CAT 2017 Results: IIT Delhi girl, IIT Madras boy score 100 percentile

CAT 2017 results have been declared and 20 candidates have scores 100 percentile yet again like last year. However, unlike last year this year, the top 20 include three non-engineers and two female candidates.

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,” IIM Lucknow said in an email.

Out of these 20, one candidate is from IIT Madras. Sai Praneeth Reddy from Hyderabad, a student of IIT Madras, scored a perfect 100 in CAT 2017, with cent percent score in Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning, the toughest section of this year’s exam. In Quantitative Ability, he scored 99.97 percentile and in Verbal Ability he scored 95.65 percentile.

Patrick DSouza (right) and Sai Praneeth Reddy (left). Pic courtesy: Facebook

Another 100 percentiler, hails from Mumbai and he has scored cent percent for the fourth time in a row. Mumbai’s Patrick DSouza, 41, is a management coach, who has been training students to crack various management exams for the past 13 years. His first CAT attempt was in 2000, in which he didn’t score well. Since then, he has appeared in CAT 14 times.

Talking to Shiksha, Patrick said that this year the DI section was difficult as compared to Quant and VA sections. "Most candidates have scored more in Quant and VA and less in DI", he said.

He further elaborated that with each year the CAT gets more difficult due to change in pattern and type of questions. The CAT is unpredictable as they keep experimenting with type of questions.

Chhavi Gupta from Delhi is one of the two female candidates to have scored 100 percentile. Currently working in Noida firm, Chhavi wants to join IIM Ahmedabad.

Chhavi Gupta. Pic courtesy: Facebook

Chhavi is a biotechnology graduate from IIT Delhi told PTI, “I’m pinning my hopes on IIM Ahmedabad and I am really looking forward to the interviews”.

Meet Agarwal from Surat. is one of the three non-engineers to have scored cent percent marks. Another non-engineer who score 100 percentile is Pramod Beri from Phagwara.

Both Meet and Pramod are B Com students and have got interview calls from the top three IIMs- A,B,C.

Pramod Beri, a native of Phagwara and a final-year student of BCom at Goswami Ganesh Dutta Sanatan Dharma College, Sector 32, Chandigarh, said he started preparing for CAT in July 2016. "Mock tests were the key, while guidance remains an important part...I took notes while going through the study material and during lectures in class too,” he told Hindustan Times.

Chandigarh boy, Shivam Gupta (23), also scored a perfect 100. An IIT Kanpur graduate, Shivam is he is working with Snapdeal as business analyst. 

Vishal Bohra from Kolkata has also scored cent percent marks. Although CAT 2017 was his third attempt, 100 percentile can assure him a seat at one of the three top IIMs. Mechanical Engineering graduate from DTU Delhi, Madhur Gupta, who scored 100 percentile, gave up his job of Operations Manager at Amazon to prepare for CAT 2017.

This year, the top 20 is dominated by IIT graduates. Mayank Raj, an IIT Bombay student has also scored 100 percentile. Mayank is aiming IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Kolkata, but he is not sure as he already has a job offer from ICICI Bank.

“I am applying for IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Kolkata. If I don’t crack any of these, I will take up the job offer,” he told a news website.

The CAT 2017 result was announced today morning, revealing the fate of about 1.9 lakh candidates who took the exam on November 26, 2017. The IIMs will begin their WAT/PI process in late January or early February.

Each IIM will release their cut-offs according to which the candidates will be called for WAT/PI round. The candidates will receive interview call letters from the IIMs after which they will have to participate in the WAT/PI round.

This is a developing story, stay tuned for more topper profiles.

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