architect.praveen

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Hey Dudes!, I have scheduled my GMAT on 18th March..lets prepare together for great sucess. lets share.......i found SC, CR and DS need to be concentrate more to get good score. Let me introduce myself first, my name is Praveen and am an architect by profession diversified in Marketing. I am working with a Malaysian based interior fit-out company as Business Development Manager. I have 5 years of work experience. I have started my out call center last year OCT along with my friend. I will appriciate if anybody wants to introduce to me. Cheers!

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The primary responsibility of citizens is to obey their nation’s civil and criminal laws. Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading. Laws are concerned with establishing social order and protecting the community as a whole. It gives us set of orders for peace, safe and orderly living. It is essential for every citizen to obey the civil and criminal laws enforced by the nation. I completely agree with the author. I would like to give my views with examples to support my stance. First, let us take income-tax as an example, if every citizen pays income-tax properly then government can raise its funds and use the funds for the citizen’s benefits, if people fails pay then it will indirectly affect the citizens itself. So people should be bound to the laws set up by the government for the orderly living. Second, we see many people drive their vehicles while talking on mobiles. Not only these people will put their lives in danger but also they will be dangerous to many other riders. So if everybody in the society takes responsibility to obey the laws then everybody in this society will be safe and secured and lead their lives peacefully. Third, we heard of many cases of drug abusing, people who takes drugs can go for any extent to get it. For example to buy those drugs they need to pay money and if the person doesn’t have money with him will try to steal or even he will threat somebody to get the money and this will lead to crime. A Person who takes drugs not only affects his life but also he will be threat to the society. Finally, the above examples clearly show that the every citizen should obey the laws set by the nation to lead safe and hygienic life otherwise it will be affect not only the people but society as a whole.

“The common notion that workers are generally apathetic about management issues is false, or at least outdated: a recently published survey indicates that 79 percent of the nearly 1,200 workers who responded to survey questionnaires expressed a high level of interest in the topics of corporate restructuring and redesign of benefits programs.” Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc. The argument present is not convincing. The author concludes that the survey conducted for the 1200 workers is the indication against the general notion of the workers apathetic about management issues. The argument relies on too many assumptions, which aren’t necessarily true. There are three areas that merit further explanation before this author should receive any degree of credibility. My first problem with this argument is about the survey. Is this survey is applicable for all the corporate?. There may be many other corporate in which workers are apathetic about management issues. The author could enhance his position by conduction another survey with different organization and compare the results. This brings me to my second point: the number of workers who responded to the survey is the representative of all the corporate workers? What is the credibility that they have responded correctly with their opinions? There may be possibility that responded workers took the survey casually and expressed positive towards questionnaires. The author should provide some firm evidences that the survey has done properly. Lastly, the author indicates that the workers responded for the survey has expressed high level interest in the topics of corporate restructure and redesign of benefits programs. My question is that what about the other management issues apart from the befit programs? As per the general tendency of the human beings, the response will always be positive towards the benefits that they get. To consider the workers apathetic nature is false or outdated towards management issues, the author should conduct a survey to the workers considering all the management issues apart from the benefit programs. If the workers response is same for all the issues then the author’s position will not be questionable. There are just too many holes in this argument, so it is difficult to take author seriously. Unless some further evidence surfaces in each of the three areas described above. The premises that are presented are insufficient proof that the conclusion drawn.

