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Know the CAT 2023 toppers and their percentiles. CAT exam 2023 result was announced on December 21, 2023. Candidates who score 99 to 100 percentile in CAT are generally referred to as CAT toppers. The CAT 2023 toppers list is available now and you can check it here.

Know the CAT 2023 toppers and their percentiles. The CAT 2023 topper data has been released by IIM Lucknow on December 21, 2023. A total of 14 candidates have scored 100 percentile. CAT exam 2023 result and scorecard were released at iimcat.ac.inCAT 2023 toppers' list

CAT 2023 toppers' list

CAT 2023 Toppers - The examination body releases the number of 100 and 99 percentilers. We have shared the list of CAT 2023 toppers below. You can also check CAT toppers’ list of last year for reference.

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  • CAT Toppers List 2023
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  • CAT Toppers List 2022

CAT Toppers List 2023

This year, 14 candiddates have scored 100 percentile. Among 100 percentilers, 11 are from engineering and 3 from non engineering background. Check the below table for CAT 2023 toppers and their scores.

Q:   What is sectional cutoff in CAT exam?
A:

Sectional cut-off in the CAT exam refers to the section-wise percentiles required by the candidate to make it to the Personal Interview round of the IIMs or other top MBA colleges. The sectional cut-offs are lower than the overall cut-offs of any institute. To understand better, check the table below for sectional CAT cut-offs for IIM Ahmedabad:

Category

VARC percentile

DILR percentile

QA percentile

Overall percentile

General

70

70

70

80

NC-OBC-Transgender

65

65

65

75

SC

60

60

60

70

ST

50

50

50

60

PwD (General, NC-OBC-cum-transgender, SC)

60

60

60

70

PwD (ST)

50

50

50

60

For sectional cut-offs of all IIMs, check this article – IIM shortlist and selection criteria

Q:   What is the CAT cut off for IIM Lucknow?
A:
The CAT cut offs for IIM Lucknow is usually around 97-99 percentile. The two courses - PGP Agri-Business Management (ABM) and PGP Sustainable Management (some) are extremely popular among MBA aspirants who wish to make a career in these areas. The institute also offers PGP programme. The qualifying CAT cut off for IIM Lucknow's Written Ability test (What) and Personal Interview PI is 90 percentile for General category students, whereas for SC candidates, it is 70 percentile. For ST and PwD candidates, it is 60 percentile. Given below are the sectional and overall qualifying CAT cut offs for IIM Lucknow PGP course. General category: 85 VARC 85 DILR 85 Quantitative Aptitude 90 (Overall) NC-OBC category: 77 VARC 77 DILR 77 Quantitative Aptitude 82 (Overall) EWS category: 77 VARC 77 DILR 77 Quantitative Aptitude 82 (Overall) SC category: 55 VARC 55 DILR 55 Quantitative Aptitude 70 (Overall) ST category: 50 VARC 50 DILR 50 Quantitative Aptitude 60 (Overall) PwD category: 50 VARC 50 DILR 50 Quantitative Aptitude 60 (Overall) Click here for detailed IIM Lucknow admission and selection criteria: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/articles/iim-lucknow-shortlist-admission-criteria-blogId-18509.
Q:   What are the qualifying CAT cutoffs for all the IIMs?
A:

Qualifying CAT cut off percentiles of Iims for Written Ability Test (What) and Personal Interview PI are listed below. Candidates who MET the qualifying CAT cut off, were eligible for What-PI round. These qualifying CAT cut offs are for General Category. The cut offs for Reserved category students are lower:

  1. IIM Ahmedabad: 95 percentile
  2. IIM Bangalore: 85 percentile 
  3. IIM Calcutta: 85 percentile
  4. IIM Lucknow: 90 percentile
  5. IIM Kozhikode: 85 percentile
  6. IIM Indore: 90 percentile
  7. IIM Udaipur: 93 percentile
  8. IIM Shillong: 75 percentile
  9. IIM Trichy: 93 percentile
  10. IIM Visakhapatnam: 80 percentile
  11. IIM Rohtak: 95 percentile
  12. 1IIM Nagpur: 85 percentile
  13. IIM Jammu: 93 percentile 
  14. IIM Ranchi: 90 percentile
  15. IIM Sirmaur: 92 percentile
  16. IIM Bodhgaya: 93 percentile
  17. IIM Sambalpur: 93 percentile
  18. IIM Kashipur: 94 percentile 
  19. IIM Raipur: 93 percentile
  20. IIM Amritsar: 90 percentile

For complete details of IIM selection and admission process read this article: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/articles/iim-shortlist-selection-admission-criteria-blogId-18787.

