CAT (Common Admission Test) is one of the important examinations for aspirants dreaming of entering top IIMs or B-schools. This blog covers the interesting journey of CAT topper Mohita Carmen, who left her PSU job and achieved an outstanding 99.57 percentile in her very first attempt and converted IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. Her consistency for chasing her dream and focused preparation with iQuanta leads to success. Mohita proved that it is never too late to dream and she converted the top two IIMs with an exceptional percentile. We are taking our viewers to the CAT toppers journey. Many working professionals who feel stuck in their professional life and aspire to prepare for CAT will find her journey motivating and highly relatable.
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Who is CAT Topper Mohita Carmen?
Mohita Carmen is a CAT topper who secured an amazing 99.57 percentile in her first attempt. Talking about her profile, Mohita is a former PSU employee with a work experience of 5 years. She scored 95 percent in class 10th, 96 percent in class 12th and 73.3 percent in her graduation. She received calls from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode and IIM Indore. Later, she converted the top two IIMs, IIM Bangalore and IIM Ahmedabad. Her journey is really inspiring, marked by confidence and determination to chase dream. Let’s discuss more about the CAT topper Mohita Carmen’s journey in detail.
CAT Topper Journey From PSU to 99.57 Percentile in First Attempt
Mohita had planned to pursue an MBA during the first year of her job in PSU. However, it was quite difficult for her to leave high paying job to pursue MBA. Later after getting married, her husband motivated her to quit her job and chase her dream for pursuing an MBA. In the starting, she found it challenging to manage CAT preparation because her work involved shifts, making it nearly impossible while working in a 24*7 job. She initially believed that someone who converted top IIMs, would maintain their lifestyle according to that and spending most of their time studying with little to no contact to outside world. Later, she realized that she was privileged enough to have the financial backing to quit her job and prepare for CAT full time.
She felt that iQuanta played an important role in making her preparation flexible with the availability of mocks and recording sessions. Although, the live classes timings were 9PM to 12PM but she preferred completing her recordings in the morning. The focused preparation approach and expert mentorship helped her cracking her dream of pursuing MBA with an outstanding 99.57 percentile. The mentors also helped her in tackling the behavioral questions which later helped her excel in the interviews of IIM B and IIM A.
CAT Toppers Strategy: How Mohita Cracked the CAT Exam?
Mohita has dedicated her CAT preparation time with a proper preparation strategy and focused approach. She watched the recorded sessions in the morning and also spent quality time with her family, read books before sleep which helped her not getting burn out during her CAT journey. She has maintained a proper study plan which involved timings from 9AM to 6PM, 6 days a week. During the last 1.5 weeks upto CAT, she spent her whole day taking mocks and analyzing answers. This strategy helped her in time management as well as getting subject knowledge.
How iQuanta Helped Mohita Carmen in Her CAT Preparation?
Mohita Carmen has enrolled in iQuanta to begin her flexible preparation of CAT exam with expert mentorship. iQuanta has helped her with the flexible timings of live classes from 9PM to 12 PM along with the recorded session. Mohita was quite impressed with the flexible schedule and focused preparation strategy of iQuanta. Later, she analyzed her preparation with mock test series and cover the topics which requires more preparation.
With the determined and focused preparation approach, her result converted to an excellent 99.57 percentile and transformed her journey from a CAT aspirants to become a CAT topper who scored an outstanding percentile in the first attempt. iQuanta not only help her in CAT preparation journey but later when she got calls from BLACKI IIMs, expert mentorship helped her tackling with the behavioral question which were resulted in her IIM Bangalore and IIM Ahmedabad interviews. And later, perfectly she got admission offers from both IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore.
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