Hi Friends!
I heard about this forum from a friend and he told me that folks here are GODLY GREAT! If it is GMAT, they guide and help for anything to everything! Just as they say about a famous priest or a sage in every corner of the world when you land up in a problem and look for advice. You must have known someone around you..right?
Alright...let me begin my story to the "Sages of GMAT" on BTG -
I am an Electrical Engineer and in my profession and I deal with technical stuffs mostly. Though I do read newspaper columns regularly, but my interest is limited to the articles related to Politics, Current Affairs & Sports. In my life so far, that's the best association I have had with qualified written English. Though in office we exchange hundreds of e-mail but they hardly add value to my knowledge because they are more focused on correctness of technical stuffs instead of purity in language & grammar. Besides, I really don't find articles related to Arts, History, Literature, High-Tech, Life Style, Finance e.t.c. interesting and therefore I mostly overlook them in the newspapers. Moreover, I have never read any literature or novel except for the fictions & dramas in my school English books. (That too with lots of efforts to get the passing grades but ended up reasonably well!)
With this real premise from my troubled affair with English, I want to start preparation for GMAT - RC section. This means not only I've to change my hostile attitude towards English Literature but also I have to get accustomed to American English rather GMAT English (For the fact that at times even American English is at conflict with GMAT). Given that I've to score the best on GMAT, I don't have a choice as well.
So my request to the experts here is to suggest me on following:
1. How to Start Loving English Literature? Especially in the areas I am not interested. I will appreciate references to few good American English Literature stuffs for starters, professionals & experts respectively. This will help me gradually mature in the language and get a hang of it. I would prefer to start reading in hard because reading in soft on PC is another hurdle for me. However, once the interest and speed develops, I hope reading on PC won't be a problem.
2. How to comprehend phrases, rhetorical & idiomatic constructions?
3. How to enhance reading speed & master a reasonable balance in comprehension & reading speed? My current speed is awfully - 175 WPS avg on straight constructions. With complex construction it falls drastically because I just can't skip a sentence and move on unless I understand it.
By now you must have felt, this guy is not fit...he must go back to school. Right?
My Answer: I don't mind going back to school if it helps me score min. 45 in verbal!
Can you please help me make it possible? I take GMAT on 31st Jan '12 and I want to be confident on RC by 31st Dec '11.
I eagerly look forward to your valuable suggestions.
Thanks,
Nishant
I heard about this forum from a friend and he told me that folks here are GODLY GREAT! If it is GMAT, they guide and help for anything to everything! Just as they say about a famous priest or a sage in every corner of the world when you land up in a problem and look for advice. You must have known someone around you..right?
Alright...let me begin my story to the "Sages of GMAT" on BTG -
I am an Electrical Engineer and in my profession and I deal with technical stuffs mostly. Though I do read newspaper columns regularly, but my interest is limited to the articles related to Politics, Current Affairs & Sports. In my life so far, that's the best association I have had with qualified written English. Though in office we exchange hundreds of e-mail but they hardly add value to my knowledge because they are more focused on correctness of technical stuffs instead of purity in language & grammar. Besides, I really don't find articles related to Arts, History, Literature, High-Tech, Life Style, Finance e.t.c. interesting and therefore I mostly overlook them in the newspapers. Moreover, I have never read any literature or novel except for the fictions & dramas in my school English books. (That too with lots of efforts to get the passing grades but ended up reasonably well!)
With this real premise from my troubled affair with English, I want to start preparation for GMAT - RC section. This means not only I've to change my hostile attitude towards English Literature but also I have to get accustomed to American English rather GMAT English (For the fact that at times even American English is at conflict with GMAT). Given that I've to score the best on GMAT, I don't have a choice as well.
So my request to the experts here is to suggest me on following:
1. How to Start Loving English Literature? Especially in the areas I am not interested. I will appreciate references to few good American English Literature stuffs for starters, professionals & experts respectively. This will help me gradually mature in the language and get a hang of it. I would prefer to start reading in hard because reading in soft on PC is another hurdle for me. However, once the interest and speed develops, I hope reading on PC won't be a problem.
2. How to comprehend phrases, rhetorical & idiomatic constructions?
3. How to enhance reading speed & master a reasonable balance in comprehension & reading speed? My current speed is awfully - 175 WPS avg on straight constructions. With complex construction it falls drastically because I just can't skip a sentence and move on unless I understand it.
By now you must have felt, this guy is not fit...he must go back to school. Right?
My Answer: I don't mind going back to school if it helps me score min. 45 in verbal!
Can you please help me make it possible? I take GMAT on 31st Jan '12 and I want to be confident on RC by 31st Dec '11.
I eagerly look forward to your valuable suggestions.
Thanks,
Nishant
