MUMBAI: Fourteen candidates, including one female student, scored the perfect score in Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 for admissions to premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).
Engineering students dominate the list of toppers, with only one non-engineering student bagging 100 percentile. The number of toppers is the same as last year. IIM-Calcutta, the convening body of CAT 2024, announced the results late on Thursday.
Five of the 14 toppers are from Maharashtra, while two from Telangana and one each from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.
Twenty-nine students scored 99.99 percentile, with Maharashtra leading even in this category with five students, followed by Karnataka with four, and Rajasthan and Haryana each having three candidates. Of these 29 students, only two are girls and 28 are engineers. In the next category of candidates with 99.98 percentile, eight students are from non-engineering backgrounds.
From Mumbai alone, at least two tutors who took the exam to understand the trend have scored 100 percentile. One of them, who prefers to be identified as 'Scrabbler' from a leading coaching institute, has managed to crack the exam with the perfect score for the 14th time.
Of the 3.29 lakh students who registered for CAT 2024, 2.93 IIM aspirants took the exam on Nov 24. Of the total test-takers, 36.5% were female students. The highest number of test takers were from Maharashtra.
The results' statement was released by CAT 2024 convenor from IIM Calcutta, professor Ramya T Venkateswaran. IIMs will release their shortlists for the subsequent admission process based on CAT 2024 scores and other criteria specific to each IIM's admission process. CAT scores will be used by 86 non-IIM institutions too.
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