© The Indian Express Pvt Ltd
Tags:
Journalism of Courage
The Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIM-L), has declared the result for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2023. This time, 14 students have achieved the perfect 100 percentile score and 11 of them are from engineering background.
Similarly, among those who scored 99.99 percentile, 22 candidates are from engineering background and seven from other fields. Among the 99.98 percentile scorers, 20 are from the engineering field and nine from non-engineering background.
Among the toppers from non-engineering background is Kumar Sai Vishnu (20), Visakhapatnam. Vishnu recently completed BSc in statistics from Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Visakhapatnam. This is not the first time Vishnu appeared for the IIM entrance exams. In CAT 2022, he scored 95.6 percentile.
ALSO READ | CAT, XAT, MAT, SNAP — why are management entrance exam registrations increasing
After scoring 100 percentile, he is confident of getting a seat in IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore or Calcutta. “Every morning, I used to read at least one article on the Internet, which would be related to some topic of the CAT syllabus. This helped me stay updated,” he told The Indian Express.
CAT 2023 Topper: Kolkata boy scores 99.99 percentile, aims to be an entrepreneur
This time, the majority of the toppers are from Maharashtra — four from the state scored 100 percentile, nine achieved 99.99 percentile and eight got 99.98 percentile. There is one topper each from Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala; two toppers are from Telangana. This year too male candidates dominated the top ranks. Among the 72 candidates who secured the top three ranks only one is a female.
