CAT 2019 results: 10 candidates score 100 percentile, 21 score 99.99

The CAT, considered a gateway into the 20 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and over 100 other top B-schools, was held in November 2019, across 376 test centres in 156 cities

Ten candidates scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT), results of which were announced on Saturday. This was the lowest since CAT 2013, when eight candidates managed to get a perfect score.

This came despite a tweak in the test, which was supposed to make it easier for candidates from across all disciplines and level the playing field, had little effect. Once again, though, all 10 toppers who scored 100 percentile were from engineering or technology backgrounds.

In fact, 19 of the 21 candidates who fell just short of the 100 percentile mark and scored 99.99 percentile, too, were from