CAT 2014 topper Vibhu Gupta likes gaming & making short films

CAT 2014 topper Vibhu Gupta

Among the 16 toppers for CAT 2014 is Vibhu Gupta who is a fourth year BTech student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Currently pursuing mechanical engineering, Vibhu shared that CAT was not on his first list of priorities and so he just spent around three months on preparing for this management exam.

CAT 2014 results were declared on December 27, 2014 and Shiksha reporters are working night and day to get you acquainted with the CAT toppers this year. Some of the toppers we found and interviewed include – Anuraag Reddy, Neha Manglik, Aashish Chiller, Harshveer Jain and Rajesh Balasubramanian.

Read this exclusive interview to know Vibhu Gupta, 100 percentiler in CAT 2014.

Yes, it was my first attempt in CAT.

It depends on person to person. If you have a background in Mathematics so I think it is not required to revise the theory once again. If you don’t, you may need to do that. So, if you have a very strong foundation in Mathematics time frame of 4-5 months (for preparation) is enough.

CAT was not on my priority list. So, I think I gave it about three months of preparation.

No my study plan was to practice as many tests as possible. Because as I said I am from mathematical background, I knew the theory for paper, I just wanted to get my speed and accuracy up. So, I practiced tests.

Yes, I joined the test series of TIME. I did not join a regular course because I was having my BTech semester as well. So, I couldn’t give much time to classes. So, just a test series.

It may not be. As I said, it depends on whether you have a good foundation in Maths, Logical reasoning and English. If so, you may not require coaching, that is, if you think that you could do well with little bit of brushing up.

Correspondence courses or classroom series at coaching institutes can be helpful to candidates. But joining a coaching institute for practice tests is a must, I say.

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Weak areas as I said, Maths was not one of them but English was. To improve that I worked on my vocabulary skills a little bit. As in, I had some material from GRE. My sister had given GRE before. So I had some material left over for that and I used it to brush up my vocabulary skills.

My parents work in HPCL. Both of them are in Mumbai itself. My sister is pursuing her MS from University of Sourthern California in the US in Chemical Engineering.

Yes, infact I like football, gaming and I like to make short films.

Yes, MOOD-I is going on. And last year I was the editor and involved in the script of the film which won in MOOD-I in short films category. The name of my film was Bombay Dreams.

Sectional percentiles- Quant was 99.94 and verbal was 100.

Not as of now.

That would be IIM-A.

Yes I do, from HUL (Hindustan Uniliver).

As of now I am still considering whether job experience would help me more or MBA degree straight off. I have not decided yet. I will decide after the interviews and everything is done.

The job, I think.

May be not. Mostly not.

Don’t get disheartened if you give a mock CAT and you don’t score well. Learn from your mistakes. I feel if you don’t do mistakes you may learn less and if you make mistakes then you know where you are wrong and thereafter work on improving your weak areas. So, I think making mistakes helps more rather than not making mistakes in the preparation.