will start your biodata with work experience that too with the current company, followed by the previous company. Then will come your academic profile which will start with engineering, followed by 12th, followed by 10th. Then you will talk of your extra –curricular, that too in reverse chronology i.e. latest first. Then you will talk about the achievements/awards/certificates etc. again in reverse chronology. And lastly you may talk about your hobbies/interests etc. or may be strengths(NO WEAKNESSES in biodata).

2.

Writing a long biodata say 3 to 4 pages is a wonderful way to ensure that no one gives a dam to your biodata. In a way, you make interviewer loose the interest in you. Note that your biodata (assuming, you don’t have more then 3-4 years of work-ex) should not exceed 1 page, whatever come may.

3.

Note that biodata is a SELLING TOOL. Remember you won’t buy Ruffles lays if the packet is torn. Right. So is the case with biodata. Remember to do spell check before taking a print. There should not be any grammatical mistake or spelling mistake for that matter. And yes, you will never fold your biodata. It has to be crisp.

4.

A biodata is like a greeting card for your girl friend. You need to have a separate(customized) card for all of them. You cannot have a generic card for all of them. What I am trying to say is that you may have to do a little shuffling here and there in your biodata, depending on the institute you are going to. E.g. for XLRI-PMIR your biodata may not be 100% same as what it will be for IIMs, though in totto it will be same. What may be different is the sequencing.

This is all in all how you should draft your biodata. Here is one sample CV for your referance:

Resume – Amol 1

I welcome all the individual question you may have. You can post your questions here or can email me at vaibhav.mittal@mbatutes.com

Happy BIODATAing

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Many of you come to this site as you won’t be able to see your result as the server of CATiim is not responding. Even when I tried to ping their server, it was giving a “Request Timed Out”. So there nothing to worry though as “Sabra Ka Phal Meetha hi Hota hai”. Just keep trying……

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BTW, they have officially declared about the heavy load on their server. Here is the screen shot.

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Salient features of the PaGaLGuY B-school Rankings, 2010

Total number of valid respondents polled (sample size): 9,576

Total number of b-schools in the initial list: 184
Total number of b-schools in the final rankings: 92
Of which Nationally Aspired-to b-schools: 55*

And Regionally Aspired-to b-schools: 37
(5 from Jaipur
14 from Mumbai
10 from Hyderabad
8 from Chennai)

2 Colleges got black-listed from the Ranking: Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur and International Management Institute, Delhi

Quite different from last year’s Rankings - New looks, More Colleges, Regional Rankings, New options of Ranking. Well I found some good points and some not-so-good points in this year’s PG B-School Ranking , and I have jotted them down to share it with you guys.

Good Points:

1) It’s all about Looks: Decent looking Blue theme is used in user interface and the speed of the Javascript used is also good.  Full points to them. Here is the screen-shot:

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2) Awesome UI: Whole user interface is very friendly and have provided some salient features like

• Filtering of colleges according to the score they accept.
• Link of College website on hovering through the college name in the list.
• Rankings on different criterion like: Freshers, Work Ex, Women,Alumni, Aspirants, MBA Students.

3) Full Transparency:  Whole methodology of calculating the Rankings is published. Also different opinions has been published regarding the rankings.

4) Comparitoption: the ‘Compare B-School‘ section which helps you compare different colleges is seriously very solid. Saves lot of time in deciding which gd/pi to attend in case of clashes …just kidding. Clashes are solved by re-arranging instead of dropping one option.

5) Quant-Savvy Ranking: All kind of Statistics/Mathematics is used in calculating this ranking. According to Apurv, the ranking was put to the test of Recursive Induction (I forgot when did I hear this term last time, well Apurv has tried to explain it here) in order to maintain the authenticity of the Rankings.

6) New Ivy Leagues : Last but not the least PG has for the first time introduced the Regional Rankings (R.R) this year. They have included those colleges which have only regional reach. 4 Regions – Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Mumbai have been included in R.R.

Not-So-Good Points:

1) Only 4 regions are covered in Regional Rankings. I don’t know the reason behind this but more regions would have made the Rankings more worthy.

2) Regional Colleges of Delhi (Capital of India) is ignored. Still I don’t have any clue. Delhi guys don’t you want to know the rankings of the regional colleges in Delhi? or everyone is eying only IIFT, IMT, MDI etc…

Few Nitty-Gritties:

1) If you will go to the ‘Compare B-Schools’ section and you don’t know the name of the college then you have to ‘double click‘ inside the B-School-search-box so that you can select your college directly from the B-School list. Here is the screen shot.

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2) Mouse Over the B-School Name in the list in order to know more about its ranking. A pop-up will appear consisting its different ranks, website link of the college, and the discussion thread related to that college in PG Forum.

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I am writing this post based on  personal experience and tips  that me and most of my friends  followed, who made finally to IIM A, B,C and L also in XLRI, IIFT and FMS, during our fight to win the RAT[CAT] races of our lives.

To give you a brief about GD[what/why?]

A GD is a method  to gauge whether the candidate has certain personality traits and/or skills that an institute desires its students possess. This way institutes judge if the candidate fits into its cultural setup, or if the candidate’s personality is going to add a different flavor to the existing culture.

Points that a GD brings out about candidates personality-

Ability to work in a team
Communication skills [including listening, speaking and expressing]
Reasoning ability
Leadership skills
Initiative
Assertiveness
Flexibility
Creativity
Ability to think on ones fee

How to approach a GD

Always use time given for before discussion starts judiciously and efficiently

Step 1:   Read/ listen to the topic very carefully

Step 2:   Identify the main ideas and themes about the topic

Step 3:   Write your points on the sheet provided and try to structure them [5-6 points are enough]

Tip:- try to remember to link your examples to point from the readings and experiences you had relating them to the main topic

Roles people play during a GD

1. Initiatingt the GD started by introducing the topic to the groups and adding his points

2. Facilitating participation of all the groups members, If  anyone or few dominate a group moderator tries to control that,

3. Keeping the content of discussion around the core issue

4. Giving and asking for information & reactions & critiques

5. Discussing and questioning each other’s interpretations of materials

6. Summarizing what the group has said and moving on giving new direction to the discussion

7. Final conclusion

Strategies you may adopt

Competing without a strategy will take you nowhere, unless you are planning to reach nowhere.

Depending upon the comfort level with the topic you must decide in the beginning which role will you be playing in a particular GD. Same strategy for all the GDs that you may be participating in may not be a good strategy as a person a different level of comfort with different topics. So choose a role carefully rather strategically. If you are comfortable playing multiple roles and very swiftly you can switch roles and use your strengths to your advantage.

Normally, opening a GD involves these very important things:

1. Define the topic of the GD if there is a need to define it for others (clarity)
2. Set boundaries/parameters that you may feel will help the GD to be discussed without ambiguity.
3. In case you have a story/ incident/ experience for the topic, then start with that.
4. Creative GD will be started with your interpretation and the supporting thought process for the interpretation.

No matter what role you choose, but you have to make sure you put your own points forward and do your job by adding some valuable points to the discussion.

Tip:- 1. As most of the candidates pounce on the opportunity to open the topic and lot of people speak simultaneously and no one is heard. Better strategy could be to choose roles from 2-6 so that it will be easier to pitch in you points.

2. It is always good to substantiate your point with some facts. Most Business Schools ensure that they pick up those students who have some data on the topic or related discussions wherein the students can compliment their point of view or the stand they might take. This approach gives an impression that candidate has a rational thought process and knows how to built arguments.

Dos and Don’ts

• You must ensure that the group hears you. If the group hears you, so will the evaluator. That does not mean that you shout at the top of your voice and be noticed for the wrong reasons.
• You have to be assertive. If you are not a very assertive person, you will have to simply learn to be assertive for those 15 minutes. Remember, assertiveness does not mean being bull-headed or being arrogant.
• Participate in as many practice GDs as possible before you attend the actual GD. There is nothing like practice to help you overcome the fear of talking in a GD.

• The quality of what you said is more valuable than the quantity.

• Be as natural as possible. Do not try and be someone you are not. Be yourself.
• A group discussion is your chance to be more vocal. The evaluator wants to hear you speak.
• Take time to organize your thoughts. Think of what you are going to say.
• Seek clarification if you have any doubts regarding the subject.
• Don’t start speaking until you have clearly understood and analyzed the subject.
• Work out various strategies to help you make an entry: initiate the discussion or agree with someone else’s point and then move onto express your views.
• Opening the discussion is not the only way of gaining attention and recognition. If you do not give valuable insights during the discussion, all your efforts of initiating the discussion will be in vain.
• Your body language says a lot about you – your gestures and mannerisms are more likely to reflect your attitude than what you say.
• Language skills are important only to the effect as to how you get your points across clearly and fluently.
• Be assertive not dominating; try to maintain a balanced tone in your discussion and analysis.
• Don’t lose your cool if anyone says anything you object to. The key is to stay objective: Don’t take the discussion personally.
• Always be polite: Try to avoid using extreme phrases like: `I strongly object’ or `I disagree’. Instead try phrases like: `I would like to share my views on…’ or `One difference between your point and mine…’ or “I beg to differ with you”
• Brush up on your leadership skills; motivate the other members of the team to speak and listen to their views. Be receptive to others’ opinions and do not be abrasive or aggressive.
• If you have a group of like-minded friends, you can have a mock group discussion where you can learn from each other through giving and receiving feedback.

Tip:- 1. Be yourself. Try not to react and get into a heated argument rather respond and give a very cogent argument

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Answer is a plain Yes.

And, now let’s look into what’s that?

1. Speed
2. Focus
3. Consistency

O yes, these are the only things common between 3-idiots and those who crack CAT.

Intelligence, hardwork, High EQ blah blah blah are seriously not what is required to clear CAT.

Let’s understand one thing. They say CAT is an aptitude exam. Question is what kind of aptitude does it checks? And the answer is Plain Vanilla. It checks ‘Managerial Aptitude’. Now the question is what is ‘Managerial Aptitude’?

Answer to this is not plain Vanilla. ‘Managerial Aptitude’ has not got one or two things. It has several things. It includes

- Optimistic nature
- Tough mindedness
- Attitude
- Strategy formulation and using Smart approaches
- Reading between the lines/Looking beyond the obvious
- Believing that no work is big or small
- Vision(Should be 6/6)
- Time management/Time deadlines
- Always being on toes
- Being ready to help others
- Keeping nerves cool under pressure

And may be a few more.

Friends, Believe me or not, after appearing for 14 CATs in a row(1996 – 2009), I can for sure say that CAT checks nothing but what makes ‘Managerial Aptitude’.

I have a question here. Can anyone teach you any of the 11 things, mentioned above? I think NO. These are all intrinsic in nature and cannot be build externally.

But yes these things can be developed, can be polished, given that they exists, if not all, most of them. They can be developed if you guys keep three things in mind: Speed, Focus and Consistency.

