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wmoxam,

Thanks for answering; I look forward to a solution (assuming that there is a problem :) )

Neetu,

I agree with oLahav; there is no way to translate accurately what you got to a GMAT score.

But there is a much better solution: download the GMATPrep® Software (http://www.gmac.com/gmac/thegmat/testtakersupport/gmattestprepmaterials.htm) and enjoy the 2 full tests. This SW is available from the guys who organize the real test, and it proved really reliable (at least for me).

Regards

Hi Dan,

I’ve allowed me something between 9-12 months to prepare for GMAT, choose the schools, send the applications, receive the approval and start the course. The GMAT took me 2,5 months and I started researching seriously the schools right after the GMAT (it was a matter of focus; I had been looking at the schools since the beginning).

Furthermore, I have a kind of privileged position to talk about this because I am currently coaching prospective MBA students. There is a huge variation in this timeline; I’ve seen a student who completed everything in 4 months and others who plan to do this in 2 years.

Any other experience?

Oren, thanks for your reply. I’ll take a look at the universities you’ve mentioned.

Kind regards

Ravi,

Since your verbal score is weaker than your math score, I would focus on this part. Try to identify what type of question (comprehension, sentence correction, etc.) is giving you a hard time and practice a lot. I believe that dealing with your biggest weakness will impact quickly and significantly your overall score. This will give you confidence to keep moving.

By the way, I don’t believe in the “first 10 questions theory”. This post explains better: http://gmat.learnhub.com/discussions/3982-the-first-10-questions

Good luck

Rinaldo, na realidade o crucial é ter todas as posições e todas as cotações com o mesmo corte de horário. Assim, o que normalmente é viável é fazer tudo com base no fechamentos.

Just one comment: you don’t need to schedule the GMAT to download the SW. You just need to register as a user on the www.mba.com site and access this link: http://www.mba.com/mba/TaketheGMAT/ToolsToHelpYouPrepare/GMATPrepProducts/FreeGMATPrepTestPreparationSoftware.htm.

Cheers

ritikagupta86, let me ask you one thing: have you already thought about and defined why you’d like to pursue an MBA? I ask this for 2 reasons: first, with no experience you won’t be able to follow many discussions simply because you didn’t have experienced those situations. Second, your ability to contribute to these discussions will be very restricted, for the same reason. Therefore, you will not benefit from one of the most important aspects of an MBA, the exchange of experiences. Maybe it would be better to look for an MSc in management, or other course. I don’t think that a very high score will overcome this lack of experience, even because getting a 750+ score can also be considered an indication that you have a more “academic” profile. Please don’t interpret me in a wrong way, I don’t want to state that you shouldn’t pursue an MBA, but you must know exactly why you want to do this (and the desire to get a 6-figure salary in a Fortune 500 company definitely is not enough).

Talvez você esteja misturando a idéia de VaR paramétrico com histórico. No histórico você vai usar os preços reais dos ativos a cada dia, mas considerar sua carteira atual. Em um modelo paramétrico é que você usará uma aproximação como a que você descreveu (lembre-se que os ativos de RF também tem uma convexidade, cuja efeito no mtm se soma à variação indicada pela duration).

Eric,

Pro VaR Histórico é só calcular o quanto o valor de mercado da sua carteira atual teria variado no passado, dia-a-dia. O único modelo que você precisaria aqui é para precificar os ativos com retorno não-linear, e mesmo assim só na ausência de mercado para o ativo.

A simulação de Monte Carlo é uma forma de calcular VaR. Não tenho uma boa referência que explique os detalhes do processo, acho que vale dar uma olhada no Risktech (link acima).

Abraço

Jugal,

In this post you’ll find the “plan” I’ve used to study. You’ll see that there’s no fast track, what exists is hard work to do well right in the first time you take the test.

http://gmat.learnhub.com/discussions/7422-study-plans

Cheers

Avinash and Gaurav,

Thanks for your help. However, I still have the same problem, because I have matrices in my formulas and the Equation Editor doesn’t have this resource.

And it’s not a matter of controlling the size of the image; when I upload a image its size seems to be automatically reduced (therefore, when I change the size the resolution of the image is not good enough) and creating a link to an external image just didn’t work. I’ll try this again and see what happens.

Cheers

Friends,

I’m experiencing some difficulties dealing with images in lessons. The problems are:

- when I upload the image to the lesson it seems that it’s resized to a much smaller size, making it hard to “read” the image correctly - I couldn’t insert the URL of an image; as soon as I move the cursor to another box, the URL is erased

You can see how the image isn’t good at this lesson: http://learnhub.com/lesson/page/4827-breve-viso-do-risco-de-mercado-e-clculo-do-var-parte-2 (especially the equations)

Am I doing anything wrong?

I agree with your opinions; it doesn’t seem reasonable for me that an MFA become more important than an MBA in a business context. Unless, maybe, in those areas pointed out by oLahav.

In general, I believe that an understanding of how to leverage the use of information and knowledge will become a critical skill in the near (?) future, much more than incorporating “artistic” or “creative” concepts to business activities. These will continue restricted to some activities, like R&D, product development and marketing.

Adding to oLahav’s post, the diagnostic is not that helpful because it doesn’t report a grade. However, the same SW has 2 complete tests that you can take, and these are VERY helpful, because they simulate perfectly the real test (I got almost the same grade in the simulation and in the real GMAT).

Here’s Hannah, relaxing in the sun.

Interesting video… And so are other videos by professor Michael Wesch, specially this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM&feature=user

Personally, I believe that the point is no longer whether you have or not access to information, but what you do with the information you have. I developed this idea further in my thesis, but the main point is that information has no intrinsic value; it derives its value from what you get using that information.

Back to education, it doesn’t matter if you use a chalkboard or an Internet-based tool; what really matters is whether the students are being stimulated to think or not, whether they have to discover, create and use information or just have to decorate it. These skills will create the future leaders.

I had the opportunity to teach some courses about project management using study cases and this is a completely different experience. Students have the opportunity to share and discuss, different points of view must be considered and a decision must be reached. It’s really rewarding to participate in such an environment.

Cheers

Great, thank you Adam!

A curious thing happened to me… I published a lesson in 2 communities (checked them both before publishing) and it appears twice in each community. In my lessons page it appears only once. Because of the “coincidence” I believe that a bug may exist.

You can check it here: http://risk.learnhub.com/lessons and here: http://project-management.learnhub.com/lessons

I also noticed that I can delete the “extra” lesson inside the community lessons page; I’ll do this right after someone have the opportunity to check the pages to see whether it’s really a bug.

Cheers!

Great!

Thanks for this amazingly fast solution.

Cheers