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Directions: Choose:
A. If Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
B. If Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
C. If BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
D. If EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
E. If Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are not sufficient.

1. Is the perimeter of triangle with sides a, b and c greater than 30?

(1) a b = 15
(2) The area of the triangle is 50

2. If y is an integer and y = x + |x|, is y = 0?

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3. Is x4 + y4 > z4?
(1) x2 + y2 > z2
(2) x + y > z

4. If x is a positive integer, is x! + (x + 1) a prime number?

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(2) x is even

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5. In the diagram, triangle PQR has a right angle at Q and a perimeter of 60. Line segment QS is
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What is the ratio of the area of triangle PQS to the area of triangle RQS?

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Critical Reasoning

6. Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) is potentially fatal; consequently, patients with
symptoms strongly suggesting appendicitis almost always have their appendix removed. The
appropriate surgery is low-risk but is performed unnecessarily in about 20 percent of all cases. A
newly developed internal scan for appendicitis is highly accurate, producing two misdiagnoses for
every 98 correct diagnoses. Clearly, using this test, doctors can largely avoid unnecessary
removals of the appendix without, however, performing any fewer necessary surgeries than
before, since ____________.
A. all of the patients who are diagnosed with this test as having appendicitis do, in fact, have
appendicitis
B. every patient who is diagnosed with this test as having appendicitis has more than one of the
symptoms generally associated with appendicitis
C. the only patients who are misdiagnosed using this test are patients who lack one or more of the
symptoms that are generally associated with appendicitis
D. the patients who are correctly diagnosed with this test as not having appendicitis invariably have
medical conditions that are much less serious than appendicitis
E. the misdiagnoses produced by this test are always instances of attributing appendicitis to
someone who does not, in fact, have it

7. Ecologist: The Scottish Highlands were once the site of extensive forests, but these forests have
mostly disappeared and been replaced by peat bogs. The common view is that the Highlands
deforestation was caused by human activity, especially agriculture. However, agriculture began
in the Highlands less than 2,000 years ago. Peat bogs, which consist of compressed decayed
vegetable matter, build up by only about one foot per 1,000 years and, throughout the Highlands,
remains of trees in peat bogs are almost all at depths great than four feet. Since climate
changes that occurred between 7,000 and 4,000 years ago favored the development of peat bogs
rather than the survival of forests, the deforestation was more likely the result of natural
processes than of human activity.
In the ecologists argument the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
A. The first is evidence that has been used in support of a position that the ecologist rejects; the
second is a finding that the ecologist uses to counter that evidence.
B. The first is evidence that, in light of the evidence provided in the second, serves as grounds for the
ecologists rejection of a certain position.
C. The first is a position that the ecologist rejects; the second is evidence that has been used in
support of that position.
D. The first is a position that the ecologist rejects; the second provides evidence in support of that
rejection.
E. The first is a position for which the ecologist argues; the second provides evidence to support that
position.

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Sentence Correction:

Select the option that is unambiguous in meaning and that presents the best use of Grammar,
Rules, and Idioms.

8. There is agreement among United States voters that there is waste in government and that the
government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a
movement toward a minimal state.
A. There is agreement among United States voters that
B. Despite the agreement among United States voters to the fact
C. Although United States voters agree
D. Even though United States voters may agree
E. However much United States voters may agree that

9. In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about four
cents an acre, which more than doubled the countrys size and that brought its western border
within reach of the Pacific Ocean.
A. In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about four
cents an acre, which more than doubled the countrys size and brought
B. For about four cents an acre the United States acquired, in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803,
828,000 square miles, which more than doubled the countrys size and brought
C. With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the United States acquired 828,000 square miles for about
four cents an acre, more than doubling its size and bringing
D. The United States, in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, for about four cents an acre, acquired
828,000 square miles, more than doubling the countrys size, bringing
E. Acquiring 828,000 square miles in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the United States bought it for
about four cents an acre, more than doubling the countrys size and bringing

10. Before scientists learned how to make a synthetic growth hormone, it had to be painstakingly
removed in small amounts from the pituitary glands of human cadavers.
A. scientists learned how to make a synthetic growth hormone, it had to be painstakingly removed
B. learning how to make a synthetic growth hormone, scientists had to remove it painstakingly
C. learning how to synthesize the growth hormone, it had to be painstakingly removed by scientists
D. scientists learned to make a synthetic growth hormone, they had to remove it painstakingly
E. scientists learned how to synthesize the growth hormone, it had to be painstakingly removed

