Ask Sujatha Rathi about her impressive CAT scores and she is inclined to be dismissive. She worked hard and landed good scores -- 99.49 percentile to be precise -- and that's pretty much it.
Dig a little deeper, and she provides interesting tidbits that add flavour to her journey up top.
"It wasn't that difficult," she muses. "Some people had some difficulty differentiating between the questions; the English section, especially, had double the number of questions in the others, but I didn't have problems on that score. We were given 10 minutes to prepare, so that's enough time to strategise your paper, so to speak."
Sujatha, whose parents live in Asansol, West Bengal and sent their daughter all the way to Chennai, were confident that their daughter would do well. Having schooled at the Delhi Public School, Ranchi, and graduated from IIT-Kharagpur, with a BTech in instrumentation engineering, she found life in Chennai a bit hard to adjust to, at first.
"I came here one-and-a-half-years ago," she says. "I found the language and food getting used to. Fortunately, I had some friends here."
Working as an IT engineer at Convasys, studying for CAT meant juggling her priorities. "In the beginning, I bumbled around with my Hindi, but later, I rented a flat with a friend and things slowly smoothened out," she grins.
Text: Pavithra Srinivasan. Image: Sujata Rathi.
Also see: CAT topper: 'Focus on your core strengths'
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