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Get Set for Your MBA Entrance Exams!
The MBA entrance exam season is on the brink of getting started. A number of candidates will be fine-tuning their preparation right now, whilst there will be others who would be struggling to kick the inertia out of their systems and start their preparation. Those who fall in the latter group, should not let the lazy voice within tell you: “Be practical, it’s too late”. Run away from those who spread negativity. You may come across people who may say, “I’m preparing for the last one year and it’s not working for me” or “These exams are really difficult to crack, it’s not our cup of tea”. Remember these are the people who don’t plan realistically or have laid back attitudes.
The basic syllabus for these exams is roughly the same as Mathematics and English taught in the class VII-X. So, ideally , if your fundamentals are in place then it should take roughly 250 hours of preparation which means just 5 hours for 50 days or 3 hours for some 85 odd days i.e. max 3 months. However, you need to be very focused in these 3 months and practice religiously. Also, you need not run after solving more and more questions, instead focus on solving different varieties of questions and remember the method used to solve these questions. There is a need to master the art of solving questions using shortcut techniques.
Having said that, a valid and essential question is: How to plan these exams? To begin with, preparation time should be divided into 2 phases.
Phase 1: Concentrate on building your basics and improve your accuracy
During this Phase, cover the basic concepts in quantitative aptitude for all the topics. This is the phase where you build on the basic principles and prepare yourself for the tougher questions. Remembering reciprocals till 30, squares till 30, cubes till 15, and multiplication tables till 20 is a must to increase speed.
For e.g. If the question is: After giving a discount of 9.09% a shopkeeper still manages to gain a profit of 11.11% then find the mark-up percentage?
If we know that 9.09% is and 11.11% is then this question can be solved in less than a minute time.
Solution:
If the cost price of an article is Rs. 9 then it makes a profit of Re. 1. Thus, selling price should be Rs. 10.
If the mark price of an article is Rs. 11 then the discount given is Re. 1. Thus, the selling price should be Rs. 10.
Now, the cost price is Rs. 9, mark price is Rs. 11 then the marked-up price is Rs. 2 over the cost price of Rs. 9. Thus, mark-up percentage is 22.22%.
So, remembering reciprocals helps to save ample time in many questions in Quant as well as DI.
Also, making an equation and solving it makes the solution ugly and wastes precious time. So, the focus should be on learning the art of solving majority of the questions without using equations.
For the verbal section, set aside 1-2 hours every day to reading. Read different genre of articles varying from fiction to politics to science to anything. Just build reading habit and get the mind ready for any topic, style or subject. Vocabulary building will also play a rational role in this phase.
Phase 2: Concentrate on increasing number of attempts
In this phase start by practicing 2 Data Interpretation sets (once you are through with different varieties of questions from Percentage Module), 2 Logical Reasoning set, 5-10 Advanced Reasoning questions (word based puzzle, math based puzzle, Input-Output questions etc) , 1 RC and 20 math questions (from various topics) on an day to day basis. Try to improve your concentration by practicing for 3 hours at a stretch. This will help reduce concentration lapses during the Mock Test and eventually the actual test. It is time that you start practicing 1-2 Mock Tests on a weekly basis and try to figure out your strengths and weaknesses. Don’t take Mocks like mock test rather take it like your actual test mimicking the exam day scenario.
2 months before the exam, your motive should be to find out your strengths and weaknesses. The focus should be on SWOT analysis of your preparation in stage 1. Followed by it, work towards improving on weak areas by providing exhaustive practice. One should divide syllabus into four different areas:
|
A High Speed High Accuracy |
C
High Speed Low Accuracy |
| B
Low Speed High Accuracy |
D Low Speed Low Accuracy |
- Dedicate 2 days to practice questions in A and try to build 100% accuracy in the questions from these areas.
- Dedicate 3 days to practice questions in B and try to move them in A.
- Dedicate 1 day to practice questions in C and D to improve accuracy and try to move them in B.
