Hello my mentors, how y'all doing. Wrote my ICAN last paper a week ago and ever since I have been experiencing a 'block head'. I can't even read my mails in the office. I just skim through. Finally today, I was able to reactivate and the first thing I laid my hands on was this 'Gruber's GRE watever' sent to my mail by dat very good badt guy on this thread.

Ok, my point is, I seem to ve lost momentum because I read here that even after passing the GRE, finding the right school and scholarship, I might still need some monies, at the least, to startup living out there, pay rent and all that. This dampened my courage because, hmmmm, Na only me and God o. No help or support whatsoever (at the moment). So, am torn between the choice of continuing with this course of studying abroad and starting to study for my next professional qualification.

Guys, what do advise? I know I can't get it all free, even if I get the tuition, how about accommodation, feeding, etc. Do I concentrate on some other things like my professional exams and maybe a job with a better earning muscle at d moment and then pursue my graduate studies later on? and btw, for how many years is a GRE result valid? Am so at a crossroad and don't really know what to do.

Any which way, am continuing am gonna see this Gruber's test to the end, even if not for anything, for my own self development. Mentors'please say something.

Thanks as always....

Any self contain available in yaba, akoka, gbagada area for budget of 150k - 200k

No, Mummy, am just saying...

daretodiffer:


Aren't you a silly boy?

Gues, your man is beating you too o. Your dp tells me so.

daretodiffer:


The man kpomo eaten for good 6 years. Some women sleep with men for sex despite having serious bfs

Did Steve really say all these?

Babyphinas:
Steve Jobs’ Last Words -

I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world.
In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success.

However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accustomed to.

At this moment, lying on the sick bed and recalling my whole life, I realize that all the recognition and wealth that I took so much pride in, have paled and become meaningless in the face of impending death.

In the darkness, I look at the green lights from the life supporting machines and hear the humming mechanical sounds, I can feel the breath of god of death drawing closer…

Now I know, when we have accumulated sufficient wealth to last our lifetime, we should pursue other matters that are unrelated to wealth…
Should be something that is more important:

Perhaps relationships, perhaps art, perhaps a dream from younger days ...
Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me.

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.

The wealth I have won in my life I cannot bring with me.
What I can bring is only the memories precipitated by love.
That’s the true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on.

Love can travel a thousand miles. Life has no limit. Go where you want to go. Reach the height you want to reach. It is all in your heart and in your hands.
What is the most expensive bed in the world? - "Sick bed" …

You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear the sickness for you.
Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – "Life".

When a person goes into the operating room, he will realize that there is one book that he has yet to finish reading – "Book of Healthy Life".

Whichever stage in life we are at right now, with time, we will face the day when the curtain comes down.

Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends...

Treat yourself well. Cherish others.

I would be on leave by thursday, since I missed today's session. Do you think I can gate crash on Thursday?

bacco2000:

Gmat stuff (obj) 30 questions then essay writng for 50 minutes

Ok. Who were you asking o? Ode!

IlesanmiG:
brother, I did not ask u.

Ugly thing like you, even a mechanic wey never bath after work can toast...Let alone a doctor. A n wa eran to ni iho.... igbin e n yoju... Taa!

Holuwakemmy16:
Ur mama

Bros, are u writing in English or Anago?

kunle75:



Ladies can accept lies without verification and very glutinous in nature...........................tooth for tath

Ilesanmi, Information is everywhere, you ve wat it takes. don't wait to be spoon fed

IlesanmiG:
please I beg u, just tell me how u applied for this job

Simply put, u re daft!

Samyj247:
most of them are wicked, they will not tell u o, all of u here will not get ds job if u dont answer his question

Yeah, Lag too

Generaloluseye:
mine is on thursday in lagos. and urs?

Taa! Olodo

Holuwakemmy16:
Silly being get lost,idiot,do u think am like ur sisters at home

Gerara hia. You are lying!!!! Sharap!

