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Last week, IIM A, B and C came out with their final results. This result was very special for the son of a poor auto-rickshaw driver from Patna. Anupam Kumar, a resident of Bhadra Ghat locality in Patna, scored a 97.09 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) and then cleared GD-PI to qualify for the prestigious IIM Calcutta. The Common Admission Test (CAT) is an all-India test conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) as an entrance exam for the management programes of its world class business schools (IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIML and others). About 200,000 students took CAT this year. This is said to make the IIMs more selective than the Ivy League Universities.
After doing his matriculation from a private school and intermediate from the Hindi medium Guru Gobind Singh College at Patna Sahib in first division, Anupam focused on making it to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). And in 2005, he cracked the joint entrance examination for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) as a student of Super 30, a free coaching institute for underprivileged children run by a young mathematician Anand Kumar.
However, Anupam’s father does not intend to stop driving his autorickshaw on the roads of Patna. His father told him to keep focus on his studies. He would keep running the auto-rickshaw for another two years.
“Whatever I have achieved today is because of my parents, God should give everybody parents like mine.” Anupam Kumar (IIMC 2011-2013)
