The results for Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016 were announced on Monday and the total numbers of students scoring the perfect 100 percentile are 20 this year. Notably, they all are engineers. “The top 20 scorers are all males, all engineers. However, in the sectionals, many non-engineers and women candidates have scored 100 percentile,” said Professor Rajendra K Bandi, convener, CAT 2016.
Significantly, the total number of 100 percentile scorers has gone up, from 17 last year to 20 this year. Over 1.95 lakh applicants appeared for the test on Dec 4, across 138 centres in the nation. However, it came as a surprise that not a single woman candidate made it to the top list. Even last year along with in 2014, there was just one woman amongst the toppers.
Among the top 100 percentile scorers are Mumbai’s Patrick D’Souza, 40. A trainer for management aspirants, this was his twelfth attempt in CAT and his third time with 100 percentile. “Scoring was not easy this year as the level of difficulty in more than one section was high this time. Many students were not happy with their performance after the test,” he said as per a report in HT.
Last year, Patrick had scored 99.99 percentile in the same test. “I take the exam every year to stay updated on the new trends in the exam,” he added.
After graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), Umang Sangoi, 24, had his goals set for a seat in IIMs. His scored 99.99 percentile that will surely help. “After graduation, I was not sure about hoping straight to a management institute so I chose to work in the civil sector before figuring out my interests. I want to major in finance now,” said Sangoi, who is currently working with HDIL in Mumbai.
Several CAT candidates had also started getting calls from various IIMs, including IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Bangalore just after the result was out on Monday. Some of the IIMs have also declared the shortlisted names of candidates for personal interviews on their own websites.
