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Why essay exists

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

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Students are required to write essay on any subject by their school, colleges and universities. Talking about the why essay is exists? We can say that it is a device for the assessment of student’s research and writing skills, his or her significant approach along with word limit management.

Essay is said to be very imperative in a student’s academic life because essay is the key and the most important kind of writing that students are needed to write by their schools. So we can say that essay is the fundamental step to come into the world of writing.

Essay is a decisive factor of the application form. As part of the application procedure, most universities require student to write one or more essays of a personal nature, asking to elaborate on personality, achievements, objectives and other fundamental features of student individual itself.

The nature of the essay questions is such that only the applicant can answer them. The purpose of the essays is to enable the school to know you as a person. Schools are not just in search of your achievements because your resume covers that, but they want to know other components of your personality.

People write essays for many reasons just not to complete tests. Some of our best thinkers have write essays which we continue to read from generation to generation. Essays offer the readers a coherent, reasonable and creatively written composition viewing the nature or corollary of a single controlling idea considered from the writer’s unique point of view. Writers use essays to communicate their thoughts or collection on a topic to readers who are not present at that time. Writers also use essays to help their readers understand or learn about something that reader want to know.

VEDIC MATH

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Even though Vedic math is not a part of the school curriculum, parents are encouraging private tuitions as they say it gives their children an edge. This mathematics system is believed to help students overcome their fear of numbers. Vedic math boasts of teaching students the secret behind those off-putting numbers. A student of Vedic math who has mastered the world of numbers will be able to calculate 998 x 997 in less than five seconds, and analyses the square root of 117 in a minute and despairing parents are seeing this as an opportunity to give their children an edge in the classroom.

Vedic math is based on a list of 16 basic sutras, or aphorism translated from Sanskrit. Some of the principal ones are;

By one more than the one before

All from 9 and the last from 10

Vertically and cross-wise

Transpose and apply

The Ultimate and twice the penultimate

Vedic math was formulated by Hindu scholar and mathematician, Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaj, during the part of the 20th century. According to Tirthaji, the sutras cover every branch of mathematics, from arithmetic to spherical conics.

This form of mathematics is believed to share similarities with the Trachtenberg system which is based on rapid mental calculation. It was developed by Ukrainian engineer Jacob Trachtenberg when he was held in a Nazi concentration camp.

Students from all over India are using it to help them in entrance examinations like the CAT, GMAT, SAT because it helps tackle a natural apathy sometimes even hatred towards the subjects. Students who would simply go blank when faced with a math problem are finding easy to apply the rules of Vedic math. And they like it, because it gives them concentration, sharpens and ‘‘super-natural abilities.’’