In every mock that you take, try to increase your attempts slowly and gradually. Before every mock that you take, analyse the questions that you either attempted wrong or didn’t attempt in the previous mock. Without that, it won’t make any sense to take the next mock. Your analysis should include questions like:
(a) Where did I go wrong in these questions?
(b) Why did I not attempt these questions?
(c) Why am I making mistakes in these areas?
(d) Am I selecting the right questions?
(e) How many questions that I skipped were do-able?
Also, make sure that the mistakes once made should not be repeated.
More importantly do not take 2 Mock tests on the same day to increase your Mock count. It won’t help. Analysis after every test is very important in order to improvise your scores in the next test.
Tips to be followed:
1. Admit to yourself that “I will not know all of the answers.” No matter how hard you have studied.
2. If you feel nervous on a question, skip to the next question. Don’t waste time on a question that you don’t know.
3. Never panic about test. You will still be the same the person whatever marks you get, so it doesn’t matter how well you do.
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Congratulations to those who have received a call from a B-school
In the second round, top B-school evaluates any candidate on basis of GD and/or WAT and PI.
The first thing that a candidate should focus on is building the content on areas such as politics, economics, any specialisation they want to pursue and the major events that took place over last two years. This will act as catalyst for Group Discussion (GD) and Written Ability Test (WAT).
WAT tests not only the quality of your content, but also the writing style. To build on these two, one must read newspapers and magazines, and cover a wide variety of topics ranging across the domestic and the international circuit.
It is important to get into the habit of building opinions rather than merely collecting facts.
Practice and evaluation is the only key to cracking WAT. The following points need to be kept in mind while writing WAT.
- Understand and analyze the topic
- Never take a rigid stand – Give analysis on both side of the topic and then at the end show your inclination toward one side
- Follow a proper structure
- Make it Short and Simple without any flowery language
A student when prepared for WAT is automatically prepared for GD. The only thing that one needs to keep in mind is the way you put across your point and the way you communicate.
Before starting to prepare for PI, one should write a biographic sketch. This will help students to analyze themselves and will help them to answer personal questions in a much better way. One should prepare for basic questions like “Introduce yourself”, “Why do you want to do MBA?”, “Why a particular specialisation?”, “Short-term and Long-term goal” and other personal questions. The confidence shown and the content covered while answering such questions will drive the course of the interview.
Shortlist the B-Schools before they shortlist you!
Study the placements records, ROI, alumni network and specialisation that the B-school provides.
For example, FMS is considered as best B-school when it comes to ROI. If one wants to specialise in HR then XLRI and TISS are considered to be India’s best B-school. Similarly, branding and communication goes with MICA. In today’s world where B-schools are charging sky-rocketing fees it essential to understand ROI. If the fees is Rs. 12,00,000 excluding boarding and lodging charges and average placement is Rs. 6,00,000 then ROI will be worst as compared to if the fees Rs. 6,00,000 and average placement is Rs. 4,50,000. Don’t run after better average salary. Look for better ROI and for better placements in terms of profile. Also the most important thing would be to do an MBA from the college where your interest lies and not from the college which gives you a good average salary.
What if your CAT score is not enough to get in your dream B-school?
Don’t be disheartened. It’s part and parcel of life. Many students wait for a year before get in their dream B-school. Usually, students do their MBA from whichever college they get in. Some of them never do their MBA. It’s always better to have an MBA degree on your resume instead of not having one. So, even if your CAT scores are not good this year wait for a year to get in a good B-school, provided you have time to wait for a year!! If not then there are many exams which are yet to come such as CMAT, CET, ATMA and MAT. Appear for these exams and do your MBA this year itself.
If you are planning to wait for a year then make sure that you have a relevant work experience to go in with a bang next year. Also try to make your resume versatile, may be by working with an NGO, doing some diploma course relevant to the specialisation that you want to pursue.
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The CMAT Exam Paper Pattern
The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT), a national MBA entrance exam conducted by AICTE, is held in January.
