Foundations....

It’s been quiet a while since I last wrote something here. The rationale for this is the fact that I’ve been on the move quiet a lot during the entire last month. Loads of things have happened since my last update. For starters, I received the much awaited study material (A carton full of books – divided in 3 packages) from Career Launcher. The Test Series from all the major education service providers is underway and I have enrolled in TIME’s All India Mock Cat Series – The first of the 19 AIMCATS is on 13th June 12, 2010 and I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that one. A good start to the Test Series will go a long way in boosting my confidence for the Entire term of 20 tests: 19 being mock CAT’s and 20th one the Holy Grail.


I’ve Begun my preparations and slowly trying to gather momentum as it has been around 10-12 months since I last picked up a book (fiction excluded). The one section that has really got me apprehensive is the Quantitative Aptitude section (Yeah…. I know I’m an Engineer..!!). One Topic that has really haunted me is the Number System which is used directly or indirectly in most of the CAT questions. I’ve given myself till 20th June to Master the Concepts and solve as much conceptual questions as I can manage. Conceptual learning will be from 4 sources:

• Study material - TIME
• Study Material – Career Launcher
• Quantitative Aptitude – Arun Sharma
• PagaLguy – The Everything of MBA

The fourth one is imperative for any serious MBA enthusiast. The quality of peers and seniors along with the information one finds there is simply priceless. But more on Pagalguy in a later post (I intend to dedicate an entire one to this wonderful website). Coming back to Number Systems, following are the topics I hope to cover over the next one week:

1. Types of Numbers
2. Squares, Cubes, Square Roots, Cube Roots
3. Prime Nos.
4. LCM and GCD
5. Sum of Factors of any Given Number
6. No. of factors of a given factor
7. Even and Odd Factors
8. No. of zeroes in an expression and a Factorial value
9. The Concept of Co-Prime or Relatively prime numbers
10. Remainder theorem
11. Cyclicity or units Digit of any Expression
12. Successive Division.

On a completely different note, the FIFA World Cup 2010 is in progress and I sincerely hope that Spain lift the trophy this time. Go Torres….!! :)