hi..
could someone please tell which are the top 5-6 colls.
to go for if ure lacking a job-ex?
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Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic compound interest.

Question: A man invests Rs.5000 for 3 years at 5% p.a. compound interest
reckoned yearly. Income tax at the rate of 20% on the interest earned is
deducted at the end of each year. Find the amount at the end of the third year.

(1)    5624.32
(2)    5630.50
(3)    5788.125
(4)    5627.20

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Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic probability.

Question:  A man bets on number 16 on a roulette wheel 14 times and losses each
time. On the 15th span he does a quick calculation and finds out that the number
12 had appeared twice in the 14 spans and is therefore, unable to decide whether
to bet on 16 or 12 in the 15th span. Which will give him the best chance and
what are the odds of winning on the bet that he takes? (Roulette has numbers 1
to 36)


(1)    16; 22 : 14
(2)    12; 72 : 1
(3)    12; 7 : 1
(4)    Either; 35 : 1

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hi
i dont understand how iims know abt the job-ex, i mean theres no such column
in the form!!! please explain.
also i wud like to know if 'some' shld be seen as a subset of 'all'. look at
this....
1)all men are slaves
2)all slaves are donkeys
>>>>some men are donkeys
is the last statement correct????
ofcourse the statement "all men are donkeys" will be correct.
does it mean if one faces "some men are donkeys", one shld mark it as
correct?????
afterall some is a subset of all!!!
thanks
vishal

hey guys,

even i m looking out for some1 who is having material other than ims..e.g career forum/careerlauncher..in fact i m looking out 4 people who can form a group of 4/5 n do combined study in a library...somewhere in western side of bombay..do u know any good library near andheri/parle(mumbai) where people study 4 cat??ne1 intersted in joint study?this way v can share our material n solve our doubts.ne1 intersted plzz contact on mail.

 cisa preparation wrote:

Dear friends,

I am staying near  Mulund. Is any one in Mumbai ( Central line, Vashi) willing to share CAT material ( like career launcher etc) . I am having IMS of last year. At the risk of being immodest, let me tell you that I can share my knowledge in Quantitative techniques. Over the years, I have mastered ways to cut down time for  calculation by 75% . This will definitely help to improve the quant score  without any exception . If any one is interested in joint study which may help mutually, please contact thru email.  

 

Regards

cisa

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Could someone give an estimate of score required to get calls from a) 6 IIM's b) 1 IIM.?

hi

Grab the Aug,4 2002 edition of Business Today .. u'll find the top 100 b schools in the country.  any one around 50+ would match ur criteria

Hope that would help u.

Regards,
Fazal

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hi..
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hi junta,
  i hope you are flooding with preparation of CAT. there is a good
news for you. Coming Monday( 28 AUG) Career Launcher is going to give
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Dear All Aspirants,
I wish all of you all the luck and hope that you wish me the same.
I will be appearing for CAT this year.
I will also appear for XAT but i cannot just fill up their form for one very
ridiculous reason:
My native city is not listed in the names of the cities that the form contain.
This field is a compulsory one.

I have also contacted the admissions cell of XAT to no avail.

Can anyone guide me in this matter?

Thanks to anyone who replies.

Parth


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Well

There is a column in the CAT application form where you need to fill in the
number of months of work ex that you have as of Dec 31 2002.

all men are slaves
all slaves are donkeys

essentially means all men are donkeys. because it is all inclusive. some men
are donkeys has to connotation that some men are not, which is not true
given the earlier two statements.

Best wishes

K S Baskar
Director Ascent Education

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Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic Profit and Loss.

Question: Rajiv sold an article for Rs.56, which cost him Rs.x. If he had gained
x% on his outlay, what was his cost?

(1)    Rs. 40
(2)    Rs. 45
(3)    Rs. 36
(4)    Rs. 28


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Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic function.

Question:  Which of the following is not an odd function?

