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By Vasudha Venugopal: The route to a management
course after a rigorous one in engineering is nothing unique now. So, when the
results of the Common Admission Test 2012 were announced on Wednesday, all eyes
turned to IIT – Madras and the campus, with a host of toppers, did not
disappoint.
“Yes, we literally burnt the midnight oil. That is because we
study only at nights,” laughs Sumit Patil, a student of dual degree mechanical
engineering, one of the ten students across the country to score a 100
percentile. The test is the gateway to prestigious B-schools across the country,
including the Indian Institutes of Management.
“When I checked the results at 3.30 a.m., I saw I had scored
222/225 and for the first few seconds, I wondered where I lost the three marks
as I had attempted all the questions,” says the student who hails from Pune.
While Sumit has always been interested in mechanical engineering and chose IIT-
Madras over IIT- Bombay for the course, his friend Harsha Varma, from Hyderabad,
also a mechanical engineering student, who scored 99.98 percentile has similar
interests too. “Engineering is fun,” he says. “Because the way it is taught here
makes it fun, loaded with projects.
All the toppers had enrolled in coaching centres but no one
seemed to have attended classes regularly. “There is nothing new that CAT
expects from you. It is just class X mathematics,” says Anand Rao, who scored
99.99 percentile. The electrical engineering student from Chennai, an alumnus of
P.S.B.B. (Nungambakkam), like all other toppers, is already placed in an MNC.
Incidentally, many of these students do not have very enviable JEE scores
A common thread that runs across all these toppers is their
interests in several other fields. While Harsha is quite proud of his interest
in football, Sumit is the student head of mechanical engineering at the
institute. Anand, on the other hand, is one of the editors of the institute’s
newsletter. “CAT is not like JEE. Here you just need to be fast, and your basics
have to be strong,” says Anand.
Among the toppers this time is also Tejasvi D with 99.98, also a
dual degree mechanical engineering student, who has opted for a job at McKinsey
and Co. “I just wanted to keep my options open,” she says about her reasons for
taking the CAT exam. While IIT- Madras has nearly 20 students scoring over 99
percentile in the test, the number of girls is few. “It does not matter beyond a
point,” says Tejasvi. “I am the only girl in my class in IIT. It has only made
me more independent.”
Read full article from The Hindu
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