Holuwakemmy16:
We ladies have to becareful,one guy has once told me his a medical doctor which is just sch cert.thank God I didn't fall his victim.

I was wondering why you made this comment. But after seeing your dp, I give up.

raayah:
Building a marriage on deceit is just wrong.

But to add insult to injury, this man was abusing her.

.

She should go ahead and divorce. Her life is precious.
Most of you calling her shallow have conveniently ignored the life threat and assault part which I am pretty sure is her main reason for divorcing this man.
Lying is one thing but assault + death threats +lying are warning signs of a sociopath.

use your google map naaa.... where are u now?

The fact that you weren't promoted does not mean that is what is obtainable. More so, I don't think any sane person would get a job and after some time not look out for something better ( there is always something better out there). You guys should not come here and start painting a picture so bizarre that one would almost not want to apply for a job in the bank at all. After all, people still works in this banks and built their houses, bought their cars and live well. they get promotion, they advance in their career. I don't you know what having just a 1 year experience working in a bank with your ACA, ACIB, ACS or ACCA means, except they are following you from your village, let me see the jupiter that will say that they should not promote you. And come to think of it, if you are not promoted where you, LEAVE!!!... its always better out there.

sebod:
Having read through everything on this thread, I just feel like dropping a little piece of advice as I hardly comment on Nairaland.
If you are eventually employed by whytecleon, you are likely going to be working with Wema bank. Please, don't think you have gotten a job, don't stop at searching for a better job where you can grow your career. There is no promotion, career path, salary increment even after working for years. You can never be upgraded if you tender/obtain higher qualification.
Due to the rate of employment in the country, many of the outsourcing companies collaborate with banks to turn potential and ambitious individuals to corporate slaves.

Personally, I do advice people that come to me for advice never to take up such jobs as many are dream killers.
Please note, I have not said you shouldn't take the offer, but just bear it in mind that you are not yet employed, so don't put a stop to your job haunting because you will realise it's not worth it at the end.
Best of luck!

From an experienced ex staff!

I had the invitation too, but am not sure I would be going. I don't know what to tell my oga ooo. I ve been calling their line, no one is picking up, to atleast get a reschedule

Lordalbato:
Abeg peeps who is going for the interview and test on Transaction Officer at Whyte cleon today??

Thanks a bunch for your kind response. Needless to say whether am expecting your response or not I know you have a good heart and that when you are chanced you'd reply. As per my GPA, thats a second class lower o (I hope you know). All other advise are well received. Preparation for GRE shall commence as soon as complete other pending exams. God bless. Keep up the good work.

DanjaNinja:


Hi Olatricia, how are you? I like your statement about expecting nothing from people on this thread. It makes alot of sense. However, if we were all to live by that saying, you should also expect nothing from me nor any of the major contributors on this thread. Abi no be so? We dont owe anyone anything and can as well ignore your request for help. The point am simply trying to make is that we can only grow when we share. And its only natural to share so that others can benefit from your experience. If i had kept my experience all to myself, would you have found this thread? #caseClosed

Now, to your request. Firstly, you have a good undergraduate GPA so securing admission to a good university should not be a problem for you.
I would have loved to explain all you need to know about the Gre but i really dont have that time. Please find all the info here:
https://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/faq

if after reading that page, you still have questions, ask and i'll be glad to help.

To ace the test, simply read the first page of this thread....then focus on this section:



As for getting a full fledged scholarship, i cannot say but i with a good undergraduate gpa and a good gre score, the sky is your limit. Thing is you have to make a long list of schools offering your course. After that, you would have to go through each school's website individually to check out their funding information. This section is entirely up to you. So start now, make your list, go through each website and mail the department for funding information. Thats all.

Nice dp & status...

Omotayor123:
Now tell me that didn't Happened for real!!

nevana:
Guys, have you ever met someone and within the first hour or day of your meeting see too many qualities of what you want in your dream girl or future wife?

