NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING!

Setting:
A dark wooden cabin in the Nilgiris (or make that the Rockies for Amaerican Yeffect)

Lighting:
One dirty yellow bulb

Smell:
Old wood/ rat droppings/ Whisky gone bad

Sounds (if reqd):
Creaky wooden floor/ strains of Dum maro dum interspersed with maniac laughter/ chirping of birds goes silent when door opens…

Centre of attraction:
Terrified looking man - gagged & tied up  - in a wooden chair- (some electrodes attached to his chest maybe?) – “Just woken up from unconsciousness with bucket of water” look …wait a min…doesn’t this look like the erstwhile chairman of the GMAC? ;-) (Grim sounding “Ha Ha Ha” at this juncture)

The question he must answer:
“Why “Data Sufficiency” in the GMAT? WHY? WHY? WHY?” (Heightens into a scream – camera pans away from inside the cabin and zooms outside…alternately focusing on various mountain paraphernalia – tall trees/ snowy peaks/ a long shot view)

And the question echoes off the sparse wooden walls, the skyscraping fir trees, the 49er mountains…into the crispy mountain air, into the endless starry night…a question that haunts us all  - WHY DS in the GMAT?

Prelude
Based on venerable advice from various quarters, I started to work backwards on the OG last night. Mistake was I started off with DS – baeby, what a mistake-GOT RAMMED!  Got 4 out of 20 correct. To console myself after this tragedy, waded through 10 qns each of CR/RC & PS. Where I got decent scores of approx 90-95% correct.

So where am I going wrong with the DS section? Me thinks it is a strategy issue… somewhere I haven’t formed a strong framework/ process to tackle these questions and therefore mind numbs/shuts down when encountered with this kinda thingy…Hegehog tactic – roll up into a ball and hope it goes away!

Apparently this is not working. So two major tasks for the weekend…make that three are:
Strategy for DS
Practice template for AWA
A FLT

AMEN!