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Hello, In the second paragraph, one example could have been given - what happens when 'public' information is actually withheld by politicians. A practical or logical example regarding this would further strengthen the reasoning. I also feel that your sentences might be structured a bit better. Try removing prepositions from sentences. For example: "The rights granted by the constitution of a country to its citizens make it obligatory for the political leaders to share the information with the public." can be written as: "Citizens' constitutional right make it obligatory for political leaders to share information with the public." I believe this method creates a better impact.

Sorry for the late reply. Was a bit busy for last few days. qgh, rocky, belinda: thanks for the helpful comments!

Hi, Thanks for having a look. Finished this in 40mins with proof-reading. Is it too short? ------------- "Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways." At first glance, ‘originality’ might mean engendering something that is new. However, it is the definition of ‘new’ that takes ‘originality’ to a new level. ‘New’ could be something that was previously undiscovered, something that did not exist, something that no one knew before or even something that was in front of everyone’s eyes but was just not comprehensible. Thus, originality might mean imagining something new, bringing new ideas from old thoughts or even looking at the existing from a different perspective . This is true in science, in arts and in almost every aspect of human life. From the dawn of civilization, men have tried to fly. Some attempts were courageous while some were futile. But Leonardo da Vinci was the first to study flying behavior of birds and to implement that knowledge in designing a flying machine. That’s originality! Thinking something never thought before. But when the Wright brother built and flew the first heavier than air aero-plane using the same knowledge – that was original, too. It was the infusion of aerodynamics, mechanical engineering and general physics. Many old ideas put together to give humanity a pair of wings. When Picasso introduced his unique painting style – a mesh of three dimension on a two dimensional canvas, it was indeed a brilliant example of originality in art. This non-existent practice put Picasso in a different row. But it cannot be said that every original piece of art has a unique style of its own. Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, Venus de Milo, David – all these world famous pieces of art are original; not because they were created in a unique way, but because these were new ideas implemented in traditional methods. Thinking about the current civilization, we see originality in a different light. Take iPod for example. The idea of music-on-the-go existed since the 80s. Sony brought in the Walkman a long time back. Even iPod’s chip memory idea was started by Creative. But it was Apple who gave the idea a human touch – looked at the existing scenario from a different perspective. By bundling the iPod with iTunes music store, they did nothing but combined two existing separate technologies. But that is what made it click; that is what made it special, made it original. Originality has an identity of its own. Whatever is original must be distinctive. It must stand out form the crowd and make itself known. It does not matter how that identity was created. Whether it was a complete new idea or just reshuffling of old ones is quite irrelevant. As long as it is ‘new’, an idea is original. --------

Thanks ags and cartman. :) So what I'm planning now is that since I do get a few mins extra, for the first 10 questions, I'll decide my answer; look away; think about something else; then again read the question and see if the answer 'fits' the question. I hope this will work. And after the first ten, I don't intend to bother anyway (thumbs up to cartman for that).

Thanks! (Y)

Hi! Hopefully there are more like me out there! In Maths, I'm having problems with the trick questions. Like I'm missing out the details and answering the wrong one. For example, "which one is 150% greater than 60" - I'm answering 90 instead of 150. And in every mock test I give, I'm losing out 5/6 raw score only on these silly mistakes. I believe I have a strong math background and so far I have not encountered a single GRE math question that I was unable to solve. It's just that I overlook the minor details and make mistakes. I have been trying for a few months now (seriously) but unfortunately have not seen any improvement. One thing is I can't help speed reading the questions and at the end of the test section I always have a few minutes extra time in hand. But cannot seem to 'make' myself read slower... :hmm: If anyone has faced/facing this problem, how to tackle it? (PS: Hitting myself in the head for every silly mistake I make doesn't seem to work so far. Doh! :doh:)

suvra & mailrachit: Thanks a lot guys. I was a bit confused at first because I saw that most universities start their application submission in Sept/Oct and the deadline is usually in the beginning of Dec. One question, I'm not sure whether I should post it here or in a new topic - do most US universities accept IELTS score? I know all of them require TOEFL but I saw some universities saying they accept IELTS (6.5/7) too. Since I have already given IELTS (got 8.0) , I was wondering whether I NEED to give TOEFL. Just to clarify, I'm trying for Masters or Masters+PhD in Economics / Econometrics / Economics with Finance Preference. I have not picked an university yet. Any kind help on that too would be very useful.

Hi! I want to apply for Fall 2009 but planning to give GRE in mid Sept. Will it be too late? Also, I'm not sure when to give TOEFL - before or after GRE. Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.