Iv heard of "love at first sight". Iv heard of " soul-mate".

Trust me, iv never been an advocate or a believer of any of them.

I'm like any other guy that 1st gets attracted to a lady based on appearances. Then beauty, brains, sense of humour follows.

Next comes other qualities like Chemistry, compatibility, right attitude.

But all these qualities come if/when I wanna take her seriously.

But if its just for sex or fling: I only care bout physical qualities.

This is my experience with Vivian.
I met her sometime last year, November 2014. Approached her, used some tricks/chyking.

Luckyly for us both, we felt like eating . so we had lunch on me in restaurant. We ended up going back to our individual houses from there. We saw again on like 5 different different dates.

What's so amazing is that within the first 3 hangouts I saw just too many things in her that made me know she may be the one. None of those hangouts exceeded 2hours. I saw and listed almost 20things in her alone that I craved for in my future wife.

Iv had relationships for years before but I could hardly list up to 10qualities in one single of my ex's. And some of those relationships lasted for years. I loved them, but not having that many numbers of qualities as I could count in Susan. The irony of it is that I had spent less than 10 hours with Susan as compared to years I had with all those other girls.


This is the sad part if it all, which is also my challenge:

1) I am currently in a serious relationship with someone I don't see as my future wife.

2) I have financial instability to try dating Susan. By dating her, I don't mean sleeping with her or going out with her to marry her.

By dating-her, I mean the old fashioned way of being special enuf to her to be considered as a potential future husband.
Not that she's a gold-Digger or I feel I can only lure her with money. Let's don't decieve ourselves, we need financial stability to direct our scripts.

Im hardly the type to denigrate a girl for needing money in a relationship. I just feel its a necessary factor.


Now this is the thing: Iv been in a relationship for past 8months, but my current girl has shown too many things of all I resent in my future wife. At 1st wen we started, I used to freak out. But in BTW as soon as it dawned on me that she wouldn't be the one, all I did internally is place her in my "make-i-just-dey-groove-this-one-till-arrange-myself-ZONE".

Now, I know I'm being challenged financially to go out of my way to succeed in luring Susan to become mine.

This has nuffing to do with inferiority complex or she being a gold-digger.

But I'm a man DAT cant afford to fail when I want something.

Hence I want several factors to be in order be4 I enter the marriage-market.

Why I need to be more in order is because even those times I enjoyed Susan's company when we hung out. She didn't seen yo take me seriously. She was careless with certain details. The only escuses I made out for her was that " maybe we weren't dating hence the frequent nonchalant attitude from her. At times she gets Back home and never calls to say she's gotten home. I call her several times but doesn't pick. I did her Bb subscription but didn't call to acknowledge.

These things irritated me, but I made escuses for them that perhaps she doesn't take me serious enuf to think of me when she's Alone.

My thot is maybe if we were dating she would be more detailed.

Truth is I can never know till I date her.

And I can't date her till I arrange myself, financially.

I know I WD mk it soon by God's grace. But withing my first millions, I have plans of spending at least 14straight days of seeing Susan. It would even be more than a blessing if we spend those days in one room in another country. In order to take her out of the distractions of all the toasters and boyfriends she may have.

If I find out the wonderful side of her that I fell in luv with is the real side of her when/if she's dating someone, then believe me I would say "Iv found my soulmate".

Guys don't judge girls for showing you better attitude cause you have made money and started dating them.

Instead appreciate and love them that they showed you a better side of them cause you became important to them.

If your upgrade is required for you to become important to them, then your deficiency may have been the problem, not their long throat.


I would make it and date Susan. A none-Sexual date. If she takes me more seriously and all those numerous characters I observed in her within those first few days we met are real, Then Iv met my soulmate. Never would I suspect her of falling for my riches, but hold me former deficiencies accountable. Cause wen ever we were togeda, she was extremely respectful and down to earth. Although she was inconsistent and nonchallant most times we were apart.
I can't take that to heart, afteral I wasn't her guy, we had met just 3 to 5 times and she had a life before we met.

