Camp - November Edition

GMAT Bootcamp in November
Date: 19th & 16th of December 2006

Venue:
Harsha Hotel & Convention Center,
Park Road, Bangalore - 560001
Phone : +91-80-22865555/66
(3-star hotel about 2kms from MGRoad and not hard to find)

Schedule of bootcamp:

9th December (Saturday)

9:30am - 10am: GMAT Introduction (with tea/snacks)

10:00am - 11:30pm: CR-1 (CR fundamentals)

11:30pm - 1:00pm: RC-1 (Reading technique)

1:30pm - 4:00pm SC - 1 (SC fundamentals & rules)

4:00- 5:00pm: RC-2 (Answering techniques)

5:00 - 6:30pm: CR-2 (Practice for 2/3rd of GMAT CR questions)

16th December (Saturday)

9:00am - 11:00am: CR-2 (Focussing on advanced concepts - what to expect on 700+)

11:0am - 1:30pm: SC-2 (Advanced concepts including test strategies and flashcards)

1:30pm - 2pm: Lunch

2:00pm - 4:00pm: RC-2 (How to answer without understanding everything)

4:00pm onwards: Diagnostic Test & review answers

Post Camp:

This contact program is followed by a period of mentorship from our side till you take your GMAT. This includes an exlusive email id to send your queries plus option of having a personal session with the experts anytime till you take the test.

Registration: Please call on 9886212835/9886241819 to confirm your participation. Alternately, hit the enquiry link on www.crackverbal.com and someone will get back to you.

Cost: Rs.3000/- paid at time of registration. This all inclusive for the entire program- taxes, food, class handouts etc.

New Website up & running

Finally, I got it done. A new website has been up & running for somedays now. The url is:

www.crackverbal.com

Please let me know your comments/feedback once you have a look at it.

I know there are many points to improve upon. But to give a background I got it done in less than 3hours - coming up with a name, registration of the domain name, building the site, getting server space, creating email ids, typing out the content and finally publishing it.

Before you hit upon any conclusion regarding my ingenuity and start passing undeserved compliments let me tell you that I had started my own business in 1997 - making webpages. I would like to call 1997 - as the pre-google era. With limited bandwidth and arcane UIs we struggled hard writing HTML and JavaScript codes into textpads before previewing it on Netscape (yep! IE still had just a 5% market share). There were infact no good resources and I relied heavily on a kind soul called Joe Barta, who among technical stuff also taught me how to make things simple and interesting. (www.pagetutor.com). I even started a company - www.eximlookup.com. In those days, businessplans would come up on the back of a paper-napkin and companies would start out overnight. Unfortunately for all the enthusiasm and energy I had, I lacked skills which on hindsight were more important than knowing HTML.

Which brings me to my other part - what is happening with the GMAT Verbal Bootcamp? To put it in a nut-shell - Everything under control. I probably bring in a lot more in terms of perspective, teaching experience, people management, marketing and most importantly gumption & chutzpah 10years after my first failed venture. And it shows! I have had about 22 students so far. One of the faculties has got an admit to Darden. And more importantly I see more enquiries flowing in then when I started of.

I will use this blog from now on to write more thoughts than to focus just on publicizing the GMAT Bootcamp. I am sure a lot of you might be happy to hear that.