You need to understand that completion is tough and so the one who has maximum speed is the one who will win.

Focus here does not mean single mindedness. Absolutely not. It rather means Keeping everything in Mind at the same time. Management means growing two blades of grass where otherwise only one could have been grown. If that is true of management, then managers need to see everything that exists. Growing two blades of grass is not that easy a job. It is possible if manager keeps everything in mind at the same time. It means utilizing all the resources that are available and optimizing their use. It means removing all the obstacles(weaknesses) that may hamper growing two blades of grass. It means doing everything else also and not waiting for two blades of grass to grow up(Do not sacrifice other things which are necessary in your life, for the sake of CAT, whether it be a cup of coffee with your girl friend, or it be watching a movie every alternate weekend with your parents). And remember that even when you are watching movie, you know what is happening to your ‘Grass’.

And doing all(What is important for CAT as well as what is important for life) this regularly is Consistency. Not getting bogged down by obstacles in your way is consistency. Not being low, when either you don’t score 99.9 percentile in Mocks or when your girl friend breaks up with you (God forbid), is consistency.

Will love to hear from you @ ceo@zioneducationonline.com or 9891638000

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Let’s understand one thing. Whatever we are today, we are as a result of ‘torture’ that has been done on us by our teachers in schools, teachers in college, parents, family, society and may be in cases of some of us by our bosses.

What we have been exposed to has made us develop a taste for something, at the same time anti-taste for some other things. In our childhood we have nurtured what we have developed taste for. And in the process we have developed certain skills and certain qualities.

Now, we want to do an MBA, Right.

Let’s understand that theoretically we should try to explore the qualities we possess and should choose a career where we can utilize our qualities. For e.g. I liked explaining things a lot to friends, to people around me, when I was in school. Hence I picked up teaching as a hobby. And when I saw myself excelling in teaching, I thought of making a career in teaching. When I looked more into it, I realized that I like teaching UNCONVENTIONAL ways of solving questions. And so I moved into MBA/CAT teaching and left Engineering entrance exams etc long back.

I hope you are getting an idea of what I am trying to explain.

Now, we have decided to do an MBA, irrespective of the fact our qualities support MBA or not and at the moment we are only interested in designing an answer to ‘Why MBA?’.

So here I go.

Understand this that as a manager you will be required to possess certain qualities, for e.g. present mindedness, time management, perseverance. These are just examples. There are many more, in fact. Now, understand this that MBA will develop certain qualities in us which are important to pursue a career as a manager. But then certain qualities are required to do MBA for e.g Hard work.

Understand this, that till now, I have spoken about 3 phases. What you are now?(Lets call it A) What you expect you will be after MBA?(Lets call it C) and What MBA will imbibe in you? (Lets call it B)

Understand this now. In order to answer the question ‘Why MBA?’ you have to do a mapping of A, B and C. Your answer should look something like this.

‘During my schools days, I use to do this that blah blah blah…And I started developing …..(mention the skills).. When I started thinking about the career during my graduation, I realized that these skills can make me …(Talk of Life as a manager or if you see yourself as an entrepreneur). At this time, I felt the need of doing an MBA because it will develop …(talk of certain skills) and at the same time I think (the skills I possess) will help in doing an MBA and hence an MBA’…

Guys, Note that if you design an answer like this, first of all you will get a better idea as to why you should be doing an MBA. And don’t you think that if you will know better why you want to do an MBA , you will be able to convince them better. Also note one thing, that when you will design first draft of your answer, that may turn out to be a 2-3 page answer.

Never mind, after 3-5 editing your answer will become a perfect answer that too customize to you. And after 3-5 reading/changes/editing you will be able to say it in lesser words as well.

One more thing, when I suggest this method of designing answer, many of my students end up designing a 5-7 minutes answer. You know that they are not going to hear the you for more then 1-2 minutes. Still, I am saying make a long answer, reason being, when you are in an actual interview, I know you will forget a lot of things. So I know by experience that a 5-7 minutes answer will reduce to 3-4 minutes answer after a couple of editing and changes. And in actual interview a 3-4 minute answer will turn out to be a 1 to 1.5 minute answer. I am telling you hardly anyone of you will be able to touch 2 minute or cross that.

All the Best, designing this answer.

Vaibhav K Mittal

CEO – Zion Education Services
Centres at N Campus, Pitampura, Ghaziabad(Indirapuram & Kavi Nagar)

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1) FEEDS/RSS

In a nutshell it is the dynamic (which gets created on its own) file which contains the updated content of your site. These feeds are only read by any feed reader/aggregator just like an epub can be read by Kindle. If you don’t know about kindle and epub, then no worries here are the following pages where you can do more research:

Resources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Though RSS is a subset of Feeds but here my motive is not tell you the technical difference but to make sure that you never gets embarrassed when somebody asks you about your feeds/subscriptions.

Take note of the image in the Resource box. This image is used more often by any site which provides its feeds. So feed is an update to read which you do not need a mailbox but an aggregator/feedreader. Well feeds got invented as people didn’t want to give their email addresses and they did not  want to visit every site daily.

Well have a look to this video in which Chris has explained what is RSS. This will help you more in understanding RSS.

2) FeedReader:

When you are creating feeds, then obviously you need one tool to read it. So feedreader is the tool whose purpose it to read the feeds/rss. Though there are large number of feedreaders in market but I have few favorites. Here are my favorite:

Desktop Feedreaders:

1) FeedDemon (My favorite. I use this application only)

2)FeedReader

Online Feedreaders:

1) Google Reader

2) Netvibes

3) Bloglines

Resources:

Full list of Aggregators/FeedReaders

Comparison of Online Feedreaders

Setup your Feeds:

I want you to follow a safer journey in feedreading i.e you should maintain an online feedreading account which should be linked to a desktop application so that you can read your feeds online as well as offline. By following this route you also get rid of the risk of loss of your feedlist once your windows gets crashed.  After all we are the people who do not want to be dependent on our PC for our data. So, I am making a small assumption and that is all of you own at-least one gmail account, if not then create one. Now:

a) Type “Google Reader” in google and press the first link in the result.

b) Login with your google account

c) Enter the site name or feed url (get when you click on the feed button/logo on any site) in the box appeared when you will click “Add Subscription” which is Yin the top left position of the webpage as shown in the figure.

5) Now download Feeddemon. Here is the download page of feeddemon: http://www.newsgator.com/individuals/feeddemon/ .

Remember: Feeddemon is an open source tool so even if you are working on an office computer, there’s no harm in installing this tool.

6) After installation you can import your feeds either from google reader or from an OPML file. OPML file is generated when you export your list of feeds from any feedreading tool. Well you need to just enter your google username and password to sync your feeddemon with google reader. I like Feeddemon due to the feature of whether I read my feeds on feeddemon or on google reader the reading status automatically gets updated on its own on both the applications.

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7) You are good to go now. Your feeddemon application will looks like this.

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Now I hope I have been able to atleast remove some of your doubt about feeds and feedreaders. I haven’t talked about rest of the feedreaders as it is out of the scope of this article. There is one major reason of writing this post and that is majority(more than 90%) of our users are subscribing it through email subscriptions, so I have decided to show them a new and better route. Kids are still naive for feeds, rss, and feedreader, and this article will give some idea about this new(not for everyone) technology.

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Here’s the peek-a-boo of “Mind Your Business“:

The official blog post link: http://www.pagalguy.com/2010/01/55959-pm-mind-your-business-anna/

Subscription link: http://www.pagalguy.com/tag/comics/feed

If you don’t know how to use the feed link, then you have to wait for my next post of how to use feeds.

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Dear Student,

We hope you have already been enjoying the season with lots of exam. And I am sure, for many of you the dawn of 2009 has already been colorful with IIFT, IRMA, JMET, SNAP & MAT calls in their wallet.

At this juncture, we wish to CONGRATULATE those who have already got IIFT, IRMA, JMET, SNAP & MAT calls and we also wish to take you ahead to the second level of the process of getting into your dream B-Schools. Yes, you are thinking right. We are talking of Group discussion and Personal Interview preparation.

Let me give you a glimpse of ‘What does a GD and a PI check you on’? Answer is straight and simple. Written exam has checked you on your aptitude. Now is the time when you should be checked on your attitude: attitude towards life, attitude towards your career and attitude towards the society as a whole.

Attitude makes your overall persona. How you carry yourself? How you present yourself, especially in a formal group? How you know your own self – Your strengths and weaknesses, your goals, your ambitions, your dreams? How much of the world around you, you know? Do you mean everything you have written in your biodata for e.g. these are a few things to begin with, which are part of your persona?

Now we are coming with an exciting series on “How to handle GD-PI”.Today we are going to take one of the most popular question & going to answer it with our experience. So we are coming up with first challenge which students faced when they enter PI room & they are asked to describe themselves. They concoct such a story which lands them in nothing but arrays of questions which they are not expecting. Try to answer this question in such a way that you take examiner where you want to take him.

How to go about the question ‘Tell me something about yourself’

While answering this question you should start with what kind of person you are, what are your special interests or achievements, what you like what you dislike? And you should know what you like – why you like that and similarly what you dislike – why you dislike that, though you won’t say that unless asked for.

Then you should talk about what your ambitions are. And this answer should be supported by ‘What made your ambitions’ Remember there is always a trigger for what your ambitions are at this stage. Any one while in graduation or after should know Why he wants to go for something.

And this should be a good 45 to 60 seconds talk.

Next, you should talk about your strengths and should not talk about weaknesses though you should know them at the same time. Never use words like ‘My strengths are…’ Better say – ‘I am a person who believes in perseverance’ etc etc. Here only you should mention about your academic achievements and also your hobbies.

You should know the difference between Hobby/Interests/Leisure time activities. Don’t say ‘Coin collection’ is your hobby if it wasn’t pursued passionately. If you use to collect coins just as an amateur than say that it was a leisure time activity or something you were deeply interested in.

Understand one thing; choice of right words makes a difference. The meaning of what you say should be crisp to them and they should understand what you want them to understand.

And this should be 30-45 seconds answer.

Last you can talk about the kind of family you belongs to and the value system of your family. This can be 15-30 seconds answer. So all in all you can have an answer ready for 2 minutes to 3 minutes, and that is enough. Usually an interviewer will come up with another question from your first 40-60 seconds answer.

All the best for next phase.

Regards

Vaibhav k Mittal

CEO – Zion Education.

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Good news for those who were waiting for SNAP results because results are out.

This year SNAP has directed mails to all the students to their mail Id for convenience.  Due to over congestion students are not able to view their results. You all can visit to SNAP portal mentioned below

http://www.snaptest.org/resultsnew.html

I think these people haven’t uploaded results yet on their site but they have forwarded mails. We have posted link above for those, who didn’t received mails form SNAP. So you people can use this link after some time.

