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For all integers n, the function f is defined by f (n) = an, where a is a constant.  What is the value of f (1)? (1)   f (2) = 100 (2)   f (3) = -1,000   A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient. B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient. C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient. D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient. E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

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 My Brief Introduction: IGNOU, CA-IPCC | CA-CPT, GMAT 790 Q-51 V-49


I have attended Edushastra Live Online classes and I think Live Online classes are as good as traditional classroom sessions.


 I prepared after reading lot of reviews and today I feel it’s my time to share my experience. This post is not inspirational, but I tried to make it as informative as possible.
Total Preparation time was close to 3-4 months.
IGNOU stands for Indira Gandhi National Open University.
I know you have already started judging me. Let me give you one more fact, I scored 790 in GMAT and I also attempted CAT 2017.
I am not good in writing, but I am writing this because my mentor asked me to write it. This is EduShastra way of marketing. They will not market themselves but want their students to write about them. I am writing this freely so please do not mind of any grammatical issues, sentence structure, etc.
I moved into IGNOU not because of my low marks in school but because of my C.A studies. I am CBSE merit scholarship holder in my secondary and senior secondary times. I am also NTSE & Math Olympiad winner. I love bragging about myself and my friends consider me narcissist. But there is a thin line difference between being proud and Narcissistic personality disorder.
I was somewhat confused about my future. In this confusion, I decided for GMAT with my studies. Just like everyone, I also went to all prominent Institutes for help. I attended their demos. Fortunately. most of them taught me sentence correction. I liked EduShastra non-commercial approach in everything. They made me sit in the ongoing class and teacher even did not notice me till the time when I asked her some doubt. I was very impressed with their total approach.
I will try to be as honest as possible. Forgive me if you find any bias, I am not denying that I am human.
Be Flexible with the Test Date: GMAT is adaptive and we must be adaptive too. Try to reach your optimum and then only decide to go for the test. Everyone will take different time to reach their optimum. I think everyone has a critical peak point they need to exploit. The question is how to identify your optimum. The optimum is when your score will become stagnant even after all practice. When you are sure about your optimum, then choose a suitable date.
Enjoy your Journey: This exam may look easy on the first look, but it is the trickiest exam in the world. You will need serious study of 2-4 months at least. I did it in 4 months. Enjoy this journey. During preparation, you will find many situations in which you will have to pick yourself. Try to have sustained and planned approach towards it. I sometimes used to have RC phobia in which just looking at any passage, I used to freeze. But as I got more and more into it, its became an interesting game. Today I can say that I love RC and will be missing it in future.
Be highly motivated: There will be many times during your study where you really will not be motivated to go on. But if you want to achieve your goal, you need to find a source of inspiration to keep you going. My biggest motivation was my parents. I belong to a middle-class family, but I was given whatever I asked for. I started recognizing that they are sacrificing many things for my demands. I told myself this is payback time for me. My intention was to make them as happy as possible.
Win your classes: I always recommend everyone to join classes for any test preparation. Classes or competition helps a lot. Every class should be seen as a small test in which you map your performance with your opponents. Jealousy worked for me. I recognized some strong students in the class and always tried to scale me with them. If teacher asks any question, it was like a war. Everyone used to fight it out to be the first to answer. During preparations, my win margin grew with every class. My idea was to be so good that no one can ignore you.
Acing the GMAT algorithm: I studied the algorithm and tried to outsmart it. We have an advantage which we can use to the best of our ability. The advantage is algorithm knows nothing about us, but we know many things about it. One strategy which worked for me was not to spend more than 1 minute on the question which I was finding difficult. In this way, I did not spend more than a minute on any question which gave me lot of advantage in the latter half of the test. Calculated guess is better than spending more than a minute on any question. You have to understand that the CAT is going to keep throwing tougher questions at you and unless you are aiming for 800 you don’t need to get every question right to get your target score. As soon as you recognize questions above your level, you need to make the best guess possible and move on.
Do not believe on everything you see: Internet is good, but it can take you wherever you intend to. Google will take you whatever you type. Many things are promotional or trying to take you to a specified path. You must make your choices and follow credible things. Most free material and sites would be having many tough questions. Everyone will struggle with that questions. Many teachers will ask you to take a practice test every week but in EduShastra Testing phase, Tests were taken every alternate day with one review day in-between. It helped me in one way but was very tiring.

Lets now come to Actionable Points:

Basic Quantitative Strategies:

  1. Estimations or Approximations: Great way of exercising your brain.
  2. Be Logical not theoretical. Try to use common-sense as much as possible.
  3. Plug-ins/ Back-solving—Use options to predict the answer.
  4. Picking numbers- Use easy numbers—1, 10 or 100.
  5. Always check any condition with 0, 1, -1 and negative integers.
  6. Mental Math—Try to complete your answers mentally.
  7. All questions will be tricky. Anything easy is a mirage. Nothing will be difficult. All will be challenging.