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 Reading Comprehension (O.C.T.A.V.E. APPLICATION)

Passage 1

Some modern anthropologists hold that 11. The author is primarily concerned with:
biological evolution has shaped not only human A. presenting an overview of those human
morphology but also human behavior. The role emotions and motives that impose
those anthropologists ascribe to evolution is constraints on human behavior
not of dictating the details of human behavior B. outlining a new claim about foundations of
but one of imposing constraintsways of human behavior with a special focus on
feeling, thinking, and acting that come maladaptive frailties and defending their
naturally in archetypal situations in any origins
culture. Our frailtiesemotions and motives C. detailing those human frailties that give us
such as rage, fear, greed, gluttony, joy, lust, a sense of our constraints and presenting
lovemay be a very mixed assortment, but the outcome of such constricting behaviors
they share at least one immediate quality: we D. summarizing a position on human frailties
are, as we say, in the grip of them. And thus and presenting his own stance
they give us our sense of constraints. E. suggesting ways to deal with a problem and
predicting eventual consequences of not
Unhappily, some of those frailtiesour need doing so
for ever-increasing security among themare
presently maladaptive. Yet beneath the overlay 12. In his discussion of maladaptive frailties
of cultural detail, they, too, are said to be the author assumes that
biological in direction, and therefore as natural A. evolution does not favor the emergence of
to us as are our appendixes. We would need to adaptive characteristics over the
comprehend thoroughly their adaptive origins emergence of maladaptive ones
in order to understand how badly they guide us B. any structure or behavior not positively
now. And we might then begin to resist their adaptive is regarded as transitory in
pressure. evolutionary theory
C. maladaptive characteristics, once fixed,
make the emergence of other maladaptive
characteristics more likely
D. the designation of a characteristic as being
maladaptive must always remain highly
tentative
E. changes in the total human environment
can outpace evolutionary change

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 Passage 2

Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of 13. The primary purpose of the passage is to
the economic market when he said that the free A. criticize the inflexibility of Americans
enterprise system is the most efficient economic strong belief in the idea of the free
system. Fascination with this ideal has made enterprise economic system
Americans defy the Old World categories of
B. contrast Old World and New World
settled possessiveness versus unsettling
economic ideologies
deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the
cupidity of seizure, a status quo defended or C. question the integrity of a political leader
attacked. The United States, it was believed, had no D. support those Americans whom the
status quo ante. Our only station was the turning author deems to be neglected and
of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We propose ways to improve their situation
did not base our system on property but E. suggest a substitute for the traditional
opportunitywhich meant we based it not on metaphor of a race
stability but on mobility. The more things changed,
that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the 14. Which of the following best expresses
steadier we would be. The conventional picture of the authors main point?
class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a
1. Americans pride in their jobs continues to
stability to keep what they have, and the Have-Nots,
give them stamina today.
who want a touch of instability and change in which
to scramble for the things they have not. But 2. The absence of a status quo ante has
Americans imagined a condition in which undermined United States economic
speculators, self-makers, runners are always using structure.
the new opportunities given by our land. These 3. The free enterprise system has been a very
economic leaders (front-runners) would thus be popular system in the United States.
mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were 4. The strong belief of Americans in the
considered the ones who wanted stability and a effectiveness of the free enterprise system
strong referee to give them some position in the is fundamentally flawed.
race. 5. Fascination with the ideal of openness has
made Americans insensitive to the people
Reform in America has been sterile because it can
living at the bottom of the pyramid.
imagine no change except through the extension of
this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of
competitors, a piece of the action, as it were, for 15. It can be inferred from the passage that
the disenfranchised. There is no attempt to call off Woodrow Wilsons ideas about the
the race. Since our only stability is change, America economic market
seems not to honor the quiet work that achieves A. encouraged those who, according to the
social interdependence and stability. There is, in our author, make the system work
legends, no heroism of the office clerk, no stable B. propagated and continued the traditional
industrial work force of the people who actually beliefs as to why Americans think they
make the system work. There is no pride in being an are so successful in the first place
employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time
C. revealed the prejudices of a society that
when everyone was an employer). There has been
values materialism over human values
no boasting about our social workersthey are
merely signs of the systems failure, of opportunity D. foreshadowed and advocated the best
denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated. We possible economic system for America
have no pride in our growing interdependence, in E. began a tradition of the proclamation of
the fact that our system can serve others, that we the most effective economic system in
are able to help those in need; empty boasts from America
the past make us ashamed of our present
achievements, make us try to forget or deny them,
move away from them. We are all just trying to win,
with none winning in the end (because there is no
end).

