Chapter 1:

Sample question: Wrong.

Mistake: Careless

Lessons learned: Study the full sentence and understand the meaning well. Check out the singular/plural verbs.

Steps for SC:

1. Write down A B C D E in the paper (I write it horizontally for every question)

2. Read the sentence and note down the obvious erros

3. Check all the ans. choices vertically. ie, don’t reach each choice. Note down whats the different in each choice. 

Split each choice into half and comare one split of all five answer choices. Filter out and mark the condensers. 

Then, do the same with the next half. 

4. Comare the remaining answer choices by resplitting

5. Continue to split remaining condensers until you find the answer choice.

Eg. The students came to school without their mittens and so was unable to go to recess.

Students – plural; was – singular. So, it should be “were”

MY TOEFL exam date is on May 30th. I’m preparing my GMAT and TOEFL at the same time. I’d like to share my lessons learned and topics coverned on a day to day basis. I’m started studying Kaplan 2008-09 TOEFL iBT book. Will keep you posted

I’m going to blog my each and every day experience in my GMAT preparation. Started my preparation with Powerscore CR bible. Its an excellent book for CR. You’ll become an expert if you study this thoroughly. I’ll update you e veryday lessons learned and topics covered.

Parents!!

A conversation….this was narrated by an IAF pilot to IIT students on

special seminar for HUMAN RELATION.

My parents left for our native place on Thursday and we went to the

airport to see them off. In fact, my father had never traveled by air before, 

so I just took this opportunity to make him experience the same.

In spite of being asked to book tickets by train, I got them tickets on Jet 

Airways. The moment I handed over the tickets to him, he was surprised to 

see that I had booked them by air. The excitement was very apparent on 

his face, waiting for the time of travel. Just like a school boy, he was 

preparing himself on that day and we all went to the airport, right from 

using the trolley for his luggage, the baggage check-in and asking for 

window seat and waiting restlessly for the security check-in to happen. 

He was thoroughly enjoying himself and I, too, was overcome with joy

watching him experience all these things.

As they were about to go in for the security check-in, he walked up to me

with tears in his eyes and thanked me. He became very emotional and it 

was not as if I had done something great but the fact that this meant a 

great deal to him.

When he said thanks, I told him there was no need to thank me. But later,

thinking about the entire incident, I looked back at my life. As a child how 

many dreams our parents have made come true. Without understanding the 

financial situation, we ask for cricket bats, dresses, toys, outings, etc. 

Irrespective of their affordability, they have catered to all our needs. 

Did we ever think about the sacrifices they had to make to accommodate 

many of our wishes? Did we ever say thanks for all that they have done for 

us?

Same way, today when it comes to our children, we always think that we

should put them in a good school. Regardless of the amount of donation, 

we will ensure that we will have to give the child the best, theme parks, 

toys, etc. But we tend to forget that our parents have sacrificed a lot for 

our sake to see us happy, so it is our responsibility to ensure that their 

dreams are realized and what they failed to see when they were young, it 

is our responsibility to ensure that they experience all those and their life is 

complete.

Many times, when my parents had asked me some questions, I have 

actually answered back without patience. When my daughter asks me 

something, I have been very polite in answering. Now I realize how they 

would have felt at those moments. 

Let us realize that old age is a second childhood and just as we take care 

of our children, the same attention and same care need to be given to our 

parents and elders.

Rather than my dad saying thank you to me, I would want to say sorry for

making him wait so long for this small dream. I do realize how much he has 

sacrificed for my sake and I will do my best to give the best possible 

attention to all their wishes.Just because they are old does not mean that 

they will have to give up everything and keep sacrificing for their 

grandchildren also. They have wishes, too.

Take care of your parents … For it is the least we could do ..

Are you a person who hasn’t achieved anything big in life but has a BIG gole? ? then, please go ahead. This is not a general statements we often find out in motivational books. I don’t believe in books writter only for motivation without real time examples.

I always like to hear stories about success after so many failures. I always take my failures in a positive way. I’ll very bad for some hours. After that I’ll be back to normal. 

Some of the real time legends who are motivating me whenever I loss hope:

Chris Gardner – If you don’t know him, Watch the movie “Persuit of Happyness”;

Especially, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGSiX0JA-s

Indra Nooyi – Pepsico CEO

Persuit of happyness is my all time motivation. Everytime when I see the above scene, I’ll get energized and I’m ready to go. 