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Name of CAT 2023 Toppers

CAT Percentile

1

Kartik Bhageria

99.99 percentile

2

Riddhi Dugar

99.91 percentie

3

Rounak Tikmani

99.90 percentile

4

Nisakar Kumar

99.83 percentile

5

Anirudh Das

99.82 percentile

6

Avik Das

99.78 percentile

7

Mridul Tiwari

99.66 percentile

8

Jayant Kochar

99.62 percentile

9

Kishan Agrawal

99.91 percentile

10

Divyanshu Garg

99.60 percentile

11

Sayantan Sur

99.55 percentile

12

Suvam Debnath

99.52 pecentile

13

Anmol Gupta

99.47 percentile

14

Tarun Choudhary

99.47 percentile

15

Simran Gupta

99.45 percentile

16

Sahil Shetty

99.25 percentile

17

Shreemant Singi

99.28 percentile

18

Vishesh Jain

99.69 percentile

19

Pulkit Daga

99.14 percentile

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Among 99.99 percentilers, 22 from engineering background and 7 from non engineering background, which includes one female candidate. Among, 99.98 percentilers, 20 are from engineering background and 9 are from non engineering background. Check the below table for data and statistics of CAT 2023 toppers. 

Overall CAT Percentile

Total Numbers

Total Gender Numbers

Total State Wise Numbers

100 percentiles

14

All Males

1 – Andhra Pradesh

1 - Delhi
1 – Gujarat
1 – Jammu & Kashmir
1 - Karnataka
1 - Kerala
4 – Maharashtra
1 – Tamil Nadu
2 - Telangana
1 - Uttar Pradesh

99.99 percentiles

29

Male 28
Female-01

1 – Bihar
7 - Delhi
2 – Haryana
4 - Karnataka
9 - Maharashtra
1 - Tamil Nadu
2 - Telangana
2 - Uttar Pradesh
1 - West Bengal

99.98 percentiles

29

All Males

1 - Bihar
3 – Delhi
1 - Gujarat
1 - Haryana
1 - Karnataka
1 - Kerala
8 - Maharashtra
1 - Odisha
3 – Rajasthan
1 – Tamil Nadu
3 - Telangana
3 – Uttar Pradesh
2- West Bengal

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CAT Toppers List 2022

Given below is the list of CAT 2022 toppers and their interview links for reference.

Name of CAT topper

CAT percentile

Link to Topper Interview

Risshi Agrawal

99.99

Click here

Pallav Goyal

99.98

Click here

Parul Arora

99.93

Click here

Adarsh Khandelwal

99.93

Click here

Avi Shrivastava

99.91

Click here

Aditya Singh

99.90

Click here

Atish Naskar

99.81

Click here

Tushar Sarkar

99.80

Click here

Umang Agrawal

99.79

Click here

Pranav Chaturvedi

99.73

Click here

Abhishek Thakur

99.68

Click here

Garima Garg

99.64

Click here

Dashika Bansal

99.57

Click here

Navneet Mangal

99.31

Click here

Dixit Gupta

99.55

Click here

Vasu Reddy

99.36

Click here

Mihir Sharma

99.34

Click here

Apurba Das

99.24

Click here

CA Prashva Dugad

99.13

Click here

Mohul Kishore

99.08

Click here

Shaurya Tiwari

99.00

Click here

Arka Saha

98.76

Click here

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Q:   Are CAT cut offs announced along with the CAT result?
A:

CAT cutoffs are usually not announced with the CAT result. The CAT cutoffs are also not released to the public.

They are published after a few days of the result announcement when the IIMs and other colleges start their shortlisting process. The IIMs opens their shortlisting window based on the CAT cut-offs two to three days after the result announcement. The CAT percentile of candidates shortlisted for the Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD), and Personal Interview (PI) can be considered the cut-off for that IIM. For example, if a candidate with a CAT percentile of 99 belonging to the General category is selected for the WAT/GD-PI of IIM Calcutta, then the CAT cut-off for IIM Calcutta is 99 percentile. Only those candidates who make it to the WAT/GD-PI round of IIMs will get to know the cut-offs.

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