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Holidays or spending vacation out somewhere in a foreign land is one of the ways majority of tourists love to spend at. Spending vacation in a faraway place brings refreshment from a monotonous life. But sometimes it is not possible to spend a great amount of money on a luxurious trip and so few places that fit in your budget seem good. Vietnam is among one such place that is attracting tourists day by day. So are you up for holidays and looking forward to spend some quality time with your friends or family on a trip to Vietnam?Vietnam Visa is required for most of the foreigners for entry and exit from the three international airports of Vietnam; Da Nang, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.But one thing that you might be wondering is how to get Visa on arrival. Continue reading to know how can apply for Visa on arrival for Vietnam.How to Apply for Vietnam Visa on Arrival:Things have been made much easier now for tourists as now you don’t need to bother about getting Visas before handed. Visa on arrival has made things much easier and worry free now. You just need to follow simple steps and instructions and you are done with the process.Visa on arrival application Form: Before departure tourists are advised to arrange for Vietnam Visa. For this they need to apply online for the “Approval Letter” first. Then they receive a letter by email, and then on their passports they get Visa stamped on arriving at Vietnam Airport. This is known as “Visa on Arrival”. You get the approval letter within two days.First you have to fill up the entry and exit form. You can complete the fill up process before arriving on Vietnam’s International airport to save time. Click the link here “Visa form” to download the PDF form and then take a print out to fill up. For photo requirements see the document notes.Tourist/Business Visa: First fill out this easy ‘’application form” online. For this you will need to know at which airport you will be arriving and also the arrival date.Next through online only you will have pay the servicing fee for Visa.Then within next two days after this you will receive an email of the official Approval Letter of Vietnam Visa, issued by the Immigration Department of Vietnam.Then download and print the Approval letter. According to noted instruction on the letter arrange two (4x6) cm photos of yourself.Then bring all of these photos, Approval Letter, and the stamping fee of the Government along with any other necessary documents and passport with on your Vietnam trip.Once you arrive at the destination on your allotted Vietnam airport, you have the show the approval letter and the photo at the Immigration office.Pick up Visa at the Airport: On landing you will get to see Visa on Arrival office or landing visa counter. Then hand over the passport, copy of the approval letter, and one stamp size photo of yours.Stamping fee that you need to pay is 25 for single entry, and for multiple entry $50. Then you get back your passport along with Visa.This is how you can get Visa on arrival for Vietnam. Once all the procedures are done enjoy a lovely trip to Vietnam. The process area easy and smooth so no worries just follow the above instruction carefully and go through them as it is said, fill up the form correctly and you are all done.

Where to start.First, the insurance industry is going through a major upgrade where a lot of the past inefficiencies are being solved and ironed out.There are inefficiencies at various stages of the insurance process. I will discuss two of the major ones:DistributionWhen you buy insurance, there are three main ways to buyGo to a lead generator online that shows you multiple quotes and then sells your information to insurance agents.The Problem: no one likes being cold called and having their information sold for a profit. You have to finish up your buying process over the phone and are often tossed around between lead generator, insurance agent, and insurance carrier. An example of a lead generator is EverQuote. This is the worst experience for the customer.Go directly to a carrier website and fill out one application and get their quoted price.The Problem: First, the carrier you go to may not be a good fit and just outright deny you a quote after all your work. Second, if you want to check prices on 5 different carriers, you have to fill out five applications. This leads to entering a lot of information five times. You also don’t really have an easy way to compare what is offered in the policy and how the coverage in the five policies compare.Go directly to a brick & mortar independent insurance agency, speak with one of their agents in person or over the phone, and fill out one application and get many prices.The Problem: you may have to visit a physical office. Only open during business hours 9–5 M-F. You have to make one/multiple phone calls. That being said, this is your best option out of the three listed, because you get an experienced professional looking at what you need and shopping not just on price, but quality and value of your policy.I’m trying to create a fourth option to make the insurance buying process more efficient. My goal is to make insurance shopping as easy as buying a plane ticket:What if there was an online insurance agency that allowed you to fill out one simple form online, you submit, and they do the shopping for you with multiple carriers, never sell your information, and send you multiple insurance packages to compare from multiple carriers all crafted for your specific needs. I work only online, email, text, and chat. No picking up the phone, no going to an actual building, and no “only open M-F 9–5”. Of course you can still call or come visit us if you want to, but we realize that is a less efficient shopping process.Now on to another inefficient area of insurance…Inspection & ClaimsInspection and claims is another part of the process that is extremely expensive and inefficient, but it is harder to solve without increasing fraud. Keep in mind that around 10% of claims paid out by insurance companies are fraudulent, so you often need an experienced professional to do the inspection during the initial application of the policy and during the claims process. This is inefficient because it requires scheduling a time, having a person physically drive out to the location of the property, and spend an hour looking at the place and writing a report. This person is expensive.This process is being improved by technology in ways such as using google maps, drone imaging, and even asking the customer to take video and photos of the damage or property to be covered. However, it still has a long way to go before it is anywhere near automated.

