CAT 2012 results: Ten candidates secure perfect scores

CHENNAI: Ten candidates have secured 100 percentile scores in the Common Admission Test, scores of which determine admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management in the country. Results of the test were declared on Wednesday.

Nine of the 10 toppers are engineers, with eight of them from the Indian Institutes of Technology.

One candidate who secured the perfect score in the test studies science at Delhi University. Five of the 10 students are still in their final year of graduation. All the 100 percentilers are boys.

Four girls share the honour of scoring 99.99 percentile, all of them engineering students in their final year studying in different parts of the country, including Karnataka, Orissa, Delhi and UP. In all 255 girls and 1,640 boys scored more than 99 percentile in the test.

Many of the IIMs have awarded additional points for candidates from non-engineering backgrounds and for women to ensure diversity in the classroom.

"It's heartening to note that the IIMs are ushering in the New Year with a talent pool that is both diverse and inclusive representing all sections of the society. The CAT 2012 results indicate that the rhetoric of inclusion indeed matches the reality inside IIM classrooms. We are glad that we started the trend of greater gender diversity inside IIMs. We trust that the classroom learning will be an enriching experience for those who finally find their way to the IIMs this year," said Debashis Chatterjee, director, IIM Kozhikode.

As many as 191,642 candidates appeared during the 21-day-long testing window, from October 11 to November 6, 2012.

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