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Grammar, Pythagoras Theorem and Algebra!

Describe something you learned in high school.

  1. Grammar: Active and Passive voice. Narrations etc
  2. Example: I wrote this article. ( Active voice)
  3. This article was written by me. ( Passive voice)
  4. Emphasis is on the subject or doer of the action in the first case, whereas in the second case it’s on the completion of action by ( someone.)
  5. As I was a Hindi medium student Grammar and English writing were considered important to learn. Government Hindi medium schools had syllabus which begin to touch English language with any seriousness only at standard sixth.
  6. No wonder all such students including convent school Hindi medium students faced difficulties with competitive exam books and magazines which were in English language. Later, we continued to face difficulty with engineering studies because syllabus was taught in English. I tried to help dozens of such students with translation of lessons even when I was myself in engineering.
  7. Apart from communication skills we took great interest in Pythagoras Theorem, working out Algebra and other problems because of our teachers who were dedicated to achieve excellence. I remember initial zeal when as a teenager I wanted to be the first guy every time around a challenge was given by our teachers and I often was this first guy which hurt sentiments of many students as well as teachers. I had a lot to learn about Educational Psychology and competitive exams.
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Use cue cards to learn words.

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

  1. Crack Peter Schmies Vocabulary Test
  2. Crack Peter Schmies Word Classification Test
  3. Crack Chimera Analogies Test
  4. Work out problems on your own.
  5. Work out Trigonometric functions.
  6. Learn at least twenty languages including foreign languages and dialects.
  7. Have fun in learning. Don’t make it a punishment for yourself or others.
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A Day Well Spent!

1. Latest achievement on vocabulary.com:

Most number of times in the winning team this week!

2. In one of the jams I scored 10 points higher than PC. It rarely happens. I was the leader of the jam in that one.

3. Well, there’s no substitute to hardwork. My overall ranking has also improved a great deal.

4. My ID is 10. I invite you to play vocabulary jams with me.

5. I spent about two hours in the city hospital to accompany a patient.

6. Registered about ten titles yesterday and some titles today. Couldn’t read as much as wanted to.

7. Filled drinking water for kitchen.

8. Collected and burnt some garbage.

9. Collected some cow dung.

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Score Analytics!

1. Played 13 vocabulary jams on vocabulary.com on 16.1.2021 and 17.1.2021.

2. Here’s the summary of ranks i received:

2222221121111

3. Today I received second rank only once. Yesterday I couldn’t receive first rank even once.

4. Summary of my scores:

460

750

760

695

840

800

660

410

380

620

670

685

760

5. As you can observe: except in three instances, my scores have all been in excess of 700.

6. I reached the highest score of 840. First rank still eluded me as it was attained by Stephen D.

7. Stephen D. has been a consistent player and top scorer in recent days. Claire G, PC and Vishnu Ram came to be known in September-October. PC and Claire score in excess of 900 easily. I strive for that. It might take me practice of a few months to reach that mark and maintain it consistently.

8. Though rare I have received score in excess of 900.

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Tohu Mercurial!

1. Played 10 vocabulary jams on vocabulary.com. Scored first rank on 8 of them second rank on 2 of them. Stephen D, PC and others were absent. Eat B was present.

2. My scores: (605, 645, 600, 740, 790, 365, 550, 565, 830, 655)

3. The scores are out of 1000.

4. I intend to score in excess of 850 on most games. It’s a realistic goal. Achievable.

5. A Tohu Verse with words culled from the games:

Staunch haunch launch

Hunch lunch munch

Kin pumpkin in innards

Ardent munchkin in entrance

Entomologisticsververisimilitudetudeucesernestedloopslowerratamarinderpestedeterminanthillockrassesamestreeteeternalarmohitouthouseventyfoursimileveereverendermatologistarrampikenophobeliskylensensensitivestedstalksucculentilluminationoisomeshugasconademantoidiomatictactoeuvremissionosphereticalculustrousulcustardappleonasmaritanagermanemoneuphonycophagyrationincompooperandampersandolittlebnantucketevanguardentistryst

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Concrete Wall of Silence!

1. Played 10 vocabulary jams with Lily C, Mr. Barham, Stephen and 50 to 80 players on an average. Walking inside a room doesn’t count as a preparation for Bundelkhand marathon, neither does the shoveling of compost as required in one of the seven turnings of an eighteen days long process for preparation of organic farm bed.

2. Scores: (640, 580, 605, 750, 555, 710, 555, 690, 670, 520)

3. Ranks: (3,1,1,1,1,2,4,4,1,1)

4. First rank: 6 times

Second rank: once

Third rank: once

Fourth rank: twice

5. Have covered about eight of her prompts in my verses. Here’s the Concrete wall of Silence:

Concrete wall of silence

Sleeps

Leap year has gone

Bygone gonorrhoea

Honorable onomatopoeia

Bleh blah ah!

6. We had a wonderful discussion in library. The kid helped with the iron cart. It was an art.

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Twilight Sunday!

1. The open mic had an entry fee of thirty rupees. It had a banner of Madhya Pradesh Hindi Sahitya Unit.

2. The person who invited me to sit laughed hysterically when i told him about the alcohol smell.

3. He had no handkerchief.

4. Parrots are returning to nests.

5. Birds are chirping sweetly. Another twilight comes to an end. It has been an eventful day. Yesterday i couldn’t receive the first rank on vocabulary jams but got a job offer. Today I got a virtual payment of 100 rupees.

6. The PC guy looks like Bourbon and Cigars guy. But like my other romances he will remain anonymous. Bourbon and Cigars was from Japan whereas this guy is from MIT. If i am grateful for company of any people in 2020: it’s these illuminati: PC, Vishnu Ram, Stephen and Claire G.

7. After the marathon i would get time for bowling. I still wear the cap with 232 number and it’s a memory of events which had significance then. Virtual significance.

8. A Tohu Verse to celebrate the twilight:

Karaokeyholemmingdynastylusufructifyinyanglerratamarinderpestuaryemenfranchisedramatistorehousemipiternaltazimuthornpikemiambiconicosineinsofficiousouturemnanthillockramsesimpsonsingularitzygottenettlesomeshugameplangentrystutgaardramatistintincturenegadeaconnostockademantoidiodeodiumlautarkrakenneagrammatonoesisisamalmseymorelevantenna