Verbal: The Most Important Lesson
https://youtu.be/1ja6oaWBj0A Is there one thing you could do to improve your score in the verbal section - be it RC, grammar, vocab, parajumbles, summary/essence? Yes there is. Start reading. The amount it will help you cannot be emphasised enough. You’ll understand its value once you start seeing drastic improvements in your score. And your communication skills. And your confidence. And the increase in your knowledge. And improved thinking skills. I can go on, but I think you get the point. How come? To prove its importance in CAT is easy: in the last few years, out of 34 questions in the verbal section Reading Comprehension (RC) has had 24. That’s around 70 percent of the questions. So not only is it important, it is significantly important. But that’s not all. Of the other 10 questions, 7 are parajumbles and 3 are summary/essence questions. Summary/essence questions are nothing but Main Idea [...]
Days that goats can graze in a pasture, if grass grows
A difficult question of Variation is ...... In a pasture, grass grows at a uniform rate per day. If 40 goats graze, the grass is exhausted in 6 days. If 20 goats graze, the grass is exhausted in 16 days. If the grass is exhausted in 12 days, find the number of goats grazing. Try the question before watching the video, explaining the question in its entirety (traditional as well as short-cut). Now can you get the following two questions, each question, within 1 minute? Q. 1: It takes 24 days for 70 cows to graze a pasture completely. However if there were only 30 cows, the pasture would have lasted for 60 days. How many cows will graze the entire pasture in 96 days? Consider that grass grows at a uniform rate per day. Q. 2: The number of bacteria in a jar grow at a constant rate per [...]
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Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism By Nicholas Carr JANUARY 14, 2019 IN 2017, a man with the first name Ramon was driving for Uber in the suburbs of Atlanta. He worked the late shift, ferrying intoxicated passengers around, often until early in the morning. Ramon’s cab likely reeked of alcohol from his myriad riders. During one of these late-night rides, a driver swerved into his lane. Ramon jerked the car to one side in an attempt to avoid a crash. The riders came to the conclusion that Ramon was driving drunk and reported it in their review. Ramon was immediately deactivated from Uber. He had effectively been fired on the spot by an algorithm. More here
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The 4% Rule: The Easy Answer to “How Much Do I Need for Retirement?” In the Financial Independence Club, we’ve got a little shortcut that goes by names like “The 4% rule”, or “The 4% Safe Withdrawal Rate”.. or simply “The SWR”. As with all things financial, it’s the subject of plenty of controversy, and we’ll get to that (and then punch it flat) later. But for now, for those new to the concept, let’s define the Safe Withdrawal Rate: The Safe Withdrawal Rate is the maximum rate at which you can spend your retirement savings, such that you don’t run out in your lifetime. That sounds nice and simple, but unfortunately it’s an unpredictable thing to nail down. After all, you don’t know what sort of rollercoaster rides the economy will take your retirement savings on, and you also don’t know what rate of inflation will persist through your [...]
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Beyond Passion: The Science of Loving What You Do The Great Career Laura loves what she does. To many people, myself included (I’ve known her for the past five years), she represents the Platonic ideal of a great career. Laura is a database whiz. Companies hire her to wrangle their most gnarly data into streamlined structures. If you’re lucky enough to engage Laura, she’ll assemble a handpicked team of programmers and descend on your office for up to six months. She’ll then take your generous check back to her charming Jamaica Plain bungalow and set about finding novel ways to spend it. (More here)
In The News
TRAI’s new rules for DTH, cable operators: Consumers to choose their 100 channels TRAI New DTH Rules, Channel List, Price and Plans: TRAI has issued a new statement clarifying that consumers will have full choice on the SD channels they can choose in the 100 channels pack. Read on
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What is Hedonic Adaptation and How Can it Turn You Into a Sucka? In writing this blog for you, Mr. Money Mustache actually has three major goals: To make you rich so you can retire early. To make you happy so you can properly enjoy your early retirement. To save the whole Human Race from destroying itself through overconsumption of its own habitat. All three of these goals are in perfect alignment, and they mix and mingle in different ways depending on which aspect of Mustachanism we are discussing at any given time. Today we’ll be focusing in on #2: What actually makes us happy. (More here)
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It’s time to bring back the dumb phone This month has easily been the most Twitter-saturated of my life. As Donald Trump upsets the order of the civilized world, I now regularly find myself in a familiar instinctive pose — left arm folded in, supporting a right hand elevating a smartphone toward my face — reading about the world in a state of growing disbelief. 140-character parcels of angst and black humor hurtle past my eyes and bombard my brain, triggering some chemical reaction that’s at once unpleasant and yet intoxicating. I don’t likereading all this bad news on Twitter, and yet I can’t bring myself to stop. I’m unable to look away from the slow-motion train crash. (Read more here)
Uncommon Uses of Common Phrasal Verbs – 4
1. Put down: to put (something) in place on the floor or ground Putting down [=installing] a new hardwood floor would greatly increase the value of your home. 2. put down: to think of (someone) as (a specified kind of person or thing) Most people put him down as [=believe that he is] a fanatic. 3. put down: to say critical or insulting things about (someone or something) A friend who is constantly putting you down is not a friend. 4. put down: to give (an amount of money) as a first payment when you are buying something that costs a lot of money We put 10 percent down on the house. = We put down a 10 percent deposit on the house.. 5. put down: to stop (a violent or dangerous activity) by using force Police were brought in to help put down the riot.
Uncommon Uses of Common Phrasal Verbs – 3
1. Call off: to tell an animal or person to stop attacking or chasing someone I asked the policeman to call off his dog as my girlfriend was getting scared. 2. call at (a place): of a boat or ship to stop at (a place) briefly The ship called at the port. 3. call something down (on someone): to pray for something bad to happen to someone The beggar called down a curse on the rich man who abused him. 4. call for (someone or something): to go to a place to get (someone or something) I'll call for you (at your house) after dinner. 5. call (something) in or call in (something): to go in somewhere to make a visit - often + on I called in on an old friend while I was in London.