What did you do after getting recommended from SSB?It was this day of 02nd July at SSB Bhopal when in second and last attempt I was recommended for training at OTA. Six months back, I was rejected at SSB Allahabad.When I was in the list of selected candidates, it was the biggest feeling of achievement. I had worked on it since last seven years. I had joined in the ranks of Indian Navy seven years back. After completing two years of basic training as Naval boy, I ventured onto realisation of alleviating my career from rank to Officer. I took admission for graduation as external candidate. I used to sail on board warship. I used to perform six hours duty and in next six hours of rest, I used to study for three hours and sleep for three hours. When i was in last year of the graduation, I attempted both simultaneously, the CDS exam and final year. I Passed both but got rejected in SSB. I had come to Allahabad from Andaman islands for SSB. Having been rejected, I decided not to show face to my father and went back to port Blair to be back with unit. I had one more chance . This time again I passed CDS and made it at SSB Bhopal.As I found my name in the list, I kept the happiness hidden as there were other candidates who were depressed as they could not make it.The first call I made was to my Commanding Officer. He was waiting for the news. I could hear him making announcement on PA system in unit lines about my selection. He ordered me “ Last time after you failed at SSB Allahabad, you didn't go on leave. Now proceed on two weeks leave from Bhopal. Spend time with family. After leave report at Chennai. I will have you flew in air force cargo plane to Port Blair.”I picked up my bag and left SSB centre for railway station. There was some hours left for departure of the train. It was drizzling. I went and sat in solitude at Lake Bhojtal. Closed eyes and thanked god for having bestowed on me what I dreamt. On the way, found shop selling army uniform and accessories.signNowed next day hometown of Aurangabad. Father and Mother were surprised at sudden appearance of me. I had smaller luggage. I used to always bring a defence made whiskey for father. This time I asked him to close eyes. I placed in his handIt took seconds for him to know what was it. He stood up like a young man and embraced me and started weeping. The joy of tears. The news was out in our village that someone first time is going to become officer in army. Two days later my birthday was celebrated amidst the entire village.I left after my leave was over. I reported back to Chennai. The CO had kept his promise.First time in life flew in air and that too in cargo plane.After two months, again the kind CO summoned me and asked me to pack up my bag and report to his office. He said “ I am sorry to inform you that your father has passed away. I am sanctioning you leave again. After rituals, report directly for training at OTA”. He personally dropped me at Port Blair Airport, never to be seen again later”.

The first thing you need to do is set up your page (without writing official page on it)Do that here: Facebook PagesThe next thing you need to do is consult with an attorney to see whether or not it is a copyright or trademark infringement.Read more here: About Intellectual PropertyLet's say you determined that the issue is due to a trademark infringement. You will then need to report it:How can I resolve a trademark dispute on Facebook?Submitting a claim of trademark infringement is a serious matter with potential legal consequences.Before you report a claim of trademark infringement to us, you may want to signNow out to the person who posted the content. You may be able to resolve the issue simply by bringing it to their attention without contacting Facebook at all.If you wish to submit a claim of trademark infringement to Facebook, you can fill out this online form. You don’t need a Facebook account to submit a report. If you’re not sure whether the content you’re reporting is infringing your legal rights, you may want to seek legal guidance.If you choose to submit a report, please be prepared to include a complete trademark claim. Source: Reporting Trademark InfringementsTo do that, you will need to fill out this form: Reporting a Violation or Infringement of Your RightsAfter clicking through a few times, choose what best suits your issue.After that, more drop downs come about so you will have a lot more information to fill out:Once that is complete, Facebook will make a Help ticket and in about a month or so, they will make a decision on what to do. In most cases, they will take down the other pages if it indeed does violate copyright/trademark.If after a month, things are still not resolved, you can always contact the ads team to track progress at this page:Facebook Advertising Help, Tips & Support

It comes down to:What does the college cost (tuition, room, board, fees) and what is your Expected Family Contribution (EFC)?You can get a hand hold on your EFC by sitting down with your parents and filling out the FAFSA online (free):   FAFSA: Apply for Aid  The general total cost for college, in my experience, is:Private college:    $60,000 per yearPublic college:  Out of state   $40,000 per yearPublic college:  In state        $25,000 per yearI have included $13,000 to cover room and board and nominal expenses per school year.  I would assume that you have already saved some money, which should be about $4,000.    Then you have four summers (before and during college) to make (net) another $4000 each.    So, at best, you could amass $20,000 towards a four year college education, your self. At Best, you could make $4,000 per year while working During the school year (both terms).  That is another $16,000.So, at best, you will be able to put $36,000 towards your bachelors degree.Since the least expensive starting option is $100,000 that leaves you $64,000 short......Now, if you are a straight-A student with good SAT scores, then many public colleges will provide some merit scholarships.  Similarly with private colleges.    However, the best an out-of-state public college will typically do is to treat you as "in-state", which is still $100K.Without living at home, it is unlikely you can get the price down to less than $18,000 per year.Now let us factor in your EFC:   If your total family income is less than $80,000 per year, and you get into Harvard, it is likely you will go for free.To determine that, you need to find the Net Price Calculator at each college in which you are interested.  Harvard:  Net Price CalculatorMIT:     MIT - Student Financial Services    Stanford:   Net Price CalculatorIf you did step 1 (fill out the FAFSA with your parents and printed out the data afterwards), then using the net price calculators will be easy.  These are only Estimates.You will rapidly learn that many places, like MIT, will still require you to either earn $6,000 during the school year (and we estimated $4,000 at best) or take a Federal Stafford Loan.So, if you need aid, Most colleges (most) will "Require" you to take a Stafford loan from the federal government.Therefore, unless you win some special outside scholarship (and the college does Not deduct that scholarship from any they might award to you), if you need financial aid, you will typically graduate with $27,000 in loans.  Period.One way to beat this a bit is to:   Live at home and attend a Community College for two years getting an AA degree.  Do this in your state after checking for pre-arranged agreements with the flagship public university in your state.   Then if you get a GPA in excess of 2.5 at the CC, you can immediately start junior year at the public university.  That should reduce the total four year cost to close to $55,000 or less.  If you get Straight As at the CC, you might be able to get this down to $46,000 or less, before your EFC is factored in.I hope this provides you with a bit of guidance.There are lots of books and web sites that entice you with options to go to college for "free", but many of those books and web sites are merely trying to take money away from you.Sit down at length with your high school guidance counselor and with your parents and work through all of this.All the best.