So keep posting your results on MBA TUTES for counseling & for various doubts you have in your mind regarding SNAP.

Regards

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MANAGER – Advertising & PR

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Are you all hale & hearty? This is the question I am asking you why because I have felt yesterday the paper which I gave was very easy & you all must have done well. This was last paper of top 10 B schools. After that we have few papers which are good to give but don’t satisfy insatiable appetite of every heart. Tell me are you not happy this year for such logical & somewhat easy papers. At least I am because I have found that how working round the year for yourself can make you right candidate for management exams. I am going to share in each section what I have got from day to day life & how my common sense has helped me in scoring well some of the sections. Three Idiots has showed us path but the onus is on us that how are we going to make it. At least this year I have tried something & got some rewards. Excellence is what u all must be waiting for striving for & you will find yourself in the right shoes, if not then sorry. This time you will be lucky to get the calls but in latter part somewhere you will realize that if you have paid attention in your past then you would have been different. SO Let’s dissect every section one by one.

Reading Section: Verbose

Oh my my dear, never expected this section such like one. When I came to section & started scanning which passage to pick. I made me nervous & frightened. Which passage I am going to pick first passage which is of 5 pages with 24 questions or the second passage which is on philosophy & the questions of which are difficult o answer. I crossed my fingers & used my golden strategy which helped me always in difficult times. Yes I scanned for the questions which were fact based. They don’t need passage reading because if you have sound knowledge of the subject, then you can go with options. I found five questions in the reading section. You all know I was surprised that all got correct. Then I picked the shortest RC which was philosophy based & attempted all the questions. When I came out I got feedback from my colleagues that the longest passage with 24 Q was comparably not so difficult to crack. Even I attempted some Q after reading some part of passage. I have found that I must have gone for that. SO MBA TUTES is expecting

CUT OFF: 24 —- 28 Marks (50 percentile) Good Attempts – 15 – 17Q.

Logical Reasoning – Easiest of All

Truly I admire the skills of FMS guys, how can they set such an easy paper. You may start from any corner & you will be awarded with score for that question. We have plenty of sets, but I want to make a point that if you would have started with the set “Financial statements of oracle” one because it consists of 6 Q’s. You would have scored directly 24 no closed to your cut off. Then we could have gone for Business school set & then six directors one set. In this way we could have managed some easy sets & somewhat good score. So friends are you repenting that why u have done not good. No issues try to strive for excellence & rewards will be yours. So MBA TUTES is expecting

Cut Off: 35 —- 40 Marks (50 Percentile)

Good Attempt: 20–24 Q

Verbal Section: Excellence

In this section form last year I was not preparing anything, but you all know why I have done well in this section. One reason was striving for excellence another hunger for knowledge. I was able to complete this section in 15 mins & with 30 Q’s. Last year this section hackneyed my speed & due to this section I wasn’t able to get calls. This year everything got swapped because only one reason & you all know that. I know every question of vocabulary & every question Greek, French etc. One question I want to discuss that form where our calendar has been derived. If you all are thinking that I am going to tell u answer for that, I am sorry because I got ans for that Q in one of my seminar which I used to attend on every Tuesday. Yesterday I realized everything what you do in life has meaning & if you lie with receptor attitude then you progress by leaps & bounds. So MBA TUTES is

Cut Off: 30—-35 Mark (50 Percentile)

Good Attempt: 22 — 25 Q.

Quant: Favorite of few but nightmare of Max

This year FMS has given us “chance PE dance”, how? Ask yourself because there were at least 10 to 12 sitter questions. If you not identified them then nobody can help you. They were helping you to clear your cut off this section and help you to get more reward in less time. Then you can go out hunt for other questions which can help you to maximize your score. So questions from the topic like race, log, algebra & surds were extremely easy. Last year question were lengthy & somewhat typical but this year they were easy so cut off is going to move up. So MBA TUTES is

Cut Off: 30 —35 Marks (50 percentile)

Good Attempt: 20-23 Q.

So Over All CUT OFF

MBA: 285 —292 Marks.                 For General

MBA (MS): 281—-274 Marks.         For General

We are posting links of various sites also so you all can visit all side s from a single portal. Please ask for various doubts & post your scores. Best of Luck for NMAT.

Time Education:

http://time4education.com/FMS_2010_Analysis.htm

Test Funda

http://fms.testfunda.com/FMS_Answer_Key_Answers_Solutions_Analysis_FMS_2010_Score_ANSWER_KEY.aspx

IMS

http://www.imsindia.com/FMS2010/

Career Launcher

http://www.clexam.com/mba/catday/

TCY Online

http://www.tcyonline.com/india/mba_analysis/fms_2010

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In each chapter I will provide you the theory part and some illustrative examples. I have collected this material through various BRMs and textbooks. The text is not the copy of any particular material/book. My motive is to provide you a reason to go through a chapter once again each week. I will release this material under GPL and the visitors of MBAtutes can download and distribute it free.

Well without wasting any time- chapter of this week is BODMAS.
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So Lets dissect section by section:

1)    Verbal  Ability & Logical reasoning : Dare to Think Beyond

Before analyzing this section have you asked yourself why we always have to do much in this section to get closed to cut off?  I tell you reason because we had never developed those skills which this section checks us on. Had we ever use dictionary to find out the meaning of word while reading newspaper. We just pass through. Do we ever counteract to lines which we read anywhere. How can we develop foresight? That is what, so today this section has no typical RC’s but small case lets. Which short to read but difficult to interpret if you don’t have “Hawk’s EYE”. There were vocab questions & FIJ’s & logical arrangement of sentences which made the section easy as compared to last year.  So MBA TUTES is

Expecting cut off: 11 —- 13 Marks. GOOD ATTEMPT: 20 — 22 Q

2)    Analytical reasoning & Logical reasoning: Don’t be Stupid Be an Idiot.

This year this section surprised me. This section is favorite to most of my students. Bad news is that this year cut off is going to be low. Why asked yourself three major case studies in which every answer is right according to your perspective. According to management rules only one answer is right. If you are good in this you will get reward otherwise you have to pay penalty. Other sets like crossword which had made hell out of my students. Sets on seven puppies were easy and was must attempt. MBA TUTES is

Expecting Cut Off: 7—-8 Marks. Good Attempt: 13 — 15Q

3)    Data Interpretation & Quantitative Ability: So Jaa Gabar AA Jayega

What you people dreamt of that Quant is always tough. No dear this year they have reversed the sections in terms of difficulty. Yes, they made this section easy compared to last year because there were so many sitters for ex Q from No system Let X be four digits no one question. We have 6 to 7 sitters due to which cut off are going to move up. For data interpretation I have two words “Intensive Calculation”. Which hampered speed of many students if they have indulged themselves? So go for sitters if you get time then go for DI. So MBA TUTES is

Expecting Cut Off: 9—–11 Marks. Good Attempt: 15—-18Q’s.

XLRI Jamshedpur :
For BM Prog: 32—33 Marks
For PM Prog:  30 Marks

XIMB:
29—-30 Marks.

GIM
24—26 Marks.

So friends I enjoyed a lot after giving such a Class paper. In the last I want to say that If you start enjoying also then nobody can you stop you to reach to your dream college. I also want to mention about Essay which lot of other sites don’t mention that this year essay was very easy compared to last year.

So we are also giving you the links of the sites those have come up with ANS KEYS. One “STOP SOLUTION”.

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One thing we want to mention that we are giving you the links of these sites so that you can compare our cut off with other sites and can get the feel for future reference who is much perfectionist. Like IRMA We want to deliver what is truth.LET “TRUTH PREVAILS.”

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Season’s greeting and warm wishes for New Year ahead.

We hope you have already been enjoying the season with lots of exam. And I am sure, for many of you the dawn of 2009 has already been colourful with IIFT & IRMA calls in their wallet.

At this juncture, we wish to CONGRATULATE those who have already got IIFT & IRMA calls and we also wish to take you ahead to the second level of the process of getting into your dream B-Schools. Yes, you are thinking right. We are talking of Group discussion and Personal Interview preparation.

Let me give you a glimpse of ‘What does a GD and a PI check you on’? Answer is straight and simple. Written exam has checked you on your aptitude. Now is the time when you should be checked on your attitude: attitude towards life, attitude towards your career and attitude towards the society as a whole.

Attitude makes your overall persona. How you carry yourself? How you present yourself, especially in a formal group? How you know your own self – Your strengths and weaknesses, your goals, your ambitions, your dreams? How much of the world around you, you know? Do you mean everything you have written in your biodata and/or the IIFT form, for e.g. These are a few things to begin with, which are part of your persona.

Persona is something which cannot be developed or changed in 2 to 3 weeks time (That’s the time you typically get between your calls and actual GD-PI). I am sure, you all with agree with me on this. And therefore, we have specially designed a 2 months course for group discussion and personal interview training. Our GD-PI module answers all the questions above mentioned and many more.

Let me, in short, run through what our GD-PI program is. It’s actually a series of events. It includes close to 40 hours of classroom training and unlimited number of hours of off-the-class training.  I can share with you what is/are covered in in-the-class training. There are minimum of 2 Group discussion orientation lectures and similarly 2 Personal interview orientation lectures. There will be 1 session on Essay writing, specially meant for XAT but not just for XAT. There will be 1 psychometric test session, 1 MET(Mica entrance Test – a test of your creative skills). Most importantly there will be minimum of 12 Group discussions and minimum of 2 PIs(Personal Interview) for all. NOTE that you can have as many PIs as you want, just that you need to bring as many different calls from B-schools as is the number of PIs you want.

In addition, you will have a series of GK Lectures specially focusing the content you may require in a GD or in an interview.

In addition, you will have a mentor allotted to you, who is usually an industry expert. These mentors are our alumni from IIMs, XLRI, FMS, IIFT, MDI, S P Jain and what not.

If I talk of off-the-class sessions, I know I will not be able to do justice with them, in words. To tell you a little, you will have a ZION Ghost behind you almost all the time. We will be discussing and charting out answers to the questions ‘Where do you see yourself 5 years down the line’, ‘Why do you want to do MBA’, ‘If you don’t get selected this year, what should you be doing’ etc etc etc. I hope you have understood that I am talking of the typical cliché questions you may face in real PIs. I hope you will agree with me that answer to these questions are highly personalized and many times you don’t even want them to be shared with other students in class. And so all such sessions are a part of off-the-class training. And so these sessions usually happens over a cup of Tea or coffee. You know ‘a lot can happen over a coffee’ – Café Coffee day. Ohh am I marketing CCD or Barista here!! Never mind.

All this comes at a nominal cost of Rs.4500/-

More importantly, unlike other CAT training institutes, we have very limited seats in GD-PI training module. GD-PI module is so much student-centric that the plethora of Faculty members which we have, that also turns out to be too little. And we specifically do not believe in treating a patient who requires special attention in the same way a patient of cough-cold or viral well be treated. There has to be special treatment of those who have got calls from premiere B-schools or the B-school of his/her choice.

