IIM Ahmedabad is undoubtedly the dream college for all CAT aspirants. This college has the highest cutoff and the most toughest selection process due to competition. Converting IIM Ahmedabad is like a dream come true for every CAT aspirant. This exam might seem to be difficult but with the right strategy, hard work and guidance you can definitely convert top IIMs. So here is the CAT topper journey of Nayana who secured 99.79 percentile and converted IIM Ahmedabad with a full time job. The CAT topper Nayana’s journey is motivating and highly relatable to the working professionals who aspire to pursue MBA program with their full-time jobs. Her dedication, discipline and focused preparation with iQuanta leads her converted IIM Ahmedabad with 99.79%ile. Let’s discuss the complete journey of a CAT topper Nayana Nair and also discussing how iQuanta helped Nayana in her CAT journey.
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Who is CAT Topper Nayana Nair?
Nayana Nair is a CAT topper who secured an amazing 99.79 percentile within 7 months of CAT preparation. Talking about her profile, Nayana has an exceptional academic scores with 9/9/9 profile and 2.5 years of work experience. Her dedicated strategy to well focused with the VARC and QA and able to maintain good scored in LRDI leads her journey towards converting IIM Ahmedabad. She received calls from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Indore. Many working professionals found difficulty in maintaining CAT preparation journey with their full time job but her strategy, discipline and consistency leads her CAT prep journey smoother and this will be one of the biggest motivation to all the working professional who aspires to pursue MBA program with full time job.
CAT Topper’s Journey to IIM Ahmedabad While Working Full-Time
CAT topper Nayana Nair had given her first attempt of CAT exam in 2021 without preparation to get a sense of the exam and where she stand. She scored 95%ile overall, with 97.49 percentile in VARC, 81.18 in LRDI, and 90.18 in QA section. She had started her professional career and did not have much clarity, so she decided to pursue MBA program and enrolled in iQuanta’s batch 2. Later she made different strategies across VARC, LRDI, QA and maintained excel sheet to track her performance because she was working full time and it was difficult to stay on top of the classes and attend live session.
Later, with iQuanta’s dedicated preparation strategy, doubt solving and mock test series, she did analyze her CAT preparation and she managed to clear the LRDI sectional cutoffs through that one set which got a 90.20 percentile and VARC (99.95) helped her reach a 99.79 percentile, QA was 98.69. She received calls from IIM A, IIM B, IIM C, IIM K and IIM Indore and later she got an admission offer from the prestigious IIM Ahmedabad.
CAT Topper Strategy: How Nayana Nair Prepared to Score 99.79%ile?
CAT topper Nayana Nair was a working full time when she had started her CAT preparation and this creates difficulty to stay on top of the classes and attended live sessions. Although, she used to maintain an excel sheet where she tracked all the classes and her progress. She worked out a schedule around her work hours for studies but there were several instances when Nayana could not complete her daily targets but she would try to make it up during weekends or holidays. CAT topper Nayana maintained a notebook with important formulae or shortcuts which turned out to be very useful especially in the QA section, and helped her revisit topics quickly.
In Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension, she has built a reading habit and covered diverse topics because it is important to develop a genuine interest in understanding the topic. She would visualize the passage during reading and build a mental picture of the passage. Nayana tried not to re-read or skim passages as re-reading can lead to issues with managing time and skimming might lead to a poor understanding of the topic and/or crux of the passage. She has prepared strategy where she forced to read the passage once with a lot of focus and always revisit the passage when needed for verifying the marking answers. Later, analyzing her performance, she gave iQuanta’s mock test series which reflect the actual exam environment along with managing time across sections while attempting test.
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How iQuanta Helped CAT Topper Nayana Nair in Her Preparation?
CAT topper Nayana Nair has enrolled in iQuanta’s Batch 2 where she has started her CAT preparation along with full time job. Nayana found iQuanta’s classes were very interactive and the faculties were very well versed with their respective topics. They also used to motivate students in several instances which made her feel that she was not alone in her CAT preparation journey. Her doubts were easily resolved in classes (as students would be asking their questions in live chat) or in the comments section and application classes helped CAT topper learned at her pace as well as build on concepts rather than mindlessly solving questions without clear analysis.
She solved iQuanta’s mock test series which would helped her understand how to handle time pressure and strategizing when anyone faced with this situation in the exam. The RCs discussed in class are of diverse topics and several of them are of GMAT level as well which helped her tackling the VARC section in CAT exam. Successfully she achieved remarkable score in CAT covering 90.20 in LRDI, 99.95 in VARC, QA was 98.69 and overall 99.79%ile. She received calls from IIM A, IIM B, IIM C, IIM K and IIM Indore and later she got an admission offer from the prestigious IIM Ahmedabad.
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