MF Utility is a initiative by Association of Mutual Fund Houses. This MF Utility provides a single platform for investing across different Mutual Fund Houses. Currently supporting 25 fund houses, both retail investors and distributors get online access. Most of the top fund houses are supported by MF Utility and rest fund houses would be supported in future.Advantages for Retail investors: Single platform to do transactions, portfolio management, payments etc. These facilities are provided by platforms like FundsIndia, scripbox, zipsip, any banking broker and many others. The key difference between MF Utility and others is that the other platforms will not let retail investors pick direct plans whereas with MF Utility you can choose direct plans also. I have seen that the banking brokers and other online platform do not provide good service on suggestion (Just my view as I did not get any good service from them. All the time, I end up doing all the research). Hence it makes sense for us to not pay brokerage and enjoy the advantage of lesser expense ratio.Advantages for Distributors: There are lot of distributors out in this world who would genuinely care for their investors. They can use the MF Utility platform to make single payment using their service of payetz. Using MF Utility one can make payments for multiple fund houses in a single transaction. For distributors MF Utility has greatly reduced the paperwork. I understand you to be a retail investor so I will not elaborate more on advantages to Distributor. If you happen to be a distributor please let me know so I could detail more on this as there are more facilities and convenience provided to distributor.How it works: Every Investor or combination of investor would be allocated with a Common Account Number (CAN). All the transactions would be carried out using this CAN.How to get CAN: Download the CAN form from the mf utility website (mfuindia.com), fill it and submit to any POS. Alternatively you can fill the form online and send it to their office in Thane through post. Kindly note, their pin code has been changed from 400607 to 400610. They have not updated this information everywhere.The address of MF Utility office isMF Utilities India Pvt Ltd.  CIN: U74120MH2013PTC242939  103-105, Orion Business Park  Ghodbunder Road  Kapurbawdi  Thane (W) – 400 610  Maharashtra, IndiaLet me know if you would like me to elaborate on any section of my response.

Great question, because while all four services can be used to start a business, they each come at it from completely different directions, and therefore do different things.As the CEO of Gust, I obviously am not a disinterested party, but let me take a crack at describing the four different approaches. (By the way, these are all reputable services, have all helped many companies get started, and can all provide you with value, depending on what you're looking for.)LawTrades is a referral service that provides useful background information and educational materials on starting up a business, connects you with experienced, cost effective, attorneys, and then gets out of the way. You fill out an online form indicating what you want legal help with, and LawTrades returns a price quote from one of the attorneys in its network. Once you accept it, you deal directly with the attorney on that matter. Because of this, the attorney can help incorporate you as a C Corp or an LLC, in Delaware or any other state, and do as much or little of the paperwork and process as you are interested in paying for.Clerky is an online solution for automated legal paperwork for startups. Intended as an alternative to engaging an attorney, the site requests information from you, fills out the forms needed to set up a company as a Delaware C corporation, and then passes them to a third party partner in Delaware to file them with the state and serve as your Registered Agent. Additional optional services include post-incorporation paperwork and Foreign Qualification in your home state.Stripe Atlas is a service of Stripe, the online payment processing company. Designed initially for international founders seeking to set up a US corporation, it is beginning to expand to US founders, but requires you to apply and be accepted. Similar to Clerky, it fills out the paperwork and submits it through a partner Registered Agent in Delaware for filing. But it then goes a number of steps further, arranging to open a bank account for the newly formed company, setting up a payment processing account with Stripe, and providing access to some optional startup services, including a library of legal forms and startup credit for online web hosting.What all three of these offerings have in common is that they are one-time, transactional services designed to simplify the company formation process. Costs for all them will fall somewhere in the range of $500–$1500 (depending on which one, and which optional services you choose.) When you complete the process, you will be incorporated and sent off into the world, ready to move on by yourself knowing that you are starting with a clean corporate structure.Gust Launch is something completely different. Rather than a one-time transaction, it is an ongoing SaaS platform that is actually a Company as a Service™. With Gust Launch, all of the company formation services described above (and quite a bit more) are effectively thrown in at no cost, included in an ongoing services platform that will function as the legal, financial, accounting and operating backbone of your company, from before you start until your eventual exit.At a cost as low as $300, Gust incorporates you as a Delaware C Corp (directly; Gust itself is a Delaware Registered Agent), files with the IRS for your tax ID, files your Foreign Qualification in your home state, handles all of your post incorporation legal setup, opens your bank account, establishes your cap table online, and provides the ongoing legal document services necessary to keep everything accurate, coordinated and investor-ready.When you’re ready to start full operations, additional modules can be added on to provide exactly the functionality you need, from introductions to top tier lawyers who will provide you with one free hour of legal services each month to all of the financial setup and operations for a pre-revenue company, and eventually to the accounting, payment processing, billing and bookkeeping needed for revenue-generating companies.By establishing and maintaining your startup on a standardized, auditable, managed platform for all of its legal, equity, accounting and financial needs, the effect of Gust Launch is to prepare and support the company for growth, scalability and an eventual exit.

