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Hi all,
A disclaimer/ personal info: I am an Indian, working as a Design Consultant at TATA (not Tata Consultancy Services) and have a Master's from Purdue University USA (which means scored well in GRE with a 316) and Bachelors from NIT Raipur in India. I am smart, good looking and egotistical. I believed that there are good things to be done once you get to the upper echelon of impact driven companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Politics (also a company these days). But after reading about the skulduggery involved at the top in both governments and companies in developed as well as developing countries, I doubt whether you scoring high on the GMAT and becoming a cog in the wheel of a big company would change anything. I believe in earning money, and the ethical ways of earning it, but I neither support the teachers nor the troops.
So, how should I start this post. Maybe with a motivation quote from an obscure German philosopher. Maybe an anecdote of how I broke up with my soon to be partner to go in the woods and study for GMAT. Or the best of all - by Thanking "usernames" on GMAT club, who solve the question without explaining the process or understanding that the other person might be pulling his/ her hair apart seeing the response.
My post is not for the 720+ scorers. Those who got that score, you deserved it, great job. But have you ever answered the simple question of "What has really changed in this world with the countless people getting the 720+ before me". I bet 99.9% of you cannot pin-point one person who has done something palpable in this world, and who also happens to be a 760 scorer.
My post is for the people who are scoring less than < 700 or for those who don't want to play this mindless game coordinated by GMAT and the Universities, especially those in the US. I have attended one of the top schools in the US, and have participated in all types of career enhancing activities, e.g. career fairs, job fairs, which the Universities market as being of great help to students (both US and International) and which many Indian and Chinese students attend thinking that standing in the line with 100 other students will get them placed at one of the top companies in US, i.e. Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc. to name a few.
Do you hate the GMAT and see every second of your only life, maybe the prime of your life, i.e. when you are between 27 - 30 yrs of age, ticking away sitting in your room with a pen, a notebook and a wall to stare? If your answer is "Yes", then read the story below, or else go ahead and rat this post to the moderator who will take it down because its the truth that the prep companies associated with the GMAT Club don't want to see.
My GMAT story:
I am not going to bore you as the rest of the stories do talking about when I started thinking of GMAT, when I really thought of taking it, when I was working too hard that I couldn't focus on the preparation, when my lazy cat died and I wasted my time praying for a place with him in hell, so we both could play a tag team ping pong with Lucifer and Bill Clinton...
All I want you to take from my story is:
[*] Just keep going with whatever you are doing, because everybody eventually figures it out. If you are scoring under 700, try to find "why". Work on those questions and simply HOPE that you don't see a question different from the one you perfected or else you will have a new doubt, but at this time it will be in the real exam.
You will eventually figure out how to get to 700+. Until then, shut up from inside in a closed room and keep solving questions.
[*] Get over the Quality vs Quantity debate on how many questions should one solve. It is different for everyone, and nobody really knows. If your life for 3 or 6 or 9 months or 1 year becomes solving meaningless Critical Reasoning questions with a logic that is so flimsy that it vanishes as soon as you answer the question and a logic that is never used in the real world unless (or maybe 95% of CR is not used in everyday world even as a manager), enjoy the Suck. Just do what you have to do answer one more Bold Faced question, one more SC question about Parallelism, one more Quant DS question about Triple sets, and hope that you only get the topics whose doubts you have perfected and not some new doubts that your dumb mind cannot solve.
[*] Shut off from the world. Don't be able to contribute anything to a conversation about what's happening in the world. During your prep, if you don't know how to talk to people about anything apart from stuff such as why you are not getting the DS questions about Permutations and Combinations correct, then you are making progress in building the GMAT mind! More suckage.
[*] Hate yourself for not getting a question correct or for scoring low, but don't kill yourself during the preparation.
I am glad the countries that I lived in during my preparation such as UK and India have a No Gun policy or else, I would have had to write this post from the cloud.
