I pressed this start button about five years back and see i have reached the advanced stages of prep by buying two books for this endeavor. No i am not kidding. I bought the OG 11 and the Kaplan Premier 2008 from Amazon at a great discount. I love discounts, Even if you price your product 200 percent premium and give me a 60 percent discount, chances are that i would still buy it. Well have done enough online preps by pepping in all the forums and reading all the blogs about where how and why s of MBA. Its time for some paper study. I am personally more comfortable with the paper books than online books. I do get a more superior feeling of knowledge when i grasp the idea from papers.

I started off with the KAPLAN and please know that I am very keen in reading a book between the covers because my stupid mind thinks that every word matters so i don’t want to miss on some interesting suggestions from Kaplan about the exam. I was trying to be sarcastic about my mind in case your mind couldn’t follow mine. These people in Kaplan are very methodical and practical in thier efforts to keep the book as bulky as possible. All their pages are just half filled with 18 sized fonts like the way they write books for pre schoolers. Does most MBA applicants not in the best of their eyesights that they have to waste twice the amount of paper to convey the same message. Well the message simply states that please BUY their book.

They started the book with Critical Reasoning section which i thought i am very strong at. But i haven’t progressed much beyond the words of Arguments, Assumptions, Evidence and Inference. This is not to criticize about the book but to help me recollect what i have learnt from the hour long exercise. I haven’t started the Practice Quiz yet but I am quite confident of at least getting 1 question right out of all of them. I would like to cover my arguments about the arguments mentioned in the book and how i infer on my conclusions based on the evidences in produce. English is a very simple language. We Indians tend to think that we are quite good at it just because many of us have had the privilege of going to good english medium private schools. In spite of getting the best English education i miserably fail to master the language due to my horrible sense of grammar. Most schools in India use Wren and Martin to teach English Grammar. I used to take my Key to Wren and Martin’s Book which had all the answers listed out there. This should be the most important reason for being so sucky in English language.

Enjoy this wonderful commercial from the Indian AD industry. They are simply hilarious. I am still on the laughter therapy.