Basic Verbal Strategies:

  1. Always Predict the answer. Move to answer choices only after having the answer.
  2. Always mark the answers in the rough sheet, it will help in Elimination Strategy and “Except” questions.
  3. Always get the Main or Holistic Idea in the first reading.
  4. When dealing with Difficult passages, try to see simpler picture hidden between difficult areas.
  5. Try to make verbal arguments into maths language with equations, Symbols, Venn Diagrams, etc. Makes the question very easy.

Example: Ex: Kale has more nutritional value than spinach. But since collard greens have more nutritional value than lettuce, it follows that kale has more nutritional value than lettuce. Representation: K>SP, CR>L.

Basic RC Strategies:

  1. Read the first & last lines to get a general idea.
  2. Proper reading should be like sailing. Reading should not be very minute.
  3. Meaning should be very clear. Don’t try to understand difficult words, phrases, clauses or sentences.
  4. Read the passage to get (1) Main idea, (2) Structure & (3) To know where to find the detail if asked.
  5. Don’t try to understand every detail, you should know where to find the detail if there is a question. Don't overinvest.
  6. Paraphrase the structure in 2-3 words.
  7. Read everything only once, you should not need 2nd reading. Will save lot of time.
  8. Grasp everything with one reading, making mental notes.


Basic CR Strategies:

  1. Make Mental notes.
  2. Grasp everything with one reading, making mental notes.
  3. In CR, Check Assumption with "Negation Technique" and Evaluate with "Variance technique".
  4. Assumption which is not mentioned in the argument can be "For" or "Against" a claim, an evidence or conclusion.


Basic SC Strategies:

  1. Order of Preference: (1) Meaning, Content & Concision (2) Singular-Plural (3) Parallelism (4) Modifiers (5) Comparison.
  2. Avoid Passive Sentences.
  3. SC Reading strategy: Read the sentence carefully for the meaning, structure, Split and content. Try to predict the answer. Make mental notes. Eliminate wrong choices.
  4. Check each word of the chosen answer and plug-it-in the sentence to check cohesiveness and meaning. Read it in the sentence, it will fit without any ambiguity.
  5. Change the sentence to a simpler form to understand the relations. Read meaningfully and avoid the distractors, words jugglery and the middle-man. Simply the sentence to see connection of Subject-Verb-Object or Subject-Predicate. To Identify needless "Distractors" and to ignore them. For Ex.: X to Y, Substitute X with Y, etc.
  6. For large run-on sentences all underlined, check all modifiers, are they referring to correct words/phrases/clauses/modifiers.
  7. Modifier & Parallelism: After comma, if the sentence part is dependent and modifying anything then it’s a modifier. It its independent, then its parallelism case, parts connected with hidden conjunction.
  8. Parallelism: For Parallelism, do "Stem Test”.
  9. Modifiers: Check & try to see the sentence without middle words/phrases/clauses. Example: Ram, who is a son of farmer, flew to moon yesterday, was very happy entering the space shuttle (Who is a son of farmer: Non-Essential Modifier) to be in comma.
  10. Idioms: Using Your Ear: Spot - Extract – ReplaceYour ear is your most valuable weapon as you try to figure out the proper form of an idiom. This is the one time when you can justify your choice by saying “it sounds better!” However, you must understand how to use your ear wisely. SPOT the suspect idiomatic expression. Compare answer choices to find the core words and all variations. Include non-underlined words as necessary.EXTRACT the various forms of the idiom and put them into simpler sentences that you can easily compare. You can delete words, such as modifiers or you can make up brand-new sentences.REPLACE the corrected idiom in the sentence and confirm that it works.

Books & Other Materials used: I did my coaching from EduShastra. Apart from their Tests and materials, OGs (Learnt lot of Time Management Technique from it). All GMATPrep packs were provided by ES. Manhattan Free Guides were very helpful in verbal. I also went for Veritas CATs.Manhattan Free Guides were useful. These books laid a good foundation. The only disappointment was Geometry and RC Book. Manhattan CR is brilliant.PowerScore CR Bible: Its freely available on net. This is truly a bible for anyone preparing for GMAT. This is recommended for everyone.I also got Free versions of Kaplan Premier and GMAT 800 book. Great source and one of the best books available for GMAT.I also had collections of GMAC OGs and Quant & Verbal Guides right from 2010 till 2018. Treat these books as bible for GMAT. One mistake was to pick 1000 CRs, RCs and SCs, it was not very helpful.