(1)    f(x) = -x^3
(2)    f(x) = x^5
(3)    f(x) = (x^2) - x
(4)    f(x) = |x|^3

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Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic Ratio, Proportion.

Question:  A predator is chasing its prey.The predator takes 4 leaps for every 6
leaps of the prey and the predator covers as much distance in 2 leaps as 3 leaps
of the prey. Will the predator succeed in getting its food?

(1)    Yes
(2)    In the 6th leap
(3)    Never
(4)    Cannot Determine

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Please bear with the inconvenience caused on account of this.

Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic arithmetic.

Question:  Which amongst the following investments has the lowest return?
a. 7% Rs.100 shares at Rs.120
b. 8% Rs.10 shares at 13.50
c. 9% Rs.50 shares at Rs.54

(1)    a
(2)    b
(3)    c
(4)    a and c

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hey can anyone tell me how to solve questions like
if a+b+c+d=1, all positive;
then the max. value of ab+bc+cd+da is :

in a short time.....
himanshu

 mailfordebu@... wrote:

Baskar,
        With refernce to the initial stage of Mock
Tests for CAT I wanted to put a question to the group.

Should we put stress on accuracy or speed in CAT.

Well, this question arises from the fact that while
solving questions if I go very fast then I make plenty
of mistakes.

Could you please shed some light in this.

Thanks,

Debu

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Hi debu,

this is a very very relevant question.But i feel that in an exam like CAT wherein negative marking is involved.accuracy is a must .What is the use of attempting all questions if they r wrong.I would rahter have a balance between speed and accuracy.What I mean is deciide ur srenghts as in which topic ur good in attempt that with 100% accuracy >Instead of attempting all i would rahter attempt 75-80% questions with accuracy.In 50 marks of maths section,I would rahter attempt 30-35 questiond with 100% accuracy than ateempting all 50 question with only 40-50% accuracy.That would ultimately result in negative marks.

Bye

Best of Luck

Hi Baskar,

      Why dont you give info. about the mock CAT that is to be conducted in the future , it may be useful for guys here at Chennai. Since I already missed a test that was conducted on last Monday.

Santhosh

Baskar,
          Sorry for the trouble again.

          I have come across certain Logical Reasoning
problems during the MOCK test which are quite lengthy
to read and at the same time requires quite a lot of
time to comprehend.

          I would be grateful if you could please
provide some tips for attacking and solving those
problems in minimum possible time.

Here follows a sample problem :

There are 5 friends A,B,C,D and E. Two of them play
tennis while the other three play different games viz.,
football, cricket and chess. One tennis player and the
chess player stay on the same flooer 3, while the other
three stay on different floors 2, 4 and 5. Two of these
five players are industrialists while the other three
belong to different occupations viz., teaching, medical
and engineer. The chess player is the oldest in age
while one of tennis players who plays at the national
level is the youngest. The other tennis players who
plays at the regional leval lies agewise between the
football player and the chess player. D is a regional
player and stays on the flooer 3 while E is a teacher
and stays on floor 5. The football player is a doctor
and stays on the floor 2 , B is an engineer while A is
the industrialist and plays tennis at national level.

Follows the sort of questions on the basis of above
passage :

1. Who stays on floor 4?
1) A    2) B  3) C      4) E

2. What does E play?

1) Chess     2 ) Football      3) Cricket    4) Tennis
at regional level

And so on...


Baskar, what I want to ask we can solve these type of
problems by getting our head around and around but I
was searching for some good approach for cracking the
above problems. Otherwise it gets pretty time consuming.

Sorry for the lengthy email, I just wanted to stress
what I needed to know through an email.

I will be waiting for your feedback.

Thanks,

Debu

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hi,

the answer option to the  question on functions was given as (1) instead of (4).

kindly reply reg. this

Sudha

Dear Bhaskar,

Thanks for the Time management for CAT.