This answer is fairly long, about 7000 words. So I have divided my answer into 9 parts wherein each part can be read independently. However reading the entire answer in one go will serve as RC practice, so that would be advisable.What I have mentioned below helped me in my journey from 66% -> 99.85% in CAT. I have tried my level best to be as detailed as possible. GK as a section is not there in CAT as of now but is very important in the other papers like XAT, IIFT, SNAP, etc. So, I have included that as well. I have also put in a little bit about how to attempt mocks and then analyse them to improve further. A little bit on GD-PI-WAT as well, so that this answer serves all your needs.I would like to point out that I have been an average student all my life and am a GEM (General Engineer Male), yes pun intended. My 10/12/B.Tech scores are 83/79/66. With that I made it to IIM Calcutta, so the first thing that you should now do is stop worrying about your previous grades. 99% of the people reading this will surely have better grades. So, if I can you obviously can get through and study at an IIM.My CAT 2015 score card:QA: 99.8%LRDI: 99.96%VA: 87.33%OA: 99.85%This answer is divided into the following parts:A.) How to start?B.) QA -> Quantitative AbilityC.) LRDI -> Data Interpretation and Logical ReasoningD.) VA -> Verbal AbilityE.) GK -> General KnowledgeF.) How to attempt mocks? (Non-CAT exams at the end)G.) How to analyse mocks?H.) Study Material and mocks from which institute?I.) GD-PI-WAT prepA.) How to start CAT prep?Register at any site which lets you attempt and review a mock for free. You could try hitbullseye. If you have already enrolled for a test series or for a classroom programme, then attempt one of their mocks. Many of you would be like bhai abhi toh padhai start bhi nahi ki, mock deke kya hoga aur upar se aadhe questions toh samajh bhi nahi aayenge aur maths ke formula bhi yaad nahi hain. Additionally while attempting the mock, there will be multiple instances when you will feel like getting up because you are not used to solving questions for 3 hours at a stretch. Your brain will also try to deceive you into grabbing your smart phone for checking Whatsapp. You will feel like drinking water, you will also be tempted to check FB. The point of this test is to make sure that all this doesn’t happen when you actually attempt CAT. Now you would be thinking what is the point in attempting a mock when I don’t know $hi+.Precisely my point! The main reason for this mock was to identify what you know, what you don’t, where you stand and how much hard work is required.Once you are done with the mock, check the solutions and find the topics which you already know, which you attempted correctly. Some problems would have been there which you would have been sure of but you got them wrong because you were out of touch and forgot the formula or recalled an incorrect formula. You probably forgot the plural of fish. Fish or fishes? Or does it depend on whether I am talking about a species of fish or multiple units of the same species? Then you will realise that a little brush up of a few topics (which you are out of touch with) will dramatically improve your score. Work on these topics first and then move on to topics which you have no clue about. This mock decides your future course of study.Now, on to the preparation phase.B.) QA -> Quantitative AbilityStart off with this site. http://arithmetic.zetamac.com/Click on start and then check your score. You know where you stand. Keep practising a few times every day and your score will keep improving. If you can hit 50-55 consistently in the default 120 seconds, you will easily hit 99.5% in CAT in this section. If you are targeting 99.5+ then I would also like you to memorise the following:B1.) Reciprocals, Squares and Cubes up till 30. Pay attention here, some values will get repeated. As for 1/7. Remember that it is .142857. For other go up to 2-3 decimals,whatever you are comfortable with. I would prefer 3 decimals though.B2.) Power of 2 up till 12Power of 3 up till 8Power of 4 up till 6Power of 5-6 up till 5Power of 7-10 up till 4Power of 11-13 up till 3Again same as above. Some values will be the same. 4^6 has already been covered till 2^12 and so on. Don’t just mug up blindly, pay attention to the numbers.B3.) Square Root up till 10B4.) Factorial up till 10B1-B4: Now most of you would be like, dude they give an inbuilt calculator. But then other exams don’t have that calculator. Additionally who do you think will take lesser time in solving a question? A person who uses the calculator for finding 12^3 or someone who just knows it is 1728. Believe me when I say that this is very important for your LRDI section as well. This will decide whether you get stuck at 99.5% or go beyond that. This is the deciding factor. Please memorise these values.B5.) A few important numbers like 999=27*37, 1001=7*11*13, 21^3=9261.B6.) Some numbers have the property wherein the sum of the factorial of the digits is equal to the no itself. 1, 2, 145 and 40585. Please remember these.B7.) There are 15 primes till 50, 25 till 100, 46 till 200 and 168 till 1000.B8.) How to find the sum of the first n natural nos. Sum of squares of n natural nos. Sum of cubes, sum of 4th powers. Please remember the formulas. Specially the last one (fourth power), most people forget that.B9.) Scale is not allowed in any of the exams. What the CAT authorities mean is that the scale which we used back in school that is not allowed. They never said anything about using your hand as a scale. Check the length of your fingers. Also check the length of the 3 sub division on your fingers. Use your right or left hand, whatever suits you. Please make sure that you remember these values by heart. These values will help you solve 90% of the geometry questions. Also, buy a protractor and make sure you can make the angles 30, 45, 60, 90 properly. First with the protractor and then without it. Based on the question, make a rough figure. Then based on your lengths, find the answer and then scale up to the value given in the question. Geometry has a lot of formulas, memorize them or use this approach. Approximation ftw!B.10.) Unitary Method. Make sure you are good with this, half the QA syllabus can be solved using unitary method. Do you think whatever has been mentioned in B9 is basically Unitary Method at the end for getting the answer?Most of the students go for solving the maximum no of problems. Don’t do that. Focus on the basics, don't go for solving questions directly like most students. Most students don’t score 99+. You are different, work differently. This is how you should be doing it for any given chapter day wise. First day go after the formulas and try to understand why a certain formula is there. Make sure that you have memorised all the formulas for that chapter. If you were to set the paper, what could be a possible question? Read a formula, try to frame questions on that formula and then memorize the formula. Just memorizing all formulas in one go won't help, because you will probably forget. If you can do this, then you would have solved all the questions by the time you finish reading the theory.Example: Let's say you are studying Numbers. You see the formulas for HCF and LCM of 2 nos. Then you see the factors of a number. Now think of possible questions on this. Let's say 72.1.) How many odd factors are there?2.) How many even factors are there?3.) What is the sum of the odd factors?4.) What is the sum of the even factors?5.) What is the product of the odd factors?6.) What is the product