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 Understanding the power of Personal Branding
MIT is the best university in the world (Rank 1) MIT Sloan MBA the book that will
change the world

Dear friends,

I met Sandeep in January 2012 when I decided to train with him for my GMAT.

Imagine this: a guy who was living at the bottom of the pyramid in Ranchi, Jharkhand, made it to the best
Technology-MBA in the world and to one of the global top five MBAs in the world MIT-Sloan is ranked in the top five
globally).

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-
rankings?int=acf0d6

I got the news of my MIT-Sloan admit in January 2013 and I had to join the school in August. I had six months with
me. In the meanwhile, I saw a mail from Sandeep for an event called Millionaire Maker Seminar.

I attended the first MMS workshop in this series on June 15th and 16th 2013. I must say that just two days changed
my life completely. I learnt the most powerful concept for life: Positioning.

Within Positioning, I learnt about Triggers, NeuroMarketing, and Storytelling hijacking the minds of the prospects,
persuasion techniques, pitching, and many other things.

The concept of Positioning is so powerful. After having failed in two of my startups, I applied this concept in my third
business and I made more money in the next 3 months than I had made in the last three years.

The concept of Positioning is so strong. YOU MUST LEARN IT. With this concept, I have easily made $2,000 in just 10
minutes on dozens of occasions in the recent past. I dont have to sell my offering to anyone; people sell it to
themselves.

Millionaire Maker Seminar was the best investment of my time in my entire life. Even if you pay a million
dollars, such an education cant be available anywhere in the world.

After the seminar, I visited Sandeep once as I had a very embarrassing confession to make. I hadnt read a single
book throughout my life and I was going to a business-school that was ranked among the top-5 business-schools in
the world. I felt quite bad about this and somehow believed that I wouldnt ever be able to contribute to the
discussions at the school. Just after MMS, I read a few books that Sandeep had suggested during the event and made
a PDF summary of those books for future reference. But I was terribly scared what will I do at MIT? Will be a
misfit? How will people react to me? When I expressed this concern to Sandeep, he suggested to me something that
totally changed me and WILL change this world soon. WHAT A DIFFERENCE A MENTOR can make!

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Would you believe this? Sandeep asked me to author a book; YES, you heard it right. He asked a person who had
never read a single book all his life to write a book.

As part of the conventional icebreaker, I was supposed to introduce myself at MIT (to batch-mates, seniors, faculty,
and the Dean). Sandeep scripted the entire pitch for me and made me practice it on stage at least 30 times till it
almost got to my subconscious.

This is the exact pitch that Sandeep wrote (and I delivered):

I come from a country where the habit of reading is never encouraged. I grew up without reading a single
book all my life (apart from the requisite textbooks). I realized the importance of reading only after attending
an event conducted called Millionaire Maker Seminar. I felt ashamed for not having read a single book and
felt completely out-of-sorts with the kind of crowd I was going to face at MIT. I had to fix this. I started
reading just a month ago and have read just three books so far. Imagine having read only three books (in the
last one month) before coming to MIT!

BUT the lessons I learnt from these three books were life-changing. The book POSITIONING completely
changed me. Its one-line message was: It is not the product but the perception that matters. With the right
positioning, you can hijack peoples minds to such an extent that they will do anything to buy your solution.
Absolutely powerful! The other book was STEVE JOBS BIOGRAPHY. The one-line message of this book was:
Always surround yourself with only A+ people and fire all A, A-, B, B-, C, C- people from your life. What a
lesson from the best innovator of the modern era! When I read the book A WHOLE NEW MIND, my entire
worldview got knocked out of alignment. I was a complete left-brainer but I became a right-brainer after
reading the book. The simple one-line message of the book is: in the coming days, the people who will
dominate this world will be right-brainers (people who are great at connecting the dots, storytelling, design,
meaning, purpose, symphony, play, empathy etc.). Right-brainers will rule the world. Such is the impact that
powerful books can have on you. BUT there is a problem. Like most people in my country, I am an extremely
slow reader and it may take me a lifetime to read 4000+ books.