Finally, the week-day batch is starting on 4th January and the week-end batch is starting on 9th of January. Timings will be 5-7 pm for week-day batch and 9 am onwards for weekend batch.

All the best

Vaibhav K Mittal

CEO – Zion Education ServicesSimilar Posts:

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What we said in our first article when heat was on. Irma brought speed and attitude & it affected Snap cut offs. See u people can’t expect that this year cut offs going to remain same or going to move down. One of the reasons was momentum which was brought by other exams like IRMA, IIFT & CAT. All were easy and the cut off moved by some no’s.

So what do you all expect are u going to party this new year by expecting same cut offs like previous year. If that so please shun off your plans or believe us, because what we say it is according to a survey which is done by team.

So Lets Dissect the analysis section-wise:

My favorite section General Awareness:

Wov we expect at least we must know few questions, but we knew few questions only. I found this sections very surprising one. After studying a lot I found nothing expected. Really this section was nightmare to all. They checked us on variety how exposed we are to knowledge. Yes that’s why this year the cut offs going to be low. What Mba tuttes expect cut off going to be for this section is:

Expected cut off: – 5 – 8 Marks.

Easiest Section of the Day: Verbal

Don’t worry to whom reading comprehensions were road blocks, they male through with smiles. I think this year section was very easy, in 20 min I was able to manage 36 Q’s out of 40 Q’s. If this was the situation then the cut off going to be shoot this year for this section. So if were able to score well in this section then party tonight otherwise start preparing well for other exams & that too verbal section.
Expected Cut off: 18 – 20 Marks.

Speed breaker Section: Quant

This year section was easy, but you have to adopt strategy to avoid road blocks which can hamper your speed. So if we would have picked the 3 Q’s On table 5 Q’s on pie chart & 15 Q from various Q’s then we would be able to manage this section. So cut off is going to be little high form last year cut off. So according to us
Expected cut off: 14 – 17 Marks.

Logical Section + Scoring Section: AR/LR

This is section where you get reward; we do single Q & gets 2 points. That’s why students who thinks they have logical bent of mind; they try to bank upon this section.

Really this year section was relatively easy due to which cut off going to move up because you have to just think here & there and you will be rewarded for that. Last year some Q’s were so typical if you would have gone for that then you would have dumped your whole section. So this year we were lucky in terms of those Q’s. So you pick any Q try to think and take away your reward. So According to us:
Expected Cut off: 30 – 33 Marks.

Over All Cut off:

SIBM : 85 —- 89 Marks

SCHMRD: 1) Blanket Call: 85—-89 Marks

2) Profile Call: 75—-78 Marks.

SIIB: 72—-75 Marks.

SITM: 67 —-69Marks.

So you are free to post your queries & scores which will be answered by the team of MBATUTES. We are also uploading various links from where u can check out for the cut offs & Ans keys. So to all your problems we have one solution MBA TUTES. So keep logging on to check for various updates.

Test Funda Link:

http://snap.testfunda.com/SNAP_Answer_Key_Answers_Solutions_Analysis_SNAP_2009_Score_ANSWER_KEY.aspx

TCY Link:

http://www.tcyonline.com/india/mba_analysis/snap_2009

Career Launcher:

http://www.clexam.com/mba/catday/

Regards

Bhuvanesh Goyal

Manager – Advertising & PR

ZION EDUCATION SERVICES.

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Most awaited IRMA results are out. And the good news is that in the very first minute of IRMA result out we have got to know that 2 of our students have got IRMA calls.

Please check your results at the following link:

https://www.irma.ac.in/admissions/written_test_result_prm.php

Just for your info, we are pasting scorecards of one of our students.

PRM Written Test Result

Score Card for the Written Test conducted on November 08, 2009
Institute of Rural Management Anand

Roll No. : 12752030

Form No. : 50992

Section     Marks Obtained
Analytical Reasoning (50 Marks)     27.00
Quantitative Ability (50 Marks)     35.00
English Comprehension (40 Marks)     35.00
Issues of Social Concern (60 Marks)     28.00
Total (200 Marks)     125.00

Overall Percentile     97.23

Ms. (X)… Congratulations! You are selected to attend Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI) for PRM 2010-12 at IRMA. Please fill up the Biographical Information Form (given in the link below) and send it to Admissions office, IRMA, Anand: 388 001, Gujarat, India latest by December 28, 2009.<!– Date for your PI and GD: 04-FEB-2010–>

Your interview Call Letter with Biographical Information Form (PRM 2010-12), Instructions to Candidates (PRM 2010-12) and How to reach IRMA has been dispatched to your address. Alternatively you may download the same from the link below:

We are not naming the student becuase due to some problems but u can check with this roll no.

Looking forward to hear from you all, who have got calls, and who have not have missed by how much..

All the  best

Bhuvanesh Goyal

Manager Marketing and PR – Zion Education Services

P.S. By the way, We are the only coaching institute in India who predicted a 3 digit cut off. Look our old article on IRMA’s cut-off to re-confirm. CL, IMS, TIME and all others predicted a much lower cut-off(in the range of 80s)

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Here is what we think should be the cut offs of JMET.
Maths: Not less then 12
Eng: 13+
Reas: 10+
DI 14+

Overall, a score of approx 73-74 will be required to target IIT Mumbai or Delhi..

All the Best

Vaibhav K Mittal
CEO – Zion Education ServicesSimilar Posts:

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I havent heard from you guys since long.

I understand that you all are busy with exams. I just wanna share that the IIFT cut-offs which we gave turn out almost 100% true(as per the score cards which IIFT gave this year and when u look into those who have got IIFT call).

All the best for SNAP, FMS, XAT and other exams..

Happy ZIONing and MBATUTEing….

Vaibhav K Mittal
CEO-Zion Education Services.
P.S. Coming up with XAT worskhops soon, ONLINE, on mbatutes and zioneducationonline @ Rs.1000 onlySimilar Posts:

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IIFT 2010 SHORTLIST RESULT

If you didn’t make into the above list, you can atleast see your score in order to see what went wrong. Here is the direct link of IIFT site for checking the score. You will be needing the roll no and date of birth.

IIFT Score Card Link

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Sticking to the ‘virus attack’ theory and blaming the pitfalls of using technology, Prof Barua said, “The major reason appeared to be a virus attack. All precautions had been taken for protection against virus attack, but we did not succeed in doing so at a few labs. In some of the other centers, there were hardware problems and replacement took 2 hours.”

“There are always bound to be problems in the first time such a huge exam takes place, especially if it is concerns technology. But we are working very hard to fix all the problems and accommodate all candidates,” he added.

On rescheduling, he said, “We will try to accommodate the rescheduled tests within this week as we have a few empty slots available. But if required, we will stretch the CAT for two extra days on Dec 8 and 9.” He added that the two-day extension would be avoided, as not all of the slots in this week were running on full capacity.

“When we reschedule, the students may not be able to choose a date or slot of their convenience. Their choice will thus get restricted. We’ll try to make sure that the new slots are as convenient as per their initial choice. There would not be a single candidate who will not be able to take the test. But there will be inconvenience caused. Do we recognize and empathize with student? Yes we do. But the inconvenience is a fact of life and we cannot do anything at this stage,” he said.

On some problems reported by candidates of disturbances caused by uncooperative invigilators who continued to use their mobile phones throughout the test, Prof Barua said, “We cannot be responsible if the invigilators talk on phone. The invigilators have moral responsibility too and something like this is possible even in paper based test.”

“We believe that the ambience and environment has improved considerably since today,” he said.

CAT Convenor Satish Deodhar ruled out the IIMs reverting back to the paper-based format and added that the CAT will be continue to be conducted online next year too.

“The preparation to make this online started in April 2007 but it took time to take off because of the tender process. We will continue to go in this direction and it’s been a good beginning so far. Yes, we have somewhat failed, but we are correcting those problems now,” he added.

Asked what sort of drills Prometric had conducted to prepare for the testing, Prometric Chief Operating Officer Charlie Karnan said that they had conducted mock drills at individual centers but not on a large scale. He added that 62% of affected candidates had already been rescheduled.

On problems reported by individual students of computer errors and reboots that gave some people extra time to solve problems, Prof Barua said, “If there is a genuine reason, they should report them to the center head and it would be considered. But if the students were idling their time away while the snag was being repaired then it is not the IIMs’ responsibility.”

Meanwhile, the Union Human Resources Development Ministry asked the IIMs to submit a report on the CAT failure.

If you have faced a serious problem while taking the CAT, please enter your experience in this form and we will try to get the take of the concerned authorities.

You may also like to see a video: Pls see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNx8wVyX8O0

Courtesy www.mbatutes.com and www.zioneducationonline.com

All the Best for what comes out finally

Vaibhav K Mittal

CEO – Zion Education Services and CAT StrategistSimilar Posts:

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I hope many of you have already heard a lot about CAT 2009 today in the first slot.

Let me cover it in more detail.

It was 100% as was predicted by us i.e. 60 Questions in all with 20 Ques in each of the 3 sections.

Going into details of each section:

English: There were 3 RCs with 3 Ques each. + 4 ques on Para Jumbles + 2 FIBs + 2 ques on Grammar(Inappropriate usuage) + 2 Ques on Para completion.

DI/LR: There were 4 ques on DS. + 3 ques on Logical reasoning(Arrangement type) + there were 3 sets each having 3 ques – these were on bar graphs + 3 sets with 2 ques each.

PS: First of all there were quite many ques which were repeat from previous CAT papers. There were all in all 4 ques on functions, 2 on geometry, 2 on P & C, 1 on SI/CI, 1 on TSD, 1 on Averages, 1 on Number system(finding remainder), 1 on Trigo(Height & Distances) etc. All in all it was a very easy Maths sections for most of our students.

Note that CAT doesn’t mentioned what is the marking scheme this year and whats the quantum of negative marking. Though the paper said that wrong question carries negative marks.

We expect on the basis of this test that cut offs should not be less then approx 13-15 questions in PS, about 13-15 ques in DI and about 14+ ques in English. All in all this was a speed paper and this was exactly what we predicted.

We suggest that in a paper like this one should attempt around 45 Ques with not less then 80% accuracy.

Keep visiting Mbatutes.com and zioneducationonline.com for more updates

All the Best

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Something about today’s paper. Students expected something they got something which was below their standards. That was feedback which we took outside Jaipuria Institute of Management Noida. Paper was very easy So go bang on. You all will be getting some good tips By Ceo Of Zion education for further slots and what he predicted was on the paper. So keep loging on mbatutes.com for further information. By evening you all will be getting something worth to read and live feedbacks from the test centre.

So Don’t miss the train. Please don’t discuss anything about Q paper or Q’s.

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So without wasting anymore time of yours, I am giving you 2 video series of  “CAT on CAT 2009″. I hope you will follow these tips.

