{"id":1484,"date":"2014-01-16T19:11:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T13:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2014-01-16T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T13:41:12","slug":"abrahim-iyer-iit-madras-tops-cat-2013-perfect-100-percentile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/abrahim-iyer-iit-madras-tops-cat-2013-perfect-100-percentile\/","title":{"rendered":"Abrahim Iyer from IIT-Madras Tops CAT, 2013 with Perfect 100 Percentile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/w2e_opt.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1485\" alt=\"w2e_opt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/w2e_opt.jpg\" width=\"318\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a>Abrahim Iyer is the proud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/top-engineering-colleges\/iit-madras\/\">IITian from IIT-Madras<\/a> who topped this year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Common Admission Test examination with perfect percentile. A soccer fan and an aspiring writer, he has beaten over 1.94 lakh candidates to claim this top-most position in the examination.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s been working with Ashok Leyland as its Project Planner for 18 months. He has attempted CAT twice in past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cEach time I was stuck somewhere between the 99th and 100th percentiles. I think everyone in that range is equally talented. A bit of luck and a good mood during the test can get you that extra point,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Although selected for IIM-Indore, Abrahim declined the seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cAt the interview, a professor asked me if it would be better to pursue an MBA after a few years of work. Though at the time I convinced him that I, a fresher then, deserved the seat, I later realised he was right,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A great of fantasy writer Steven Erikson, he believes fantasy novel challenge everyone\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s imagination and at the same time work as one\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s biggest stress busters.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cBefore every mock test, I watch a game of football. It reminds me nothing is predictable, just like the CAT,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abrahim\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s mother is a retired Manager of SBI while his father is an auditor at the defense accounts departments in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cI will definitely ditch the job if I get into IIM-Ahmedabad, Bangalore or Kolkata,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d he confirmed.<br \/>\nThis post was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/118426747799894901974?rel=author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nishant Sinha<\/a>, co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askiitians.com\">askIITians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abrahim Iyer is the proud IITian from IIT-Madras who topped this year\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Common Admission Test examination with perfect percentile. A soccer fan and an aspiring writer, he has beaten over 1.94 lakh candidates to claim this top-most position in the examination. He\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s been working with Ashok Leyland as its Project Planner for 18 months. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.askiitians.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}