“People who use the artificial sweetener aspartame are better off consuming sugar, since aspartame can actually contribute to weight gain rather than weight loss. For example, high levels of aspartame have been shown to trigger a craving for food by depleting the brain of a chemical that registers satiety, or the sense of being full. Furthermore, studies suggest that sugars, if consumed after at least 45 minutes of continuous exercise, actually enhance the body’s ability to burn fat. Consequently, those who drink aspartame-sweetened juices after exercise will also lose this calorie-burning benefit. Thus it appears that people consuming aspartame rather than sugar are unlikely to achieve their dietary goals.” Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc. This argument is poorly arranged and provides no particular evidence to support. There are three areas that merit further explanation before this author should receive any degree of credibility. My first problem with this argument is that there is no scientific evidence has been provided to prove consumption of aspartame; one can gain weight rather than weight loss. The author could enhance his position by showing either a scientific data or a proper survey report that proves consumption of aspartame will contribute to weight gain. This brings me to my second point: the author in his example says that high levels of aspartame will actuate a crave for food; my question is what if the consumption is at low levels. The author should provide some experimental evidences to support. In addition the author also needs to provide some evidences or a scientific data to prove that consumption of sugar after exercise enhance the body’s ability to burn fat where as consumption of aspartame reduces the ability to burn fat. Lastly, I take this issue with the source of this article, which appeared in the health section of a magazine, I would like to know weather the article is reliable? And do its editor conducted and survey or he has any scientific data to strengthen this argument greatly. There are too many holes in this argument. So it is difficult to take author seriously. Unless some further evidence surfaces in each of the three areas described above. The premises that are presented are insufficient proof that the conclusion is viable.

“For hundreds of years, the monetary system of most countries has been based on the exchange of metal coins and printed pieces of paper. However, because of recent developments in technology, the international community should consider replacing the entire system of coins and paper with a system of electronic accounts of credits and debits.” Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading. On the quote, the speaker is affirmative with the application and prevalence of electronic monetary system, the prospect of converting the worlds monetary system of metal coins and printed pieces of paper in to computerized accounts of credits and debits is asserting. Before taking my stance of agreeing or disagreeing I would like to examine various aspects of the monetary systems. First, the suggestive of speaker is unable to be applied in every corner of world, in practical sense; the electronic facilities are impossible for undeveloped countries. Many countries in the world are still undeveloped and they lack the proper technological aspects and so they may not be able to change their present existing monetary system. Second, the system of electronic accounts needs power back up. There are some past and present evidences, which shows that there is every possibility of power outage at any point of time. The best example is 2003 ‘Blackout’ at USA, there was a power outage across northern part of the country affecting more that 50000 people and businesses. And the resent incident at Costa Rica, which has also power failure across the country. I would like to point out if international communities adopt electronic system of accounts and if the above incidents occur what will be the consequences. Third, security is the main aspect to be consider for electronic system of accounts, in the present technological advancements, we very often come across the news about hacking. This is a practice of stealing the secured information and passwords through Internet. There are lot of incidents happened in the past, which shows lot of loop holes and proves to be lack of proper surveillance. The resent incident is that the important database of a top-notch bank in the world has been hacked. In conclusion, the above three areas described clearly shows that there is much to be developed to replace the present monetary system of coins and printed piece of paper to electronic system of accounts. I will support the present existing monetary system as the practicality of electronic system is questionable.

The following appeared as part of an article in a magazine devoted to regional life: “Corporations should look to the city of Helios when seeking new business opportunities or a new location. Even in the recent recession, Helios’s unemployment rate was lower than the regional average. It is the industrial center of the region, and historically it has provided more than its share of the region’s manufacturing jobs. In addition, Helios is attempting to expand its economic base by attracting companies that focus on research and development of innovative technologies.” Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc The argument urging corporations should look to the city of Helios when seeking for new business opportunities or a new location is unconvincing as the statement is ambiguous itself. There are four areas that merit further explanations before this author should receive any degree of credibility. My first problem with this argument is that the author specifying there is a recession at present, and he is expecting the corporations should consider Helios for the new business opportunities. Any corporations to start the new business will first study about the economic background of the location and it is the base for them to identify the future growth. For example, India, China and Brazil, falls under two tier countries based on their steady economic growth and due to steady economic growth of these countries, many foreign companies are showing interest for their businesses. Whereas, Countries like Iran, Iraq with their poor economic growth, the foreign companies may not be showing interest for their new businesses due to limited opportunities. My second problem with this statement is that, the author says that the Helios unemployment rate is lower than the regional average, but how much? There is no evidence to consider and there is a possibility that Helios may be a small city with relatively large amount of unemployment. What if this is the case? So author needs to give some evidence to take him serious. My third problem with this statement is that, the author’s point on historical data of Helios, May be in the past history Helios is the industrial center of the region but there is no concrete evidence has provided to consider it present. And also there is no evidence weather it is attracting the employers where it use to be in the past. As there is a recession at the present. Lastly, the author says that, Helios is attempting to expand its economic base by attracting companies that focus on R & D, weather or not Helios was successful in its attempt is not mentioned. Author should provide concrete evidence to show that Helios has emerged as a destination of the companies focusing on R & D. There are too many holes in this argument, so it is difficult to take author seriously, unless some further evidence surfaces in each of the four areas described above. The premises that are presented are insufficient proof that the conclusion is viable.