Paper Pattern for last conducted AICTE CMAT exam:
CMAT is a test of 180 minutes duration. There are four sections; Quantitative Techniques and Data Interpretation, Logical Reasoning, Language Comprehension and General Awareness. The total number of questions was 100, with 25 questions in each section. Each correct answer is awarded 4 marks and there is 1 mark penalty for every wrong answer. Also, there was no sectional time limit. So, one can spend less time on strong areas and could devote more time on weak areas to boost their overall score.
Tips: Majority of the questions in Quantitative techniques and Logical Reasoning could have been solved by using options. In majority of the cases, options were very abstract and not relevant to the questions or could have been eliminated from the given condition.
Quantitative Techniques & Data Interpretation Section:
The Section is relatively easy and questions are asked from almost every module.
These were the topics on which questions were based in one of the slot and may not be the exact replica throughout all the slots.
| Topics | No. of Questions |
| Number System – Last Digit, Algebraic Equation, HCF, LCM | 6 |
| Algebra – Linear Equation, Inequation | 2 |
| Percentage and Ratio – Successive Percentage Change, Alligation, Simple & Compound Interest, Ratio, Mixture. | 4 |
| Geometry – Equilateral Triangle, Angle of Elevation, Coordinate Geometry, Area of Triangle | 3 |
| Modern Maths –Permutations & Combination, Probability, Time & Work, AP & GP, Set Theory | 7 |
| Data Interpretation | 2 |
| Data Sufficiency | 1 |
One should focus on questions based on number properties, percentage and its application and time and work.
Difficulty: Easy to Average
Good attempts: 20+ questions with 90% accuracy.
Logical Reasoning:
In this section, there are individual questions unlike other entrance exams, where you find set based questions. The caselets are very lengthy. If one has read the question first and then the caselet, he could get answer by reading first few points and eliminating the options.
These were the topics on which questions were based in one of the slot and may not be the repeated throughout all the slots.
| Topics | No. of Questions |
| Family Relationship | 1 |
| Linear Arrangement | 2 |
| Circular Arrangement | 2 |
| Matrix Arrangement | 4 |
| Groups and Conditionalities | 6 |
| Binary Logic | 1 |
| Data Sufficiency | 1 |
| Number Series | 1 |
| Conclusion | 2 |
| Course of Action | 1 |
| Assumption | 2 |
| Logical Set Theory | 2 |
Difficulty: Easy to Average
Good attempts: 22+ questions with 85% accuracy.
Verbal Section:
This section tested more on reading skills as majority of the questions were inferential or based on reasoning, which ideally takes more time per question as compared to other management entrance exams. Presence of 12 RC questions could make a difference for some students if they are not well prepared.
| Topics | No. of Questions |
| 3 Reading Comphrension (250-400 words) | 12 |
| Paragraph Jumble | 2 |
| Paragraph Jumble | 1 |
| Fact –Inference – Judgment | 2 |
| Fill in the Blanks (cloze test) | 4 |
| Fill in the Blanks (single blank) | 1 |
| Analogy | 1 |
| Synonyms | 1 |
| Grammar | 1 |
Difficulty: Easy to Average
Good attempts: 20+ questions with 80% accuracy.
General Knowledge:
This section is the differentiator for high scoring students. The focussed was more inclined towards Static GK which covered topics from History, Science, Politics, Astronomy, Author, Slogan, Economics etc. Current Affairs questions were based on Olympics, Oscar Award, Politics, Merger and Acquisition etc. If one would have read front page of the newspaper over last two years or focused on major events across the world then questions based on current affairs would have been a cake walk.
Difficulty: Easy to Average
Good attempts: 12+ questions with 90% accuracy.
All the best!!
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How To Prepare For MAT 2016 And Crack it!
Management Aptitude Test (MAT) is around the corner as the entrance test is scheduled to be held on 04 September and 10 September 2016. AIMA (All India Management Association) conducts MAT Exam four times, every year. It is a renowned MBA Entrance Examination of the nation that has been opted by lakhs of aspirants to get admission in premium Management Institutes/ Colleges.
Being the most sought after exam, the competition level is also very high; hence, aspirants have to put their best to attain good marks.
