About Us – Apex Careers

APEX CAREERS, a Pune based organization is in the field of training. The Academy trains youth for competitive exams like NDA & NA Exam, CDS Exam conducted by the UPSC. The institute also caters to preparing young boys and girls for the AFCAT. The Institute’s forte has been SSB Interview Preparation Coaching. Apex Careers, Pune has a unique identity of being the best institute in the country in terms of success of its students. The Academy also prepares students for the entrance exam for admission to Services Preparatory Institute (SPI) Aurangabad. Apex Careers has also designed a two years coaching program for National Defence Academy aspirants. The youth after completion of their X Board Exams can undergo a Personality Development Capsule Course and then undergo coaching for XI Science, XII Science Board Exams (PCM Group), NDA & NA written Exam and SSB Interview preparation. The Academy also conducts crash courses for NDA & NA Exam, CDS Exam and AFCAT.

The approach of the organization has been totally professional. The Academy has five to six officers on the panel who impart Services Selection Board i.e. SSB Interviews training and around 25 academic staff as visiting faculty to train for various competitive exams. The Institute has six full time staff to cater to various activities of the organization.

Raised on 03 January 2005 by Lt Col (Retd) Pradeep Brahmankar, Apex Careers formally got registered and commenced the training activities on 05 May 2005. The training activities are presently carried out at Mahatma Phule Museum Campus on Ghole Road, Shivajinagar in Pune.

Apex Careers has trained five batches of SPI Aurangabad for the SSB Interviews. The organization also had privilege of training one batch of Sainik School – Satara. The institute has also trained two batches of PCTC – Nashik for SSB Interviews. Since Inception, the institute has to its credit over 500 students. Today, throughout the country, if one has to crack SSB Interview, the first name that comes to the mind of a youth is ‘APEX CAREERS’.

About the Director

Lt Col (Retd) Pradeep Brahmankar joined the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun in Feb 1984 and was commissioned as Lieutenant in the Corps of EME on 15 Dec 1984. He was part of the 58th Technical Graduate Course (TGC), which passed out with 65 NDA/75 Regular Course at IMA. An alumnus of Fergusson College and Govt. College of
Engineering, Pune (COEP), he holds a B.E. (Met) degree and an MBA from Pune University’s Dept. of Commerce and Management Sciences (PUMBA).

Lt Col Brahmankar served in various EME units, including a tenure in Sri Lanka with the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF). He commanded an Intermediate Repair Workshop (IRW) in the Eastern Sector and an Infantry Brigade Workshop in Dehradun. He also served at Military College of EME (MCEME), Secunderabad, and as Administrative Officer of 512 Army Base Workshop, Kirkee (Pune), before retiring prematurely on 30 Nov 2004 after 21 years of distinguished service.

Post-retirement, he founded Apex Careers in 2005. Over the past 21 years, the organization has successfully prepared over 600 officers for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, including over 60 lady officers. Notably, over 185 students have secured admission to the prestigious National Defence Academy.

The Principal

Mr. Giridhar Jha, A highly experienced educationist with 25 years in the teaching field, holding a Master’s degree in Mathematics and has also done a degree in education (B.Ed). He has been associated with Apex Careers for over 15 years as Mathematics faculty.

Mr Giridhar Jha has worked with renowned educational institutions such as the National Defence Academy (NDA), IITPK – a leading institution for JEE coaching, Netaji Subhashchandra Bose Boys Military School (NSBBMS), Phulgaon and a few other good schools and college