May be I am a bit late but majority of the CAT aspirants are giving their CAT in december; so just try to follow his tips/advice, they are seriously helpful.  Please put your feedbacks/comments below which Vaibhav will answer in person. BTW, we didn’t have the tripod due to which sometimes you will feel that the camera is shaking

You can visit our Official Youtube Channel to watch all our videos

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Talking about Cut-off the first hand feel which we got from our students is that a score of 32-35 should fetch an IIFT, Delhi call, and a score of  should be good enough to fetch 28-32 IIFT,Kolkata call.

The paper like last year mentioned that there will be sectional cut-offs, We think that

Quant Sectional Cut-offs should be no higher than 5-6 marks.

DI/LR cut-off should be no higher than 5.5-6.5 marks.

GK cut-off should be no higher than 1.3-2.0 marks

English cut-off should be no less than 8 marks.

Overall – 32-35 for IIFT, Delhi; 28-32 for IIFT, Kolkata

BTW, check out our  Tweets for instant updates.

See our Youtube channel to watch the videos of some of the IIFT Test takers; this will give you a brief idea about what students are thinking.

Here’s the video analysis of IIFT 2009 by Vaibhav Mittal for MBAtutes:

Analysis by TCYonline: IIFT 2009 Analysis.

Detailed Solution of Each section by TCYonline is released. Here’s the link:

Quant Solution

Verbal Solution

DI/LR Solution

GK Solution

IMS Analysis

TIME Analysis

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Hey friends what a relief this year with such a bang on. What we all expect and what we got. Never mind that is what management is- what u expect u never get. Same thing Lord Krishna said in Bhagwat Gita. So friends starting of a session on high note premonition that please don’t expect anything just wait and give your 100%. So today let’s talk about what we had done in today’s paper of IRMA. Frankly today’s paper was on easier side compared to last year. Today I have found not a wink of difficulty in the paper except social & rural issues. Lets start, and analyze each section one by one.

VERBAL SECTION:

Tell me how many of you have felt if this would have been your cat paper could be great sigh of relief. Today there were 20Q of vocab that were too direct, and some were in the form of FIB’s, Paragraph completion & some were synonyms from RC. Then the reading comprehension was easy to read and comprehend which could have helped you bell 10Q’s on that. All in all Para jumbles were such a piece of cake you could have gone for around 32 to 35 Q.

Expected Cut off: – 18 – 23.

QUANT SECTION:

Actually this was not pure quant which becomes nightmare for some students. Last year quant was good but wasn’t that tough. This time you can pick any question and you will get reward for that. Starting 10 to 12 Q were just calculation based. You could have banged on them. Then you could have picked three sets on DI first on rice, wheat one, second on pie chart in which there were six villages in which total no of student from each in village were given in pie chart breakup and the no of students attending college were given in second pie chart break up & thirdly you could have attempted where no the marks were given for the different students in different year. Rest of the questions were also very easy just concept based for ex 3 Q’s on probability. Good attempt could be anything between 32 – 37 Q.

Expected Cut off: – 23 – 27.

ANALYTICAL REASONING:

This was same as last year. There was 10 Q’s based on decision making whether the candidate should be selected or not was must attempt. Then you could have gone for starting 10 to 12 Q which were one liners, for ex if kharif is rainy crop then Rabi is

What crop then odd one out. Then Sitting arrangement that too in a circular manner was doable one. Some Q’s on reasoning part for ex course action, statement & assumption probably false or true & cause and effect. In this penultimate one’s you cpould have gone for some Q’s which you found easy & you were able bell logic. They sound easy sometimes but they get wrong. Good attempt could be anything between 30 to 35 Q.

Expected Cut off: – 20 – 24.

SOCIAL & RURAL ISSUES:

If you all have studied well then this year Q were pretty easy and general. We all were able to clear cut off for this section. For example Q on Bill Gates, which organization does not belong to agri and so many. But still this section haunts many so cut off is not going to as high as other sections

Expected Cut off:- 12 – 17.

Friends this year they have played with strategy because we all know that what the sectional cut is and overall cut off. So they have gone for easy due to which sectional cut off for each will go high and overall cut off will shoot up.

Expected overall cut off: – 105 – 112.

Never expect what you expect, so chill and feel enthralled by the mood of paper. This mood will become motivation for your next exam IIFT. We will meet After IIFT exam with same kind of review.

You can also discuss about IRMA with other aspirants on our Forum, here’s the link of IRMA thread: MBAtutes’ Forum, so u can get all your Queries answered by writing simple post.

Best of Luck for IIFT.

Friends for your convenience we have uploaded links of three websites which can help you out in comparing our cut offs with others premier institutes. I really doubt this year that cut off can so low as they all predicted because many times these institutes want to boost morale of students. We are here to give actual feel what we have surveyed, because last year also paper was little bit tough than this & cut off was not low. So how it can be this year. So compare your scores with other institute also.

www.time4education.com/IRMA-2009 Analysis.htm

www.careerlauncher.com (Can download Irma analyzes file.)

www.imsindia.com/myims/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=370

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BTW, the new files which are added are:

a) State of the economy

b) Human Development, Poverty and Public Programs

c) Agriculture and Food Management

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j) Search MBAtutes, PG, Google, or Wikipedia from the search bar.

I’ve tried to make things simpler for you while surfing the web. Using this toolbar, you don’t need to

1) Remember the URL of important site; just click the button.

2) come to MBAtutes to see the new files in the download box.

3) go to any site to view the important dates.

4) go to the homepage of the dictionary site. Though it will reduce only one step, but even that is also helpful.

5) go to google.com, wikipedia.com, mbatutes.com, pagalguy.com to search. Just select (click the triangle beside the Go button) your search engine from the toolbar and enter your keyword.

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We all are busy these days in CAT preparation. I understand that you guys have not been in touch lately for your CAT preparations must be going on in full swing.

Same is the case here. My classes(teaching) is going on in full swing. Normal Classes, Strategy classes, Workshops, Doubts clearing, How to improve percentile classes, how to decide what all forms one should fill and what not.

Without wasting much of your time, I want to give you all a taste of our test series. And so I am loading one of our test here.

Oh ya!! I have forgotten(forgetting) loading answers-cum-sloutions here, so as to ensure no one has any temptations to see the solutions before writing the test.

And just for your GK. I will never be loading the answers cum solutions here. Those who will send me the answers(not solutions) at ceo@zioneducationonline.com will receive the answers from my side.

Nat Cat 10 Full

You can also download the file(NATCAT 10 Full) from the ‘Mock Papers’ folder in the download box beside this text.

All the best!!

Happy Testing

Vaibhav K Mittal
CEO – Zion Education Services
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Best of Luck

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Well, you can also subscribe to this calendar & see the updates right from your google calendar. All you need to do is:

1) Click on the google calendar button at the bottom-right position in the calendar embeded below.

2) Sign-in to your google account.

3) If you haven’t used the google calendar before then this window will appear:

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That’s it. Now you don’t have visit our site again & again to see the updates, just go to your google calendar & press the agenda button to see the list of events.  BTW, here’s the calendar
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We will arrange  interviews(written/video) with the alumni of various A grade B-Schools.

Although I have some set of questions in my mind but still it would be better if they directly come from you. All you need to do is to write your question below and we will include that question in our Interview; we just need the question, so please don’t give us your email id or name. Also you will be able to see what others are asking after giving us your question. So go ahead and help yourself. Interviews will available from October onwards, till then, please do provide us your questions.

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1. Never use two past tenses simultaneously:

It’s the most common error, while in fluency of speaking or even writing for that matter we often use sentences like “ I dint knew you were so good at dancing”. Now over here, we cant use both, “knew” and “dint” together we can only use one of them the correct form of this would be “ I dint know, you were so good at dancing”.

2. Another one major blunder that people often make is “ I will do it”:

Over here “it” can never be used as a matter of fact it’s a rule of English to always use “so” whenever you are treating a line like that.

3. Also you cant use sentences like “ I will go and do so”:

presence of “and” is not required over here, only “I will go do so” would do.

4. Incorrect use of apostrophe:

it should be remembered that apostrophe is used in two cases. One; to show contractions e.g. “ don’t in place of do not.”, second to represent possessions e.g. “ its mark’s pen”. Therefore apart from this it shouldn’t b used where it doesn’t belong.

5. Another confusion that people face is while using i.e. and e.g.:

i.e. is an abbreviation used for “id est.” means that is , which is used to explain things in other words. While e.g. is “exempli gratia” which is used to mention the examples specifically.

So next time when you are writing an essay or enjoying your fluent English conversation make sure that you don’t make the following blunders. I will be coming up with more mistakes that are made commonly in my next article. Till then make a note to remember and revise these. All the best.Similar Posts:

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Online CAT 2009 Demo Test

This is a 15 min Demo test in which you can get to know the real User Interface of CAT 2009. On the very first note I find it very similar to GMAT test. But the major difference between CAT and GMAT is that you can review the question later in CAT, which you cannot do in GMAT. In GMAT once the question is marked, it is market but it is not so in CAT 2009. Here are some more screenshots.

1) The NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) of CAT 2009 Demo Test

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2) Online CAT 2009 User Interface (In normal words, how it will look to you when you are giving the test)

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3) Sample Report after Test

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4) A small error while giving the sample test. It should have shown the remaining time on top right but it was showing this:

I don’t know the reason behind this glitch. I tried to cover maximum point related to Online CAT 2009 Demo, but if you think I have missed out something then do reply below this post.

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Before writing this article I will like to thank Ms.NEHA SHARMA, a leading CAT trainer for Verbal areas and Academic Head – Language, at ZION Education Services, for taking her invaluable time for writing an article for our beloved students.

When I asked her to write something on verbal for our students, She said, Verbal is something any CAT faculty can talk about and there is innumerable knowledge available on net on verbal areas of CAT. She said, She wants to talk about how she(with her 1000 plus eyes: eyes of her students 100s of which make to IIMS and other top 10 B-Schools every year, year after year) sees CAT as. She said she will like to show off the reality as to what CAT thinks it is vis-à-vis what usually a good student thinks about CAT. My mentioning anything else here is History. Lets read the face to face discussion of CAT with NEHA.

||| NEHA and CAT sat for a CHAT

Let me take you back in time-the time when I first set out to discover CAT.

What is CAT? I shrugged the cobwebs of cliched definitions and combined two words as my answer: aspiration simplified. Of all the exams that I experienced including CAT, GMAT, GRE, SAT, IELTS and TOEFL-CAT was the simplest. It is because the experience of taking CAT is synonymous with the experience of studying MBA. Far from the hackneyed ‘Masters in Business Administration’, MBA is –my best attitude.
As I embarked on my journey to acquaint myself with quite an entrancing CAT exam, my mother’s words illuminated and strengthened my purpose. She always told me, ‘Neha, if the world asks for the sun, you ask for the sky.’ I think it was her way of telling me –don’t aim for the big sun, aim for the bigger sky. Consequently-I began to de clutter my mind to create space for my first rendezvous with CAT. Excerpts from the interview:

Neha: I wish to achieve you. Is it possible?
CAT: Achievement and skepticism are not compatible.

