If you are a GRE student who is struggling to find study time amid busy weekdays that seem to just fly by in fulfilling job-related obligations, then this article may help. This struggle that you are facing is also an opportunity for you to try a new work system that can help you skillfully manage…
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Alexander the Great (356 BC – 323 BC) is thought to be one of the best military generals of all time. He was twenty when he succeeded his father as the king of a Greek region called Macedon and within ten years, he had expanded his empire all the way till northwestern India. Here is…
A chalk hit Amar Sharma’s back. Students giggled. He kept writing on the blackboard. When he was done, he faced the class and asked, “What will be the speed of the train after five seconds?” No answer. He made a boy stand up. “Repeat to me what I’ve taught about accelerated motion.” “I didn’t understand…
“I know of people who get V170 and Q170 just like that, with little or no prep, while for me, who has been slogging for the past so many months, even a 320 remains elusive. This struggle has made me doubt my capabilities.” Some version of this statement plays out many times in my conversations…
Scheherazade and the Micro-Accountability Contract “If you will allow me, father, I will marry the king,” Scheherazade said. “Are you out of your mind?” her father asked. “This is suicide! There is no way I’ll let you marry that brute.” There was a time when king Shahryar had been well-loved by his subjects. Then, one…
Abstract Rohan* became my student two weeks before the date he had booked for his third attempt at the GRE. His quant score had stagnated around 159 whereas he needed a 165. We worked exclusively with the official quant material. He put in 48 hours-plus of quant study over the two weeks and, in his…
Many GRE students seem to believe, no doubt without consciously realizing it, that their prep resource of choice has golden touch like King Midas: the course or the book has to touch them just once and immediately, magically, their leaden ignorance would be transmuted into golden understanding. And if one round through the course or book…