A disclaimer/ personal info: I am an Indian, working as a Design Consultant at TATA (not Tata Consultancy Services) and have a Master's from Purdue University USA (which means scored well in GRE with a 316) and Bachelors from NIT Raipur in India. I am smart, good looking and egotistical. I believed that there are good things to be done once you get to the upper echelon of impact driven companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Politics (also a company these days). But after reading about the skulduggery involved at the top in both governments and companies in developed as well as developing countries, I doubt whether you scoring high on the GMAT and becoming a cog in the wheel of a big company would change anything. I believe in earning money, and the ethical ways of earning it, but I neither support the teachers nor the troops.
So, how should I start this post. Maybe with a motivation quote from an obscure German philosopher. Maybe an anecdote of how I broke up with my soon to be partner to go in the woods and study for GMAT. Or the best of all - by Thanking "usernames" on GMAT club, who solve the question without explaining the process or understanding that the other person might be pulling his/ her hair apart seeing the response.
My post is not for the 720+ scorers. Those who got that score, you deserved it, great job. But have you ever answered the simple question of "What has really changed in this world with the countless people getting the 720+ before me". I bet 99.9% of you cannot pin-point one person who has done something palpable in this world, and who also happens to be a 760 scorer.
My post is for the people who are scoring less than < 700 or for those who don't want to play this mindless game coordinated by GMAT and the Universities, especially those in the US. I have attended one of the top schools in the US, and have participated in all types of career enhancing activities, e.g. career fairs, job fairs, which the Universities market as being of great help to students (both US and International) and which many Indian and Chinese students attend thinking that standing in the line with 100 other students will get them placed at one of the top companies in US, i.e. Google, Microsoft, Amazon etc. to name a few.
Do you hate the GMAT and see every second of your only life, maybe the prime of your life, i.e. when you are between 27 - 30 yrs of age, ticking away sitting in your room with a pen, a notebook and a wall to stare? If your answer is "Yes", then read the story below, or else go ahead and rat this post to the moderator who will take it down because its the truth that the prep companies associated with the GMAT Club don't want to see.
My GMAT story:
I am not going to bore you as the rest of the stories do talking about when I started thinking of GMAT, when I really thought of taking it, when I was working too hard that I couldn't focus on the preparation, when my lazy cat died and I wasted my time praying for a place with him in hell, so we both could play a tag team ping pong with Lucifer and Bill Clinton...
All I want you to take from my story is:
[*] Just keep going with whatever you are doing, because everybody eventually figures it out. If you are scoring under 700, try to find "why". Work on those questions and simply HOPE that you don't see a question different from the one you perfected or else you will have a new doubt, but at this time it will be in the real exam.
You will eventually figure out how to get to 700+. Until then, shut up from inside in a closed room and keep solving questions.
[*] Get over the Quality vs Quantity debate on how many questions should one solve. It is different for everyone, and nobody really knows. If your life for 3 or 6 or 9 months or 1 year becomes solving meaningless Critical Reasoning questions with a logic that is so flimsy that it vanishes as soon as you answer the question and a logic that is never used in the real world unless (or maybe 95% of CR is not used in everyday world even as a manager), enjoy the Suck. Just do what you have to do answer one more Bold Faced question, one more SC question about Parallelism, one more Quant DS question about Triple sets, and hope that you only get the topics whose doubts you have perfected and not some new doubts that your dumb mind cannot solve.
[*] Shut off from the world. Don't be able to contribute anything to a conversation about what's happening in the world. During your prep, if you don't know how to talk to people about anything apart from stuff such as why you are not getting the DS questions about Permutations and Combinations correct, then you are making progress in building the GMAT mind! More suckage.
[*] Hate yourself for not getting a question correct or for scoring low, but don't kill yourself during the preparation.
I am glad the countries that I lived in during my preparation such as UK and India have a No Gun policy or else, I would have had to write this post from the cloud.
31 Jul 2021, 07:04
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Hi rye, What extraordinary thing have you revealed in this post that you think moderators will take it off? I see it as very normal (intense and inspiring though).
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