Lakhinana Abhishekam maintained good academics in 10th (10 CGPA, CBSE) and 12th (97.7%, Andhra Pradesh board), and a decent CGPA of 8.3 in BTech Mechanical at NITK Surathkal has kept him in a good position. Moreover, a 4-year work experience at Tata Steel of which 2 years in maintenance and 2 years in Strategy & business excellence boosted his profile.
Here’s the story of Keshav Kumar who at the age of 19 aced CAT’21 with a 99.95%ile and made it to IIM Calcutta! Apart from CAT, Keshav had a whopping score of 99.62%ile on the XAT and a perfect 100%ile on the IIFT exam. He is a BCOM Hons. fresher from Delhi University. Read on to know Keshav’s journey and preparation plan to make it to the finest Bschool in the country.
Chirag Mann will be joining IIM Ahmedabad for the Batch 2022-2024. He is an English Literature graduate from Hindu College, the University of Delhi who completed his graduation in 2021 with a 6.75 CGPA. His scores in Class 10 and 12 were 95% and 89.5% respectively. He scored a stellar 99.47 percentile in CAT with a scaled score of 106.10. VARC- 43.16{98.57} LRDI- 27.01{96.90} QA- 35.92{99.06}. He is also a national-level swimmer and has won many medals in swimming both at the state and national levels during his school and college days. Chirag had calls from all the IIMs except BCL and was able to convert all of them except Kozhikode. He also converted XLRI BM with a XAT percentile of 99.7. In this interview, he shares his detailed preparation strategy. Read on!
Agansa Biswas scored a stellar 99.54%ile in CAT 2021, and is joining the prestigious FMS Delhi Prior to joining FMS, Agansa worked at Cognizant for almost 3 years. She scoredy 86% in 10th, 81% in 12th and 79% in graduation (Engineering). In this interview, she has detailed out her CAT preparation strategies, and her advice to future CAT takers. Read on!
Kshitij is an aspiring future leader interested in finance. He did his 10th from ICSE securing 94%, 12th from CBSE securing 92%, and completed his B.Tech from NITK Surathkal in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering scoring 88.2%. He cleared level 1 of CFA exam and worked as a derivatives trader for 1 year at Futures First.
MBA aspirants dream of getting into the top IIMs and to realise this dream the first step is to crack CAT with a high percentile! They generally have many questions around prep strategy of different sections, mock taking, analysis and also interview preparation. To help you with the answers to all these questions and many more, we have with us two of the top performers of CAT 2021 who made it to the top two B schools in the country. Meet Sattwik Laskar (CAT' 21 - 99.06%ile | IIM B' 24) and Sritesh Satish (CAT'21 - 99.84%ile | IIM A' 24)
Roshni Bhattacharya is an avid reader, and a biotechnologist turned software professional. Always striving for the best, she had scored 10 CGPA in class 10th and 93% in CBSE Class 12th (PCB) boards. She is a gold medalist at various environment sciences and mathematics olympiads at school. Post high school, for her love for research she opted for her B.Tech. in biotechnology from Shoolini University and graduated with an 8.65 OGPA. However, during her summer research fellowship at CSIR-IITR Lucknow, her love for technology took over while working at the Computational Toxicology Facility where she got the opportunity to get her work published, twice! Hence opted for a job in the cloud domain at Accenture Technology, India where she worked for 2 years and 5 months. During her time at Accenture, it became pretty clear that MBA was the way for her to work her way up.
Now that #CAT2021 is 8 months away, aspirants are beginning to build a successful and sustainable prep-strategy. And while you're at it, why not learn from those who have successfully achieved what you aspire to? Isha Mittal (CAT 99.09%iler | IIM Calcutta | BCG) and Aishwarya Maru (CAT 98.5%iler | IIM Ahmedabad | Mckinsey) share tips on how to crack CAT 2022.
