CetKing What Are Irregular Verbs? Over 180 English verbs are called irregular verbs, and they break all the rules. Most words in the English language follow the rules: today I use, yesterday I used. Past tense gets an -ed. Simple! Irregular verbs are a pain because there isn’t one rule you can learn for them. Irregular verbs … Read more
All quantitative aptitude examinations will have questions based on percentage system. Most of the questions from this category are related to change of percentages or successive change of percentages, for example “In a shop price of Laptop which is marked at $1000 was discounted 20% for Christmas eve and further 30% discounted for New Year eve. What is … Read more
Logical Reasoning section in Common Admission Test (CAT) carries a couple of questions on binary logic. The application of this logic is more in finding out the truthfulness in the statements made. In a binary logic problem, we have people who either speak a true statement or a false statement. These people are divided into … Read more
A Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from a top business school (B-School) and you think you are ready to call the shots? Hold on… B-School curriculum doesn’t teach everything you need in real life. It just makes you corporate world-smart. Here’s a list of books – some old and some new – that we think … Read more
We learn about remainders in grade school .It isn’t hard to see that when 16 is divided by 7, the remainder is 2. How can it possibly be the case that something we learned in fifth grade is included on a test that helps determine where we go to graduate school? But in mathematics, seemingly … Read more
At times, it will be helpful to know the kind of terminology we’re taught in grade school, while at other times, we’ll simply want to select simple numbers that satisfy the parameters of a Data Sufficiency statement. So let’s explore each of these scenarios in a little more detail. A simple example can illustrate the … Read more
Clauses are the building blocks of the English language. Any sentence hat you write which has a subject (the doer of the action) and a verb (an action word) is called a clause. Whereas a phrase is a group of words which makes sense but not complete sense, a clause makes complete sense.For example, “a … Read more
Vocab plays the vital role to crack verbal section of any competitive examination. For best vocab, one should know a good number of words and their meaning. To help you with that, we are here to list out the words which are important and likely to appear in competitive examination. These words are from Word … Read more
Conjunctions The art of communication, whether oral or written, lies in how words are brought together to form sentences. It is here that conjunctions play an important role. They are words that connect other words, phrases or clauses within a sentence. For example, ‘and’, ‘or;, ‘besides’, ‘also’, ‘because’, but’, ‘although’, ‘despite’, ‘yet’, ‘however’ and so … Read more
Here is how “plan” questions are different from your regular strengthen/weaken questions – instead of a conclusion, we are given situations and plans to remedy a particular problem. We are then asked to evaluate the success of the plan or identify a weakness in the plan or an assumption of the plan. Note that a plan … Read more
