But among lots of 99%lers, kafi wo log bhi hian who burnt their mid night oil, but expectations k hisab se nahi la paye. Family, friends, ya koi random person to bas unhe unke %le se judge karenge, but unke kam %le aane ka reason sirf aur sirf unki Mehnat ko blame nahi kia ja sakta. Unhone bhi kafi mehnat kari hogi. One important point being CAT is unpredictable, kafi log blackout ho jate hain D- Day pr. Kai baar CAT ki journey me log thoda bhatak jate hain ya demotivate ho jate hain, n usse bhi momentum toot jata hai. But it doesn’t really mean unhone mehnat nahi ki thi, ya wo kafi kam deserving hain. In a tough competition like India, ye ho hi jata hai. And family wale to expect karte hi hain ki unka ladka ya ladki competitive exam crack kare.
Mai bhi padhai likhai me acha tha 10th 12th, me ache marks the, 90s me, khas kar science maths. Parents usi hisab se expect krne lagte hain ki agar boards acha nikala ho to Competitive exam bhi usi hisab se nikalega. Main apne grads me 1st year me College ka topper tha, coz initially mai bhi motivated tha ki yar College top karke acha placement lenge.
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So when I passed the first year of my below average college with 86%le (topped my college), I asked my seniors, that what are my chances of placements , can I get 8 LPA job if I top for all 4 years ? (as average package of my college was just 2.5LPA), they laughed, pagal hai kya, 3-3.5L milega, wo bhi kisi IT company me,(mechanical engineer here, mechanical engineer bhi sirf islye lia tha coz mera mechanics kafi acha tha) nahi to gate de, to chance hai mil jaye achi rank pe
That point of time I thought ki aisa kaise ho sakta hai ki main apna best du fir muje expectations se bahut kam mile? kahi to kuch galat kar raha hu ya ho raha hai jo muje nahi dikh raha. Then I realised ki ye to mera mental barrier hai jo mai sirf is college boundaries ke ander apna best expectation khoj raha hu.
Mera second year isi dilemma me gya ki college pe focus karu ya kahi aur, and 2nd year end me maine Google Search kia, “What is the highest package offered in India” It showed 1.6 Crores LPA at IIM Calcutta. I was amazed, and decided ki muje yahi chaiye aur isse kam kuchh nahi. And sirf yehi goal rakh ke maine IIM C k liye preparation start kar dia in my 3rd year (as I had 85-90% in boards, and graduation me kam bhi rehta to chal jata IIM C k liye.) Then I started researching about the type of questions asked, searched for online forums and started to try some questions.
Many a times I used to see people using some good approaches, I tried to match them but couldnt (even though I had 93 in mathematics in boards, but realised it doesnt matter much). I used to think mujhe kyu nahi click kar raha ye, to us time ke ache aspirants se baat karta tha ki aapke jaisa kaise banna hai, kya karu, lamba chauda msg bheja, ek reply aya, who said “Practice is the Key”.
To pehli cheez maine ye kari sirf, ki jitne bhi questions the I used to try myself , and jaha atak ta tha, jis bhi concept pe ya jis bhi step pe, usko mai note kar leta tha ek jageh pe, and after a week of collection usko college bus me revise karta tha, and baki time bas questions trying and learning and making notes and then trying again. It was an infinite loop. Even after 2 months of rigorous solving I used to think ki mai abhi bhi kafi logo se pichey hu in terms of logic. Abhi bhi mujhe kafi chize click nahi kar rahi hain, but solution dekhne ke baad lagta hai ki haa ye ho sakta tha. Aise kafi time hone k baad thoda demotivate ho ke break bhi lag gya padhai me ki yar mushqil hai jab quant me hi acha nahi ban paa raha to kese hoga mujhse. Ek do month waste karne k baad mai fir jaga, (my dad used to keep motivating time to time), fir socha ki saala aisa kaise ho sakta hai ki koi question kisi aur se ho jaye aur mujhse na ho. Ego pe lia apni baat and maine tabad tod questions solve karna shuru kia I was like fir bina pichey dekhe, itna practice kiya concepts hi repeated lagne lage. I used to solve 16 hours a day. ( This is year 2013-2014),
Iske kafi side effects bhi the, college percentage dropped to 60s, parents were like ye mobile pe konsi padhai hoti hai, placement kaise hoga, but maine unki ek na suni, I kept solving, nasha sa ho gya tha question solving ka and har baar yahi soch ke solve karta tha ki ye quesiton agar mujse nahi hoga to kisi se nahi hoga. 2014 was the year I used to solve 95 % of the questions on online forum within 2 minutes. (This online CAT preparation community now has 4 lakhs+ members comprising of toppers, aspirants, IIM alumni and top faculty.)
I started recieving lots of messages ki yaar aap to god ho , ye ho wo ho CAT Me 100 laoge, etc, sunke kaafi acha lagta tha coz ye appreciation pichle 4-5 saal me pehli baar mil rahi thi, that motivated me even more and I started helping people with their doubts. Though people dint even know that I was in my 3rd year and just a kid in front of those people with good work experience, so after an year, a lot of aspirants asked me for organised help, to maine socha placement to 10k ka mil raha hai ek taref, yhi kar leta hu 4th year me aur project vagera karne me interest tha bhi nahi, so while I was in my 4th year of engineering, I started iQuanta first batch in 2015. 90% of my students were elder to me.
I dint use to tell them about the age gap as theyll have this pre concieved notion. Kyuki ye cheez realise kar li hai maine ki humans are bound by their mental barriers. Chahe koi bhi notion ho, kisi k bare me ho ya khud ke bare me. They need to break that barrier, coming out of their comfort zone, if they want to achieve what they expect from them.
Mera kehne ka sirf yahi matlab tha , ki believe in yourselves to be superior, and work your arse off to keep that self belief intact. Both belief and hardwork revolves in a periphery and you are the center of Mass. Ek bhi chiz kam hui to ye periphery collapse ho jati hai.
~ Indrajeet Singh, Mechanical 2015 passout
Managed iQuanta alone for 3 years & now iQuanta has a Team of 100+ Full Time people that I manage.
â– 1800+ 99%lers & 40000 + IIM Calls from iQuanta till now.
(including 2 people from my college bus, who never thought beyond 15-20k salary. Click Here to read his full story.
Aur bhi bhot si chize hian, mai bas chahta hu ki kuch ukhad lu acha aur fir aap loge se baate share kru apni… kafi log mujhe dekhna bhi chahte the during the course of duration.. but adat ho gai hai backend me reh k kaam karne ki…. Aap log bhi CAT 2026 k liye hibernation me chale jao aspas k logo se agar kuch ukhadna chahte ho bas CAT 26 aspirants and mentors se connect me raho.
Lets do something Big in 2026 🙂
