Patna, Jan. 17: Three youths from the students’ guidance cell (SGC) of Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) have cracked the Common Admission Test (CAT) this year, the results of which were declared last week.

Set up in 2008, the cell provides free coaching to students from the reserved category for cracking management entrance tests and other graduate-level examinations such as bank probationary officers’ and railway examinations.

The three students who cracked CAT are Sandeep Choudhary, Ravindra Kumar and Hemant Kumar.

Sandeep has received interview calls from the six new IIMs and IIM, Kozhikode. “The faculty members of the cell conduct coaching classes for six months to help each batch crack the CAT written test. The teaching methodology of the institute’s faculty members is no less than that of professional teachers at reputed management coaching institutes,” said a beaming Sandeep.

Apart from CAT, the students also get training for other competitive examinations such as bank probationary tests. CIMP director V. Mukanda Das said: “While Anand Kumar’s Super 30 is a batch of 30 students, we have a batch of 75 students. Of the, 50 students are from the SC/ST category and the remaining 25 hail from Other Backward Classes.”

He added: “ The students in the cell are selected on the basis of a written test and interview. The 75 selected students are provided coaching free of cost for six months and attend classes seven-day-a-week at CIMP. Faculty members of CIMP have prepared the course module of the cell.”

Das said though SGC was a brainchild of CIMP, the state welfare department supported it in the mission.