Here is Geetika, the AIR 1 holder of CA IPCC. This bubbly and super talented girl from Bangalore has made not only her family but the whole city proud! She loves dancing and singing and follows it as her passion. Being a daughter of Chartered Accountants and being from a science background, she has broken the myth that good students don't opt for commerce as a career by being a brilliant student throughout. Read her story to find out about her journey and what her future plans are.

Thank you so much Ma'am, thank you!!

It feels really good. I didn't expect it. So it came as a pleasant surprise. I'm feeling like I'm on top of the world.

I didn't actually see my results. The ICAI President called my father and my father called me. So before I could check my results, he told me that I was AIR 1. I couldn't actually believe it for the first few minutes that I was the topper. Its still sinking in slowly.

They were very very excited. They were extremely happy and proud of me I think.

See, the thing is, a lot of people ask me the number of hours I study in a day. But, that I feel is a very subjective thing. It varies from person to person. Someone might take maybe 2 hours, someone might take 1 hour and someone might take as long as 5 hours to study a topic. So that is highly subjective. I never used to wake up too early in the morning. I always used to start my day at 8 O'clock and I never used to stay up till late or anything or pull all-nighters or anything of that sort. I used to make sure that I study till max 8 pm and rest of the time I just used to watch TV or go out for a walk and things like that to get my mind off from studies. But the time when I used to study, I used to concentrate and didn't let myself get distracted and gave it my best.

I was a Science student in my 11th and 12th. I did Science from CBSE. So I wasn't too sure actually. I chose Science. I wasn't to sure about it. Both my parents, actually are Chartered Accountants so they told me "Why don't you look at this?" They gave me a kind of introduction to it and they told me what we could do in the coming years and i was extremely convinced by the prospects of it so i picked it up and yes, now i find the subjects really interesting and I'm looking forward.

No, not really. For my CPT, I had a very strong foundation laid. I had attended coaching classes for Accounts. It was not much of a problem for me. Actually, I think that being based from a science background has really helped me. For example, in the IT paper, being a Computer science student was a lot of help. So, I would say that being from the Science background, instead of pulling me down, it helped me go up.

Ya, actually I was the topper of my school also with 97.4% in my Board Examinations.

Ya, I know the norm. But it has just acted in the reverse for me.

Well yeah, my parents are my biggest source of inspiration. They've been extremely supportive and helped me through the whole process. Also, my sister. she has always been there to motivate me. so, I mean my family has played an extremely extremely important part. Another major pillar for me was my coaching class. They have helped me lay down a very strong foundation and have cleared all my concepts. All my teachers helped me reach where I am today.

See, I'm actually a classically trained Bharatnatyam dancer. I also had a Programme of mine sometime back in December. This is the time when all the classes for CA are going on. We had a lot of practice sessions for that. So, dancing had been very important for me. Apart from that, I sing too. And I watch TV, news and the like.

Thank you. Thank you!

So, I am gonna try my best to come up to the expectations and I would try my best to see those expectations with motivation that would help me and be the guidance force for me. So, ya I will do my best in CA Finals too!!

I will need some more time to decide about that, I would be concentrating.

I am pursuing B.Com from Bangalore and currently I'm in 2nd Year. Again I am not much sure about that but definitely I would like to pursue something after CA, I just don’t want to stop with CA. I want to do something but I haven’t yet decided it exactly.

Ya, I would tell you my strategy. Basically, one month before the exams, I did take too much of pleasure. I reduced the no. of hours that I would study. I mostly concentrated on some revision test papers, the past papers, maybe I used to do a little bit of theory. The last one month was a bit relaxing one also. A few days before the exams, I ensured that I will not study, I would just relax; I would cool myself down and I think the most important thing in exam is that maintain your cool as you said that a lot of people lose their cool and are not able to concentrate on the paper so the most important thing would be to maintain your cool and may be if the paper is lengthy, then I think concentration helps me but if its lengthy for me, I know then, its lengthy for everyone else so yes it’s all a very related thing so I think keep your cool at the end of the day!!

Very big. I mean it’s one of my biggest achievements and I am extremely happy. It was certainly not expected and it has come up like this. So, I am extremely happy.

I would say, study hard and keep your cool and I think the rest of it will happen itself. I guess the students should be Goal oriented. First decide what your aim is and then work towards it diligently and patiently. You will surely get success one day.

Thank you so much maam!!