I want to solve this problem of non-reading for myself and for the entire world by doing the following:

I want to come up with just one book that has only 250 pages, each page having the wisdom of one of
the 250 must-read, life-changing books (such as the ones mentioned above) and want to make this one book
compulsory reading for all the schoolchildren in the world. Before they leave school (lets say between 16 and
18 years of age), they will have to clear an exam based on this books content. Imagine if we can help all the
children in the world to get the life-impacting wisdom of the 250 best titles in the world, what this world could
be in the next 10-15 years!

I know this is an audacious project, which a nonreader like me can never dream of accomplishing alone. I
want to use the collective intelligence of this MIT-class (we are among the sharpest people in the world) and
publish this book through MIT Press.

Picture this: If I were to come to YOU (addressing the people in the audience at MIT) tomorrow and ask
you the name of that one book that has impacted you so much that you would want every person in the
world to read before they die, and if I ask you to give me 15 minutes of your time to tell me the precise
personal lessons that you have drawn from that one book, will you give me 15 minutes of your time for this
world-changing idea? I will video-record each interview, give you credits for your contribution, and share the
video of your exact conversation on YouTube. One page in the book will belong to YOU. Each one of YOU will
have authored this book. Moreover, I want MIT to publish this book from MIT Press and release it on an
international platform. I am not doing it for money. I am doing it to change the world. With its reputation and
clout, MIT can be instrumental in making it mandatory curriculum in all the schools around the world.
Imagine the changed world in just 10 years because of your efforts because of OUR collective efforts. We
talk about crowd-sourcing successes like Wikipedia. I think we can do much better. This is the best crowd-
sourcing project you will ever be a part of.

Will you give me 15 minutes of your time to change the world? I cant do this alone. I need your help to
change something about this world. I am on a world-changing mission. Are you boarding?

You may not believe this: according to the Dean of MIT-Sloan, this has been the best introduction pitch at MIT-
Sloan in the last 50 years.

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Whats more: the first interview I did was that of the Dean of MIT-Sloan. Almost every day, I am collecting the
stories of personal transformation from my batch-mates, alums, faculty members, and many more people at the
campus; I am working insanely on this book. This is the power of a great mentor like Sandeep.

Imagine what my introduction would have been if I had not met Sandeep! I am an engineer from India. BLAH!

The biggest outcome of this pitch: every student at MIT wants to meet me and contribute to this cause. They are
chasing me and want to make friends with me. I would have been an obscurity but Sandeep has made me a true
celebrity. Someone who was scared to go to MIT is a celebrity at the same place today. Imagine how well this will
serve me for a lifetime. I will have a loyal network of 1000 future CEOs with me all the time. This is what Sandeep
can do for YOU. I am sure without this idea, I would not have made even 10 friends; today, more than 1000 people
on campus want to be my friends. WHOA!

THANK YOU SANDEEP no one else on this planet would have thought of the pitch that you did. WHAT AN IMPACT!
I am indebted for life. I want to see you at MIT soon with your spectacular sessions (why should only Harvard /
Stanford / Kellogg benefit from them?).

Another Mail from the same guy: MIT-Sloan

Sandeep,

Today I had my first marketing class but I am very angry and disappointed. The professor (Professor John Hauser:
http://www.mit.edu/~hauser) just messed it up. He knew nothing about Neuro-Marketing though he has served as
the head of marketing at MIT Sloan and has been the head of marketing at Harvard in the past. He just gave
examples about a few companies and how they worked, but did not tell why they worked in a particular manner.

Sandeep, you have raised my standard so high that I am simply unable to accept mediocre things. I had tears in my
eyes because my 90 minutes got wasted. Nothing came out of this class. I knew everything that the professor talked
about. I asked some penetrating questions, and rather than answering them, he really got irritated. At some point I
felt that I could teach him marketing. I wanted answers to my questions but couldn't get any. Today, I made $2,000
in just 10 minutes because I know how to hijack customers minds. Because I know POSITIONING! I was expecting to
learn something from the professor but it just couldnt happen. The professors here need to know the "Art of
Storytelling". There is no humor in the class and my thoughts are never challenged. This is the biggest waste of time.
I thought of talking to the MBA program director, but somehow cooled myself. It would be better if I wait for a month
or so and then approach them with better arguments.