Iv never met a girl and saw too many loved qualities in her within such few hours.

Your contribution would be highly welcome.

Thanx!

Nevana

NEVANA,
I was almost taking you serious when I on a second note, i noticed that u were just keeping your fingers busy. You don't even know the name of the woman u claimed you love. Vivian? Sussan? Oya tell me, sussan is her middle name!

Madam, U do too well. Bless You!

U know a lot, Sir.

happyday:

Check this link:
https://mygre.ets.org/greweb/action/RegPortal
You will see the dates for 2015 on there. Why wait till April next year? If you can afford 3 hours per day, you can prep for two months, and take it come Jan. What do I know anyway?

Thanks. So much brother. I appreciate your insightful comment.
I would have picked a date right away, but this November, I have my ICAN exams to complete. Though, that ICAN or not I obviously, can't attempt GRE this year. But am setting a target for April, is there any exam date in that month?

happyday:


While I'm no guru by any means, I would like to weigh in before Oga Danja checks in. Here goes nothing :
Of course, ma'am, you do have a chance of getting quality graduate education abroad. It just depends on your level of tenacity and dedication. You have acquired relevant experience in your discipline, and that's great.

However, the GRE neutralises everything, if you had a not so super undergrad GPA, your GRE helps you prove to the school that you can apply the reasoning skills required in Grad school. So you are in the right direction.

Focus on scoring as high as possible on the GRE for now. A GPA of 3.49 from School A differs from a 3.49 from School B, so your GRE scores provide a means of you proving to them that your GPA is no fluff, so please take it seriously.

I am also taking mine this November, and God has been good to me, letting me get help from people, including those from this thread.

GO THROUGH THE FIRST POST ON THIS THREAD. REALLY SUCCINCT AND VALUABLE. I HAVE LOST COUNT HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE READ IT!

Pick a test date, get the relevant materials and start prepping.
All the best!

Danjaninja & Co., u guys are doing a great job, may God bless you. Let me say this, expect nothing from people (especially on this platform) so that when you get little from few, it would be so valuable to you and peradventure you get nothing, then you have lost nothing. I appreciate your effort, may God bless you. Yes, am a complete novice here, infact a jew. Yet, I want to take this GRE test. Even up to the moment of writing this, I don't know what GRE is about, I don't know how much it cost to write, I don't have an idea of where and when it can be written. I ve been shopping for a fully funded masters program abroad, when I came across the word "GRE Test" as part of pre-qualification for admission. So, I can searching and thank God I found you guys. So Dan, I'll like you to tutor me about this exams from elementary to advanced. I need your help. More so, find my academic profile below and advice me if I stand a chance of getting a full fledged scholarship (as I have no financial support whatsoever, except God). All I know is that, I'll be doing Masters but not in this country.

My Profile:
B.Sc. Economics - 3.49/5.00 2012
ICAN/ATS - 2011
ICAN/ACA - FINAL STAGE NOV. 2015
WORK EXPERIENCE: 2 YEARS ACCOUNTANT/FINANCIAL CONSULTANT/ CREDIT RISK ADVISOR.
TOEFL - NIL
GRE - NIL

Where do I go from here.
Thanks.
F.O.D

femidejulius:
While being a virgin at dt age is a very big achievement nowadays considering how sexually active our generation has become, let me say too dt keeping virginity has nothing to do with being a good wife.

A lot of women who has since lost their virginity makes good wife.

Having said that, I wish you and your virgin wife a happy married life. Hope she will learn n master the act of love making quickly to satisfy your intimate desires before frustration sets in on your part.

The real winner here however is u. If you have perhaps pester her some more, she would have given you. So, u deserve to be celebrated as well. Good luck!

Those in favour say "Hiiiiiggggghhhh".... Those against say "Yeeeeeeeeehhhhhhh"

That ford na how much?

