Twenty candidates secured 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016, the results of which were announced on Monday. All of them are male engineers.
Rajendra K. Bandi, convener, CAT 2016, in a press release said that in the sectionals, many non-engineers and women candidates have scored 100 percentile.
The test is the first step to get into the 20 Indian Institutes of Management and other top B-Schools in the country.
On December 2016, 1.95 lakh candidates took the test, which was conducted in 138 cities in the country.
Some of the candidates who secured 100 percentile attributed their performance to solving numerous mock tests.
Rahul Sharma, who heads the academics division of a coaching centre in Gurgaon and Faridabad, took the test to help his students, and secured the 100 percentile in his third CAT attempt. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. “I took the test only to understand the level of difficulty of the CAT as it would help me in preparing my students,” he said, adding that apart from hard work, preparation to crack the CAT also involves strategy and solving mock tests.
Akshay Mehndiratta, who attempted CAT for the second time, said that he prepared for the test on weekends as he had a full-time job at an analytics firm. “Since June, I have been taking tests every weekend, and my strategy was to improve in reading, comprehension and verbal ability since I had identified those as my weakness,” he said.
