Dhanesh Bhutada, Viraj Shah, and Harshit Kumar, all BTech students of IIT Gandhinagar have secured 99.99 percentile in IIM Entrance Exam – CAT 2021. The secret behind topping the toughest management exam? Group studies, he says.
The three had formed a group and jointly prepared for MBA entrance for about six months. Dhanesh is from Pune, Viraj and Harshit both are from Ahmedabad. All three now want to choose IIM Ahmedabad as it is the “best institute” when it comes to MBA, followed by IIM Bangalore, claim friends.
While Dhanesh and Harshit are pursuing chemical engineering at IIT Gandhinagar, Viraj is a mechanical engineering student. He will graduate in May 2022. Bright students live in the same hostel and call themselves “neighbors”.
IIT Gandhinagar, which was closed since March 2020 due to the pandemic, opened its doors for hostels in 2021 and after that the three together started preparing for CAT 2021. He had also opted for coaching for CAT and used to share notes. He also used to give tests regularly and solve questions continuously.
Harshit Kumar says, “We used to take mock tests together and later discuss where we discussed and what needs to be done to advance CAT preparation. We used to find out which questions we attempted done and what do we have.” avoided, etc,” he says.
All three claim that time management is of utmost importance for CAT, unlike JEE Main and Advanced, where students need to clear their concepts and it is a curriculum driven exam. “You need to have a good understanding of the syllabus to crack JEE, whereas CAT has sections like verbal and logical reasoning which do not require much study. It is more about the selection of easy questions in CAT, questions that can be solved fast and time management is important,” says Harshit.
“Speed is of utmost importance CAT. We get less than two minutes to solve the questions and hence time management is the most important thing. I used to study for 2-3 hours a day and solve around 90 to 100 questions a day Since my coaching was an online class, I was given study material and had to prepare on my own. Studying for B.Tech along with CAT preparation gave me a lot to learn about time management. I did extracurricular Also given some time for activities. Unlike CAT, JEE portion is quite vast, however, Mathematics section in JEE Advanced is very similar to CAT. So it was like a revision with that subject,” says Dhanesh.
“We formed a group of 4-5 students in the college itself to study for CAT. Along with mock tests really helped me crack CAT 2021. In October and November, I gave 20-25 mock tests, which have almost the same difficulty level as CAT, which also helped a lot. In the group study, we discussed time management and how fast to solve the papers. I had to increase my reading speed for CAT,” says Viraj.
Harshit secured a rank of 4700 in JEE Main and 1400 in JEE Advanced. His father is a CA and mother is a housewife. While Viraj wants to join his father’s business in future. He secured a rank of 199 in JEE Main and 3824 in JEE Advanced.
Dhanesh, who is aiming to become an entrepreneur, says that BTech along with MBA will be beneficial in terms of business. He scored around 6200 in JEE Advanced and 17000 in JEE Mains. While his father is an Ayurvedic doctor, his mother is a lawyer.
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