The following appeared in a report presented for discussion at a meeting of the directors of a company that Manufactures parts for heavy machinery: “The falling revenues that the company is experiencing coincide with delays in manufacturing. These delays, in turn, are due in large part to poor planning in purchasing metals. Consider further that the manager of the department that handles purchasing of raw materials has an excellent background in general business, psychology, and sociology, but knows little about the properties of metals. The company should, therefore, move the purchasing manager to the sales department and bring in a scientist from the research division to be manager of the purchasing department.” Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc. The argument urging falling revenues that the company is experiencing due to delays in the manufacturing and because of the poor planning in purchasing metals is unconvincing because it relies on too many assumptions that aren’t necessarily true. There are many other areas that merit further explanations before this author should receive ant degree of credibility. First, there are many others factor such as quality of the product, market strategy, market size, competitors strength, market penetration and the number of orders in hand, which will also effect the companies revenues. the statement is not clear weather the author considered all the above factors, if not the authors conclusion cannot be considered seriously. Second, the author’s assumption pertaining to the delays in the manufacture due to the poor selection of the metals sounds dubious, as there are certain international norms, which have to be followed by all the manufacturing companies. Author cannot blame purchasing department as their job is to purchase material but not selection of the metals. R&D department will do the selection process and this department will direct the purchase department to by the metals. Furthermore, the delays in manufacturing will also occur due to poor performance of the machinery, poor labor management etc… Lastly, on what basis the management appointed the present purchasing manager even though he has only little knowledge about the properties of the metals? Instead of moving the present purchase manager if they interlink research division and purchase department the metal selection can be resolved easily, if not the management should recruit another scientist for the research division and which leads extra burden to the company because issue here is to rise the revenue. There are so many holes in this argument, so it is difficult to take the author seriously. Unless some further evidence surfaces in each of the three areas described above. The premises that are presented are insufficient proof that the conclusion is viable.

The following appeared in a report presented for discussion at a meeting of the directors of a company that Manufactures parts for heavy machinery: “The falling revenues that the company is experiencing coincide with delays in manufacturing. These delays, in turn, are due in large part to poor planning in purchasing metals. Consider further that the manager of the department that handles purchasing of raw materials has an excellent background in general business, psychology, and sociology, but knows little about the properties of metals. The company should, therefore, move the purchasing manager to the sales department and bring in a scientist from the research division to be manager of the purchasing department.” Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc. The argument urging falling revenues that the company is experiencing due to delays in the manufacturing and because of the poor planning in purchasing metals is unconvincing because it relies on too many assumptions that aren’t necessarily true. There are many other areas that merit further explanations before this author should receive ant degree of credibility. First, there are many others factor such as quality of the product, market strategy, market size, competitors strength, market penetration and the number of orders in hand, which will also effect the companies revenues. the statement is not clear weather the author considered all the above factors, if not the authors conclusion cannot be considered seriously. Second, the author’s assumption pertaining to the delays in the manufacture due to the poor selection of the metals sounds dubious, as there are certain international norms, which have to be followed by all the manufacturing companies. Author cannot blame purchasing department as their job is to purchase material but not selection of the metals. R&D department will do the selection process and this department will direct the purchase department to by the metals. Furthermore, the delays in manufacturing will also occur due to poor performance of the machinery, poor labor management etc… Lastly, on what basis the management appointed the present purchasing manager even though he has only little knowledge about the properties of the metals? Instead of moving the present purchase manager if they interlink research division and purchase department the metal selection can be resolved easily, if not the management should recruit another scientist for the research division and which leads extra burden to the company because issue here is to rise the revenue. There are so many holes in this argument, so it is difficult to take the author seriously. Unless some further evidence surfaces in each of the three areas described above. The premises that are presented are insufficient proof that the conclusion is viable.