Bros, I triped for that golf oooo. Brother gree 300k na.... am in Lagos.

Make we talk na

Sicozone:
He read English Language.
Never worked for one day.
Never did business for one day.
Rivers state gave him an opportunity to serve the
state at the state assembly.
Rivers state gave him another chance and made
him a speaker.
Rivers state struggled and gave him the state by
making him governor.
Rivers state voted for and gave him a second
term.
Rivers state loved him and still love him.
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He stopped working for Rivers state.
He started working for APC.
He started diverting Rivers state money.
He had an ambition.
He was doing everything to achieve it.
He began to withdraw from the treasury.
He withdrew.
He withdrew.
He took loan.
He took loan.
He impoverished the state.
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Rivers state began to complain.
Rivers state began to lament.
Rivers state began to lack.
Rivers state began to cry.
Rivers state lost its pride.
Rivers state became empty.
Rivers state became pained.
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Strangers came in.
Strangers stole from us
Strangers rape us.
Strangers brought us pains.
Strangers became kings and ruled us.
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Strangers began to praise him.
Strangers began to call him sweet names.
Strangers stylishly turned him into a slave.
Strangers made him driver.
Strangers made him bodyguard.
Strangers made him wife excort.
Strangers made him enemy to his people.
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They needed 100%
They got 80% from him.
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NOW, HE WAITS FOR HIS COMPENSATION.

Shoro niyen?

Proudly Scorpio... How would I fare with a female with same sign....?

So.... have you qualified yet?

shalomtemmy:
Im about to register for ICAN may diet.please, can someone recommend some good text books for PE1 courses because i was told not to rely on study pack.thanks

Hope you are now an ACA?!

hayoakins:


For IT, ensure you cover ICAN pack pali to pali but that is not enough until you solve and understand at least 10 past diet questions...cram the short question answers if you must.


For AAA, ICAN pack and get John Uzu's textbook, that guys simplified it...ensure you get Pathfinder and solve at least 10 diets questions too.

For FA, i used ACCA F7, ICAN Pack and FAMS Volume 1 and 2....F7 for Group A/c and IFRS/IAS related
ICAN pack and FAMS 1 and 2 for Miscellaneous
get ICAN pathfinder not latter than 2010, solve the question in ACCA F7 and download some ACCA F7 past questions and answer
visit www.iasplus.com to learn more about IAS and IFRS
I got the ACCA F7 for 5000NGN from Simon Page abi na School, Magodo...i ordered online...i saw on Youtube that it is being sold for 4500NGN now


For MGT Accounting, Ican pack, J. Oguns Mgt Accounting or Adeniji's and most importantly solve past questions


Reason i kept mentioning solving past questions is that if you dare enter ICAN exam center after studying ICAN packs without solving past questions is like you committing suicide...you need to get yourself familiar with ICAN questions, know their techniques and work on timing yourself.

ICAN was never over-rated as been the most difficult exam set by any Nigerian Professional body, it is the fact. It is feared because it brings out the best in people... I tell people who want to learn how to read but don't to know to read to only register for ICAN, no one, i repeat, no one will beg them to read. The fear of ICAN reference is the beginning of wisdom

I remember while preparing for last diet, i had to relocate to a student environment to motivate myself, LUTH was the best option...it got to a point that medical students were scared of ICAN because for the 2weeks that i was on leave, the students leave me in the morning studying and return in the evening meeting me still studying...I wrote P.E1...am sure i will laugh come January 16 when i check the result...wish me success


With all said...ICAN is not by i sabi book oh, you need GOD's help...ICAN can be madden

If you are in Lagos and got the money, register with a tested and trust tutorial ICAN centre e.g. SAFE Associates (Surulere), Student PYE (Yaba), Riskfree (Anthony), WYSE (Maryland)....i used SAFE and those guys are loaded and experienced...OGUNS made Management Accounting fun and easy to learn