of the even factors?7.) How many factors are squares of natural numbers?8.) How many factors are cubes of natural numbers?Good going, you just completed half the chapter! Similarly think of more questions that you can make. The exercise at the end is filled with such questions. It depends on your thinking. Focus on this. If basics are fine,questions won't be a problem.Would you memorize 456*876 and 235*9865 and things like that or learn how multiplication works?If you think that you lack imagination when it comes to maths and can’t do the above, then no problem. As mentioned above, by the end of the first day you would be done with memorising all the formulas. That’s it. Don’t solve anything. Just make sure all the formulas are deeply rooted in your brain and you can recall them anytime you want. Now take a break for a day. On the 3rd day, start solving problems. But remember that you are to solve by recalling the formula not by turning over the pages and looking at the formula. If you cannot recall, then please make sure you memorize the formulas again. Solve a few problems. Take a day’s break and continue solving on the 5th and similarly on the 7th day as well. This way apart from the formula getting imprinted in your brain multiple times, you will also understand which formulas are asked more often than others. Some chapters are connected to one another. Make groups of such chapters. If working on a group, try to complete all the topics in that group. For example:Ratio Proportion, Unitary Method, Percentage, Profit and Loss.Simple equations, Simultaneous equations, Inequalities, Time speed distance and work, Quadratic.Progression.Numbers, Bases, Miscellaneous equations.Surds and Indices, Logarithms.Mensuration.Geometry.Coordinate Geometry.Probability and PnC.Functions and Graphs.For people trying to clear the cut off in this section. The first 3 with mensuration and a bit of geometry/numbers will be enough.C.) LRDI -> Data Interpretation and Logical ReasoningData Interpretation is speed and practise. The site mentioned in the Quant region and B1-B4 there would be of immense help. These will increase your speed. Generally each and every DI set has at least a problem on percentage or ratio.Today when you start, start off with the sole intention of solving all the questions of a given set. When you can do that on a daily basis. Move to 2 sets a day. When you can do that. Move to 3 sets daily and then to 4 sets. Keep solving as many questions as you can. Time taken per question will decrease with practise. A few months after you were born, you started to crawl, then you started walking and finally you started running. Same thing here. Don’t think about speed now. Speed comes gradually. Let nature take its course.Logical Reasoning, as the name suggests is based on how well you can interpret and analyse things. LR checks your thought process, it checks how you tackle problems. Get this book "Puzzles" by George J. Summers. When you watch a football match, why do you watch it? Probably because you want your team to win or you want to see a good contest and enjoy. Similarly, once you have bought this book, think about your objective. It’s not about getting the correct solution, it’s about improving your thought process. And additionally the puzzles in this book are tough. You could think of it as the daddy of Irodov. Engineers will get the joke! You won’t be able to solve most of the problems and frankly speaking I don’t expect you to. However, what I do expect from you is to read a question. Try to understand what has been given. Try to understand what is being asked. Think about it for say 10-15 minutes. Write down whatever approach you can think of. If you could not solve it, look at the hints and their solution scheme. Were you thinking in the right direction?Analyse the difference between the method given in the book and your method.Try to understand what you missed because of which you could not solve the puzzle. Try again for 30 minutes. If you can solve it, good enough, if not maybe try again. After a few more tries look at the solution. Remember you bought the book to improve your thought process, not to solve each question in the first attempt. Trying a puzzle for 5 minutes and then looking at the solution will take you nowhere. Solving again and again till the time you get the answer is what the book was bought for. To make sure that you can think and get the answer on your own. The answer at the end is just for verification. 1-2 puzzles a day. 3 at max, not more than that. You have to improve your thought process,not complete the book as fast as possible. Your scores in the LR section will improve in a month’s time and then it will stay at 99%.Another very important point would be to memorize the alphabet-number conversion table. A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on. You will come across questions on this in your mocks as well as in the exams.D.) VA -> Verbal AbilityI had 69 and 72 in English in 10 and 12 respectively. My verbal score in CAT went up from 43 -> 87%. Whatever I have written below is what I did to make sure that I cleared the verbal cut off comfortably. If you are looking at a 99+verbal score, then you would be better off by reading the other answers to this question for improving your verbal section. This part is not for you kindly move on to the LRDI section. If you however $uck at English just like me, then this just might help you in clearing the sectional cut off. I tried memorizing words from the GRE word list. My language skills were not good enough to use words like persiflage, perspicuous, ubiquitous, scintillating, etc. in sentences. So, I would keep memorizing and then keep forgetting these words. I had never read novels so I had never come across such words as well. So, I came to the conclusion that memorising words won’t help me. But, a decent vocabulary is needed for CAT. So, I bought this book “Word Power Made Easy” by Normal Lewis. Managed to complete the chapters in a few months. I didn’t do the word list at the end. I would request you to buy this book and complete the chapters.Another thing that seemed obvious to me was that whether you look at RCs or Para Jumbles or Para Completion or Para Summary. All these have basically been written by some person who had a very good command over the English language. So all these things should logically have a flow of thought with which the author would have written the entire thing. You just have to understand that flow. If you can understand an RC, then understanding a paragraph from that RC will obviously be very easy for you. Think about it, a PJ or a PC or a PS are basically paragraphs taken from an RC. You just have to understand the flow in which the entire thing was written by some person who had a decent understanding of the English language. But, then I again had a problem. The Verbal section in CAT was supposed to be of 1 hour and as soon as I would start reading an RC, 8-10 minutes down the line I would feel drowsy. I would start thinking about checking FB or Whatsapp or practically doing anything apart from reading that stupid RC. All those Speed reading techniques, skimming, reading the question first and all. None of that mattered. I understood what my problem was. COMPREHENSION and CONCENTRATION. By the time I was in the 2nd para I would have forgotten what was written in the 1st para. It’s called a READING COMPREHENSION for a reason. Never trade comprehension for speed.How to improve comprehension and concentration?Both will improve gradually with time. First step is to make sure