Mr P. Manohar Anand, a 21-year old IITMadras student and a resident of Alwal in Secunderabad,
scored a perfect 100 per cent in the Common Admission Test (CAT2010), the results for which were announced on Wednesday.
Mr Anand is the one among only eight students who scored 100 percentile marks in the entire country in CAT this year.
He is the only son of Mr Peri Subramaniam, a maths teacher, who takes home tuitions for school students in the city. His mother Ms Peri Surya Kumari is a homemaker.
However, the brilliant IITian is in a quandary of sorts as he must now decide whether to take up a highpaying job offered by Google or join a B-School. "I will make the decision in a week; I need to think, to discuss," said the 21-yearold.
"I am on cloud nine, very happy," added the young man who was chosen for the high-paying job — he declined to give details of his package — during campus interview by Google.
Sounding modest, Mr Anand told this newspaper that he had “just prepared in a routine manner” for the CAT, handling the mock/model papers. “I identified my weaker areas for special attention; actually, I began serious preparations only a few weeks before the CAT exams,” he said.
A brilliant student from his school days, Mr Anand secured 91 per cent in SSC public exams.
Mr Manohar Anand, a 21-year old IITMadras student, who scored a perfect 100 per cent in the Common Admission Test, has been a brilliant student from his school days, Mr Anand secured 91 per cent in SSC public exams.
He was a student of Model Mission High School in Lothkunta. He did his Intermediate in MPC from Vijaya Ratna Junior College,Secunderabad and secured 97 per cent marks.
He was one of the toppers in Intermediate exams in 2006.Since Mr Anand’s father retired from Tisco 1996, the family has been living in Hyderabad.
“I did engineering from Osmania University in 1971. I worked as a draftsman in Tisco till 1996.
My son’s dream was to get into IIT and he secured 97th rank in open category in 2006.
He opted for Computer Science Engineering in IIT-Madras and is now in the final semester,” said a proud Mr Subramaniam.
He added, “I want my son to work in India. Even my son wants to work in India though he got several job offers in US. He got selected for Google in the recent campus recruitment drive at IIT Chennai. We were confident that he would top the CAT exam since he was a topper in all the exams since his school days.