New Delhi: Eight men scored a perfect 100 percentile in the second online edition of the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010 which decides the fate of thousands of students seeking admission to some of India's top business schools this year. The much-awaited CAT results were declared as per schedule on Wednesday following a scare of scores leaked on the Indian Institutes of Management website 10 days ahead of its release date.
Eight male candidates scored 100 per cent this year in the CAT 2010, while 19 B-school aspirants scored 99.9 per cent including two women from Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
Three of the top eight are from Maharashtra - two from Mumbai and one from Pune - and one each from Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Indore. The identity of the toppers has not been revealed.
In keeping with the tradition of the CAT, engineering students dominated the top slots this year.
Candidates can download their scorecards from the CAT website, www.catiim.in However, the website was down on Wednesday as anxious candidates tried to log in to find out if they made the cut.
IIM Lucknow and IIM Calcutta have put up the roll numbers of candidates short-listed for the group discussion and interview. The CAT 2010 results will decide the admission to 11 Indian Institutes of Management and over 150 B-schools.
The Indian Institutes of Management along with the US-based Prometric India conducted the test online for the second time in 2010. This year the test window was extended to a 20 day period from the 10 day window of 2009.
CAT 2010 also saw registration figures of 2.06 lakh, a 15 per cent drop over the previous year.
CAT is a test held annually for the admission to the post-graduate and Fellow Programs in management courses of several management institutes in India.
The institutes include top business management schools like IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kolkata, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore, IIM Bangalore, FMS New Delhi, JBIMS Mumbai, SPJIMR Mumbai, IILMGSM, IMT Ghaziabad, MDI Gurgaon and NITIE Mumbai.
The test is conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) and considered to be a major requirement for a candidate seeking admission to the prestigious management institutes of India.
On January 2, the CAT results were rumoured to have been leaked on the website, 10 days ahead of their actual day of release. This was denied later by the Convener for CAT 2010 Himanshu Rai.
There was frenzy among management students who tried to log in to find out their test scores after the rumour spread on the internet.
Students said they saw the results on the website, which Rai said could have happened due to live testing of the results that are usually done in an offline mode.