Neha: Uh-alright, how do I realize you? You are the synonym of progress, profit and excellence.
CAT: Thanks for the compliment. However, I know that I am lifeless, unless adjectives breathe life into my being.

Neha: Adjectives? Does it mean that I must study grammar to acquire you?
CAT: The logic of grammar rests in the motley crowd of expression. Don’t forget that expression is experience exhaled.

Neha: Logic? Uh- appears intricate. Do you suggest that I learn logical reasoning to attain you?
CAT: The coincidental coexistence of reasoning and grammar is delusive unless conducive. Deconstruction is closure but reconstruction is commencement.

Neha: Uh-mammoth. Do you mean that critical analysis is the only way to reach you?
CAT: Don’t you remember your mother’s words, I am sky not sun. Don’t confine me in words. I am what you will learn from me.

Neha: You are my aspiration. You must tell me the way to arrive at you.
CAT: If I am your aspiration, simplify me. Why scatter me in categories? Unify me as a process.

Neha: Ah! You are elusive, mysterious and therefore desirable. Eureka! You are my mirror. If I reflect simple-you appear simple. If I reflect arduous-you become Herculean. Since MBA is my best attitude-you are my aspiration simplified.

CAT: Ah! The music of thought plays the lyrics of heart. To the attentive-Beethoven to the inattentive- shrill.

Cultivate Skill to invent attitude-my best attitude-MBA. Combine Attitude and Task to crack CAT.

Keep Smiling.
It is still tax free !
Cheers!

Neha Sharma
CAT Trainer & Academic Head – Zion Education Services.
Learn for CAT; Train for life.|||

Cheers to all of you. Hope you learnt some lessons from NEHA SHARMA.

All the best

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Hello students and I am back again to help you with your preparation for the CAT and other MBA examinations. This time, we will focus on how to get command over this reading comprehension, and make the mark in the competition. But before we proceed with that, there are few facts, that i would like to throw some light at , so that you may know why is it so important to pay special attention to these reading comprehension part. As we all know that the verbal section in CAT or any other exam for that matter is divided into both reading comprehension and verbal ability. But over the years changes have been observed in the pattern. Nowadays the numbers of questions are much lesser than what they use to be before. As a matter of fact, CAT 2006 saw only 25 questions on verbal ability out of these only 15 were from the reading comprehension part.  Now the point of mentioning is this , that now we have to rethink our strategy according to the changing patterns plus CAT going  online this year makes the change in strategy even more than necessary. But it’s nothing to worry about if you are well prepared.

To start with RC, you should know, first of all what topics are usually covered in these exams. For instance, in CAT, usually the RC’s are made over topics like politics, genetics, psychology, economics, philosophy, arts etc. So basically the range is wide and so the range of your reading material should be as wide. Try to read as much as you can, over various topics, in short to be put forward, you should at least have a basic idea about almost every topic. Now after this, let’s focus on the real thing, in exam there would not be much time for you to read the article over and over again, and since it would be online this time, you can’t even underline the hard words etc. So the point is , keeping in the time limit in mind, you have to do it all, consciously keep this in mind when you start reading, that you will read it only twice. The first times when you are reading it, read it with the sight of an eagle, focus on each and every word very carefully, and while doing this, try to memorize the lines and hard words virtually. As in while reading through, kind of mark the word in your brain, and remember the context in which it was used. Do the same, while going through the whole passage. Now after you are done reading with the article once, have a look at the questions, and this time according to the questions read the article the second time, and now you will realise that there are many questions solved then and there only as you would remember the answers and meaning from your first reading. And as soon as you are done with this, move onto the completion of your answer.

Now this strategy would definitely work, provided you sharpen your memorizing skills as well because its online you wouldn’t be able to mark or write anything so this the last resort that you have. And like i said earlier , memorize it virtually, by this i mean, try to imprint the lines and scene in your brain. The sight memorizing is one of the methods of learning things.

Apart from this, what would majorly help you in cracking the RC successfully, i have mentioned earlier as well. Read widely , but most importantly increase your reading speed, for CAT your average speed of reading should be around 350 words per minute, but if you haven’t achieved this as yet, there is nothing to worry , there is still time and now when you read set your target. Next time whenever you decide to grab an article, set the timer in your mobile, and decides according to your own pace that in that much specific time you would read and solve questions. This will not only largely help you to know how much you need to speedup but also it would tell you where you stand. To practise this, you can take online tests on TEST MAGIC, LearnHub, WizIQ Education, TCY Online. And there are various other sites as well. Apart from preparing with the techniques that have been told keep your spirits up and give your 100 per cent. All the best.Similar Posts:

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By this time we have read five articles in X factor and we must have got something which can benefit us in our preparation. So what do you think that  have you learned everything which is important to get into top B- schools? If yes then please forgive me there is still something left you all want to know. Let’s hear from the mouth of Vega. She is a girl who always topped mocks but she forgets one thing. As every good student think if he is performing well in verbal section, he  has good communication skills. Friend’s communication is all very different scenarios. Take case of World champion speakers- they are educated but they are not topper’s in their time in their schools or college. Communication is an art which we have to learn through others’ experience yes friends & that Vega forgot at that moment. See what happened she cleared FMS written two times but she was out of the league in group discussion & personal interview. Lot of students assume that three months are enough after written exam what we get for GD/PI prep and they think that they will going to get every help by coaching institutes what they require for interview. Friends it’s a long process of transforming oneself into a personality who when speaks others stare and keeps quite for that time. If this happens then assume that you have learned the art of saying something worthwhile. So I thought that I must share this secret which has transformed million’s of life & can benefit you all also & which has started working for Vega also. Yes my dear students there is something called Toastmaster near us but we don’t know because we have never realized that we need something like that in our life. Let’s hear some thing from the mouth of Vega why Toast master is important in our life.

You will:

1) Learn to communicate more effectively.

2) Become a better listener.

3) Improve your presentation skills.

4) Increase your leadership potential.

5) Become more successful in your career.

6) Build your ability to motivate & persuade.

7) Reach your professional & personal goals.

8 ) Increase your self confidence.

How you do it:

1) Build speaking & leadership skills with time tested method.

2) Focused on areas of interest in our self paced curriculum.

3) Receive suggestion for improvement through constructive evaluation.

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Toastmaster programs are …………

1) Inexpensive.

2) Interactive.

3) Convenient.

4) Friendly.

5) Supportive.

More than four million people have discovered benefits of this proven learning formula. What are you waiting for Visit them at www.toastmasters.org?

That’s what Vega asked me but I replied Vega I am already a member of this deemed club in East Delhi Club. My dear students there are plenty of clubs everywhere around your surrounding just you have to visit the website & find a club near you.

Dear student’s people who strive to gain something extra they do something extra by managing everything in a stipulated time. Friends it takes a lot of time to shape up your personality according to demands especially in a competitive world. Don’t relax go out and grab everything which comes your way by giving some extra efforts. Friends still we have 7 months which are enough to transform your skills of communication and to present yourself gracefully in front of others. Don’ think now go and visit them and world will be yours. So I believe that I haven’t wasted your precious time but gave you something precious by this X- factor series. If you feel give your valuable suggestion. Free to ask any doubts related to life problem or Online CAT/MBA problems, or Toastmasters Club. Feel there is somebody who is ready to help you out in every moment but you all have to come out with your doubts.

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I know that preparation is on the high note but we have to remember that we must not forget to fill various form before their deadlines.  So we are taking initiative to inform you about the last date before which we must send forms to the respective institutes.

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Please note that don’t wait for last date because what happened sometimes forms get out of stock at last moment. So hurry up and filled your forms & send them to  the respective institutes. We will be informing you all as per latest news.

If you have any queries related to which form to  be filled & why?In that case you can leave a comment under this article & we will be reverting  you with specific answers.

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For these exams, it is very necessary that you a tight grip at vocabulary, so if you are thinking of cracking any MBA entrance examination, then you should go through this article further, this would help you improve your English only within few days that would largely help you in cracking your exam. The first thing you should start with, should be reading. All the magazines that you always put aside just after flipping through few pages and going over glossy pictures, now is the time that you do a little more than that. Read as much as you can. It can be anything of your interest, but reading randomly wouldn’t help, while reading always keep a pencil in your hand and mark the hard words that you don’t know the meaning of, and those words which you know but you find hard to recall their meaning. If you will do this continuously for few days you will find yourself  with many words, out of these, interestingly you will find that many of them would be similar. Now what you are supposed to do, when you have found these similar words is, create “roots”. “Roots” will be those words which would sound kind of similar, and when you will memorise them simultaneously, it would become quite easy to recall them at the time of examination. For instance, the words “cling” and “cliff”, sound similar cliff means a high steep face of rock, while cling means to attach to, this way whenever you will come across the word cliff or cling you would automatically remember the other, hence this way you learn two words each time and recalling them becomes even easier. When we talk of reading , it’s ok for starters , who are are not use to to reading , that they pick up with anything , that they get their hands on, but for those who are seriously looking forward to crack the exam, its very necessary that they read the editorial page of the news paper. As a tip, its suggested that “THE HINDU“, by far, produces best editorial page as it consists of just information without unnecessary details. Also one should go for the “e-paper”, as its online, it now adds an edge to your preparation, because if you are use to reading on your computer screen , your reading pace would improve which would help you during your exam, this is especially important when the CAT  has become online exam, and others are soon to follow the same. It is very important that you have a good reading pace, because how you perform in exam is a latter thing, first of all its important how much you attempt it, and it would be only possible when your reading pace would be good enough. For this , after you get yourself use to , to reading, you should set time limits for yourself. Set up a timer , and try to finish reading in that particular time. This will highly help you improve your reading.

The technology has made learning even more easier than ever, and students preparing for MBA should make the most out of it. Apart from reading the online newspapers, one should also use DVD’s and CD’S to improve the pronunciations and understanding of English. There are various English tests available online that keeps student updated about the status of their preparation by which they get to know where they stand. One of the sites that may prove useful for students is magportal.com. And for newspaper you can refer to nytimes.com, TOI e-paper

A lot more can be done to improve this language, besides the few tips given above, but most importantly it is necessary that you develop an interest for the language. As without interest it is almost impossible to learn anything, no matter how desperately you want to learn it.

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One thing until now I have noticed that you all have neither asked us any queries nor gave any suggestion. Do I assume that you all have imbibed the skills which we were talking in the past? Ifyes then is the final skill which is very important for your preparation.

