More than 10 attempts, no IIM goal: Inside the minds of educators who still write CAT | Education News
As discussions around CAT 2025 increasingly point to changing paper patterns and the growing presence of non-engineers among top percentile scorers, an unusual group continues to quietly walk into CAT exam centres every year — not as aspirants, but as educators. Across India’s CAT coaching ecosystem, several faculty members who train thousands of aspirants annually continue to register for and take the Common Admission Test (CAT) themselves. They are not chasing IIM admission letters or MBA seats. Instead, the exam serves as a diagnostic tool — a way to decode shifting trends, test classroom strategies, and experience, first-hand, the pressures their students face. Read More | CAT 2025: Four months of preparation to 99 percentile, how engineers Prateek Pradhan and Naitik Singhal cracked CAT For these tutors, CAT is no longer just an entrance test; it is part of their professional practice. “Would you eat food at a restaurant where the chef did not himself taste the food?” said Hriday GS, CAT educator, who is the director (Academics) at AnkGanit Solutions Pvt Ltd, and has been …
