Thursday, August 7, 2008

Get Free Ferrari stickers (with free shiping)

Yes ,

Shell motors is giving us FREE ferrari stickers without a peny.
With free shiping.


Shell Motorsport celebrates the start of the 2007 Formula One season and its ongoing partnership with Ferrari by offering you brand new free stickers.


Don't miss this exclusive set featuring the F2007 and the new driver, Kimi Räikkönen.

Fans who ordered the previous set can now broaden their collection with this new set.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A Brief Overview

Knowledge, as it should be is the prerequisite for this examination but its unique feature remains its unpredictability.

Although the examination details have outlined the course covered as spread over 4 distinctive sections of Quantitative Aptitude (QA), Data Interpretation (DI), Reading Comprehension (RC) & Verbal Ability (VA) the actual paper need not have any preset pattern or division of sections.

The other features, which require mention, are Negative Marking & Adequate Competence across all sections. Though the actual extent of negative marking remains undisclosed, it is an integral part of evaluation. Adequate Competence across all sections requires of a student to perform in all sections to a certain minimum level & once again though under the purview of the evaluation committee, section cutoffs must be catered to during preparation.

Individual Sectional Insight

Quantitative Ability (QA)

  • The questions are designed to stress more on reasoning skills of the candidates, rather than on their computational skills.
  • The level of difficulty of this section is perceived to be higher because the questions are not only lengthy to read but at times require more effort in terms of understanding and solving.

Data Interpretation (DI)

  • As the name suggests, this section presents data to the candidate in forms such as caselets, pie diagrams, bar graphs, etc and questions are set to evaluate the candidate’s skills at analyzing the given information.
  • Data Sufficiency questions in this section are based on basic mathematics (at times Data Sufficiency is a part of the Quantitative Ability section).

Reading Comprehension (RC)

  • CAT usually has 6-8 passages in the RC section, with an overall length of 4500-5500 words and about 50 questions to answer in a span of about 30 minutes. However this too can vary according to the level of difficulty of questions.

Verbal Ability (VA)

  • This section explores your understanding of the English Language and also tests you on Reasoning Skills.
  • The questions in this section typically comprise sentence correction, sentence sequencing , verbal reasoning etc.

CAT: An Insight

The Common Admission Test or CAT as it is popularly known, is a multiple choice written exam designed to test a candidate’s ability & aptitude, under a time constraint. Held by the IIMs, CAT has now become the entrance examination for several other leading institutes.

Held on the second Sunday of December, CAT has test venues spread across the country thus ensuring participation from the country’s best.

CAT Exam coming very soon

CAT, like several others must have told you, is one of the most competitive exams. Also, it is the most unpredictable of all the tests. Formula work and rote learning don’t help to a greater extent when you are dealing with something like the CAT. This makes the test preparation interesting. CAT challenges your aptitude. And, there is no better motivation than a challenge.

If there is something typically CAT-like, it is only the ever-changing test structure. Consequently, you need to go beyond the mere understanding of concepts and be well versed with the application of concepts as well. CAT questions are like the real life scenarios where you are required to interlink two seemingly unrelated concepts and crack the problem.

A head start on the CAT 08 preparation will give you an edge over the other CAT 08 aspirants. Practice is the key to cracking the CAT. You may be a working professional or a student, an early start will allow you to balance your CAT prep with your graduation studies /work. If you start your preparation now you will have ample time to practice.

Complex it may seem to you, but is not unachievable when you prepare for CAT with ICAP. ICAP stands for Interlinked Concepts and Application based Pedagogy; is specially designed by IMS to help CAT aspirants. ICAP uses caselets to replicate real life problem situations and helps you with not just the theoretical knowledge of the concepts but also their application in varied problem situations. This case study based methodology ensures that you are equipped to take the changing CAT.

CAT desciption

The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or house cat to distinguish it from other felines, is a small carnivorous species of crepuscular mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and its ability to hunt vermin, snakes and scorpions. It has been associated with humans for at least 9,500 years.[4]

A skilled predator, the cat is known to hunt over 1,000 species for food. It can be trained to obey simple commands. Individual cats have also been known to learn on their own to manipulate simple mechanisms, such as doorknobs. Cats use a variety of vocalizations and types of body language for communication, including meowing, purring, hissing, growling, squeaking, chirping, clicking, and grunting.[5] With 69 million of them present in American homes,[6] cats are the most or the second most popular pets in that country. Cats also may be the most popular pet in the world, with over 600 million in homes all over the world.[7] They are also bred and shown as registered pedigree pets. This hobby is known as the "Cat Fancy".

Until recently the cat was commonly believed to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt, where it was a cult animal.[8] However a 2007 study found that all house cats are probably descended from a group of as few as five self-domesticating African Wildcats Felis silvestris lybica circa 8000 BC, in the Near East

CAT Skeleton

Sunday, January 20, 2008

.For faster calculations

1. The first requirement is to mug up tables till 30, reciprocals with respect to percentage and decimals, squares & cubes till 30, square roots and cube roots till 7.

2. Practice various questions to become comfortable with the various types of problems and understand by which method you can solve a particular problem faster. Exposure to various types of questions is required so CAT does not come as a surprise to you.

3. Be very thorough with basics of all arithmetic topics like profit, loss and discount, ratios, basic number theory and formulas.

4. Take sectional tests and analyse your performance. This helps you to understand your strengths and weaknesses. Remember, a test is not conducted to tell you that you perform at 80% efficiency but to point out the 20% area where you are making mistakes.

5. Try vedic maths and learn short-cut methods that work for you. Also, try doing mental calculations and minimise the use of using pen and paper.

6. Approximation is the best tool to arrive at answers quickly but using it is an art, you will have to learn this through trial-and-error and practice.

7. Often you can arrive at the correct answer by the process of elimination. For some questions you may see that two or three of the given options are pretty far fetched and it is easy to select the right answer. Again, this method needs practice to perfect.

8. Whenever you try to calculate faster then your comfort zone speed, you are bound to make silly mistakes. So, try to build up your speed slowly so that it peaks in November when all the entrance tests are about to begin.