The wait is over. India's IIMs on Wednesday announced the results for the Common Admission Test (CAT) in which nine students from across the country secured 100 percentile and 1,800 others scored 99 percentile and above. Students and trainers said verbal ability was tough this time however they cracked rest of the test with much ease.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle over phone from Kolkata, CAT 2011 convener and and professor of marketing at IIM Calcutta, Prof. Janakiraman Moorthy, said that of the two-lakh students who appeared for the test, nine topped the list with 100 percentile and 1,800 others had a tally of 99 percentile and above.
"We have a total of 3,000 seats in 13 IIMs across the country, including the six new ones. Students will soon get intimation from respective IIMs about the next selection process," he said.
According to R. Prabhu Dhev, a B.Tech third year chemical engineering student at IIT Madras, who secured 99.99 percentile in CAT, verbal ability was a bit tough to crack.
"I secured 100 percentile in quantitative ability as the section was easy. This time we had two sections instead of three—quantitative ability and verbal & logical reasoning," he said.
T.A. Ranjith Balaji, a final year electronics and communication engineering at NIT, Tiruchi said he had expected to secure more marks but as the verbal ability had lot of ambiguous questions he could score 99.2 percentile.
"I expect to get a call from IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Calcutta as last year students with the same cut-off seem to have received a call for taking up group discussion so we need to wait and see," he said.
Mr. Balasubramanian, director, Triumphant Institute of Management Education (TIME), Chennai, said the results were similar to previous tests.
"CAT always has its own surprises as it had this year too. We need to wait for the selection process to get over in the next few weeks to know the exact number of students who get into country’s top business schools," he said.