About the competition

Congratulations to Arjun Rajani from Merchant Taylors’ School, Middlesex  for winning Schools' Brightest Business Brain!

Friday the 9th of March 2012 saw 60 of the best students from schools across the UK descend on RBS for the Grand Final of Schools’ Brightest Business Brain, with a view to fighting it out to be crowned overall champion.

Launched in September 2011, the competition saw more than 1,400 students register and take 4 online exercises designed by cut-e to assess the kind of competencies, traits and aptitudes associated with successful business people as well as identifying commercial awareness. Having taken the exercise students were immediately given their score which was posted on to the Leaderboard showing them their position and highlighting if they had made it through to the Grand Final.

The top 60 from off the Leaderboard were invited to the Grand Final in London to demonstrate further their abilities through 3 face to face assessment style exercises created and run by cut-e and the competition’s sponsors including RBS, CIMA and National Grid. The exercises reflected important competencies each of the sponsors look for in students as well as giving the Grand Final participants a feel for who the sponsors are and what they do. Exercises included a debate, team working and communication exercises and a creative business case study.

With students attending from all over the UK the competition throughout the day was intense yet friendly as everyone knew they were in with a chance of winning the £500 first prize. In the end though there could be only one overall winner with 1st prize and £500 going to Arjun Rajani from Merchant Taylors’ School, Middlesex, 2nd prize and £300 went to Zain Iqbal from Queen Mary’s Grammar School for Boys, West Midlands and 3rd prize and £200 went to Priya Shah from the North London Collegiate School, Harrow. The same amount of prize money was also awarded to each of the winner’s schools.The day finished with drinks and networking and lots of excitement around next year’s competition.

Look out for details of next year's competition which will be posted on this website.