Jharia’s Priyanshu Singh not only belled the CAT but did a perfect job of it.
Priyanshu, 22, scored a 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test — the tough gateway to the IIMs — whose results were declared on Saturday.
Currently a ceramic engineering student IIT-BHU, Priyanshu is one of the 10 students in the country to have scored the 100 percentile. The other nine are also boys from engineering and technology backgrounds.
An alumnus of De Nobili School FRI, Digwadih, Priyanshu already had a campus placement offer from an international finance company at Rs 18 lakh per annum, but now he wants to do his MBA.
Son of Dr D.P. Singh, with the Coal India hospital in Jelgora, Priyanshu is still to come to terms with the magic three digits. “From the mock tests, I expected 99.99 (percentile), never thought I’d be among the top scorers. I aspire to get into consulting and will prefer admission in the top three IIMs, Ahmedabad, Bangalore or Calcutta,” said the youth, who counts quizzing and playing lawn tennis as his hobbies.
Jamshedpur boy Mridul Kothari, an alumnus of Little Flower School scored 99.97 per cent. Mridul, a resident of Nildih, completed his BTech from IIT Kharagpur and is employed with Morgan & Stanley as a technology analyst.
“I currently have a fair understanding of software systems. My aim is to understand finance as well and possibly work in an industry that combines both,” said Mridul over phone from Mumbai, adding, “I did expect a 99 percentile.”
Over 2.44 lakh aspirants appeared in CAT on November 24, 2019, at 376 centres across 156 cities in India. Sandeep Kumar, a faculty member of Career Launcher, an MBA coaching institute in Bistupur, said: “The top list comprises boys but girls have done well too.”
XAT on Sunday
The Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT), one of the country’s most prestigious B-school entrance tests, were conducted by the XLRI on Sunday. Over 65,000 aspirants sat for XAT in 229 across 79 cities in India, among which 1,200 were from Jamshedpur.