Faculty
Faculty at IMS Indore — the mentor bench.
Two directors who run the institute and a senior faculty bench of IIM-graduate mentors who have personally cracked CAT at 99.9+ percentile. They teach regular classes — not just workshops. Meet the team.
Leadership
The two people who run the institute.
Mr. Prakash Rajput
Director + Chief Mentor — VARC and overall test strategy
- ·IIM Indore — MBA
- ·IET-DAVV Indore — Engineering
- ·CAT 2003: 99.16 → CAT 2024: 99.84 (consistent 99.8+ across two decades)
- ·CAT-21: 99.90 — highest percentile among all CAT faculty in Madhya Pradesh
Director and Chief Mentor at IMS Indore. An IIM Indore graduate who gave up a corporate job to pursue teaching. Takes classes in all areas of CAT and MBA test prep, and is particularly fond of helping students ace the VARC section. Has consistently scored 99.8+ percentile across two decades of writing CAT — including 99.91 in CAT-23 and 99.84 in CAT-24.
Mrs. Neha Tomar
Director — IMS Indore + Bhopal
Director of the IMS Indore and Bhopal centres. Runs the day-to-day — programme oversight, faculty bench, student outcomes, and the parent–student–mentor relationship. The person who carries the institute’s standards across both centres.
Senior faculty
The section specialists.
IIM-graduate mentors with 99.9+ percentile scores across CAT and XAT, leading the modules, the mocks, and the doubt-resolution sessions for each section.
- SM
Mr. Saurabh Mundra
QA Specialist
- ·CAT and XAT: 99.99 percentile in Quantitative Ability
Quantitative Ability specialist. Holds a 99.99 percentile in QA across CAT and XAT — one of the strongest QA scorers on the bench. Leads the QA module sequence, the Benchmarking-Test mastery framework, and one-on-one doubt resolution for the section.
- AD
Ms. A. Deepti
VARC Specialist
- ·CAT: 99.91 percentile, VARC specialist
VARC specialist. 99.91 percentile in CAT with a particular strength in the Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension section. Leads RC-strategy classes, sectional mocks for VARC, and reading-fluency interventions for students plateauing in the section.
Extended bench
The wider faculty team.
Section faculty, doubt-clearing mentors, and workshop leads who round out the bench. The full team takes regular classes, runs sectional clinics, and supports one-on-one mentoring.
Mr. Parakram Chaube
Mr. Rohit Joshi
Mr. Nikhil Gupta
Ms. Shruti Sharma
Mr. Shivam Sharma
Mr. Suryansh Sajwan
Mr. Ankit Awasthy
Mr. Nirbhay Chaturvedi
Mr. Sumit Kaurav
Want to meet the team?
Walk into the centre on Race Course Road, sit in on a class, talk to the mentors directly. We don’t do recorded demos — meet the people who’ll teach you.