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Can anyone shed some light on SIBM p vs iim raipur
So everyone i m going to make a New Website forum for WAT preparation which will help you in B-School selection process . where everyone can write a blog about any topic from politics to business and company profile to your intest & FOR checking your blog we will have seniors or some mentors who will guide us if we make mistakes so if you guys are intersted please let me know in comment.
- YES VERY MUCH INTERESTED
- No Not Intersted
- IT WILL NOT HELP IN WAT PREPARATION
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Are all iims going to start their 1st semester in online mode?
- Yes
- No
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guyssss when FMS will come out with its final shortlist ?? any idea ??
FMS and TISS right now 😒
To all Engineer peeps (prepared for CAT 2019 or preparing for CAT 2020) here, please vote for your branch 🙄
- Mechanical
- Computer Science
- Chemical
- I’m a lucky non-Engineer/Poll Check
- Biotechnology
- IT
- Electronics & Communication
- Electrical
- Metallurgy/Mining
- Something Else
- Civil
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Had converts Kozhikode, Indore, Lucknow this year but won’t be joining! Any serious prep group for CAT20 please let me know! Let’s bell CAT20!
RC practice - 25th May 2020
Because we have so deeply interiorized writing, we find it difficult to consider writing to be an alien technology, as we commonly assume printing and the computer to be. Most people are surprised to learn that essentially the same objections commonly urged today against computers were urged by Plato in the Phaedrus, against writing.
Writing, Plato has Socrates say, is inhuman, pretending to establish outside the mind what in reality can be only in the mind. Secondly, Plato‘s Socrates urges, writing destroys memory. Those who use writing will become forgetful, relying on external resource for what they lack in internal resources. Thirdly, a written text is basically unresponsive, whereas real speech and thought always exist essentially in a context of give-and-take between real persons.
Without writing, words as such have no visual presence, even when the objects they represent are visual. Thus, for most literates, to think of words as totally disassociated from writing is psychologically threatening, for literates‘ sense of control over language is closely tied to the visual transformations of language. Writing makes ―words‖ appear similar to things because we think of words as the visible marks signalling words to decoders, and we have an inability to represent to our minds a heritage of verbally organized materials except as some variant of writing. A literate person, asked to think of the word ―nevertheless‖ will normally have some image of the spelled-out word and be quite unable to think of the word without adverting to the lettering. Thus the thought processes of functionally literate human beings do not grow out of simply natural powers but out of these powers as structured by the technology of writing.
Without writing, human consciousness cannot achieve its fuller potentials, cannot produce other beautiful and powerful creations. Literacy is absolutely necessary for the development not only of science, but also of history, philosophy, explicative understanding of literature and of any art, and indeed for the explanation of language (including oral speech) itself. Literate users of a grapholect such as standard English have access to vocabularies hundreds of times larger than any oral language can manage. Thus, in many ways, writing heightens consciousness. Technology, properly interiorized, does not degrade human life but enhances it.
In the total absence of any writing, there is nothing outside the writer, no text, to enable him or her to produce the same line of thought again or even verify whether he has done so or not. In primary oral culture, to solve effectively the problem of retaining and retrieving carefully articulated thought, you have to do your thinking in mnemonic patterns, shaped for ready oral recurrence. A judge in an oral culture is often called upon to articulate sets of relevant proverbs out of which he can produce equitable decisions in the cases under formal litigation under him. The more sophisticated orally patterned thought is, the more it is likely to be marked by set expressions skilfully used. Among the ancient Greeks, Hesiod, who was intermediate between oral Homeric Greece and fully developed Greek literacy, delivered quasiphilosophic material in the formulaic verse forms from which he had emerged.
Q1). In paragraph 5 of the passage, the author mentions Hesiod in order to:
A. prove that oral poets were more creative than those who put their verses in written words.
B. show that some sophisticated expressions can be found among the preliterate ancient Greeks.
C. demonstrate that a culture that is partially oral and partially literate forms the basis of an ideal society.
D. no sophisticated expressions could be found among the pre-literate ancient Greeks.
Q2). According to the author, an important difference between oral and literate cultures can be expressed in terms of:
A. extensive versus limited reliance on memory.
B. chaotic versus structured modes of thought.
C. barbaric versus civilized forms of communication.
D. presence and absence of books
Q3). The author refers to Plato in the first and second paragraphs. He brings the philosopher up primarily in order to:
