Today we have an inspiring journey about one of the iQuanta students who left his CA professionalism to convert to top IIMs or B-schools. His story relates to those working professionals who really want to chase their dreams by leaving their top roles in corporations. Chirag has successfully become a CA professional in April 2025, but he doesn’t want to stay with it only; instead, he wants to move beyond the traditional route towards core finance, investment banking, and front-end roles, and that’s when MBA entered the picture.
For many people, that would’ve been the destination, but for Chirag, it felt like the beginning of something bigger. Let’s discuss the inspiring journey of a CAT topper, Chirag Surana, and how he converted top IIMs or B-schools like IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, ISB Hyderabad & FMS Delhi with iQuanta.
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From a CA Professional To Converted Top IIMs
Chirag has started his professional journey with CA, where he spent 3 years doing CA articleship at BDO India. And in April 2025, he officially became a Chartered Accountant, but he really wanted to move beyond the traditional taxation route, and this is the turning point where he successfully started his CAT preparation in May 2025. But in this situation, he clearly knew that one thing that he needed was right guidance and, more importantly, a preparation style he could sustain consistently.
That’s when a friend from IIM Calcutta, who was also an iQuanta student, recommended the IIM ABC Practice batch and iQuanta books. And the interesting part is he kept his entire CAT preparation journey limited to just these two resources only.
How iQuanta Books & IIM ABC Practice Batch a Turning Point?
The iQuanta IPMAT books helped him rebuild quant concepts, especially after losing touch with maths after class 12. These materials helped Chirag get the clear explanation as well as a detailed solution. But around in a month of September, CA work pressure increased heavily; balancing work and preparation both started becoming exhausting and that’s when he made difficult decision to quit work and go all in for the CAT exam preparation well.
Eventuall after that also the journey was not smooth for him, he found IIM ABC Practice questions tough and the pressure to consistently score high became mentally draining.
But finally, the peer interaction in iQuanta’s CAT preparation community becomes really helpful for the constant grind. This finally turned his entire CAT exam preparation journey into successful conversions of IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, ISB Hyderabad & FMS Delhi.
Congratulations Chirag for the successful conversions !