that you don’t feel drowsy when reading for an hour. You will be required to do that in the exam. So you need to build your stamina to concentrate. Start off by reading 2-3k word long articles on News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's global edition | The Guardian. Register on the website and you will get a mail every morning at 10am. Read all the articles from there. Make sure you read at a stretch for an hour. Read everything from Culture to Technology to Art to Literature. In the beginning you will feel sleepy within a few minutes of starting. Slowly you will gain rhythm. Within 15 days you will be able to read 1 hour at a stretch. In a month’s time you will start retaining information as well. Then focus on just 1 category every day. Like only Philosophy or only Art or only culture. With that your stamina and concentration will increase further and since you are reading about only 1 thing for 1 hour, your knowledge in that topic will also increase. This can be done at home, but preferably in office to better utilize your time. PJ PC PS are all extensions of an RC. All will seem easy once you are comfortable with RCs. Here News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's global edition | The Guardian you will be reading 2000-3000 word long articles. Once you are used to this, 500-600 word passages in CAT and other exams will be a piece of cake for you!For verbal, always eliminate choices and then mark rather than directly trying to find the correct answer. This section is different from the other sections,so it has to be dealt in a different manner. Please eliminate choices and then answer. If in doubt, leave. As for the grammar section, I have no idea when to use have and when to use has. Same with is/are and things like that. Neither can I spot grammatical errors in sentences. So, I mostly leave such questions.But I always read them. You can always answer a few of them based on instinct. Some sitters are always there in every paper.E.) GK -> General KnowledgeAll the papers except CAT have this section. Some have a sectional cut off,some don’t. This section can be answered in about 5 minutes. It has the highest marks/min for any section. This section is the key to a high percentile. This section will give you the points for speaking in a GD and PI and also for writing in WAT. So, if you plan on getting through to a good B-School don’t ignore it. There would be 2 methods to prepare for this.E1.) Start reading any newspaper. Go through the headlines and all. Make sure you are updated with what is happening in the country. After a week or so, you will realise that it’s mostly the same thing that keeps getting repeated everyday in the paper. Think of it from the point of view of the exam. There will be MCQs. So they won’t ask for your opinion on Kejriwal vs Modi. Leave all the pages on politics. That’s sheer wastage of time. Don’t waste time on that stuff! Make sure you remember the schemes which Mr Modi keeps rolling out. At least remember the important ones. Did any big firm buy another one? Any Indian who won some award abroad. Who won which Grand Slam? Who won the Pulitzer Prize? Who won the Arjuna Khel Ratna Award? India is working on the Chabahar port with which country? Malcom Turnbull is from which country? I think you would have understood what is expected from you. MBA is about business. Focus on economic and business news more than others. Noble Prize in economics fort his year? How many Deputy Governors are there in the Reserve Bank? Make a doc file with these details. You file would look somewhat like this.https://docs.google.com/document...This is what I had made for this year, so no this won’t help you! You will have to make one with the current affairs of this year. Since you will be working the entire year making this, so by the time the exams are a week away, you will have such a file. You might however think that this is too much work. In that case I would suggest you try the second and relatively easier method compared to this.E2.) Whichever is the first exam for you which will have a GK section, keep 4 days before that exam for making this file and memorizing it. Gather all the monthly booklets which are given to Time students. Each book has about 100 questions. Memorize the ones you think are important. CL and Time both will also have a few sheets on GK, current affairs, etc. Get those as well. CL GK compendium. Hitbullseye gk pdfs are also there. You can get most of these online for free or search on Pagalguy, someone would have uploaded it there for sure. Whatever you think is important, please memorize that. 4 days is more than enough to complete all the material I have mentioned above. By going through the monthly magazines you will also be able to keep track of what is happening in India and also round the globe.The regular reading (The first method, reading daily) means that when the exam sare about to start, you would have completed most of the things. The last 4 days will serve as a revision for you. I did both the above things. So if you have time go for it. A close friend of mine, Prateek, he was preparing for UPSC. He was of immense help! Whenever I would meet him, we would talk about how things going on in our country. Served as revision for him and I would stay updated with facts. So, if you can find someone who is preparing for UPSC religiously,i t would be great. You will also have a contact who is an IAS officer. If you want to score even higher in GK get a small yearbook from some shop. Small ones general contain 100 odd pages, going through that will serve as revision as well.F.) How to attempt mocks (Non-CAT exams at the end)The first step here is to make sure that you can sit and concentrate properly for 3 hours at a stretch. FB, Whatsapp, drowsiness, drinking water or the sudden urge to go to the washroom during these 3 hours have to be removed.Kindly take care of such things which might disturb you, especially the last 2 and then start a mock. When you are attempting the mock, the only thing in your mind should be about maximising your score! Another point that you should keep in mind in that no one cares about what you know and what you don’t. The only thing that matters is your score. So please keep your ego aside when attempting the paper. Yeh question kaise nahi bana, kal hi toh banaya tha and then you spend the next 15 mins on it and still end up marking the wrong answer. Please don’t! You have a fight with your girlfriend and then you are like “I am not texting her first”. Yes I was talking about that very ego of yours, please get rid of it when you are attempting a mock. If you can’t solve a question then please move on to the next one. The examination hall is not the place to derive a formula and then solve the concerned problem. Anyways, I could go on but I think I have made my point.Remember that half the paper is very easy, mostly formula based. Your approach should be to attempt these questions first. Make sure that you have touched the 97-98% mark and then move on to the difficult questions for improving your score.F1.) QA -> Quantitative AbilityYou are not supposed to start from question no 1 and then continue till 34. Most of the times you will not even be able to look at some of the problems in the end. So we will follow a Round by round approach. About 50% of the problems are direct formula based. When you start this section (Round 1), keep the above point in mind. So, as soon as you look at a question. Can you solve it in a minute by using a formula? If the question with a formula was given to a 5th