8 of the top 10 CAT scorers are IITians

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) today declared the Common Admission Test (CAT) results for 2012. Ten candidates scored a 100 percentile. Of these, one is an undergraduate science student at Delhi University and the other nine are from an engineering discipline. Eight with the perfect scores come from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and five among those are in their graduation year.

Among girls, four scored 99.99 percentile, the highest for this year. They are engineering students in their final year, and belong to Karnataka, Odisha, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. In all, 255 girls and 1,640 boys scored more than 99 percentile.

A total of 191,642 candidates appeared in the 21-day testing window, from October 11 to November 6.

“CAT 2012 is significant, as there is an increase in registrations, the first time after it moved to a computer-based platform. The growth in registrations is all-encompassing, cutting across categories and gender. The number of girls registering and appearing for the test showed a considerable uptrend,” said Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIM-Kozhikode.

“This development might be seen as a response to the gender diversity in classrooms being sought by most. In addition, candidates from the lesser privileged sections of the society are also registering in increasing numbers and excelling in the test,” he added.

In terms of city-wise performance, Mumbai scored the highest with 180 students scoring 99 percentile. Delhi with 168 students was second, followed by Bangalore (157), Hyderabad (105), Kolkata (92) and Chennai (85).