Practice &Tests Preparation:

  1. Started with GMATPrep Test-1. Scored 580. Most of the people consider it a waste but keeping a tab on the performance is important. You must know at every point of the course where you stand. We must be aware of our problem areas before moving further into any preparation.
  2. ES started with their foundation course which continued with for 1 month. I was in their 7-series batch in the starting. In Foundation phase, I moved from 580 to 660.
  3. ES Testing phase was gruelling, but I made it more gruelling with Veritas 7 CATs
  4. Performance Chart-Full-Length CATs:


  • Date: 6-7-17, Test-1, GMATPrep Test-1, Score: 580.
  • Date: 15-7-17, Test-2, ES Foundation Phase WizIQ Adaptive Test-1, Score: 590.
  • Date: 28-7-17, Test-3, ES Foundation Phase WizIQ Adaptive Test-2, Score: 590.
  • Date: 4-8-17, Test-4, ES Foundation Phase WizIQ Adaptive Test-3, Score: 610.
  • Date: 5-8-17, Test-5, Veritas Test-1, Score: 600.
  • Date: 12-8-17, Test-6, ES Foundation Phase WizIQ Adaptive Test-4, Score: 630.
  • Date: 19-8-17, Test-7, ES Foundation Phase WizIQ Adaptive Test-5, Score: 640.
  • Date: 22-8-17, Test-8, GMATPrep Test-2, Score: 650.
  • Date: 25-8-17, Test-9, ES Foundation Phase WizIQ Adaptive Test-6, Score: 650.
  • Date: 28-8-17, Test-10, ES Foundation Phase WizIQ Adaptive Test-7, Score: 650.
  • Date: 29-8-17, Test-11, Veritas Test-2, Score: 660.
  • Date: 1-9-17, Test-12, ES Testing Phase Assess Adaptive Test-1, Score: 670.
  • Date: 3-9-17, Test-13, ES Testing Phase Assess Adaptive Test-2, Score: 670.
  • Date: 5-9-17, Test-13, ES Testing Phase Assess Adaptive Test-3, Score: 680.
  • Date: 10-9-17, Test-15, ES Testing Phase Assess Adaptive Test-3, Score: 690.
  • Date: 11-9-17, Test-16, Veritas Test-3, Score: 680.
  • Date: 13-9-17, Test-17, ES Testing Phase Assess Adaptive Test-4, Score: 700.
  • Date: 14-9-17, Test-18, GMATPrep Exam Pack-1, Test-3, Score: 720.
  • Date: 17-9-17, Test-17, ES Testing Phase Assess Adaptive Test-5, Score: 730.
  • Date: 19-9-17, Test-17, ES Testing Phase Assess Adaptive Test-6, Score: 730.
  • Date: 21-9-17, Test-18, Veritas Test-4, Score: 750.
  • Date: 23-9-17, Test-19, GMATPrep Exam Pack-1, Test-4, Score: 760.
  • Date: 19-9-17, Test-20, ES Testing Phase Concerto Adaptive Test-1, Score: 700.
  • Date: 22-9-17, Test-21, ES Testing Phase Concerto Adaptive Test-2, Score: 720.
  • Date: 25-9-17, Test-22, ES Testing Phase Concerto Adaptive Test-3, Score: 730.
  • Date: 26-9-17, Test-23, Veritas Test-5, Score: 790.
  • Date: 28-9-17, Test-24, ES Testing Phase Concerto Adaptive Test-4, Score: 740.
  • Date: 4-10-17, Test-25, Veritas Test-6, Score: 780.
  • Date: 6-10-17, Test-26, ES Testing Phase Concerto Adaptive Test-5, Score: 750.
  • Date: 8-10-17, Test-27, GMATPrep Exam Pack-2, Test-5, Score: 790.
  • Date: 12-10-17, Test-28, Veritas Test-7, Score: 790.
  • Date: 15-10-17, Test-29, ES Testing Phase Concerto Adaptive Test-6, Score: 740.
  • Date: 18-10-17, Test-30, GMATPrep Exam Pack-2, Test-6, Score: 790.
  • D-Day: 790 (Q-51, V-49).


D-Day Preparation


My appointment was in the morning. I slept early and wanted to have at least 8 hours sleep. For dinner, I took a light dinner. D-Day morning was somewhat cool but comfortable. I just chilled and was motivated to do well. I was skeptical after Verbal section but after completing the test, I felt I did well. The score screen was a pleasant surprise. I took juice before going for the final section which made me uncomfortable towards the end.
I have collections of GMAT eBooks which I collected for my preparation. If anyone needs it, please connect.  

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ME !! - Kanchan Puniya - I made my life easy when I started believing myself and left all people with negativity and disbelief.


Did online classes as my schedule is very hectic.