Get Every Bit of MAT 2016 Exam Pattern
| S.No | Test Name | Number of Questions | Suggested Time (in min.) |
| 1 | Language comprehension | 40 | 30 |
| 2 | Mathematical skills | 40 | 40 |
| 3 | Data Analysis & Sufficiency | 40 | 35 |
| 4 | Intelligence & Critical Reasoning | 40 | 30 |
| 5 | Indian and Global Environment | 40 | 15 |
| Total | 200 Questions | 2 hours 30 minutes |
To every correct answer, 01 marks will be awarded, however, for every wrongly-marked answer, 0.25 marks will be deducted.
How to Prepare for Mathematics, and Data Analysis & Sufficiency?
The trickiest section of the MAT Paper is Mathematics, and Data Analysis & Sufficiency. On total, both sections have 80 questions that candidates have to solve in 75 minutes. More emphasis and critical practice schedule are required to crack them. The topics that include in the section are numbers, modern math, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, etc. Follow the mentioned tricks to get most out of them.
- Make notes. Practice as much you can from NCERT Mathematics Books of 06th -10th Standard
- Write all shortcuts and formulae and read them at least thrice in a week
- Do SWOT Analysis for yourself i.e. know your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats and prepare accordingly
How to Prepare for Intelligence & Critical Reasoning and Indian and Global Environment?
Daily practice is required to improve reasoning skills whereas to enhance the Indian and Global Environment, read the newspaper daily.
How to Prepare for Language Skills?
The section includes questions on antonyms and synonyms, fill in the blanks (double, prepositions-based, clause), jumbled paragraphs, and analogies. In this section, a total of 40 questions have to be solved in 30 minutes. So, do remember that you have less than a minute to answer each question.
- Enhance your vocabulary by learning 10 new words daily
- Read as much you can. Good reading ability helps you in improving grammar skills.
Aspirants are recommended to not mark answers they are not 100% sure about. Remember there is negative marking of 0.25 marks/wrong answer.
To prepare well for each section, online and offline video lectures are available on Robomateplus. Experts provide guidance and complete assistance to crack the typical sections of the exam. Hence, download the Robomateplus now.
Structure of NMAT Paper
NMAT is an entrance test for admission into various courses of Business Management Studies in. This test is going to be conducted from 7th October 2014 to 20th December 2013. The long test window provides candidates a convenience to choose a test date based on their comfort level. This is the only test which gives an opportunity to a student to take two retakes after first attempt to improve their scores, though it is not compulsory to take a retake.
Structure of the paper
The paper pattern of the NMAT exam is more or less same every year and hence once can strategize in advance.
Every candidate who takes NMAT gets a unique but equivalent question paper. Test comprise of three sections viz; Language Skills, Quantitative Skills and Logical Reasoning. All three sections are individually timed. Language Skills has 32 questions to be attempted in 22 minutes, Quantitative Skills has 48 questions to be attempted in 60 minutes and Logical Reasoning has 40 questions to be attempted in 38 minutes. There are no negative marking in NMAT but students should note that it is important for them to perform well relative to other students in each of the 3 sections of the test as the score of each section and the overall score is used to shortlist the candidate for the second stage of the selection process.
Ideally, the candidate scores are declared in a span of 4-5 weeks after the exam. Their scores are normalised and equated to bring about parity and fairness.
Features of NMAT
- NMAT is more student-friendly as you can decide the order of the sections you like to attempt. Although, once you select the section and start the test, you cannot change the order midway.
- Each section is time bound but you can end your section before the schedule time. However, this time would not be added in the next section.Also the candidates are allowed to take breaks during the exam. These breaks are time bound which means that the timer keeps on running. In other words, if you manage to finish a section before the scheduled time, you can utilize that time for your break.
- Initially, you cannot review all questions at one go. You can review all questions only when you have reached the last question in that particular section. This means you cannot jump directly to the last question or in that case to any other question. You can go to previously seen questions by clicking previous button.
- When you start a group question, you don’t know how many questions that set has. This makes planning of attempts difficult.