One thing, I would like to know from the forum is
that, basically I am appearing for the FPM for IIM,
Ahmedabad,
and appearing for it first time, what could be the
minimum percentile for selection?

with regards,

Rajesh Chandrakar

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>
> One of the key things to note is to have a strategy
> before you take a Mock
> CAT.
>
> One thing that I have found to have worked for a lot
> of people is this.
> Whether there is a section wise time limit or not,
> set a limit for yourself.
> This year CAT, as mentioned in the brochure, is one
> where there is going to
> be no section wise time limit.
>
> So give yourself time limits for each section. Say,
> Quant 50 minutes, DI 40
> minutes and Verbal 30 minutes. The individual
> section wise limit will vary
> from person to person. But the above is a reasonably
> good representative
> sample. Then attempt questions in each of these
> sections and move to the
> next section 5 minutes before the time limit that
> you have set. That is in
> 45 minutes for Quant, 35 for DI and 25 for Verbal.
> At the end of 1 hour 45
> minutes take a quick evaluation as to how you have
> performed in each of the
> sections. If you feel, you have not done well in
> say, DI, spend the
> remaining 15 minutes on DI. On the contrary, if you
> think you have done
> reasonably well in all three sections, spend the
> last 15 minutes on the
> section that will give you the maximum returns.
>
> In all of these, keep one thing in mind. Maintain as
> much accuracy as
> possible in the first 1 hour 45 minutes. In the last
> 15 minutes, make
> intelligent guesses. For instance, if you can
> eliminate 2 out of the 4
> answer choices and you are not sure which of the
> other two to tick, take an
> intelligent guess. This does not mean that you mark
> anything during the last
> 15 minutes. Remember, what I said was INTELLIGENT
> GUESSING and not random
> ticking.
>
> Best wishes
>
> K S Baskar
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HI

Regarding Question 4 the day - August 27, 2002.

Thanks for pointing out the error. Apologies for the unwanted confusion.

We have made suitable corrections and uploaded the new file.

Thanks again

Best wishes

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Director - Ascent Education

Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic - permutation and combination.

How many five digit numbers can be formed using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
which are divisible by 3, without repeating the digits?

   1.. 15
   2.. 96
   3.. 216
   4.. 120

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I am interested in making a small group of CAT aspirants in Mumbai( sessions  to be held in Thane/Mulund) to eliminate chapter-specific weaknesses in quant and maximise our individual score in quant/DI.. The group will meet for quant/DI for a minimum 4 hour session every week . The group will solve all the DIFFICULT maths/logical reasoning problems from all chapters ( quant) . The questions will be collected from various courses like IMS, Career launcher, TIME etc.The methodology of utilising the time in the best possible manner will be discussed in due course. Idea is to put our heads together and discuss the best possible techniques in solving the tricky questions of each chapter. If interested please mail. 

Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic Progressions

Question: The sum of the third and ninth term of an A.P. is 8. Find the sum of
the first 11 terms of the progression.

   (1).. 88
   (2).. 44
   (3).. 48
   (4).. 128


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Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic - permutation and combination.

How many words can be formed by re-arranging the letters of the word PROBLEMS
such that P and S occupy the first and last position respectively?

(1) 8! / 2!
(2) 8! - 2!
(3) 6!
(4) 8! - 2*7!

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Hi!

The question for the day is from the topic Inequalities.

For what values of `x' is the following inequality, x^2 - 5x + 6 > 0
true?

(1) 2 < x < 3
(2) –3 < x < -2
(3) (-infinity, 2) U (3, infinity)
(4) [-infinity, 2) U (3, infinity]

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Dear Rajesh

As against PGP where IIMs generally have a certain number of seats to fill,
in FPM they can technically choose not to select anyone (though, I do not
think that it has happened too often) if they do not find the right
candidate. My guess is that the same 1 percentile or less rule applies to
FPM as well. If anything, the percentile will be lesser. The interviewing
process for FPM is usually pretty rigorous - (please DO NOT read it as
necessarily tough) - they basically test for your research and academic
orientation in greater depth. Therefore, interviewing objective and style
will be pretty different for FPM as against PGP.

