The Ten Best Vocabulary Learning Tips

Vocabulary June 29th, 2008

Step 1.  Read, Read, Read! Most vocabulary words are learned from context. The more words you’re exposed to, the better vocabulary you will have. While you read, pay close attention to words you don’t know. First, try to figure out their meanings from context. Then look the words up. Read and listen to challenging material [...]

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The Below Average Student’s Guide for Cracking the CAT

Crack CAT June 16th, 2008

Here’s a survivor’s guide to cracking the CAT. In this article, I will tell you all you need to know about scoring well in the Mock CAT’s, the big CAT, and all that follows. Originally I was going to title this “The average student’s guide to cracking the CAT” .Then I realized I wasn’t average. [...]

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Things You Should Not Do At An Interview

GD/PI June 16th, 2008

There is enough literature on what you should do at an interview. But here’s a list of things that you would definitely not want to do at an interview, unless you don’t want that job or that B-school admit that you have so wanted. Never Go Unprepared Yes sir, I hear you. You know it [...]

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Avoiding panic when CAT is just around the corner

D-Day, Final Preparations June 16th, 2008

How should you be preparing for the D-Day? Lets start with understanding if it is truly possible for you to make any difference now. The last mile to any race is crucial in any case; in the last few laps, in the last few milliseconds you lose or you win. What matters the most is [...]

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‘I nailed my IIM group discussion & interview!’

First Hand Experiences, GD/PI June 16th, 2008

To help students prepare themselves for all the possible twists and turns a personal interview can take, we publish first-hand experiences of students who managed to breeze through their PI and others who crashed and burned. Here, Bharat Jhurani, a first-year student at IIM Lucknow, shares his interview experience as a part of the CAT [...]

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