CAT Coaching Awards 2026 🏆 | Based on Real Student Ratings | Amazor Talks |

Overview

The video presents a survey-based review of CAT coaching experiences during 2025, intended to help future aspirants choose a coaching provider. The presenter compares faculty rankings, offline coaching feedback, and online coaching in three tiers. The results are based on student reports and the presenter’s interpretation, not an independent audit of every coaching service.

Survey Method and Limitations

• The survey received 711 responses. The presenter says 684 were accepted and 27 were excluded as potentially fake, biased, or otherwise invalid.
• Respondents were asked about their coaching, whether it was online or offline, fees, and to rate their experience from 1 to 5. They were also asked to explain their ratings and name their favorite Quant, VARC, and DILR teachers.
• To check that respondents were actual CAT aspirants and coaching students, the form requested evidence such as admit cards, coaching-dashboard screenshots, or fee receipts.
• The presenter says responses were reviewed and cleaned, then analyzed using multiple AI models, including ChatGPT and Claude.
• The presenter cautions that the survey may be skewed: the CAT aspirant population is much larger than the respondent pool, and the analysis may contain errors. The results should therefore be treated as informative feedback, not definitive rankings.

Faculty Rankings

Quant

1. Rahul Batla — MBA Wala
2. Honey Malhotra — Elites Grid
3. Ravi Prakash (Rodha Sir) — Rodha

The presenter notes that Rodha Sir, who ranked first in the previous survey, moved to third, while Honey Malhotra remained in the top three.

VARC

1. Shabana Ma’am — iQuanta
2. Amit Rora — Unacademy
3. Vikrant Sir — Physics Wallah

Shabana Ma’am was described as a new top-ranked entry. Amit Rora remained second, and Vikrant Sir entered the top three.

DILR

1. Gaurav Kapoor — Elites Grid
2. Ravi Prakash (Rodha Sir) — Rodha
3. Amit Surana

The presenter says these rankings were unchanged from the previous year, with Gaurav Kapoor receiving especially strong support from respondents.

Offline Coaching Feedback

The presenter advises against choosing offline coaching by default, citing its higher cost, travel time, and what he describes as inconsistent performance between centres. Student feedback also mentioned faculty turnover, merged or oversized batches, slow syllabus completion, and weak management or student support. He says these concerns appeared across multiple providers, rather than being limited to one brand.

• T.I.M.E.: Feedback was mixed, with more negative than positive ratings in the figures reported. Students praised the material and mocks, but also described inconsistent faculty quality between centres, variable fees, batch mergers, slow syllabus progress, and limited support.
• IMS: Also received mixed feedback. Students praised its material and SIMCAT mocks, while some cited changing faculty, slow syllabus completion, large batches, limited teacher interaction, and management issues.
• Career Launcher: The reported ratings included a large negative share. Students praised its mocks and materials, some faculty members, daily practice sheets, and small batches at certain centres. Criticisms included faculty changes, delayed syllabus completion, weak management, and poor post-CAT support.

The presenter stresses that experiences can vary substantially by centre.

Online Coaching Tiers

The presenter moved away from a single overall ranking because the number of responses differed widely between coaching providers. Instead, he grouped providers into tiers based on the balance of positive, neutral, and negative feedback.

Tier 1: No Negative Ratings Reported

• Aarambh Academy — 100% positive among 24 respondents. Students praised its Quant, VARC, and DILR teaching, accessible teachers, doubt-solving, study materials, and on-time syllabus completion. The presenter notes that it is a relatively new and growing institute, so operational challenges may arise as it expands.
• MBA Pathshala — 92% positive, 8% neutral among 24 respondents. Students praised Udit Saini Sir’s Quant teaching, interactive classes, teacher support, one-to-one availability, mentorship, and timely syllabus completion. Some feedback mentioned mixed opinions about VARC and a need to improve mocks.
• Rodha — 86% positive, 14% neutral among 51 respondents. Students praised Ravi Prakash Sir, its extensive practice material, doubt-solving and teacher access, and mocks that they felt resembled the CAT. Neutral feedback mentioned syllabus delays in some batches, VARC concerns, and issues with some OMET material or mocks. Some students also expected Rodha Sir to teach more classes directly.