grader, would he be able to solve it. If yes, then solve this question. Use the values given in the question, get the answer and then move on to the next question. If you see a question and you are like, yaar yeh toh banaya hua hai, 2-3 min lagega, lamba question hai. Or if you are like sirf cases likhne hain, phir count kar lunga, phir answer. Such questions which you know you can solve but are not direct formula based, are to be left out now. These have to be attempted in the 2nd round. Getting my point? If formula based, then attempt else next. Within 30 minutes you should have attempted about 16-17 questions and you would have seen all the questions. That will get you at least 97-98% in this section.Now Round 2, there were a few questions which you had seen earlier and were pretty confident about. This is where your brain will help you. The human mind is so awesome that even though you just looked at it once but solved different questions and totally forgot about it, you brain was working on that question subconsciously without you having any idea about it. Now, when you read the question, you will take a lesser amount of time to solve it compared to what you would have taken had you solved it in the first round itself. You could go for Round 3 as well, your choice! But 2 rounds are needed. Please stop with a single round method which most of you are used to now.Why this approach?Many people are most often not able to see the entire paper,so they miss sitters. This round by round technique helps you go through the entire paper and thereby select the easiest ones which in turn maximises your score. You won’t get a prize if you solve a question that only 10 students out of 2 lac could solve. The marks per question is the same. Since you solve the easier problems first, the chances of your committing mistakes goes down considerably. A question which you have solved but incorrectly is not wasted time and only a -1 for your score. Instead of 3 you get a -1. So such a question effectively hits you with lost time and a -4. This method reduces the no of such questions. Hence, this approach.F2.) DILR -> Data Interpretation and Logical ReasoningIf you have tried solving the book which I had mentioned above, you would by now have a fair idea about how to make a table for solving LR problems. 5 people, 5 countries, 5 cars, 5 pets. All of us have solved such puzzles,haven’t we? You would obviously have 4 columns but which would be the first and which would be the second, etc. That determines how fast you will be able to solve the set. Oh, you thought it didn’t make a difference? It does! Sometimes you are better off soling set theory problems by a table. This is where your practise and experience comes into play. Making the proper table means half the work is done then and there. You just have to put in the values and tick mark the correct answers now.Now about how to attempt. When you start the section, go through the 4 LR sets.1-2 sets will be very easy. Take a couple of minutes and try to identify the easier ones. Look at the questions. Do you see any question wherein it asks how many cases are possible or questions of that sort? Such sets are to be solved at the end. Look for sets wherein directly by looking at the questions, you know that there is one unique solution. Use the answer options to further reduce your time for soling that set. Now start with such sets. First advantage of this method will be that you will feel good, because you will be done with a couple of sets in 10-12 minutes. Additionally you will be in a flow and your chances of cracking a difficult set will go up. Now compare this to the case when you start the section, and think that looking at all the questions means losing a few minutes. I am James Bond, so I will start with the first set. 10 minutes later you haven’t completed a single question and now for the remaining 50 minutes you will keep thinking, yaar 10 min faaltu mein barbaad ho gaye. Good luck solving that section and the next with such a mind-set.Many a time it will happen that the set you picked up, is going nowhere and yet time is passing on. For such sets, wherein you have already spent 4-5 minutes but haven’t been able to mark even a single question. Please leave that set.You might be tempted to think sirf 2 min aur, aur phir 4 questions ban jayenge. Please don’t commit that mistake. 5 minutes is the threshold in which you should have been able to mark at least 2 questions. Worst case scenario 1. If you are at 0. Please move on. You are better off solving that set later on,preferably at home!Same with DI sets, go through the sets, select the easier ones, and complete them. You will be left off with 2 sets. Again with 2 options, it always easy to select the easier one. This way most of the times, you will end up solving the toughest set at the end or you will probably leave it. All questions have the same marks, so isn’t it better to solve easier ones? Additionally tougher problems will also take a toll on your brain, your effectiveness for the next section might go down. Do you want that to happen?Sometimes a set will be easy but a question in there will be extremely tough.Beware of such questions, these are put in place to derail your momentum. 5-7 minutes per set is what you should be looking at. Always look at the questions and attempt. You don’t have to attempt all questions from a set. Even 3 attempts for a set is fine. Again, you know the term that I am talking about!Keep that aside when attempting a mock.F3.) VA -> Verbal AbilityI get tired of reading and lose interest quickly. So RCs at the end seems a bad idea. So, I start off with RCs. Again as soon as you start this section. Glance through all the RCs in a minute and check if any of them is from a subject you like. Your reading speed and comprehension will be higher in this case. Again as mentioned above, just because you read an RC, doesn’t mean you have to attempt all the questions. Even 4 out of 6 questions from an RC is good enough. Just attempting for the sake of increasing attempts is sheer stupidity. Please don’t think ki aree yaar itne marks toh already aa hi rahe hain exam mein. Dusron ko thoda mauka de deta hun -2 leke. Please don’t do that. Eliminate options and then attempt. When in doubt leave. Move on to the single questions after the RCs.Note -> For non-CAT mocks which you attempt online.First and foremost thing is that apart from CAT, most are pen paper based, but at home you attempt online papers for these. Take a few print outs of the OMR sheet and check how many minutes you need for marking the answers. Keep a 5 min buffer for your safety. Let’s say we talk about IIFT. It’s a 2 hour paper in real. However I need 20 minutes just for marking the bubbles. So, there is absolutely no point in attempting the online paper at home for 2 hrs. Submit the test after 100 minutes. Don’t worry if people attempt for 2 hours and your rank is low. Your score in the main exam matters, not in this one. Similarly for SNAP and XAT as well. Form a basic strategy of how you would like to attempt the paper for the 100 minutes(whatever your time is after you have checked marking in the OMR sheet). Like for Snap, I had a strategy of 5-6 minutes for gk then 16-18 minutes for verbal, then 35-40 minutes for LR. Then maths and as soon as it would be 90 minutes after the start, I would mark all the answers. Then solve and again mark in the last 5 minutes. Similarly make your strategy for IIFT, SNAP, XAT, etc. and stick to it.G.) How to analyse mock?The instant you submit a mock, you will have a score in mind, itna