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 McKinsey
That one company that can open the floodgates of the brightest career option for you: half a million
dollar salaries (yes, almost Rs. 3 crore per annum to start with), insane perks, globe-trotter status as
your middle name, respect all around the world as the best problem-solvers of the world, and an
unparalleled global professional and social mobility as the permanent currency on your rsum the
most coveted management & leadership role even at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford campuses The
role of a Partner at McKinsey.

No school, college, university, workplace, peers, superiors, subordinates, friends, family, or society;
and not even the topmost five business schools in the world; can prepare you for what McKinsey tests
in its final interview round. And the skill that you need here is connecting seemingly disparate
dots. This is the round in which you are asked questions that test your interconnectedness of
disciplines, the symphonic approach, the connect-the-dots approach, the holistic approach, the
big-picture approach, the multidisciplinary approach, the creativity approach. Let me illustrate this
with one example:

Suppose you start reading about Albert Einstein in a Physics textbook, chances are that you will read
about the Theory of Relativity and nothing else (that too just to pass the exam).

But if you were to use the interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary approach, while reading about Einstein,
you will end up reading about the Evolution of Species, the Photoelectric Effect, the Great Depression
(which can take you to Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Hyperinflation, and a bunch of Economics
and Finance related topics), the Holocaust, Einsteins interest in Music and his ease with some musical
instruments (which can take you to Mozart and Beethoven), Consciousness, the History of Jews, how
WW-I delayed his success, Pacifism, The Third Reich (Nazi Germany), Hitler, World War II, the
Manhattan Project, the Atomic Bomb, the formation of Israel (funnily, Einstein was offered to become
Israels President), Global Geopolitical Chessboard, US-Europe Relations, the Marshall Plan, the Red
Scare, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, various Nobel Prize winners, the Laws of Motion, Newton (and how
his theory of gravitation was challenged by Einsteins General Theory of Relativity), Quantum Physics,
Einsteins reluctance to accept the role of probability in Quantum Mechanics, Einsteins dream
expressing the entire universe in a single Mathematical Equation, Super-String Theory / M-Theory,
Special Theory of Relativity, General Theory of Relativity, Time Dilation, twin paradox, the concept of
Spacetime, etc. etc. etc. Trust me, the list has not even started; it can go into 1000+ disciplines.

The lesson: McKinsey wants truly exceptional people who can think of Business, Entrepreneurship,
Universe, Geology, Energy, Science, Technology, Philosophy, Mathematics, Art, Music, History,
Geopolitics, Wars, Evolution, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mind, Brain, Psychology,
Neuroscience, Design Thinking, Creativity, Consciousness, Cosmos, Artificial Intelligence etc. etc. etc.
not as individual silos but as one, single intermeshed realityas ONE interconnected discipline!

This is the OUTLIER approach.

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A sample list of fifty questions asked at McKinsey interviews at Harvard Campus is given below:

1. Why are only 5 percent people in the world left-handed and the remaining 95 percent right-
handed? As per the law of probability, there should be a 50-50 chance for the number of left-
handers and right-handers.
2. Despite being so feeble physically compared to so many animals on this planet, why do human
beings dominate this planet to such an extent?
3. Explain the positioning of the biggest brand in the world. Can such a positioning strategy be copied
by other companies / brands?
4. What would you rate as the top three mistakes humans have made in their evolutionary journey?
How have these mistakes cost us?
5. Why are cold drinks sold in cylindrical bottles but milk in rectangular cartons?
6. Oh! You hail from India. So answer this. In 1000 AD, India was the most prosperous country in the
world. What happened along the way that, by 1990, it had become one of the poorest in the world?
7. Why is Google so successful? If you were the consultant to the CEO of Google in 2004, what would
your personal advice have been for him to be able to make the company much more successful in
the short and long run?
8. Why is Facebook such an outlier (success)?
9. Estimate the number of footballs / car tires in the city of New York.
10. Incidentally, public speaking happens to be a much bigger fear than death. Why is public-speaking
the number one fear in the world? Explain the exact reason.
11. Rationally speaking, extreme sports, adventure sports, horror movies etc. shouldnt be popular
(you could lose your life). Why are they still so popular?
12. At Amazon meetings one chair is always empty, but it never happens at Apple meetings. WHY?
13. Oh you hail from India! Why is Gandhi considered such an outlier by the whole world?
14. Which global company has had the maximum impact on our lives in the last 30 years? And why?
15. What is the significance of the discovery of America? How would you compare Columbus with a
modern startup guy?
16. If you had the liberty to remove one of the two persons from human history, whom would you
remove Hitler or Christ? And WHY?
17. How can we combine Evolution, Brain Science, Storytelling, Marketing, Persuasion, and Sales to
attain stellar results in all aspects of business and life?
18. One country in the world (among more than 150 countries) spends more than half the worlds
military expenditure. The trend has been so for the last 20 years. Even in peace times, why does
one country (the US) spend so much on its military? Give a complete analysis. You must explain the
answer clearly. You may go back to historical reasons if you think they are necessary.