Tier 2: Mostly Positive Feedback, with Some Negative Ratings

• Elites Grid — 88% positive, 9% neutral, 3% negative among 90 respondents. Students particularly praised Honey Malhotra and Gaurav Kapoor, teaching from fundamentals, active doubt support, and emotional encouragement. Criticisms included VARC feedback, a heavy volume of content, mock-interface concerns, limited discussion of past CAT questions, OMET-course issues, and a perceived lack of a student community.
• iQuanta — 73% positive, 16% neutral, 10% negative among 67 respondents. Students praised its round-the-clock doubt support, Shabana Ma’am and Quant faculty Rajkumar Jha, study materials, mock analysis, and perceived value for money. Criticisms included large batches, some LRDI and OMET concerns, and problems with its Facebook-based classes and platform. A presenter’s update says iQuanta launched an app after the video was initially recorded, so the Facebook-platform criticism no longer applied at the time of the update.
• Physics Wallah’s MBA vertical — 63% positive, 25% neutral, 12% negative among 112 respondents. The presenter highlights its affordability and positive feedback for Quant teacher Rahul Batla and VARC teacher Vikrant Kathuria, as well as its practice material. Reported concerns included LRDI difficulty, mock quality and interface, a mismatch between class and practice-question difficulty, and OMET coverage and mentorship.

Tier 3: More Concerning Feedback

• Unacademy — 60% positive, 12% neutral, 20% negative among 25 respondents, as reported in the video. Students liked the flexible system that lets them switch educators, the app, and online study materials. Concerns included faculty departures, mock quality, doubt-solving, limited sectional or topic tests, and confusion caused by multiple batches.
• CATKing — 25% positive, 33% neutral, 42% negative among 24 respondents. Students praised Sumit Sir, some VARC teaching, and aspects of its content and boot camps. However, feedback raised concerns about Quant and DILR teaching, large batches, limited teacher interaction, class delays or short sessions, mismanagement, and a gap between YouTube impressions and students’ reported experience.

Presenter’s Recommendations

The presenter’s general preference is for online coaching, based on the survey feedback and the cost and consistency concerns he observed in offline options. His suggested matches are:

• For basics, including school-level Maths and DILR: Consider Elites Grid or Rodha.
• For a tight budget: Consider Physics Wallah.
• For doubt-solving support and a more advanced student: Consider iQuanta, while noting that its platform changed with the app launch.
• For emotional encouragement and close teacher engagement: Consider Elites Grid.
• For more personalized, one-to-one attention: Consider smaller providers such as MBA Pathshala or Aarambh Academy.

He also says the CAT coaching market needs more strong VARC teachers, since VARC was a recurring area of concern in feedback across several providers.

Speakers and Sources Featured

• Presenter/narrator: The Amazor Talks presenter, who discusses the survey and gives recommendations. The subtitles do not state the presenter’s name.
• Survey respondents: CAT aspirants whose ratings and written feedback form the basis of the review.
• AI analysis tools named in the subtitles: ChatGPT and Claude; the presenter also refers generally to using multiple AI models.
• Faculty discussed in the video: Rahul Batla, Honey Malhotra, Ravi Prakash (Rodha Sir), Shabana Ma’am, Amit Rora, Vikrant Sir, Gaurav Kapoor, Amit Surana, Rajkumar Jha, Udit Saini Sir, Raman Tiwari Sir, Lokesh Sir, Sameer Sardana Sir, and Sumit Sir.
• Coaching providers discussed: T.I.M.E., IMS, Career Launcher, CATKing, Unacademy, Physics Wallah, iQuanta, Elites Grid, Rodha, MBA Pathshala, and Aarambh Academy.