IIM Calcutta on Saturday emerged winner of Acumen 2006 East Zone regionals by taking both the Quiz and Debate titles.
Puneet Jain and Rahul Gupta, both from IIM Calcutta won the East Zone Quiz with a clear margin and shall now face IIFT, New Delhi and IIM, Bangalore and the West Zone winner at the Acumen national finals in November at Mumbai.
Puneet Jain is currently a PGP-1 student at IIM-C before which he completed his engineering from NSIT, Delhi and worked for an year with Hughes Software Systems. An avid quizzer since several years, Puneet has represented his school and college at various levels and won several quizzes.
“Preparation for a quiz like this is not a one day or a one week affair but a continuous process. To be a good quizzer one has to be a regular reader and should have the curiosity to learn new things,” he says.
His partner Rahul Gupta is also his batchmate at IIM-C and shares the same undergraduate alma mater in NSIT, Delhi.
“Preparing for a quiz is not possible. To be a good quizzer you have to be a good reader,” he stresses.
Meanwhile, the Acumen 2006 East Zone debate was won by IIM Calcutta’s Arzi Adui and Vikram Gunjal, when they debated the finals topic ‘India can never create an iPod’ facing IISWBM.