toh banta hai. 1 sec later the page reloads and you see your score and you go, are yaar itne toh 2 section milake hi aa jane chahiye the. This is why analysing the mock is important. You knew a certain score was achievable but your score went down drastically because of silly mistakes. Analysing mocks will take care of such mistakes. Once the solutions and result for a mock are out. First of all check up all the problems which you couldn’t solve. That’s what you have to learn.Then look at the time taken by the topper in solving a question. Look at your time. Did you take 200 seconds whereas the topper took 30 seconds? That’s because there is a technique you don’t about. Learn that technique. Write it in your notebook where you write formulas. That was about identifying and learning things which the toppers know. You have to be one of them. Go through the mocks and find such methods. AdditionallyThen there will be a category of questions you were sure of but you somehow used your talent and got it wrong and after looking at the solution you are like aree yaar yeh koi kaise galat kar sakta hai. But as a matter of fact, you did! This will happen mostly in counting problems (Numbers). Even if you had 100 in English in 10 and 12 you will still come to know that you had been using some Grammar rule incorrectly or there is some exception you had no clue about. But, after a -4 you will remember them! You will sometimes come to know that a certain word which you have been using all your life can also be used in a totally different context. Thank You without an exclamation mark? Sarcasm! Oxymoron, alliteration, etc. Learn what these mean. Such mistakes will make sure you remember all these. Sometimes you will take the diameter as the radius and solve. Sometimes 2*3 will become 5 and sometimes 7*19 will become 114. Don’t rush through problems. The paper is set so as to give you enough time. Slow and steady wins the race.Then another section in the results shows the % of people who attempted a question and % of people who got it right. You are supposed to attempt the easy ones first, then the average difficulty questions. Finally attempt a few difficult ones or totally leave them out. Here you can check which questions you were supposed to attempt but didn’t. Also the questions which you were supposed to leave but being the Bond that you are, you nonetheless decided to attempt it thereby losing marks and giving others a chance to overtake you. If your family is worth billions of dollars, you could do that, but given that you are still reading this, I doubt it! So whenever you look at such questions, try to think about what was in your mind during the mock which made you do such a thing. Try not to commit the same mistake again.Yes, I agree all this will take more than 3 hours. Who told you getting into a good B-school was easy?H.) Study Material and mocks from which institute?The study material from the top 3 institutes namely Time, CL and IMS is mostly the same. I have seen and used it, so use whichever you want, it won’t make a big difference. A few new ones like Hitbullseye and test funda are also coming up. Haven’t used the material by these 2 so can’t comment. In terms of content the level of questions is higher in Time. I mean tougher questions here, so you are better prepared for CAT, but then you could also argue about why put in more effort than required. In CL, the theory and explanations for quant is way better that that in others. Theory for quant is literally non-existent in Time. IMS is good for verbal. As mentioned above, please use that book for LR and also that book for Verbal. I have not mentioned the names of the books, because if you scroll up and check you will then remember the name when you have to tell it to the shopkeeper! That LR book will help make a strong base for you and then completing the LR material from these institutes will give you practise and improve your skills further. For those who keep talking about Arun Sharma, please please please use proper material. Do you really think 1 book is good enough for your CAT preparation and others are stupid who go through all that? If you think you are smart enough and don’t need all that and 1 book is enough. Good Luck with CAT!Mocks basically tell you where you stand when compared to the toppers in the country. Time has the most no of people attempting its Aimcats. So having that is a must. Next in line, with the maximum no of people attempting the mocks would be CL. After that you have IMS, test funda and all. Aimcats are pretty tough when compared to actual CAT but are extremely important because it gives you a true picture of where you stand and how much more effort you need to put in. CL mocks are close to the CAT level especially in terms of quant. IMS mocks are close to CAT level in verbal. I would suggest Time + CL/IMS. You can however take all the 3 if you want. Or maybe some other institute’s mock series. It’s mostly about practise.The mock questions are mostly the same. It’s just the values that they keep changing every year. Same with the material. Whether you look at the material of this year or that of 5 years ago, you will realise that it’s mostly the same. So, you are better off buying old material from someone or from a secondhand book store. I have uploaded some mocks and some prep material. Here’s the link for that.https://drive.google.com/open?id...https://drive.google.com/open?id...I also found some useful material from total gadha. Here’s the link for thathttp://totalgadha.com/mod/forum/...http://totalgadha.com/mod/forum/...I.) GD-PI-WAT prepFrankly speaking, getting a score is easy. This is the tougher part. This requires more hard work because in here, you will be up against the best in the country. Most of the people attending the interviews will come prepared, so here your odds will be higher. So, please work hard for this. GDPI prep as such should be dealt with in a different question. So, won’t go into the details here, but just an over view of what is expected of you. If you had done the GK and current affairs part as mentioned above, you will be easily able to manage the WAT. You will also have ample of points for speaking in a GD. Similarly questions on current affairs in a PI will also be a piece of cake for you. What remains is the HR part. In here, you have to understand that you can guide the interview and you can force them to ask exactly what you have prepared. But that requires a little thinking. Tell me about yourself is a standard question which is used to initiate an interview. It is mostly followed by your strengths and weaknesses. The main thing here is that you have to try to make a story and link everything that you have done in your life till now with why you want to do an MBA. The interviewers are smart people, they have been doing this for years. They are extremely good at catching liars. So think this through well. This part of your prep needs your utmost dedication and hard work. Prepare your answers properly. It is really tough to explain how to prepare for GD-PI. You will be better off at some institute where someone can guide you individually. However, what I can still do is upload all the GDPI material that I have and share it with you. But do keep one thing in mind, this contains some files on the current affairs of 2015, so that will be of no use for you. The other stuff is pretty much relevant. Here’s the link for that.https://drive.google.com/open?id...I hope you convert your dream college. May the force be with you!

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