The journey continues.....

Really buzy.......
Here they keep us really buzy.......sleep is a luxury.......Exams quizzes projects assignments all continue....So much to learn.
All of it is relevant the course is designed so that we can directly relate things to our previous experience.
The Professors are awesome, I think it is worth mentioning Prof Saral Mukherjee, Prof Samar Datta and Prof Dheeraj sharma....All these take the learning to a different level...
The textbook seems redundant.....it is totally case based and how u can relate the text and other reference material to the case........
Before the lecture most of the material is abstract but post the lecture it suddenly makes sense.......
Just in time:- is a system designed to fail....and thus it can succeed.....You will know the meaning of this sentence only if u come to IIMA PGPX.......

Highlight to see the OA...........

Despite recent increases in sales and cash flow that have propelled automobile companies' common stocks to new highs, several industry analysts expect automakers, in order to conserve cash, to set cash more conservatively than they were.

A) to set dividends more conservatively than they were
B) to set dividends more conservatively than they have been
C) to be more conservative than they have been in setting dividends
D) that they will be more conservative than they were in setting dividends
E) that they will be more conservative than they have been to set dividends

the OA is C

Quizzes and exams...........

So, the season of quizzes and exams has now subdued for a while....has been a real rush....All of us trying to do our best......But the exams were a eye opener......need to change the whole study methodology that I was  having till now........
The learnings that we have every day are increasing exponentially we also need to devise a pattern to grasp it i.e to record it so that we can use it in the future.
There is a marketing professor Dheeraj Sharma, throws completely different perspective of marketing launches, there are some things that we just cannot think of, but the crux of all the courses seems to be the same, develop a holistic perspective of looking at things.

BTW I know i have not been keeping up with blogging......it has been really buzy and whatever time I am finding am trying to give it to my family.........
BTW yesterday had a party....was awesome......great time with friends and colleagues........
Have put some photos of our on campus trails.....Thanks to the Nescafe outlet for our doses of caffeine .....without which survival would be questionable........:)

So here goes today's GMAT question this is a as vs like question, one of the basic concepts of GMAT please go through it and also clarify the concept....am reiterating correct answer is not important what is important is that why are the remaining 4 wrong......Highlight below the question to see the OA.

Samuel Sewall viewed marriage, as other seventeenth-century colonists, like a property arrangement rather than an emotional bond based on romantic love. 

(A) Samuel Sewall viewed marriage, as other seventeenth-century colonists, like a property arrangement rather than 

(B) As did other seventeenth-century colonists, Samuel Sewall viewed marriage to be a property arrangement rather than viewing it as 

(C) Samuel Sewall viewed marriage to be a property arrangement, like other seventeenth-century colonists, rather than viewing it as 

(D) Marriage to Samuel Sewall, like other seventeenth-century colonists, was viewed as a property arrangement rather than 

(E) Samuel Sewall, like other seventeenth-century colonists, viewed marriage as a property arrangement rather than 

OA is E