Best wishes

K S Baskar
Director - Ascent Education

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> Dear Bhaskar,
>
> Thanks for the Time management for CAT.
>
> One thing, I would like to know from the forum is
> that, basically I am appearing for the FPM for IIM,
> Ahmedabad,
> and appearing for it first time, what could be the
> minimum percentile for selection?
>
> with regards,
>
> Rajesh Chandrakar
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Hi Debu

Sorry for the delay in responding to your query. I have appended my answer
at the end of your query as I suppose you might have forgotten all about the
query.
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>          I have come across certain Logical Reasoning
> problems during the MOCK test which are quite lengthy
> to read and at the same time requires quite a lot of
> time to comprehend.
>
>          I would be grateful if you could please
> provide some tips for attacking and solving those
> problems in minimum possible time.
>
> Here follows a sample problem :
>
> There are 5 friends A,B,C,D and E. Two of them play
> tennis while the other three play different games viz.,
> football, cricket and chess. One tennis player and the
> chess player stay on the same flooer 3, while the other
> three stay on different floors 2, 4 and 5. Two of these
> five players are industrialists while the other three
> belong to different occupations viz., teaching, medical
> and engineer. The chess player is the oldest in age
> while one of tennis players who plays at the national
> level is the youngest. The other tennis players who
> plays at the regional leval lies agewise between the
> football player and the chess player. D is a regional
> player and stays on the flooer 3 while E is a teacher
> and stays on floor 5. The football player is a doctor
> and stays on the floor 2 , B is an engineer while A is
> the industrialist and plays tennis at national level.
>
> Follows the sort of questions on the basis of above
> passage :
>
> 1. Who stays on floor 4?
> 1) A    2) B  3) C      4) E
>
> 2. What does E play?
>
> 1) Chess     2 ) Football      3) Cricket    4) Tennis
> at regional level
>
> And so on...
>
>
> Baskar, what I want to ask we can solve these type of
> problems by getting our head around and around but I
> was searching for some good approach for cracking the
> above problems. Otherwise it gets pretty time consuming.
>
> Sorry for the lengthy email, I just wanted to stress
> what I needed to know through an email.
>
> I will be waiting for your feedback.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Debu
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Logical problems are generally time consuming. My suggestion is that avoid
these problems in the first instance.

Remember, your objective is to score the maximum amount of marks in the
given time. You will not be penalized for having solved all the easy
problems in CAT. Neither would you be given special credits for digging out
the tough problems. CAT, fortunately, to date, does not have adaptability in
difficulty levels as GMAT does.

So, the first lesson in test taking strategy is -- choose your questions
smart. It is easier said than done. You gain confidence about the questions
that you can attempt adn the ones you have to skip only by continuous
practice  and scrupulous analysis of your previous test papers. Take each of
the tests that you have done to date and analyse every single question - see
how long you took to crack the question - was it out of fluke you got it
right? or you actually knew how to do it? Second, check out if you made use
of the answer choices to arrive at your choice - if so pat yourself - you
are on the right track.

Sometimes, it helps to have some very simple rules.My advice would be to
crack only those problems where you can use the answer choice (like
substituting them in the question) to arrive at the solution in the first
instance. And after solving all of those questions where you can use the
answer choice, if you are still left with time on hand, attempt the other
questions.

Given all this logic - logical question does not fit in the first or the
second go. If you still have time and the only question you have left
unanswered is logical question, then try and solve them. To get sufficient
practice, get one of the GRE books like Barrons. they have sufficient
exercise on these type of arrangement problems. Draw tables and try and
represent whatever data is given to you in either tabular or pictorial form.
It helps you to crack the problem effectively.

Best wishes for your CAT prep.

If you guys still have not sent your CAT application to the respective IIMs
(depending upon your test center choice) do it today. You never know when a
postal strike can strike?

K S Baskar
Director - Ascent Education