Common Admission Test (CAT), considered as one of the toughest entrance examinations for management studies, did not prove the same for two students as they successfully cracked it with 100 percentile.
Sankalp Mittal, a final year student of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Institute of Technology, Surat and another student from Chandigarh achieved the feat.
More than 3,500 students cleared the test with the hope of getting admission to one of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). Apart from IIMs, students can also take admission to any of the 124 B-schools across country which short list candidates based on CAT score.
The IIMs are planning to conduct the rest of the of the selection processes - Group Discussion and Personal Interview, in the next month. IIM-A has decided to send 745 call letters to the deserving candidates against 1,500 by IIM-C.
Reacting to this years' CAT result, a faculty of a private coaching centre in Delhi said, "The sectional cut-off for English seems to be on the higher side at 25 this year. Quantitative analysis, which was tougher, saw a drop in the cut-off (from 40 to 30) this year. The Data Interpretation section, too, as always, was easy".
According to faculty members of IIMs, there was a wide variability in performance across the three sections. And all these factors may prompt IIMs to relax cut-offs this year.