CAT Result 2019 HIGHLIGHTS: Know the success stories of toppers

Dejected by his continuous non-selection for the civil services, 27-year-old Sahil Singla on Saturday found himself among the toppers of Common Admission Test (CAT) in Tricity with 99.88 percentile. Inspired by the message of movies like 3 Idiots and Taare Zameen Par, the computer science graduate never lost hope and finally excelled.

A data shows in the last year, 87 per cent students of the 2018-20 PGP batch of IIM Calcutta are from the engineering background. “The percentage of engineers was 87 per cent in 2018-20 PGP batch of IIM-Calcutta and this may be because engineer applicants are higher than any other stream,” said IIM Calcutta convenor Sumanta Basu

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Hi, welcome to our CAT live blog. The results of the CAT examination was declared on Saturday, January 4, 2020, and this year all the toppers are male candidates.

The toppers have one thing common to be from engineering/ technology background. Of these candidates, 6 candidates are from the IITs, 2 candidates are from the NITs, and 1 candidate is from Jadavpur University.

Please stay tune to our live blog to know the success stories of the toppers and how they cracked the b-school entrance examination.

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Rahul and Somansh – both students of the final-year mechanical engineering programme have emerged as top scorers in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2019. From mock tests to improving communication skills, read how the engineering duo emerged as a topper in CAT. 

Apart from the IIMs, more than 115 other non-IIM institutions will also use CAT 2019 scores this year for admission into their management programmes.

CAT 2019 saw the highest number of CAT test takers of the last 10 years. While a total of 75,004 female students appeared for the exam this year, the number of male candidates stood at 1,34,917. Five transgender candidates also appeared for the exam.

Two friends from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay – Rahul and Somansh – both students of the final-year mechanical engineering programme have emerged as top scorers in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2019.  Read more

21 candidates have scored an overall 99.99 percentile in CAT 2019. Out of these candidates, 19 candidates are from the engineering/technology background.

At least 10 candidates have scored an overall 100 percentile in the CAT 2019 examination. All the candidates are male and are from the engineering/technology background. Of these candidates, 6 candidates are from the IITs, 2 candidates are from the NITs, and 1 candidate is from Jadavpur University.

The list of candidates shortlisted for the next level of selection will be made available on the website of the respective IIMs. Each IIM will send interview letters to the shortlisted candidates directly. The criteria for shortlisting vary across IIMs.

The CAT cut-off and selection criteria for most IIMs have been released and are available on the respective website of the institute. For IIM Ahmedabad, the minimum CAT 2019 cut-off in VARC, DILR, and QA section is 70. However, the overall percentile score must be above 80. IIM Calcutta has decided that the overall CAT cut-off should be ≥ 85, whereas, the cut off in QA, DILR, and VARC should be ≥ 75, ≥ 80, and ≥ 80, respectively.

The IIM Kozhikode has released the result for CAT 2019 at its official website, iimcat.ac.in. Candidates can download their scorecard by following these steps - 

Step 1: Visit the official website, iimcat.ac.in
Step 2: On the homepage, click on 'log-in' button
Step 3: Log-in using credentials
Step 4: Result in the dashboard
Step 5: Download the scorecard 

Candidates can take a print out of the result for future references.

Despite more female enrolment, the top ranks were obtained by male candidates. In CAT 2108 result, the top rank with 100 percentile marks was shared by 11 male candidates, the female topper of CAT 2018 was ranked at all-India Rank 3 with 99.99 percentile score.

The registration of women candidates in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2019 has gone up to over a six-year high with as many as 85,810 female candidates applying for the test. Despite the rise, females still mark only 35.14 per cent of the total applicants, at 2.44 lakh.

As per the legal requirements, 15% of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates, 7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates, 27% for Other Backward Classes candidates belonging to the “Non-Creamy” layer (NC-OBC), up to 10% for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates and 5% for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwD). Thus, a total of 64.5% seats are reserved. Rest all seats are available to all. 

Based on the candidates' reactions for the CAT 2019, the exam was found to be difficult. Many considered the Quantitative Aptitude and DILR sections to be 'intimidating'. While for others, the verbal section was quite tricky. Thus, the result is not expected to be very kind for the 2.44 lakh candidates, based on exam analysis.

While the CAT was introduced in 1984, it was shifted to online mode only in 2009. IIM-Ahmedabad conducted the first computer-based CAT. 

CAT 2019 was conducted by the IIM Kozhikode on November 24, 2019.  Over 2.44 lakh appeared for the exam this year. The exam conducted at 376 test centres spread across 156 cities. The MBA entrance exam is a three-hour-long test divided into three sections: verbal ability and reading comprehension, data interpretation and logical reasoning, quantitative ability.

The Common Admission Test (CAT) is conducted annually by the Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) to shortlist students to enrol for B-school or MBA or PGP courses. Over 100 colleges across India accept CAT score.