<p>Thanks pixie. I could have googles myself!
Why are you sending your apps on paper? Do you know that you can have many versions of the common app? So you can tailor even the common part for every college you apply to.</p>
<p>Lol why are you sending the supplement by paper? How does that make any sense?
I’m sending it through this bookshop. 600 bucks and he sends it through DHL, FedEx, TNT or UPS. He’ll give you the tracking number as well so it’s legit! No problems in the past at all B-)
And yeah my sense of humor isn’t THAT good</p>
<p>No problem luceverita. :)</p>
<p>Yes, I do realize that we can make different versions of the commonapp; in fact I am going utilise that option later.
My school transcripts and TRs go by post. My school’s not going to email them.</p>
<p>And not normal supplement. It’s an arts supplement, lol. A CD. Although I might upload a video later on youtube too, many adcoms specified that they prefer a CD over a video on the net.</p>
<p>Ani- What, 600 only? I’m paying 1200 for each package in DHL/ after the bulk discount thingy it’s 860 or something per package. Whoa, I’d better check out my courier options.</p>
<p>PS- It would have made a very good joke had it been one. But then <em>bangs head</em>, this is Aniruddh we’re talking about. :p</p>
<p>
Share the link. I’d like to see that as well</p>
<p>Sure, np. 
As long as I can proclaim that I don’t embarass myself more than usual in it. jk!</p>
<p>Respect – ho gaya kya mere liye? :(</p>
<p>Perfect: I’m sure you are great. Just pretending to be shy ?
Anirudh: what does mere liye mean? Something like ‘because of me’?</p>
<p>So it would be something like: what happened because of me ?</p>
<p>Luce- ‘mere’ means ‘me’, ‘liye’ means ‘for’.
Mere liye means “for me”.I think he meant to write- ‘respect kho gaya kya mere liye’ => have you lost respect for me?</p>
<p>Ani- NO! You’re feeling bad?? I was only kidding man. Why is it that everyone’s taking me so seriously these days? I regularly josh around with my friends
I thought sarcasm in my posts was obv.</p>
<p>And that purple emoticon at the end is actually a :P, although it does a very good job of not looking like one.</p>
<p>I am in a bad mood. Physics projects suck. :'(</p>
<p>Cheer up. We’re all very fond of our aniruddhc. :P</p>
<p>Why do you have physics projects? And why were you learning macbeth for that matter? ISC must have a different requirement than CBSE. We just have chem project.
My phy teacher tried to get everyone to do physics projects for the science exhibit, but I think he lost all hope on me after my many absences. ;)</p>
<p>Haha! Thank goodness lol</p>
<p>ISC is very different from CBSE</p>
<ol>
<li>We have Environmental Education as a 100 mark subject</li>
<li>We have Macbeth, prose AND poetry; exactly like Grade 10 English 2</li>
<li>We have a 70/30 marking system for Science. 20 for practs, 10: 7 for project, 3 for journal</li>
</ol>
<p>Same level of rigor as CBSE with regards to Science and Math.</p>
<p>BUT</p>
<p>In Math we have a choice between sections. Either Section B or Section C
Section B:
3-D
Vectors
Probability (kinda advanced; we have it in Section A also)</p>
<p>Section C:
Commercial math like-
- Appns of derivatives in Comm and Eco
- Linear Programming
- Index Numbers
and 2 more topics</p>
<p>So yeah.</p>
<p>ISC > CBSE</p>
<p>It’s sad how CBSE folks have never done a Shakespeare play whereas we will be completing 3 plays by the end of the 12th grade (Merchant of Venice in the 8th, Julius Caesar in the 9th and 10th, Macbeth in the 11th and 12th)</p>
<p>Hence,</p>
<p>ICSE also > CBSE</p>
<p>^_^</p>
<p>CBSE had Math A, B, C too before they changed the syllabus. However, we still have two books with all the important stuff. In fact, all the topics in ISC are also done in CBSE math over the period of two years. So yeah, we’re doing the same Probablity/Calc/3D/vectors as you. Boolean algebra and discount don’t count. Linear programming is included in our normal syllabus. I think they mixed A,B,C to get these two new ones.</p>
<p>The English sucks yep. We don’t have full shakespeare plays (only excerpts in 9th, 10th); instead we have collection of short stories/ excerpts (two books-prose and poetry).</p>
<p>And the science 30/70 thing is common bdw.</p>
<p>Anyway, let’s not get into the CBSE vs ISC debate.
I don’t like the way either is taught!</p>
<p>Hahahaha same here pix both SUCK :D</p>
<p>Boolean is in Section A only btw</p>
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<p>ani, that’s not the impression I have. I looked at some ISC and CBSE math/sci text books and they looked a lot harder than books used by most us highschoolers.</p>
<p>^Sure the syllabus is tough (which is good) but it focusses on rote based learning.
Check out chem 12th CBSE. The whole frickin syllabus is rote based. It’s like you just sit and start mugging up. Which is something I am not good at and naturally gets me frustrated.
Chapters like Polymers make me scream.
They give you a lot of new stuff and there’s no explanation for the “why” .
We have to memorise around 500 equations in organic with little or no explanation.
Then there’s around 100 more eqns in inorganic which make even less sense than the organic chem ones.
Physics is better in that aspect in 12th.
As a whole, while it might be of higher level the system promotes rote learning which basically takes the fun out of learning.</p>
<p>Lol Tippu I was kidding re. ISC isn’t as tough as compared to the AIEEE/IIT portion. Do check out books like Resnick and Halliday, HC Verma and Irodov. They’re good for Physics. </p>
<p>Haha pixie polymers reminds me of something. Our teacher was writing down the eqns for nylon-6 and nylon-66. I ask him “sir is there nylon-69?” Lol haha</p>
<p>If they teach us reaction mechanism and all that then portion will be much tougher/unmanageable by most.</p>
<p>have heard guys at Tech remark that instead of the 10 scale for rating girls, they 0 if you wouldn’t tap that, and 1 if you would. There is no gray area. They use binary to rate chicks. Only at Tech.</p>
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<p>onlyattech.net</p>
<p>HILARIOUS.</p>
<p>^^I just knew Aniruddh didn’t have a good sense of humour. (And I AM kidding. Just to clarify.)</p>
<p>Don’t even get me started on Polymers 'kay. I despise the chapter wholeheartedly. I mean, not one word makes sense dangnamit!</p>
<p>I disagree with you on that point ani. I feel reaction mechanism makes it a lot easier to memorise because you actually know why something is happening. Currently it just looks like a load of gibberish just like the sanskrit shloka lessons I was enrolled into at the age of 6.
Remember IIT coaching? Didn’t you feel that knowing reaction mech made it easier to remember? I feel understanding the rxn would have made it easier to do the 500.</p>