CAT 2021 Results: A Glimpse into The Outcomes of One the Most Coveted Exams
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad has released the CAT 2021 results on its official website on 3rd Jan, 2022. For the exam which was conducted on November 28, 2021, the institute will soon disclose the toppers list on the official website. All the candidates who want to check their results can visit the official website iimcat.ac.in. As per the declared result, a total of 9 candidates have secured 100 percentiles and a total of 19 candidates (all male) have secured 99.99 percentiles. All the candidates who have secured 100 percentiles as well as 99.99 percentiles are male students and for the fourth consecutive year in a row, no female candidates have achieved a 100 percent score. Amongst the nine candidates who have scored 100 percentile marks in the CAT 2021 examination, two are from Uttar Pradesh and four from Maharashtra, including one each from Haryana, Telangana, and West Bengal. Just like previous year’s results, engineers have managed to outshine in the CAT 2021 results as out of the 47 candidates who scored between 100 percentile and 99.98 percentile marks, 38 amongst them happen to be qualified engineers. Similarly, amongst the 100 percentile scorers, seven candidates belong to engineering academic background and other two are from non-engineering stream.
Some of the outstanding performances are mentioned below:
IIT Bombay Student Secures 99.99 Percentile in First Attempt
Much to his own surprise as well as others who knew him to be preparing for the exam for the first time, Maharashtra’s Yash Mandhana scored 99.99 percentile. The IIT-Bombay student claims that he only began his preparation five months back and studied only two hours per day to prepare for the management entrance exam.
“While downloading my scorecard, I was expecting to score around 99.95 percentile. However, I was surprised to see myself scoring near to a perfect score,” states Yash. Although Yash is quite elated with his success, he is gearing up to prepare for the next round and he plans to join any of the three IIMs of Ahmedabad, Bangalore or Calcutta.
MBBS Dropout cracks CAT Exam with 99.99 Percentile
While engineers continue to acquire the top positions in the CAT 2021 results, a few non-engineers also managed to outshine and Ritik Gupta is one such student. Currently pursuing BBA from a private university in Gurugram, he is a native of Faridabad, Haryana. After qualifying the NEET 2019 exam, although, Ritik got admission into the MBBS course at DY Patil Medical College, Pune, he soon realised that this isn’t what he was interested as a profession.
Although Ritk settled for an average private college and started pursuing BBA but he had set his vision to crack the CAT exam in order to study at a prestigious university. “I started my preparation 8 months prior to the CAT exam, and as colleges were shut due to Covid, I got extra time to prepare for the exam. Since I was not in touch with mathematics for many years, it took me some time establish a connection with the subject,” shares Ritik.
Engineer-turned Educator scores 100 percentile in CAT for the fourth time
Suneet Kumbhat is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and currently teaches as a CAT coach at Unacademy. The 32-year-old educator appears in the management entrance exam almost every year as a part of his research to become a better teacher for his students and has been able to achieve 100 percentiles in CAT for the fourth time consecutively, including this year.
While studying engineering at IIT Delhi, Suneet had attempted CAT paper for the first time in 2008, and although he was pursuing B-Tech in Textile Engineering, he decided to appear for the CAT exam in the final year of his undergraduate degree in 2010.
Topper Soham Katkar believes CAT is easier to crack for engineering students
Mumbai boy Soham Katkar topped the CAT Exam 2021 this year with 100 percentile and he strongly disagrees with the idea that CAT is a toughest management entrance. According to him, "CAT is just like any other competitive exam and I think it to be quite easy for the engineering students. We have appeared in lots of engineering entrances starting from JEE Main, JEE Advanced and so on, which were of similar difficulty level like the management entrance. Specifically, the Maths portion of CAT is comparatively easier than that most of the engineering entrances,” states the Computer Science Engineering graduate from K J Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai.
IIM-Ahmedabad Alumni Couple Tops CAT Exam
Cracking the CAT exam was a piece of cake for Maruti Konduri and Sayali Kale who co-own an ed-tech start-up ‘Cracku’. Alumni of IIM Ahmedabad, the couple worked as investment bankers in Hongkong and Singapore before plunging into entrepreneurship. In CAT 2021, Maruti secured 100 percentiles and his wife Sayali secured 99.97 percentile, remaining just 0.1 score behind than the female topper. The couple have revealed that they took the exam to help their students.
What to do If you Didn’t score well in CAT 2021?
After the results for CAT 2021 declared, it is only natural that many candidates must have failed to meet their expected results. The right way to view success should not be through the lens of high percentile but in terms of your prospects of doing an MBA from a top B-school in India. Some of the options are mentioned below:
- If you have a good academic record, there are a few non-IIMs which are as renowned as the IIMs themselves such as FMS Delhi, NITIE Mumbai, MDI Gurgaon, Welingkar, and more, to try for MBA.
- If you are unable to make it to the old IIMs, you still have a chance with the new IIMs such as IIM Shillong, IIM Ranchi, IIM Kashipur, IIM Bodhgaya, and IIM Sambalpur, and any other new IIMs as their cut-off eligibility is much lesser compared to the other top B-Schools and IIMs.
- CAT is the not the only way to do management courses, and there are other MBA entrance exams to help you find your way to one of the B-schools. Some of the upcoming MBA entrances are GMAT, CMAT, SNAP, MAT, ATMA, TISS NET, MICAT, KMAT, and so on. Soon the registration will begin for state-level MBA entrances as well as TS ICET, MAH CET, AP ICET, Karnataka PGCET, and more. You can also go for university-based MBA entrance tests such as CUSAT, BVP CET, IPU CET, SAAT, and so on.