- Highlighting the text in RC and DI is not allowed, so finding relevant data may become difficult. So, you need practice NMAT RC accordingly.
Difficulty Level
The overall difficulty level of the NMAT exam is average. However, the time constraint makes it difficult. NMAT is more about your speed than accuracy (though accuracy is also important). Since there is no negative marking, you should ideally attempt all 120 questions within the two hours, which leaves you with one minute for each question. One should really focus on your speed and time management in the NMAT exam while practicing the mocks.
Language skill
This section has two RC passages (300-400 words) with 4-5 questions each and has a good blend of reasoning to inferential to direct questions. You need to strengthen your grammar and vocabulary skills. Grammar questions are easy; simply need to apply basic rules. If you know words that you would find in novels or magazines or newspaper columns that will NOT help you to solve synonyms and antonyms based questions. You need to be really good at it. This section also has questions based on fill-in-the-blanks (double, clause and preposition based), paragraph jumble. Ideally one needs to solve only one RC and then focus on rest of the questions and leave one RC for the end, if time permits.
Difficulty: Easy to Average
Good attempts: 24-26 questions with 80% accuracy and remaining questions as blind attempts.
Quantitative skill
This section consisted of Data Interpretation (DI), Data Sufficiency (DS) and Quantitative Aptitude (QA) questions. Questions in QA are generally asked from almost every topic and are comparatively easier few tricky one. You should ideally attempt all QA and DS questions first and then if time permits solve DI questions as DI questions are very lengthy and time consuming with close options. Also you should look at elimination of options if possible and then attempt that question.
Difficulty: Average to Difficult
Good attempts: 33-35 questions with 80% accuracy and remaining questions as blind attempts.
Logical Reasoning
About 10-12 questions are based on verbal reasoning (Conclusion, Inference, Assumption, Syllogism and strong & weak argument). If you have the basic idea about questions pertaining to arrangement, coding decoding, numerical grids, direction based, series, sequential input output etc. topics which are part of logical reasoning than this section would be a cake walk. Also, this section can actually act as a booster to your overall score if your speed is very good. It is advisable to should stay away from Input-Output questions as in NMAT most often these questions take quite a lot of time.
Difficulty: Easy to Average
Good attempts: 30-32 questions with 80% accuracy and remaining questions as blind attempts.
Strategy
One should have the target in mind before practicing the mocks. If the trend of difficult papers continues, then the cut-off would be more or less the same. Following are the last year’s cut-off:
| Course | Overall | Quant | Logic | Verbal |
| Core MBA/MBA Banking/MBA Capital Market/MBA HR (Mumbai Campus) | 209 | 74 | 61 | 55 |
| Pharmaceutical MBA (Mumbai Campus) | 169 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Bangalore and Hyderabad Campus | 200 | 70 | 55 | 55 |
Always aim at around 220 marks overall, which should be ideally possible if you plan your paper properly and practice your mocks accordingly.
VERY IMPORTANT
Avoid last minute hassle and ensure that you carry each of the following:
- a) Primary ID
- b) Secondary ID
- c) Admit card
- d) Confirmation Email
- e) Photocopy of primary ID.
CBSE IX English D 1 Villa For Sale Module 02 Demo Videos
Hey, friends, come on, come back to our Villa for Sale. And you know what happened. She wants a break between nine and twelve noon the next day.
From nine till noon?
And she questions why.
They have asked me to play in a film at the Joinville Studio.
You are going to act for the cinema?
That’s surprising for the owner.
Yes, madame.
What kind of part are you going to play.
What are you going to play she says.
A maid, madame. They prefer the real article.
Real article real person.
You mean to say that they actually are so conscious there that they wanted a maid to play a maid.
Right, a real maid, right, they don’t want to make somebody as a maid. She says…
They say maids are born, maids not made maids. They are giving me a hundred francs a morning for doing it.
And here they say they feel that maids are born maids, maid not made maids. So maids are not made maids but they are born maids for they feel, you can try the tongue twister.
Now she says, One hundred francs, that’s surprising actually.
Yes, madame. And as you only pay me only 400 a month I can’t very well refuse can I, madame.