Graduate from DU, Gmat : Feb 2020 GMAT – 710, Genpect :)) 


I was mentored by Mba Wizards and am all the way obliged to them. here I am penning down my experience and advice for GMAT aspirants and unique study circle style.

I am telling you one thing out rightly clear right in the start - Planning for one of the toughest and indeed one of the most astute management examinations can easily take a toll on you. But, that’s not all! I would give you thumbs up if you have the right set of strategies and innovation. These strategies and innovation don’t mean you are using the sledgehammer to crack a nut. Manthan Methodology, although you many of you may not have heard of, proved a smooth sailing for me. What I am going to list here is the secret and a successful study pattern that you should follow while studying for GMAT Exam.

1- Begin with a Manthan and End with a Manthan – I would straightaway put that applying Manthan Methodology in GMAT Preparation helped me in dealing with the problems related to resolving the tricky questions. It is a customized preparation method adopted by me and my tutor, which helped me to gradually attain the level of perfection required in real-time test conditions. Manthan methodology is an adaptive way of preparing the aspirants for GMAT. It is based on self-assessment and removing the gaps in learning and analysis. Practicing Manthan Methodology involves psychology testing, attempting to questionnaire for self-assessment, and one-on-one interaction of an aspirant with tutors. Besides, as part of this unique prep methodology, I continued developing a subject-wise understanding. And soon I began to found that everything is easy. All those hiccups relating to concepts were just gone. I would like to give you one suggestion - If you want to practices a successful Manthan Methodology you should always strive for a stable student-tutor partnership.

Here I found Mentors were having the aim of giving GYAN rather than only having a focus on going through the syllabus, more than fulfilling official responsibilities. So the association resulted in interest for knowledge which thus resulted in better preparation for the exam.

2 – Prepare a Flexible GMAT Study Schedule – GMAT preparation is not rote learning, and if you are doing it from the first day, don’t think of success. In my case, I was always against cramming. I think it is the biggest foolish thing that any aspirant would like to do. Most of the second and third attempters happen to be rote learners, and they strongly believe in the religion of cramming. Preparing for this level of examination means you have to run for a marathon. Critical and analytical thinking is the must-have potential that you should have built inside from the very start. It was my first attempt and I got impressive scores. I put a lot of effort into elements of logic and flexible solutions and it was like placing an appropriate stitch in time. Deliberate scheduling and pointing the dates on the calendar between the learning and practice tests helped me in enhancing my skills and simultaneously built up my stamina too. I did not go for the bated breath, or it would have already killed my problem-solving skills in a moment.

3 – Work out on Concepts and Accuracy – I applied the idea of practice in again, again and again, even if it meant biting the bullet. If you cannot practice on your concepts on deeper levels by applying the smartest ever Manthan methodology success in GMAT Exam is still at large. I purposely went from basic to medium and then stepped on the most advanced practice test questions. I also thought to myself that learning concepts will not be helpful if I have not reached the levels where I could not solve the trickiest questions. Furthermore, the command on concepts along with high accuracy rates in problem-solving soon turned me into an efficient test taker, and this was the time I thought of hitting the Bull’s eye.

4 – Practice Every Week – Now that I had boned up on, everything else stopped on rigorous practice. This is the time when I considered testing my skills, concepts, and even attitude. Sitting for practice tests at the end of each week helped me in reviewing the areas that I thought, required more understanding. If the need arises, you can once again deliberately opt for applying Manthan methodology in GMAT preparation. Re-construct yourself by reducing the stress levels and managing the time efficiently in the grey areas. It is definitely not the time for spooling my fellow GMAT aspirants.

5 – Short Breaks during GMAT Preparations – You may brood out of the sheer reasoning that you are sitting in a box seat all this while because you have burnt the midnight oil preparing for GMAT Exam. I give you my take here - taking short breaks during your study schedules will definitely act as a prep buster. If you are spending a full one hour on your GMAT studies, it is worthwhile to consider taking at least two minutes of stretch break. You deserve it for your comfort and de-stressing.

6- Don’t Compare with Your Peers – I never did that through my entire study regime. I always encourage self-study as it is always the best GMAT Exam preparation strategy. You don’t need to compare with your peers what kind of study pattern or prep schedule are they aiming at for their examination. Mind it, healthy group discussions, and comparative analysis with your peers will always lead you one step close to success.

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And now for all you GMAT test aspirants, it is the opportune time for you to decide GMAT Preparation with MbaWizards. You are not only receiving GMAT training by experienced faculties, but you also have the advantage of gaining the benefit from unique and effective Manthan Methodology, which means a sure short success. I was blessed with their superior guidance and the unique Manthan Methodology. www.mbawizards.co.in