City lad Prateek Bajpai bells CAT with 100 percentile

City lad Prateek Bajpai bells CAT with 100 percentile

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 07:16 PM IST
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Indore : City lad Prateek Bajpai is among the few candidates from the country who scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT)-2015, the results of which were declared on Friday evening.

Apart from Prateek, many other candidates from the city emerged with flying colours in the CAT (see list) and now they are hopeful of getting admission offers from top IIMs like Ahemdabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore and Lucknow.

According to the information, about 50 students scored more than 90 percentile in the CAT-2015.

Prateek, who is a civil engineer by profession, cleared the CAT in his very first attempt. He attributed his success to “now or never spirit”. “I prepared for the examination on my own. I was quite sure of scoring high in the exam but 100 percentile came as a pleasant surprise,” he said.

An alumnus of SICA school, Prateek had prepared for the CAT while being in North Africa. “I used to work with a construction agency in Algeria and quit the job just two weeks prior to the exam,” he said.

After his schooling from the city, Prattek completed BTech (civil engineering) degree from NIT, Trichy in 2014 and joined a construction agency to gain professional experience.

He is now expecting calls from IIMs in Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Bangalore.

“My first preference is IIM Ahmedabad, but I will also consider IIM Calcutta and IIM Bangalore options as well if I get calls from there.”

Prateek’s father is a senior section officer with Indian Railways and mother is a homemaker. His younger sister is a chartered accountant.

IIM Ahmedabad, which had conducted CAT-2015 on November 29 announced the results in the second week of January as scheduled.

The CAT scores will be used by 19 IIMs and about 100 other b-schools for admission.

The IIMs will shortly approach the high scoring students for group discussion and personal interviews.

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