The following appeared in an announcement issued by the publisher of The Mercury, a weekly newspaper: “Since a competing lower-priced newspaper, The Bugle, was started five years ago, The Mercury’s circulation has declined by 10,000 readers. The best way to get more people to read The Mercury is to reduce its price below that of The Bugle, at least until circulation increases to former levels. The increased circulation of The Mercury will attract more businesses to buy advertising space in the paper.” Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc. This argument is unconvincing because it relies on too many assumptions that aren’t necessarily true. There are three areas that merit further explanations before this author should receive any credibility. My first problem with this argument is about the circulation of the paper, There are many other factors such as quality of the content of the paper, locations covered, awareness of the people etc… will also effect the circulation decline apart from the price. So the author should also concentrate on the above factors before making any conclusion. My second problem with the statement is that reduce its pricing sounds illogical, as the printing costs, salaries to the employees and other infrastructure, which incurs for producing the newspaper, will decide the pricing. Sudden reduction of the price without proper calculation on the above may challenge to run the newspaper. Further more, sudden reduction in the pricing readers may doubt on the quality of the paper and which may lead to further decline in the readership. Lastly, I take issue with the publisher’s analysis and survey; do the publisher considered the quality, market penetration, size of the paper and advertisement, which are essential points to increase the readership? If ‘Bungle’ scores high on the above points then answer is in front of us for Mercury’s readership decline. There are just too many holes in this argument, so it is difficult to take author seriously, unless some further evidence surfaces in each of the three areas described above. The premises that are presented are insufficient proof that the conclusion is viable.

“There is only one definition of success-to be able to spend your life in your own way” Every individual has different goals in his/her life. The definition of ‘Success’ will be different from person to person. One person may think what ever he achieved is a success to him whereas for the other person it may be a failure. One cannot conclude that success has only one definition. Lets discuss pros and cons of the statement before taking stance. First, How many people agree that Hitler or Osama-bin Laden are succeeded in their lifestyle? Though whatever they have done may be success in their perspective as they spend their life in their own way. But nobody in the world accepts their achievements as success, the results of their success is malevolent. In contrast, Mahatma Gandhi has different way of approach towards the success of getting the independence to India and it is widely accepted by the universe. So success of a person should accept by the society and it should contribute some thing to the society for the better living. Second, another example in the present scenario, Nuclear fuel can be used as energy source and also it can be used to develop the harmful weapons, the usage for the good cause will always be the success as in the present situation of the universe, it is essential to protect the natural energy resources such as coal if we expect to protect for the future generations. The nuclear fuel serves as best alternative to conserve coal. And the development of harmful weapons by using nuclear fuel cannot be a success, as it will cause destruction of the world. Third, any product in the market will get success if it is widely accepted by the consumers. The company cannot manufacture on their own way with out considering consumers needs. For example, company X and company Y are in to the car manufacturing, company X has manufactured a car with contemporary design, but it can only run by petrol and the its fuel consumption will 5 lt/km whereas company Y has manufactured a car with contemporary design too but it can be run by using petrol as well as CNG gas. Definitely consumer will by a car which, is manufactured by Company Y as The cost petrol when compare to CNG gas is much higher and it will not pollute that much extent. So company Y has success over company X due to understanding consumer needs. In conclusion, one cannot get success by spending his life in his own way but he can be succeed when he consider the society and understand his goal weather for the betterment of the society or to cause the harm.