Lets see how, when two days back I was talking to IIM – A alumni Ritesh who had passed out in year 2008. As per normal strategy we used to question them what they think is better and what they had done different to bell CAT, but this time I conversed with him that when I used to prepare for Online CAT, my mode of strategy was something like equal time to all subjects. Suddenly he replied no Bhuvanesh you adopted approach which normal students think. My friends if you want to be in different league you have to different from others. Shiv Khera said “Winners don’t do different things they do things differently”. I was charged yes man I am going to get my next X – factor and that too one of the important which is directly related to preparation. At this moment of time students need something worthwhile to adopt. Friends he named this strategy “Linear Approach”. He told me that today also I used to teach some students & you know how I ask them to prepare. I said how I can know; you just started telling your unique strategy. He replied you have good sense of humor. Ritesh jokes apart let’s come to serious business. I ask them to become mad after one thing. I don’t ask them that give equal time like most of the coaching institutes say. For example I asked my students to give only 15 days for DI preparation. I was astonished; we give whole one year with little time on a daily basis for DI, but at the end of the day we aren’t able to get competitive scores in DI. He asked try out, I said practice 10 sets of DI for 15 days. Then you must have practiced 150 sets by that time and pick any paper for DI and check whether you are still able to clear the cut offs or not. I got his method, if you are running exhausted so much in a particular technique that even you don’t have to revise that particular technique again. Same for the Quant or Verbal section if you fear No system/Geometry practice No system/ Geometry for 5 to 10 days. Do you think practicing these topics for 5 to 10 days are you going to leave any good concept or question in the market. No simply because allotted time is more than that & you will going to achieve best state what you people can never think off. Same in the verbal if you fear Para jumbles or FIB’s then practice them for 5 to 10 days. After practicing them for couple of days you can cover at least 500 Q’s. Still you think you need more practice. Yes friends after that you also don’t need any test series also to compare yourself with others. If you think you have done your homework with honesty then you will come out with flying colors.

Friends don’t forget to use linear approach, see in 15 days we can cover 1/3rd course of CAT and only two sections to go and what do you think how much time still you need. Two months more or 3. Those have started their preparation just now, do not have to panic they have good time to bell one of the easiest exam. Hats off to Ritesh who has given good strategy to follow at the moment of heat & especially for students who are worrying so much.

So friends don’t forget to read last article for X – Factor next week which can actually topple your personality upside down & will make you worthwile to speak in front of crowd. Do give your valuable suggestions in the form of comment so that we can know whether we’ve been able to fulfill your needs or not.

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I am back once again. And keeping fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong this time & I keep writing regularly, now on. Please pray to god.

Hope you understood already what I am going to talk about. We all know CAT is going to be an online exam this year. How much successful an exam it will be, I will tell you that on 8th December. Successful in terms of the smoothness in exam being conducted.

Anyways, what shall we prepare and how shall we prepare.
Let’s understand one thing; whether it be an online exam or it be a paper based exam, for sure it checks certain qualities in an examinee. These include managing time, keeping nerves cool under pressure, visualization capabilities (which are checked through a particular set of questions), reading between the lines, looking beyond the obvious, strategy formulation and using smart approaches, optimistic nature, tough mindedness etc.

And believe it or not these are the qualities which are checked and may be some more. Believe it Maths and English are just the means to achieve the end. They are not the end.

Now, Lets understand some things. When you will be writing an online exam you will not have an option of circling the relevant information in the paper, that’s one. Two, you will not be having the facility of crossing the options which you think are for sure wrong. Three, though you will be allowed to move forward and backwards(at least I feel so) still its not convenient to move forward and backwards as much as it is on a paper-therefore your strategies of doing easy first and difficult later may go for a toss. Four, in RC area you are in a habit of underlining a lot, which you will not be able to do in an online test. Etc etc.

The good part is that you will be allowed to use some plain papers as rough sheets(that’s again my thought. How many papers they will allow I will tell you on 8th December). Now here comes the rescue strategy. I suggest as soon as you have rough papers in your hand, make a chart saying question no., option 1, option 2, option 3, option 4 and option 5. Example is here:
Q No. Op 1 Op 2 Op 3 Op 4 Op 5
1
2
3
4
5

Here showing horizontal and vertical lines is really not important till you keep everything vertically straight.

Now, assuming you have done this, u can start the test. But wait. On another sheet write RC 1. Para 1, para 2, Para 3 and so on AND RC2. Para 1, para 2, Para 3 and so on. Example:
RC 1
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3

RC 2
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3

RC 3
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3

Now you are ready to start the test.

How will you use what you have made? See, Sheet 1 will be used to cross the wrong answers whenever you are very sure of. Not just that, it will also act as a record of what’s the answer to which question (in case something goes wrong with the test and you have to restart it, god forbid). Please note I have personally used this sheet in many online tests and have monitored 1000s of my students doing same in many type of online tests including GMAT/GRE. And it reduces a lot of tension of students.

Now the second sheet. See any RC passage will have 4-8 small paragraphs. If you can write the jist of those small paragraphs in a line or less then that nothing like it. If you can’t, then I suggest write the line no. in that para which you think is the most imp. Doing only this will be a good boost up to you when you will actually start solving the questions on DI. One these pointers will help you locate where the answer is. Two they will remind you of the direction in which the RC is flowing. Three you will get a better hang of RC then what you use to get.

This much only for today.

I have a request. If you guys can tell me the topic on which you want me to write next, that will be a great help, as most of my time goes in figuring out what to write on.

All the Best

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Syn :- Exasperate, Gall, Provoke.

Ant :- Appease, Mollify, Gladden.

Unique Way :- GIRA WEIGHT sir par, this aggarvated problem.

2) Amenable :- Readily reacting to suggestions and influences.

Syn :- Pliable, Docile, Agreeable.

Ant :- Intractable, Unwilling.

Unique Way :- A MAN is able to control amenable children.

3) Amiable:-  Diffusing warmth and friendliness.

Syn :- Affable, Benign, Amicable.

Ant :- Surly, Crabby, Gloomy.

Unique Way :- Amiable tone of AMMI.

4) Amicable :-  Characterized by friendship and good will.

Syn :- Cordial, Cozy, Amiable.

Ant :- Hostile, Unfriendly.

Unique Way :- Disputes with CABLE WALA solved amicably.

5) Amiss :- Away from the correct or expected course.

Syn :- Awry, Erroneous, incorrect,

Ant :- Good, Right.

Unique Way :- Mobile was MISSING, I sensed something amiss.

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Friends after a break of one week we are back with new pedagogy which can help you built that student inside you which can take you ahead in this journey which once started but never stops until you learn the art of performing like manager.

So tell me one thing what we have learned till now, is it worthwhile for MBA or not. I haven’t got the response yet. I am assuming that you all must be practicing them or trying to attain them in your attitude. If started then it’s alright because we started doing our work. Friends-lesson for this week; yesterday I gave call to one of the IIM-A student Shashank who had passed out from NSIT in 2008. He gave CAT in 2007, but wasn’t able to get calls & his percentile was around 98. This year he was able to clear all the hurdles you know why. Let’s know from the mouth of Shashank what he has done next year to be part of those lucky 1700’s. He told me that when you do something from your heart you become emotional and you forget to find your weakness. Actually I thought for a while & said in my mind yes he is right. He told me that this year I took lots of mock but I started finding those things which were always on negative part of my score. Lets think like this he took four mocks and he found that in every mock he is getting his Para jumbles wrong. So for next four days he practiced Para jumbles so much with concepts that his weakness became his strength. That became his habit for every subject like if he founds that he is not performing well in geometry then he practiced geometry so much for next couple of days that his geometry became his strength. Friends he told me that like this nothing remained his weakness. When he sat for CAT he has arrows of all type and he has no fear this time. He knew that he had practiced so much that nothing can come in his path. In the end friends he named his process SWOT:

A) S: Strength.

B) W: Weakness.

C) O: Opportunity.

D) T: Threats.

He politely told me never forget to apply SWOT in your day to day to life and you start getting your road map very clear what are your current resources which can help you moving further and what are your road blocks which can stop you moving ahead. Friends it is very difficult to apply what others say, but it is easy to learn from others experience. What they have faced has become your resource now, it actually depends on you how smartly you use manipulate things according to you. Friends same thing happens we are given case studies you know why. To help us by reading others experience. If any queries related to SWOT you are most welcome. Don’t forget to practice & practice and find your weakness and try make your weakness your best friend.

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Syn :-  Left handed, Right handed.

Ant :- —————-

Unique Way :- DEXTER scientist is ambidextrous while using his equipments.

2) Amble : – Walk leisurely.

Syn :- Stroll, Ramble, Boogie.

Ant : – Scamper, Run.

Unique Way :- AAM KHATE HUE they were ambling.

3) Ambrosia :-  The food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal.

Syn :- Heavenly food, Nectar, Delicacy.

Ant :-  ————————-.

Unique Way :- AMBER SE RASOIA AAAYA aur laaya ambrosia.

4)  Ambulatory :-  Relating to or adapted for walking.

Syn :- Vagrant, Nomadic, Vagabond.

Ant :- Steady, Stiff.

Unique Way :- AMBULANCE is not required for ambulatory patients. They can amble.

5) Ameliorate :- To make better.

Syn :- Alleviate, Amend, Improve.

Ant :- Worsen.

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When I spoke to Rahul (IIM-B batch of 2010), he said he never was keen on doing MBA. MBA was one of the options he had kept in mind but it was not all.

He said, probably what worked for him was the attitude that his teacher (VM) inculcated in him. And this attitude was “MBA is not the end of the road’. It’s just a means to achieve the end. And end is where we (I, in my case) see ourselves some 20/30 years down the line.

He said, he wanted to do MBA only because it was like a Rajdhani train for him, that could have paced up what he wanted to do. But then MBA was not the only way. He said even if he would not have got into IIMB, then also he knew that he would have been working on the path to his ultimate goal.

When I asked him, what his ultimate goal was, he replied ‘action speaks louder then words’. He said, I don’t want to tell it now and later give you a chance to ask ‘What happened to your dream’. He said he rather want to tell it to everyone once he see some light towards the end of tunnel i.e. when he will be about to achieve his goal.

Friends, I called VM sir, immediately, after talking to this chap and was thinking that I have not got enough to right for this X factor. He told me an interesting story of a friend and batch mate of his student, IIMC batch of 2004. That fellow, called Malli first of all did not participate in campus placements at IIMC. Why, because his dream was to conquer 7 mountains of the world on 7 different days of week in 7 different months. And also to make a world record by doing so in less then 6 months. (http://iimcal.blogspot.com/)

After talking to VM sir, I googled about this fellow and found that it was/is indeed true.

I could not get the contacts of this fellow Malli. But then VM sir only told me that this guy attributes his making this world record to IIMC. He says that if IIMC would not have been in his life he would not have been able to do what he did.

