CAT Topper: Common Admission Test is the complete game of patience and consistency alongside problem-solving attitude that pace your preparation strategy towards success. Every motivating factor directly comes from the strong opponents and by hearing their success stories. In today’s blog we are covering the amazing story of iQuanta’s CAT 2025 topper, Rohith Attilli who scored an impressive CAT result with 99.18%ile in 3 attempts. On the other side, it is a real, relatable CAT journey that proves low percentiles do not define your potential, so if you are struggling with mocks, consistency and confidence then this will change your perspective on how you look at the CAT preparation. Let’s discuss how he moved from 29 to 99.18%ile across three CAT attempts, how giving mocks regularly is more important than endless syllabus coverage, choosing the right questions to attempt within 40-minute time slot, and there are other varied factors that you either faced or going to face during CAT preparation that possibly target your journey till the CAT exam.
The preparation strategy will definitely help CAT 2026 aspirants to score good percentile in the final CAT exam with a detailed video attached in the blog itself so that you will cover a streamlined interview experience of a CAT topper.
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Rohith has made three attempts in CAT exam with securing an impressive score of 99.18%ile in the final attempt. Although, he started his journey from 2023 when he gave his first attempt in CAT exam but didn’t score good percentile as expected by him. During his first attempt, he just graduated out of engineering college but left with scoring only 29%ile initially because due to technical background, he thought that atleast he made it easily for the Quant section but situation completely oppose.
In the second attempt, CAT topper Rohith scored 88 percentile where he didn’t prepare well but came across with few basics and given mocks that also not very regularly, that’s how he started gaining interested towards the CAT exam more. The final attempt is a complete game changer with a success in CAT result as 99.18%ile and he said “99 is a magic figure for all of us right respect of whether we get a B-school or not but that 99 is a mark that we all achieve as many aspirants dreamed of“.
The detailed video of a CAT Topper’s interview experience is specified below, candidates are encouraged to watch it for insights >>>
How He Moved from 29 to 99.18%ile Across CAT Attempts?
CAT Topper – “Each year I gave more time for all the three sections equally, so the first time when I gave I thought okay Quant is my better section because I have done engineering and all due to my studious mode but I didn’t. So later, I thought okay I should not focus only on one subject and have to cover all three sections. In second year of attempt, I didn’t gave much time to mocks and that’s how it messed up. Initially I gave minimum 2 mocks every 2 months and later increased the pace for next attempt where started giving atleast 4 mocks weekly“.
What’s the Preparation Strategy that Worked for 99.18%ile?
This section covers the defined preparation strategy of a CAT topper Rohith Attilli that worked for 99.18%ile which will help you answer every surprising question that you are really thinking of. Let’s pace up the speed and understand how 29%ile successfully turned into 99.18%ile in 3 attempts alongside a full time job as well as what’s the role of iQuanta in CAT preparation journey of Rohith.
He said that iQuanta’s application classes and mock test series itself a magic for CAT exam and there are so many reliable methods for CAT preparation. Candidates should start with reading newspapers everyday in the morning from 8 to 10 and practice two to three sets for building consistency.
CAT Topper: “So the magic that I did this year or that I pursued this year is giving more mocks. Time can get challenging and you need someone to continuously keep telling you no, you can do it.“
How iQuanta’s Role Was a Turning Point for Rohith?
He used to attend iQuanta’s application classes and live classes to cover various concepts. He got important questions all the way from Facebook group or community which will become a turning route for him. And the most importantly mock test series and Previous Year Question that termed as problem-solving.