All groups and organizations should function as teams in which everyone makes decisions and shares responsibilities and duties. Giving one person central authority and responsibility for a project or task is not an effective way to get work done. The first statement sounds logical whereas the second statement, everyone in the team should be decision maker sound illogical. Before concluding my stance of agreeing or disagreeing the statement, I would like to examine various factors with supporting examples. First, there is a saying called ‘so many cooks spoils the curry’. A team is a mixture of experienced and inexperienced people and the experience and expertise of a person makes him to take right decision at right situation. However any team needs to work and share the responsibilities and duties to get the good results. For example, if everyone in the team is a decision maker lacks the direction, which is very essential to complete a task. Also there will be chance for the conflicts among the team members and also it will lead to raise the egos among the team and which further spoils the unity of team. Second, Indian politics for the year 1996 is the best example proves that everyone in a group, if decision maker the results will be worst. At that period of elections no parties got the majority and finally BJP and other parties merged to form the third front, However, when they were asked to show their strength in the parliament to form the government, due to lack of understanding among all the parties and as every merged party is a decision maker to distribute the ministries, got the disputes and government has dissolved and president of India has called for the re-elections. Further there is loss of economy as well as time. Third, they is another saying ‘a good coach might not be a good player’, means every individual cannot take a good decision maker, but sharing the ideas among the members in a team and choosing the best idea will be practical method to solve the situation in front of them and to choose the best idea, every team or a group needs a leader who can show the right direction to draw the effective results. In sum, every team or a group must share the responsibilities and duties to form as a strong entity but the leader or decision maker should only one person to represent and he should be followed by all the team members to attain effective results.

“Of all the manifestations” of power, restraint in the use of that power impresses people most. The use of power is subjective and depends upon the situation that occurs. However, Many examples in the past and present history indicate that restrain in the use of power is most successful and which impresses the people most. Before taking my stance I would like to give some examples in the past history and also would like to consider the general situation among us. First, the universal fact is that one can win the hearts of the people by giving them love and affection rather than by using the power, command. Lets consider of workplace as an example, a senior can get good result from his team by giving them support and encouragement rather than using his power, using the former the team can work heart full and support their senior well and later can also get results but not that much effective as the team cannot share their ideas effectively with their senior and there will always lack of communication due to the behavior of their senior. Second, lets take an example from the past history. Mahatma Gandhi is the best example for the restraint in the use of power. Even though he has maximum support from the nation he choose the way to restrain in the use power rather than patriotic way to get the independence for INDIA and he won the hearts of million people around the world. And the same is applicable to Mr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa. Third, In contrast to the above example, let’s take the resent situations in the Pakistan. The president Mr. Musharaf is the best example. His thrust to retain his position and for the selfishness he is misusing his power and facing hostile effects not only from the people of Pakistan but also from all over the world. The same situation is also applicable to Mr. Hitler of Germany in the past history. Finally, There are some situations, where restraint of the power will not be effective tool. For example ‘war against to the terrorism’, here the power has to be used to protect the country against the terrorists. In sum, I agree with the statement as most of the examples indicate that the restraint of the power is the best method to impress the people most and the result will be much effective than using power.

"Corporations and other businesses should try to eliminate the many ranks and salary grades that clasify employees according to their experience and expertise. A 'flat' organizational structure is more likely to encourage collegiality and cooperation among employees" The speaker states that to encourage collegiality and cooperation among employees, companies should implement flat organizational structure and should eliminate many ranks and salary grades that classify employees experiance and expertise. I completely disagree with the statement as it is not convincing to me. Firstly, by implementing flat organization structure, there is no gaurentee that such system will encourage collegiality and cooperation among employees. for example, due to the equal ranks every employee is the decision maker and it may lead to ego among the employees and hence may lead give nagitive impact and spoil the team work. Secondly, the flat organization system may demotivate the employees who are very sharp and brilliant in their work and ideas and who deserves encouragement through promotions and hike in their salaries to contribute well for the organizational growth. Thirdly, technically any organization or business needs coglomeration of experienced and freshers as a hirarchy because the experienced employee has ability to take the pressure and problem solving capability. Exerienced employees will guide and train the rookee employees to take perfect decisions in different situations due to their vast experiance and eventually help their juniors to grow up to their ranks. In conclusion, The salaries and ranks should be decided by the experience and expertise of an employee to stabilize the organizational structure and the idea of flat organization will not be workable practically.