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19. As per the graphs below, in October 2014 China overtook the US as the biggest economy in the
world (on GDP-PPP measure). What are the implications of China being the next global
superpower?

20. What comes to your mind when you see the book titled For God, Country, and Coca Cola?

21. What could be the final frontier of technology (technological progress)?

22. In an agitated, overwhelmed, shocked, awed, jaw-dropped, or ecstatic state, why do we find it
really difficult to express our feelings in words?
23. Imagine that you have caught a 100 feet live, living, breathing, and walking dinosaur. What amount
of money can you make with it within one year? Do the complete analysis.
24. What would happen if humans were to be purely rational creatures?
25. Can a companys Marketing and Core Values coexist without any dichotomy?
26. Rank in the order of their contribution to this world: William Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Pablo Picasso, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. Why do you think your ranking represents the
best possible order?
27. Looking at how the business landscape has changed in the last 150 years, what kinds of businesses
hold the most promise for the times to come?
28. What would you prefer: order or chaos? And why?
29. Comment on the word Asymmetrical by taking various perspectives that could directly apply to
business or life.
30. Comment on the Variable Risk in doing business these days. What is it?
31. Comment on global demographic trends and join as many dots as you can.
32. If you have a huge heap of sand and you remove one grain, it is still a heap. If you remove two
grains, it is still a heap. If you remove three grains, it is still a heap. Imagine if you go on removing
grains one by one and finally reach one grain, it wont be a heap. So exactly when did it stop being
a heap? Give a logical answer.

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33. Do outlier events such as 9/11 follow any laws of Nature? If no, how do they take place?
34. Every few million years, new species are always born on this planet. Could we extrapolate from all
of our past knowledge as to what the next species will be like? What will be the place of humans in
such a scenario?
35. What would it be like to have the whole world a truly female-dominated world for one full
century? Give a complete analysis.
36. What's the meaning of infinity?
37. Which is the next science (beyond physics) that has to be invented in order for us to get the
answers to some of the hitherto most unanswered questions in the universe?
38. Do we have free will? (Atoms and particles behave in probabilistic ways and our brains are made
up of atoms and particles. How can free will exist?)
39. Can we really experience anything objectively?
40. If there were no concept called economics / money, what would have the world have been like?
41. What would happen if we stopped being curious?
42. Comment what the world would have been if the following had not existed (one by one):
1. Microsoft
2. The Contraceptive Pill
3. The Bible
4. The Printing Press
5. Das Kapital (the book)
6. Israel
7. Communism
8. Capitalism
9. Religion
10. Cooking
11. Albert Einstein
12. Marriage
13. The notion of future
14. Outliers
15. Electronic communication
43. Nanotechnology is the ability to manipulate matter at the level of atom. Would we disrupt the
very nature and the very order of the universe once we fully achieve nanotechnology?
44. What exactly are numbers? (We use them every day but what exactly are they? They do a great job
of helping us understand the universe. But they are NOT real objects. We can't touch them. But we
say they are real. But we are the ones that ultimately created them. So what are they?)
45. If it is possible to remove some selective areas of the brain in the near / far future, with what
minimum brain could we still exist?
46. Why do we have exactly these surroundings and not some other? That is, why do we have exactly
these very elements metals, air, water, fire, Earth etc. and not some other? If there were some
other surroundings, what would they be? In such a situation, will there be more than one set of
possible environments to support life?
47. Would you rather be insane in a functional society or one of the thousands of people running a
dysfunctional society?
48. How does the brain know that it exists? If it doesn't, what are we? If we're not real, what is?
49. Can a differently evolved brain construct a different version of reality? Can it create more
dimensions?
50. Were we brought here for a purpose? If yes, by whom? And what's the purpose? Is there only one?
Can there be many? Who decides?

