In 2006, after I had scored 770 in GMAT, my business school essays began with a common theme- “I want to do an MBA because I want to start my own business and I want to learn basics of business such as finance, accounting etc. and therefore, an MBA degree will help me prepare myself to become an entrepreneur.

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Two years back, when we were in the process of opening our first CAT classroom coaching 'Tathagat' with Riddler, a friend from Pune asked him,"yaar, totalgadha.com MBA website ka naam suna hai?" Riddler obviously said yes but asked his friend how he knew about totalgadha.com. His friend said, "every morning most of  my colleagues log online to totalgadha.

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As Dagny is busy focusing on her GMAT Blog, Kamal is cracking quant questions online at TG Math, people are fervently blogging about ‘3 Idiots’ at TG Town, and New Year chill is slowly receding from Delhi weather, MBA 2010 fever is slowly rising inside me. The dulling effect- after one CAT is over- is slowly ebbing away and coming back instead is the realization that the game is going to start all over again.

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Both TG and DaGny, constantly overwhelmed by their time limitations, have repeatedly asked me to write an article for their intellectually hunger-stricken CAT 2010 junta. When DaGny wanted me to write a motivational article before CAT, I presented a basket of good problems with answers. And now when TG asked me to write a basic article for our RMO section, I wrote on a topic which is hot in mock tests and whose questions are as confusing to the students as their solutions given by almost every question poser institute- maxima and minima questions based on set theory.

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Many of you MBA 2010 aspirants would not be knowing about the existence of Total Gadha Math. Those who DO know about it may not be knowing why we created it. Here's why; In the past few years it has been visible to us that our team has been blessed with a good competence in Quant, Verbal etc., the sheer reason for which is that all of us are still in the mode of learning.

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While teaching and taking doubts for CAT for the past so many years for MBA aspirants, I have discovered and collected a lot of quant fundas. Many of them I have documented online but many more have been lost. So Finally I decided to have my own CAT 2010 Quant corner on TG where I can post and document these concepts forever.

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Once in a while during his CAT preparations, every MBA aspirant goes through a phase I call the ‘RC Madness’. Propelled by the battle cries of ‘start reading’, ‘increase your RC speed’, ‘build your vocabulary’, ‘read newspapers’ etc. he tries one thing after another to gain that elusive accuracy in reading comprehension passages.

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