Veritas and GMAT training
Veritas is currently a veritable outsider in the circuit of institutes offering GMAT training programmes in India, what with a solitary training cell in Delhi. But that is all set to change, if the founders of the institute, Chad Troutwine and Marcus Moberg, are to be believed. The American duo, which is on a tour of the country, was in Bangalore recently.
Speaking to Education Plus Marcus Moberg shared his ‘vision-India’ and discussed the Veritas edge.
He made it clear right at the outset that Veritas is a true-blue corporate entity and not an institute. He explains, “Harvard is an institute as is Yale and Stanford. We are just a bunch of guys who are good at what we do — train kids so that they get into the best Business schools in America.”
So what is the Veritas edge? Marcus, who has himself aced GMAT and is an alumnus of Yale, explains that some of the best business brains in the world are from India but they are a unique breed — they are invariably good at quantitative analysis but tend to lose out in the linguistic sections.
He says that apart from this basic fact, there are other teaching techniques that have been customised to the Indian context. The slightly altered module has been developed with inputs from Veritas’ Indian counterpart ‘Career Launcher’ – an educational service providing company that has a presence in 110 centres spread across India, the Middle East and the U.S.
Expressing satisfaction over the results of the Delhi branch, which he describes as a pilot project, Marcus hints at August as the tentative time when his company intends to enter into a binding agreement with Career Launcher and penetrate the Indian market in a big way.
The training module is aimed at inculcating a deconstructive approach in the students and is well paced out. While stressing that every Veritas instructor is someone who has scored a 99 percentile score in GMAT, Marcus points out that all the classes are video recorded and a missed class can easily be re-attended in the virtual world. Students are also encouraged to call on a toll-free number and mail in their queries to instructors across the Veritas network.
Marcus avers that GMAT, unlike CAT, is a more standardised examination and claims that in the years that he and Chad Troutwine have worked in the field of training GMAT aspirants, they have zeroed in on a small cluster of problems that are descriptive of every type of question in the examination.
While confessing that the CAT format is slightly alien to him, he says that it is more unpredictable and claims that CAT preparation is an excellent foundation for GMAT aspirants. As yet, he maintains that American Business schools are the most heterogeneous mix of people he has seen.
He says, “The most beautiful thing about an American Business school is that it welcomes diversity and the entrance test is just a benchmark to ensure that everyone has basic life skills and aptitude and passion for business ... that is where we come in”
SUDIPTO MONDAL
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