CAT results declared; eight candidates score 100 percentile

The process of admissions to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) has begun, with the announcement of the Common Admission Test (CAT) results across the country today.

The test was aced by 27 engineers, of whom eight scored 100 and 19 a 99.9 percentile. Of them, 25 were boys and one girl each from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

Among the eight engineers, three are from Maharashtra — two from Mumbai and one from Pune — with one candidate each from Bangalore, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai and Indore.

“There is an obvious and overwhelming domination of male engineers as far as the CAT toppers are concerned. The trend confirms to the overall reality of the results,” said Himanshu Rai, CAT convener, 2010.

 

At the time of going to press, IIM-Ahmedabad (IIM-A), IIM-Bangalore (IIM-B), IIM-Lucknow (IIM-L), IIM-Shillong (IIM-S) and IIM-Rohtak (IIM-R) had declared the list of students named for interviews, with the criteria for selection.

With the number of students that have appeared for CAT considerably lower this year, there was a decrease in the cut-off percentile for the IIMs. In 2010, the 150-minute test was taken by 186,238 students across 30 cities between October 27 and November 24, as opposed to 250,000 students who took the test a year earlier.

CAT scores are used for admission of students to 11 IIMs and over 150 other B-schools across the country.