CAT 2015 topper Chiraj Jha is a playwright and football enthusiast

Chirag Jha

Mumbai-based Chiraj Jha is a happy guy today. Armed with 100 percentile in CAT 2015 and a job offer from Hindustan Unilever, he has too many options to choose from.

“I definitely want to pursue my MBA. But, currently I have three options. First is to work with HUL, since they have offered me a wonderful profile. Second is to pursue MBA from the top IIMs. And third is opting for a deferred admission at one of the leading IIMs. I am still undecided and discussing the course of action with my peer and seniors,” says Jha.

A final year student of Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay, Jha started CAT preparation in August 2015 – mere four months before the big day.

“I was interning with HUL in UK and came back to India in August. Hence I had very little time to prepare. Initially, I went through all the core subjects and started practicing DI, LR and QA sections. In final two months, I attempted as many as 40 mocks and kept analyzing them. I also gave pretty hard mocks tests, especially in DI and LR. Post the CAT exam, everyone complained about difficult Di and LR sections. Since I was used to difficult DI-LR during mocks, it felt like regular stuff to me,” he says.

Jha had enrolled for coaching classes with TIME but did not attend a single class. “I felt that preparing on my own will be more useful. I prepared from the materials provided and kept giving mock tests,” he said.

Jha’s father works with a shipping corporation and mother is Vice-Principal of a school. His sister also works with HUL.

A football enthusiast, he loves music and was a part of Mood Indigo at IIT Bombay.

Jha is also a playwright and has penned down more than three plays which were performed at IIT Bombay.

Any tips for future CAT 2015 aspirant:

“Don’t be disheartened with your mock scores. When I started attempting mock tests, my scores were not too encouraging. But it improved with time,” says Jha.

His CAT 2015 scorecard reads:

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension: 99.98 percentile

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning: 99.84 percentile

Quantitative Ability: 99.97 percentile

Overall: 100 percentile

CAT 2015 results

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