For many candidates, Chartered Accountancy course is a nightmare. However, for an 18-year-old Ramkumar Raman it was a mere cakewalk! Raman managed to successfully clear all the 14 papers of the course in the very first attempt, making it a one-of-a-kind case in this field!
A student of The Indian High School Dubai, Raman is now recognised as the youngest chartered accountant in the world by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) which the global professional accounting body in the Gulf.
It took 3 years for Raman to crack the CA exams. He started his coaching from September 2012 and gave his papers in June 2015. "I would have lunch and sleep till 4pm and get up again and start studying again from 4:30pm till 8:15 again with breaks after which I'd have dinner and study again from 9pm till 12pm. Then I'd go to sleep”, he told in an interview with Khaleej Times when asked about his study routine.
Raman believes that his superstition helped him to achieve this feat. He would wear the same pair of pants, shirt, vests, socks and shoes and ate the same type of curries and rice before every ACCA paper from December 2012 to June 2015!
He now wants to pursue the field of Investment Banking and will apply for MBA in USA.