A hundred francs, it is unbelievable.
Right, it is hundred francs a morning only for three hours, that’s unbelievable.
Will you permit me, madame, to tell you something, I have suddenly thought of.
Permit allow me to say something.
What?
Which is what is it.
They want a cook in the film as well, they asked me if I knew of anybody suitable. You said just now, madame, that times were hard. And…she adds, would you like me to get you the engagement.
Kids, times were hard, let’s look at that, times were hard, it is a difficult financial condition, a bad financial condition, and engagement, it’s work, the maid is offering work to the owner. And she says…
What?
See that’s crazy.
Every little helps, madame, especially, madame, as you have such a funny face.
Thank you.
Okay, here she says thank you for saying no thanks I don’t want the job. But the maid takes no notice, she says.
They might take you on for eight days, madame, that would mean eight hundred francs.
And she says…
Its really money for nothing, you would only have to peel potatoes, one minute and make an omelette the next, quite easy. I could show you how to do it, madame.
Here the maid is actually teaching the owner how to work and giving her a job offer. And she says…
How kind of you. But thank God I am not quite so hard up as that yet. I am not in such a bad condition, I don’t need all this.
Right, I am not so broke that I have to do such kind of hard work.
Oh, madame, I hope you are not angry with me.
And now, kids, during those days, she says…
Not in the least.
Yes, and during those days, people would look at acting as a poor business, not a very good act. And now she says…
You see, madame, film acting is rather looked up around here, everybody wants to do it.
Looked up to, a respected profession nowadays. And everybody wants to do it.
Yesterday the butcher didn’t open his shop, he was being shot all the morning.
Are you comparing me to a butcher?
Butcher you mean someone who actually cuts meat, right, he cuts meat. He didn’t open his shop, he was actually being shot all days, so she is saying that everybody wants to do it.
And today nobody could find the four policemen, they were taking part in Monsieur Milton’s fight scene in his new film.
Monsieur Milton, Monsieur in French means mister or sir.
It is a French word, right, it is monsieur. Now four policemen were vanished.
Nobody thinks about anything else round here now. You see they pay so well.
That must be the perk of living in Joinville, Hollywood.
Yes, everybody gets an opportunity to act. And here she adds…
The manager is offering a thousand francs for the real beggar who has had nothing to eat for two days.
Okay, a beggar, you see she says that some people have all the luck even a beggar has all the luck. Think it over, madame. Think about it.
Thanks I will.
Crazy isn’t that.
If you would go and see them with your hair slicked back the way you do when you are dressing, madame, I am sure they would engage you right away.
Slicked back, is make your hair flat and shiny with water or oil. Engaged occupy.
They will give you the work immediately.
Do you think Juliet wants this job, of course not.
Because really, madame, you look too comical.
She doesn’t stop saying it, kids, this girl’s real funny.
You look too funny, madame.
I don’t know if she is going to take it as a compliment or what.
Thank you.
Okay, now, kids, here the bell rings. Ting ton ting tong.
I am going upstairs for a moment, if that is the lady tell her I will not be long. It won’t do to give her the impression that I am waiting for her.
Right, so these are the people who have come here to buy the villa and now she is trying to say that if I appear here, it will look that I was waiting for them and I am desperate to sell the villa.
And the price will reduce further.
Right, quite smart she is.
Very good, madame.
Exit Juliet, as she runs off to open the door.
And at that time Juliet says, if I could become a Greta Garbo, well, can’t I, Oh?
And Greta Garbo is a famous Franco-Swedish actress, very, very famous in those olden days.
A second later the maid returns showing in Gaston and Jeanne. Remember we had spoken about Gaston that’s French and Jeanne. And now they come in and the maid says…
If you will be kind enough to sit down I will tell madame you are here.
Thank you, says Jeanne. And they come and sit down. The maid exits.
My dear friends, yes.
Oh, the maid is back.
The maid has exited, my dear friends, and what is going to happen now, are Gaston and Jeanne going to buy this villa, we will see you in the next module, stay tuned.
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