CAT 2017 Toppers: Small town candidates grow among 100 Percentilers; list includes more females and non engineers

CAT 2017 result declared on Monday, January 8, 2018 brought proud moment in the history of IIMs’ CAT exam as the list of CAT 2017 toppers with 100 percentile this year includes more small town candidates, more females and non-engineers as against last year CAT exam toppers.

One of the key trends in CAT 2017 result is that while the number of candidates scoring 100 percentile in CAT 2017 is same as was last year but the list of toppers is distinct in many ways including the profile of the 100 percentilers.

CAT was conducted in two shifts on November 26, 2017. A total of 1,99,632 candidates had appeared for the exam, which was conducted in test centres spread across 140 cities. The number of test takers in CAT 2017 was the largest in last 3 years of CAT history

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2 Women, 3 Non-engineers among 100 percentilers
One of the key facts in CAT 2017 list of toppers is that candidates with non-engineering back ground have increased to three this year from zero last year. Besides there was no female candidate in last year CAT in the list of 100 percentilers, however, in CAT 2017 there are two female candidates who have scored 100 percentile.

Sharing with MBAUniverse.com, IIM Lucknow has informed, ‘Similar to last year, 20 candidates have scored an overall 100 percentiles in CAT 2017, however, the profile of these candidates has been different this year as compared to CAT 2016. While in CAT 2016 all the top 20 candidates were male and engineers, this year the top 20 list contains two female candidates and three non-engineers.’

Small town candidates excel in CAT 2017

Meet Agarwal-100 percentile in CAT 2017: Surat Gujarat
Meet Agarwal who has scored 100 percentile in CAT 2017 belongs to Surat in Gujarat and is a student of SDJ International College, Vesu. He loves playing chess and has been awarded as top chess player in various tournaments.

Sai Praneeth Reddy – CAT 100 percentile: Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh
Sai Praneeth Reddy who scored 100 percentile in CAT 2017 has done B.Tech from IIT Madras. He belongs to Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. Sai had prepared well for CAT 2017 exam and had also expected a very good score but probably scoring 100 percentile was not in his mind. He is very happy on scoring the highest score in CAT exam.

Overall and sectional CAT score
His overall score is 232.32 which has led to 100 percentile. On sectional front he has scored 64.43 in VARC leading to 95.65 percentile; 73.87 in DILR leading to 100 percentile and 94.01 in Quant leading to 99.97 percentile.

Preparation strategy
Sharing his preparation strategy, Reddy says that he focused more on Mocks and AIMCAT. According to him he was very punctual in writing a mock daily from 9AM to 12noon and analysed it later well after evaluation for the errors. This strategy has helped him to crack CAT 2017 with 100 percentile.

Reddy’s strong areas are Quant and DILR but he needed hard work in VARC which he took up in the last one month. Mocks helped him to improve a lot in CAT preparation.

Sai belongs to a business family but has been motivated to do well in IIT entrance and then in CAT.

His advice to CAT 2018 aspirants is to learn from mistakes and don’t miss AIMCAT. To improve in VARC the best way, according to him is to start reading novels and articles and to further strengthen the Quant the CAT 2018 aspirant should have the clarity on basics and strong furndaments.

Patrick DSouza – CAT 100 percentile: Thane, Mumbai suburb 
Patrick DSouza  has scored 100 percentile in CAT for the fourth time. He is 41 years old and runs a coaching centre in Mumbai and takes the exam to understand the key changes in its pattern and syllabus every year. For the last 14 years he has been taking CAT every year.

DSouza belongs to Thane, Mumbai and has done B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from  NIT Allahabad in 1997.  For the first time, he appeared in CAT in 2000 but could not get one of the top IIMs. However, he cracked MAH-CET and joined JBIMS Mumbai to pursue the flagship MMS programme.

Preparation strategy
Before launching the coaching for CAT, Patrick had worked in Corporate sector for four years.

While teaching the students to prepare for CAT exam, he came to realize his first time mistakes. His main focus is on logic and aptitude and he grooms students to understand and grasp the subjects well.

With the consistent practice and improved skills focused on to the point preparation, DSouza found the way to crack CAT 2017 with 100 percentile as he has been doing for the last four years.

Vishal Vohra- CAT 100 percentile: Kolkata
Vishal Vohra has scored 100 percentile in CAT 2017. He belongs to Kolkata and wants to join IIM Calcutta to pursue MBA 2018-20 programme.

It is expected that more than 20000 candidates will be shortlisted by IIMs for final admission round and more than 5000 candidates will be offered admission to MBA 2018-20 batch in 20 IIMs given the fact that most of the 20 IIMs might increase the intake for MBA 2018-20 batch.

Candidates getting admission in IIMs in 2018 would be awarded MBA degree instead of erstwhile PGDM diploma being awarded now since the IIM Bill 2017 stands passed by the Parliament.

After CAT, various IIMs will release their shortlist for subsequent process considering CAT score and other criteria. More than 100 other non-IIM institutions also use CAT score for admission to their management programmes.

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