EVERYONE can achieve his/her goals. But the only requirement is HARDWORK.

You have a final goal;

1. Split the goal into many small goals

2. Note down your first goal

3. Put a plan to achieve that small goal

4. Focus on that plan and achieve that goal

5. then, next goal

The list will go on till you achieve your main goal. Arise and Awake till you reach the goal. Don’t give up. Nothing is impossible. 

These are all not works just to beautify the sentence. These are all taken from real time examples. 

DONT GIVE UP!!

I’m going to write my GMAT on Feb 4th. Preparation is on its way. Never before I thought I will get a chance to do MBA. Doing MBA is my dream. My profession is also related to business administration. Studying in a reputed business school will definitely be valuable. Your life will change drastically after you’ve finished your MBA in a reputed business school. 

The first step in achieving this goal is to write GMAT and get a very good score. Ofcourse, GMAT is not the only thing which decided your admission into a top business school. But its very important. 

By studying for GMAT, you’ll learn so many things other than just Math and Verbal. Focus and Time management. I really love to study. I’m pretty good at maths. But bad at verbal. Concentrating more on verbal now.

As I’m planning to study in US, I need to write TOEFL. I got the exam slot only on Feb 14th. So, after completing my GMAT, need to work for that.

After that, application process, interview etc etc and finally admission letter. Wating for that day. 

After that, I’ll have some 4-5 months to spend time on whatever thing I want. 

I have few plans for that. I don’t have US driving license. So, going to learn driving, tennis and planning to join in a non-profit as a volunteer. 

Other than that, Need to try new dishes, gourmet cooking and more and more..

I know I mentoned that I’d write a post about “New to US – Things to do Part 2″. I’ll definitely do that after my exam. Let me know if you have any queries. Also, Email me if you have any doubts regarding GMAT, GMAT Maths and Verbal. Will definitely help you. Cya then..

Dear readers,

This new world (US) is still new to me in some ways. Especially in drinking habits. We drink water when we feel thursty. But here everyone is drinking soft drinks rather than water most of the time. I believe we should drink atleast 3 lts of water everyday. I don’t think people living here are drinking that much. If you buy water in bottles in any restaurant, it is more costly than any soft drink.  Sometimes I don’t understand the logic.

Most of the time, I don’t carry any water bottles in my bag. If I feel thursty, I’m thinking twise to buy water since its too costly. Now I should make sure that I’m not falling into the soft drink trap..

Being an Indian, I’m used to live in a hot summer day. But snow, freezing alert and minus degree celcius everything is new to me. Its been 2 months over since we came here. I worked in MNC and interacted with so many americans. That helped me a lot. US was not very new to me and I easily embraced with these people. But I’m not able to adopt with the climate though its not as cold as Seattle, Boston.

I live in a place where you definitely need a car. I’ll post “things to be noted” part in my next blog which will cover all the “things to be noted” if you are new to US and going to travel US for a long term.

My husband’s all the US trips were short term trips. This is his first long term trip and going to be here for a long time. If you are new to US, you should definitely need to prepare few things before the trip. There are so many things to tell you about this. Everything will be in my next post. cya then..

First of all I’m sorry for the long delay. I was pretty busy with my marriage.

I got a guy whom i like most. I’m happy about it.

About me, I’ve been away from home for almost 11 years for my studies and work. It made a very good bond between me and my family (parents and bro). This gap helped me to understand my family very well. In my home, Each and every decisions we made were only after my approval. Even now I have all the rights in my family and in the new family. I’m happily married and loves this life a lot. I like to enjoy my life whatever comes in it.

But I too have a missing part.

My long hours sleep, lazyness and more useless things.

I’m pretty busy nowadays. Studying, working, cooking and taking care of households. Its all interesting. I can say i’m the world’s busiest women.   I really love this.

MY close circle says I got more responsibility. OMG!! Is that really me?

I’d like to cook different cuisines. My husband and me, we both like to try new veggy foods. We tried most of the veggy foods in the world and would like to taste more and more.

After marriage, I understand few things.

• Life before marriage and after marriage is totally different

• We should adjust ourselves with the new atmosphere
• We should stick to the regular routine (cooking, etc etc) even if we’re not well

Though these are all small things, they are very important. I’m so happy that I have a big responsibility and a family is depending on me or atleast I’m taking care of it.

I’l update you how it goes.