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Mind you!

This is not a dinner-table discussion with a friend just for fun.

You have to answer these questions in a real-time environment without any discussions with
anyone and without Google (or Wiki). Anyway, Google / Wiki cant help you at all in these
questions. These questions arent about information but about your ability to connect the dots
across all human disciplines.
The stakes are really high (half a million dollar salary to start with).
You dont get multiple attempts to answer any question.
You dont even come to know whether your answer was satisfactory or not. Mind you, there are no
right or wrong answers for most of these questions.
You have to answer all the questions really convincingly to stand a chance for the final admit.
They expect you to connect-the-dots across seemingly disparate disciplines so that you come up
with multidisciplinary, holistic, symphonic, creative, and big-picture answers. In one word, it is a
test of your belief in and mastery of Interconnectedness of disciplines.

One guarantee: no B-School in the world will ever prepare you for even one such question

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 Kellogg / McKinsey

Sandeep,

Just 2 days ago, I bagged my dream-assignment with McKinsey, thanks only and only to your Know
the World in 77 Hours. Education here at Kellogg doesnt prepare you for practical life at all. It
doesnt prepare you for any job either. The biggest skill required to succeed at top places in top-roles
these days connecting the dots between two seemingly unrelated things is conspicuous by its
absence even at Kellogg.

In my third and final round at McKinsey, I was asked the same questions as you had mentioned in
Know the World in 77 Hours. I was laughing within when I answered these questions as the
interviewers wouldnt have expected such picture-perfect answers in their lifetimes. All the questions
that people were asked on campus (and thousands more) were covered in the course. Everyone
B-school aspirants or otherwise must attend this course. They will be ready for the big-ticket multi-
million-dollar life-successes.

As I said above, I could also answer all those questions that others were asked. You had covered all
these aspects in absolute detail in your course. I can say that many students with better grades,
backgrounds, work profiles, and GMAT scores (Yes! Your Quant score counts even at the time of
placements: guys with Q49 are not even allowed to sit) just couldnt answer these questions. They just
rambled. One thing that McKinsey surely hates is rambling. The interviewers love to give you enough
time but just hate any uncertainty in your answers. Many of my friends who were much better than
me couldnt make it as a result. Only because of you I could get the best job in the world:
McKinsey.

My apology here: As per the company protocol, we have to sign an official document stating that we
had no access to any of the questions beforehand. Having access to these is considered a serious
breach, which can even result in termination. So, I cant mention the name McKinsey in the video. But
as I cant resist the urge to give you the credit (as this assignment is only and only because of you), I
found a way to address this issue. I have said this in the video:

Today I can confidently say that the lessons I learnt with Sandeep during
those 3-4 months have stuck with me till date and have not only allowed me
to be successful at Kellogg but also landed me a job with the best Fortune
500 Management Consulting Firm in the US.

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The impact of this program has been far far beyond GMAT/ MBA aspirants. Check a few
examples here:

Sharmin Ali
From A Nobody (regular IT job) to a Dollar-Millionaire (from 6 Lakh per annum to 6 crore),
Speaker, Author, Author-Coach, Entrepreneur, Artiste, and owner of a Theater Production House + a
permanent place on the annals of time (online) Wikipedia Entry in less than a year all because
of Know The World In 77 Hours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmin_Ali From 6 lakh to 6 crore

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Karthikeyan M
Check the feedback of the guy who spoke to 10,000 people and created

Rs. 1 crore in just one hour

And reached the Guinness Book of Records, Limca Book of Records, Asian Book of Records etc. all
because of Know the World in 77 Hours.

