Hello All,
It gives me great pleasure to be part of the Beatthegmat moderator team. Eric has upgraded my user status to Moderator of the Verbal section.
I am given to writing slightly longer posts. Brevity is not one of my virtues.
I am M/29/India and have a BS and MS degrees in Science and Computers respectively. I work as an Account Manager for a product based company in Bangalore, India. I have been teaching for close to a decade and my passion always has been to help people achieve their potential. Partly fueled by belief that if I can learn, so can anybody else.
I started off teaching Internet and computer basics (MS-Office etc.) on a part-time basis in 1997 when I was still in college and India just ushered in the Internet revolution. By 2001, after over 4years of teaching software I started teaching Verbal for CAT (the admission test for the Indian Institutes of Management - conversion ratio of 1:100). After another 5 years of teaching/mentoring I started off teaching GMAT esp the Verbal component. I have been associated with the Princeton Review and Kaplan as a Verbal faculty as some points in the last 1 year.
I have taken the GMAT myself and have a 700 score - Q49 and V38. More than just the scores, over the last year I have taken a lot of time to understand the test-taking process in order to help in my own teaching. This, I feel, gives me a greater clarity in understanding the travails of gmat prep
No matter what I do - write code, engage clients, project management - nothing gives me a bigger kick than logging onto the online forums helping people or teaching GMAT/Software/Management during weekends/evenings. If people could have their guiding goals in life written down - mine would be on Neon lights in Las Vegas proclaiming that I should chuck my full-time job for doing this
Till the epiphany fairy visits me the next time - hope to help and contribute people on beatthegmat, esp on the VERBAL forum that I will be moderating, to the best of my ability.
Please feel free to PM me any request or any queries.
Thanks,
Arun