A. provide an example of literate Greek philosophy.
B. suggest the possible disadvantages of writing.
C. illustrate common misconceptions about writing.
D. define the differences between writing and computer technology.
Q4) Plato viewed writing with disdain because of all but which of the following reasons:
A. It results in a wrong projection of human ideas in the external world
B. It lacks the dynamism of human communication
C. It undermines memory
D. It brings about a cruel alienation of human from something that is his
Q5) The passage is primarily concerned with
A. criticising those who speak against writing‘
B. emphasising the importance of writing
C. documenting the negative effects of writing
D. discussing how writing has influenced human consciousness
Preparing for CAT 19 was the most fulfilling and fascinating period of my life. During the journey, I realized that test-taking is something I enjoy doing, something I would like to do all my life (or at least as far as one can plan their future).
I've also gained insights. I've learned that there is a correct way to approach a problem. There is a correct way to choose sets and questions. There is a correct way to develop a reading habit.
I would now like to help others. I think that that too would be extremely fulfilling for me. I'm not saying that I have mastered test-taking. I haven't. I was only the ~500th best performer in CAT 19. I have a lot to learn too.
I am going to create a telegram group. It will have content pertaining not only to CAT but also questions that challenge your intellect and help you develop logical thinking skills and healthy reading habits.
You can join if:
1. You are a CAT aspirant. You want to improve your test-taking abilities and are willing to learn with an open mind.
2. You, like me, want to help others. You're a good problem solver and want to teach others that skill.
3. You enjoy challenges. You want to try your hand at cracking good questions and reading good content.
DO NOT join if:
1. You don't plan on contributing. If you aren't active, you'll be removed.
Send me a DM here if you're interested in joining. Cheers!
Please vote:
- IIM Udaipur
- VGSOM KGPR
- IIM TRICHY
- DMS IITD
- IIM Raipur
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Netflix account ka koi jugaad hai?
saste main mile
A list of the best finance blogs and websites curated by Arpit Lahoty, one of my IIM-A batch mates. Arpit is an avid finance reader and enthusiast and all these blogs are a part of his subscription list: https://www.non-engineer.com/post/best-finance-websites-blogs-mba These websites and blogs will help you stay updated about finance related news, topics and increase your overall knowledge of the finance domain. These resources can help you during the MBA interviews, placement interviews and in day-to-day discussions.
Total number of people who got shortlisted for CAP? Any idea?
Whoo! Better late than never Chapter 3 is out https://iimgroot.netlify.app/ Chapter 4:- The clock is ticking Will be out on 31st May!
IIM Lucknow- PGP Converts+ Waitlisted are requested to fill up the google form, so that we can get an idea of the WL movement. The link to the spreadsheet, also has been attached in this message.
Fill up the form, please
https://forms.gle/VfLM3GhYYjxApueSA
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AF_aShdjf8-ia64MJbJ6YZ1rXTOIsjhNyhQTrwPdQmE/edit?usp=sharing
Everyone says IIMC is good for finance, B- Consulting ...., Trichy- Fin, NM- fin, Nitie- Ops etc. For labelling a B-school for a specific Major, I think one considers (faculty+ placement), Right. But why do we consider faculty, shouldn't we only consider Placements ( i.e. number of companies coming to the B-school for that Major). As if DTU is famous for Mechanical, NIT Kurukshetra for civil, IIT Delhi for electrical etc because of their faculties, but harsh reality is this, students doing undergrads in specified branches from these emminent institutions end up either placed in Tech companies or a few in core. Shouldn't a B-school should also be prioritised solely on placement, coz in the end that what really matters? (Please don't consider Exposure, B-school competitions etc)
Interested in Marketing:
- XIMB- BM
- IMT-G
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Which ?
- IIM BG
- GIM PGDM
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Ok . I'm probably going to get a lot of heat here since GEMs don't like non-engineers like me, but since this is the CAT 2020 prep group, I just have to ask. I am a non-engineer (PG in English). My profile isn't anything to write home about either: X/XII/Grad-91.8/74.5/54.5. Fresher. I scored poorly in CAT last year (75.69) because frankly i did not put my full effort into it. That's why this year i am determined to crack it and have already started preparing at full throttle since March.
I just wanted to ask you guys since you're the best source of information that i have right now: what is a good percentile for a student such as myself to even stand a hope or chance at IIMA/B/C? If not these three, then which institutes do i realistically stand a chance of getting a call from/which institutes should i ideally be opting for? Any inputs would be appreciated.