Four months is all it took for Tejaswi Kasturi from Secunderabad to secure a hundred percentile in his first attempt at CAT. Talking about this achievement, the 24-year old engineering student from IIT madras said, “It was when I was sitting for my placements at IIT that I thought of CAT 2013 as a back-up […]

CAT result is out now, extra ordinary genius students i.e. “Khas” students have got extra ordinary percentile; in political world current season is of “Aam Admi” and here is a story of “Aam” student. Through out my school life, I scored 80+ percentages only twice: once in UKG and another in 10th. That doesn’t mean […]

Siva Surya Teja, from Samalkot, Andhra Pradesh, is one among the eight toppers this year. In fact, even before the results came out, there were talks that he might be one of the likely toppers. Speaking to PaGaLGuY, Siva said, “I was confident about the CAT this year. But I was scared when my name […]

When CAT 2013 topper Karthik Kumar got 99.35 percentile in CAT 2012, he knew a better score was possible. The only roadblock was the Verbal Section where he managed only 85.5 percentile. To counter that, he started focusing only on the Verbal section as he was confident about Quant. He said, “I was not at […]

The Common Admission Test 2013 results are out. The CAT website was playing truant and not totally accessible even after 9.00 am. As soon as the link is available you will see it here. In the beginning, candidates with long email ids could not check their results. The CAT site had put a validation of […]

CAT results are just few hours away from now and many of us would be going through different sets of emotions, which is understandable. Many of us would have put in a lot of effort and their high level of expectation is very much anticipated and obvious. On the the other hand this is also […]

It is only serendipitous that the day I “re-arrive” on PG is a day before the CAT results. It is nostalgic to see so many “nerves” – I am sure whoever has been posting on PG or silently reading others’ posts expects to be on the other side tomorrow. The truth however is known to […]

CAT 2013 has thrown up a total of 8 toppers. All are Engineers and males. Of these two have a masters degree in Engineering and six have a Bacherlors degree in the same field. Andhra Pradesh tops the list with 4 toppers (100 percentilers) – one each from Hyderabad, Samalkot, Secunderabad and Vijayawada. Mumbai has […]

I have had 3 attempts on CAT, and all the way through, I have been hearing that the format of CAT is “Engineer- friendly”. After trying to defend the argument of many occasions on behalf of non- Engineers, I wonder who minted this term. This is a crazy exam to clear, and a lot of […]

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013 results will be out on January 14, 2014. For the first time, the IIMs (IIM-Indore specifically since it handling this year’s exam) have roped in the government agency National Informatics Centre (NIC) for help. This agency will host the results which will be sent out to the non-IIM institutes […]