After reading about that guy, I was able to relate to what Rahul said ‘MBA is not the end of the road‘ and it’s just a means to achieve the end.

My opinion: One should be open to learning’s, whatever comes one’s way. Plus one should have a dream (Whether one is working on it or not, but then one should be able to see the dream daily). And then keep working towards whatever comes your way. Some day, whatever you are doing will automatically get associated with your dream.

So  guys all the best. Keep doing what comes your way. Keep enjoying what you are doing. Just remember that success is standing on the path you are on. Just that some has to travel a little to get it and some has to travel a lot to get it. But those who won’t stop traveling, for sure will get it.

Thanks……………………………………………..

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It’s been long time I have written any article. But I have come up once again with a very useful freeware. As you have read the title of this post, it is about ‘Tehelka’ Magazine. I find this magazine tough to read; this is the reason I prefer reading it. But yesterday while reading the hard copy I thought they must be having their site. So I explored this free e-version of the magazine.

Here are the steps you need to take in order to read it free:

Step 1:

Go to www.tehelka.com

Step 2:

You will reach to a new page. You have to register here in order to read. After all taking this small pain of registering will not harm us. BTW, they can use your information for marketing purpose. Here is their privacy policy. You can skip putting your address information in the register form.

Step 3:

Click the picture of the issue once register and you will reach to the e-version. You can also download the ebook; here is the image:

Enjoy Reading.

Note: Please do not upload the magazine on any data sharing site. After-all  Tehelka at-least deserves your email id after putting in so much effort to provide you a magazine worth Rs. 20 for free.Similar Posts:

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Syn :- Apart, Detached, Cold Fish.

Ant :- Concerned, Friendly, Sociable.

Unique Way :-  This ALOO has aloof nature.

2) Altercation :- Noisy quarrel.

Syn :- Brawl, Brush,Fracas.

Ant :-  Agreement, Concord, Harmony.

Unique Way :- Altercation with tailor on wrong ALTERATION.

3)Altruistic :- Showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others.

Syn :-  Robin hood, Benevolent, Philanthropic.

Ant :- Spiteful, Greedy, Malevolent.

Unique Way :- Altruistic people are TRUST worthy & think of others.

4) Amazon :- A large strong and aggressive woman.

Syn :- Calumniator, Harridan,Madcap.

Ant :- No Antonym.

Unique Way :- I was AMAZED to see amazon.

5) Ambivalence :- Mixed feelings or emotions.

Syn :- Iffiness, Muddle, Quandary.

Ant :- Certainty,  decisiveness.

Unique Way :-  I was in ambivalence in which direction to BALANCE.

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Sorry delhi people, online registration is closed now, but you can go directly to the venue today and register yourself by paying Rs. 200. First 100 people will also get  TopMBA guide for Free.  BTW, Mumbai people can register here:

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For past one week I was thinking what to  write at this crucial juncture, because still we have decent 4.5 months, which can  be used to actually topple the image upside down. I have many things to tell you about CAT, but most important is the right thing at the right time. So friends after a serious struggle with my thoughts I encountered Neha Sharma who is a English teacher for MBA prep. I discussed with her recently that I have started a new series at MBA Tutes  X – Factor which teach you crucial things. So I took her opinion what she thinks what is crucial at the D-day.  She replied immediately “BE A GOOD SON OR GOOD DAUGHTER”. I was shocked after listening to this; I asked her again- are you sure that this is related to cat in any way. She replied again- yes dude I am not a nonplussed person. Then she introspected me by engaging me among few questions. Then I realize what she is saying is true enough to believe. You know what happened in those 5 minutes? She asked me have you ever asked your father can I help you out in any means, which can reduce your work load? or have you ever asked your mother that can I make your morning pretty? or when was the last time you have hugged your parents. These were the few questions which she asked me but they left me in a state of zero. I didn’t have the answer for any single Q. I remained quiet for a while; then she again said- yes bhuvanesh on the D – day only BLESSINGS COUNT. She told me that the whole process works like round cycle- when you are a good son or a good daughter, then you act like a perfect human being and your ambiance becomes a perfect temple of learning & there is no sign of negativity in your surrounding & your parents help you out of all the troubles. So I came to conclusion that was the reason for my last year failing results. I always believe that what you need end of the day is GOOD IQ level. So I always knew that I don’t have a problem in belling CAT, but my results proved me wrong. This thought of  Neha vibrated my whole soul like a pendulum swinging without motto & took me to my past. Yes I have done everything to bell the cat, but why was I not able to part of those 1700? It is because I was not able to generate such positive energy which could change my results. I respected my parents but I was not able to become GOOD SON and that’s why I was not able to get that lucky blessings which could have helped me on the D – day when everything has gone haywire due  to some unknown twists of CAT.

So friends believe me when you are a “GOOD SON OR GOOD DAUGHTER” then your surrounding generates such a positive vibrancy which keeps your heart calm & cool, and at the end of the day allows you to think from your mind wisely. Friends when your heart runs faster than normal on most important day of your life then nothing goes according to your plan. So to keep your heart filled with calmness to get X – FACTOR from your parents. Try to incorporate these changes and these can change your results. Still lot to go. Don’t forget to read next week exclusive interview with  IIM – A students.

Please don’t forget to give your valuable suggestions which will improve this series by remarkable mark. Keep asking questions why you think so , If  I don’t follow this what will go wrong. Make this series a discussion forum among us. Let’s make this series count………………………………….

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Syn isembark, descend.

Ant epart, Exit, Leave.

Unique Way :- I alighted on the red LIGHT.

2) Alliteration :- Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.

Syn :- Iteration,  Paraphrase.

Ant :- Instance.

Unique Way :- ALL THE LITERATURE is in alliteration.

3) Allude :- Make a more or less disguised reference to.

Syn :- Advert, Intimate, Insinuate.

Ant :- Overlook, Ignore.

Unique Way :-  He alluded, they will not be ALLOWED.

4) Allure :- The power to entice or attract through personal charm.

Syn :- Inclination, Enticement, Temptation.

Ant :- Repulsion, Revulsion.

Unique Way :-  She is alluring by saying ALL IS YOURS.

5) Ally :- Something united with another, especially by treaty.

Syn :- Accessory, Accomplice, Confederate.

Ant :- Enemy, Antagonist.

Unique Way :- AA LE LE Chocolate and become my ally.

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Syn :- Estrange, Disaffect, Put off.

Ant :- Reconcile, Befriendly.

Unique Way :- An ALIEN alienated.

2) Alimony :- Court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated.

Syn :- Child Support, Substinance.

Ant : – Desertion, Ignorance, Neglect

Unique Way :- ALL MONEY he gave in alimony.

3) Allay :- Lessen the intensity of or calm.

Syn :- Assuage, Relieve, slake.

Ant :- Upset, provoke, stir.

Unique Way :-  AA LE LE OR PEE LE KUCH KHA LE this allays its hunger.

4) Allegiance :- The loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign).

Syn :-  Commitment, Dedication, Fealty.

Ant :-  Sedition,Enmity, Disloyalty.

Unique Way :-  ALL JAINS pledge allegiance towards Jainism.

5) Allegory :-  A short moral story (often with animal characters).

Syn :- Fable, Parable, Apologue.

Ant :- Truth.

Unique Way :- ALL GORI GORI girls participated in an allegory drama.

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Friends When I called this student studying in IIM Calcutta, I asked him various questions but I was not able to discover that unique answer which I wanted to discover. Then I started asking him that while preparation did he feel frustrated when he was not able to score good in mocks or when he was not able to crack quant questions at great speed. Then he replied yes & he narrated me one incident. Around March in the class he shouted once at one of the students who was disturbing him while solving question. Vaibhav sir saw &  called him after the class & asked  him why you get so much tense while studying. You must learn to enjoy your studies, but he replied that he has so many goals and ambitions & he don’t want to get distracted. Then sir replied you must go and do ART OF LIVING BASIC COURSE. That student asked continuously that sir tell me what’s it’s all about?  but sir didn’t give any answer. Sir smiled do you trust  me and are you ready to help me out in your preparation, then please go and do what I have asked you to do. He called his mom and asked her to get information about AOL course & luckily course was starting from next day. He joined that course which was of 6 days duration. Friends can any one imagine what happened, his life transformed. That boy became so calm and humble that one day someone hit his car from behind and he replied it’s ok. This course made him tension free and helped him to achieve some spirituality. This boy who get piqued by other’s disturbance and get himself involved in healthy discussion while making them explain that he is studying.  Now he became the man of silence, it didn’t matter to him whether there is loud music playing if he want to study then nobody can stop him. In the last he told me that AOL part – 1 played major role in his life while cracking Cat because he was able keep his nerves cool and in control which helped him to take proper decisions.

So friends I was astonished by the X-Factor which I have discovered while interviewing him on mobile that keeping your nerves cool on the D – DAY is major task. He also told me whether you get any surprises or not also try to go with your proven strategy because end of the day you have chances that your strategy will mold to surprises but new strategy according to the situation will end up with nothing.

So friends keep yourself updated with X-Factor series and try to keep us updated with your valuable comments- what do you feel about X-factor? You can also give your response on our feedback section.

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We are starting a new series of articles in which we are going to share personal experiences of students who have crossed the long bridge of MBA preparation. We are going to bring those X-factors which they don’t share with others or what they have acquired while preparation with the support of their mentors. So friends be cautious and don’t forget to look out for these X-factor articles on every Thursday. Might  these X – factors can take your boat across vortex without any hassle.

So Tighten up your seat belts.

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Syn :-  Arouse, Excited, Jazzed.

Unique Way :- I was agog after getting special GOGS.

2) Alacrity :- Liveliness and eagerness.

Syn ispatch, Promptness,  Promptitude.

Unique Way :- A LAKH ruppee per day offer he accepted with alacrity.

3) Albino :- A person with congenital albinism: white hair and milky skin; eyes are usually pink.

Syn :- Etiolated, Achromatic, Bleached.

Unique Way :- All albinos were doused in color BINS.

4) Alcove :- A small recess opening off a larger room.

Syn :- Cloister, Nook.

Unique Way :- Alcove in all the CAVES.

5)  Alfresco :- In the open air.

Syn :- Outdoor.

Unique Way : – ALL were FRESH after alfresco dinner.

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2) Agglomeration :- The act of collecting in a mass.
Syn :- Agglutination, aggregate.
Unique Way :- Agglomeration of all kind of EGGS.

3) Aggrandize :- To enhance the power, wealth, position or reputation.
Syn :- Enlarge, Expand, Augment, Multiply.
Unique Way :- My GRAND father is still aggrandizing wealth.

4) Aghast :- Struck with fear, dread, or consternation.
Syn :- Dismayed, Appalled, Shocked.
Unique Way :- I was aghast to see GHOST.

5) Agility :-The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
Syn :- Grace, nimbleness, Sprightliness.
Unique Way:- In less AGE, agility is high.

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