Speaking to 10,000 people and making Rs. 1 crore in 1 hour

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 Know the World in 77 Hours
If there is one piece of selfless advice that I would like to give any B-school aspirant / B-school admit /
any other aspiring professional, it would be this: take out seven days of your life and attend the
program Know the World in 77 Hours ... a program that has literally transformed thousands of lives.
Here is why:

The trouble: On many counts, Indian students really struggle in a global business school (based on the
feedback given by my clients who went to various global b-schools).

The case study discussions / any other discussions / presentations: Nobody wants people who are
just polished communicators; one needs to be an IMPACT communicator. You need to talk with
substance, depth, novelty, and breadth (connecting the dots from dozens upon dozens of disciplines at a
time). Indian students fall woefully short in this aspect as we Indians usually never value the
importance of extremely extensive general reading across disciplines.

The everyday pitching / selling: at global schools, pitching your candidature to absolutely unknown
potential employers (cold-calling) is a norm. Time and again, I have observed the same problem: most
Indians just don't know how to SELL. For example, one of my students got a job in an investment bank
in France over an informal discussion about world history / wars. Sometimes you may have absolutely
no idea about such a thing until you meet people from 50+ nationalities and marvel at the depth and
breadth of learning / perspectives they bring to the table. The only trouble is that these people are
going to be your competition, not the ones whom you can afford to clap at, in a jaw-dropped state.

The placement interview: I am sure you can't disagree at least with this statement: your selection to
the company / role of your choice will depend on your performance in the placement interview. And
sometimes, the performance in this interview can shape the next 20-25 years of your life. Just check the
kind of questions people have been asked in the past at such interviews. 50 questions have been
attached in the pdf and see for yourself what lies ahead. This will give you a reality check.

Life-success in general: it depends on the insanely different perspectives you can bring to a
conversation (all the three situations described above are conversations of various kinds).

I can vouch for one thing: if you attend Know the World in 77 Hours, you will win in any discussion,
even if it is with Nobel Laureates. THE PROGRAM IS A MUST ATTEND. It will teach you to 'connect the
dots', a crucial skill required to succeed at b-school and beyond (in fact, my previous clients have
repeatedly told me how the learning received during this program was pivotal while securing coveted
internships and placement opportunities). It will be the best investment (of your time) that you can
make. As Sandeep conducts this course purely due to his intrinsic passion (there is no course fee), this
is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to imbibe some truly unparalleled insights/perspectives.

I think this one line that I repeatedly hear from most participants (many of whom have gone on to
attend the best b-schools) perfectly summarizes why I feel you must attend: Sandeep, I learnt more in
that 1 week with Sandeep than my entire one/two-year stint at b-school.

I am offering the culmination of all of my life's 40 plus years of learning to you: Know the World in 77
Hours

Students of this program said: "Put all of your learning till date on one side: parents, family, teachers,
society, community, peers, seniors, subordinates, school, college, workplace, university, b-school, books,
educational videos, movies, documentaries, and travels ... combine your learning from all these sources
over the last 20+ / 30+ / 40+ years (depending on your age) BUT at the end of these 7 days have gone
on to say: "thousands of times more mind-blowing than everything else combined over the last
20/30/40 years". Do check the testimonials here.
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 My single-point benchmark for you in this program: You should be able to hold at least a day-long
conversation even with a Nobel Laureate as an equal participant on absolutely any topic in the world
and still be able to totally blow the minds of one and all.

Who is best suited to attend?

1. If you are a professional who values "learning" over everything else and wants to be able to
communicate on any subject with absolutely anyone, even with a Nobel Laureate, as an equal
participant, and always blow the minds of one and all.
2. If you are a parent (of a child 0-18 years) and want your child to grow into an extremely smart,
entrepreneurial, and super-successful adult. This is something I feel very deeply about. As a parent,
you will be able to transform the usual success-factor for your child by a factor of 100 ... from a usual
6 lakh job to a scintillating 6 crore passion ... from joining Facebook as an employee to starting the
next Facebook.

Participants who traveled from other countries for this program after attending top global MBAs from
Harvard, Kellogg, MIT, Stanford etc. have said this about the program ... "You won't get such learning
even after spending millions of dollars even in the next 20 years of your life even from the best
university / b-school in the world."

This will be a seven-consecutive-day program in Bangalore. You will have to take a five-day break
from work for this workshop. I will keep you posted about the dates of the program.

Watch the feedback videos for the program here / here / here

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