GMAT Mindset and Strategy - Chiranjeev's Posts

It took me 7 days of preparation to score GMAT 770, and it took me 7 years of practice after college to reach a level of fluency in spoken English that many people enter college with.

So, am I a super-intelligent guy who could score 770 with such ease? or am I a dumb guy who took 7 years to achieve what people already have right after school?

Given where I stand now, many people won’t believe that I had poor spoken English for such a long time. But trust me I had. Rather, my spoken English was so broken that I was rejected by all IIMs that had Group Discussions (that means all IIMs except IIMA, which decided to replace GDs with essays that year ). The reason for rejection was quite clear: I just wouldn’t speak anything in the GDs. Why? Because by the time I would form a sentence in my mind, the discussion had moved forward. Hindi to English translation took time ?

So. who am I of these two guys? Clearly, either I am both or I am neither.

I believe I am neither super-intelligent nor dumb. I am who I am ?

I am just a work-in-progress and so is everybody else. We don’t need to identify ourselves with our successes or failures. Both of these will always be there. We just need to strive. With diligence and faith. And when we do so, our successes will eclipse our failures!