AbhiJ wrote:
Its like saying I want to fly the plane all over the place but I won't sit in the cockpit.
Why do you think GMAT should be made easy for you or tailored for you?
How are you going to sell your point in the boardroom if you can't prepare for this test. You are going to compete with the natives and steal their jobs(euphemistically) , at least the effort should be made to beat them in their own game.
Good things don't come easy.
Just see the top CEOs Arun Sarin , Vikram Pandit , Rajat Gupta. They have reached the top against all odds. A kite rises against the wind not with it.
I like the last bit about a kite rising against the wind and not with it, that's a good motivational piece. However, to only use members of the South Asian middle and upper classes as your examples of people that have "reached the top against all odds" is unfair, when the odds are they would have studied English from an early age (and I believe in each of those cases, they did, but I could be mistaken).
I agree with the mindset of being able to surmount anything that's thrown at you, but, as a native speaker (and someone who studied the English language in college), I think dedicating as many points as the GMAT does to SC is silly, at best, for native speakers and sets non-native speakers at an unfair disadvantage. Especially when I've never received an e-mail directly from a C-level exec that wasn't riddled with capitalization/spelling/grammatical errors. You hire admins to check your copy. IMO, if you can get the point across as intended, it doesn't matter whether you remember to get rid of all your dangling participles or some other prescriptivist nonsense (see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic ... n#Problems). Business in general puts far too high a premium on English grammar, the window dressing, and doesn't nearly pay enough attention to the substance of their communication. Will learning English grammar make you less likely to be judged by your peers? Sadly, yes (the ones that actually know proper grammar, that is). But will learning English grammar make you a more compelling leader and astute business mind? No, absolutely not.
I will say, however, that the CR portion is highly relevant to office work and business life and I think that's one of the parts (perhaps the only part) that the GMAT gets right.