BEST GMAT PREPARATION IN LAHORE
BEST GMAT PREPARATION IN LAHORE
A nervous young man of about 29 years in age walked into the front doors of a scientific institute that provided software training to computer buffs with only an IELTS program on their English rostrum. Looking for extra work and passionate about the teaching profession, I offered my services as a part-time English Language associate. The academic coordinator who was impressed with my near-native American speaking accent and assuming that I had a strong grip over English as a subject made an impulse decision to try me out for their early morning spoken English batch as a trial. Well, what can I tell you but within a few days I had a class full of 35 students and word started to spread among the neighboring community about a foreign-qualified American sounding tutor whose class was really enjoyable and much educational.
Dear Easy Coaching SAT applicants – let me begin by sharing a story; the year was 1994. When I was about to graduate high school, just like you I too was anxious about my future. A classmate suggested that in order to get into a competitive college, maybe even earn a scholarship, I had to take the SAT test and ace it. Talk about academic pressure! The night before the test, I was so nervous I was uncomfortably antsy and kept pacing up and down our condo’s entrance corridor. I couldn’t even bring myself to touch the Barron’s SAT book which was a loaner from my buddy Hayder let alone practice any questions. Now, English was my strong forte but Math was a bit challenging especially word problems, and speed, distance, and time questions. Calculus and Algebra I was okay with. Nonetheless, somehow or the other the night passed and I kept repeating the secret keys to scoring well in the test. Tips such as Process of Elimination, not wasting too much time on a single question, educated guessing, not second-guessing myself, and sticking to the answer that first pops up in my head. The magic tips worked like a charm. Turns out my fears were unfounded. I ended up scoring 1310 in 1600, not that I would get into an Ivy League College but I was happy.
A student once asked me in class, “Sir, can you please tell me the meaning of the word “nascent””, and so I did, while yet another asked me the meaning of the word “ambivalent”, and yet another asked me what “abhorrent” meant, and it went on like this on and off till the end of the class. I was able to tell them the meaning of more or less all the words directed at me. This is exactly how usually all my GRE classes go. We throw big words at each other and improve our vocabulary in the process. At times, my class divides itself into groups of three or four and tests each other word retention skills with the help of flashcards. You may be wondering as to what the reason behind such word memorizing drills is, and the answer is quite simple. Vocabulary, neigh, difficult vocabulary is an essential component of the GRE test; in fact, it is the heart and soul of this brain buster.
The year was 1994, and I was told that all international students are required to take an English ability test in order to qualify for a Visa to study abroad – not that English was a problem, but still, for some reason, the idea of being tested in a quizzical manner made me slightly anxious. Since it was the early 90s, VHS audio tapes ruled the day, and the Internet was yet unheard of. On the night of the test, a friend handed me a bunch of audio tapes for the listening section of the TOEFL test and Barron’s book for practice. As I had very little time on my hands, I hardly opened the book albeit I listened to the tapes for about 45 minutes. The concept of the test somewhat made sense in my head, and I awaited the dawn of the morrow. Taking the test in the hall full of candidates I kept thinking to myself that I was blowing the test and I had a peculiarly bad feeling about the whole thing. However, when the results came in I scored a stellar 633 in a maximum score of 677 which I beam about to this day. So that was my first brush with an English as a Second Language type test and now has been teaching both the IELTS & TOEFL courses for a solid decade, give or take, I can safely say that there’s hardly any tip or trick associated with doing well in these tests that I can’t share with my class.
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