CAT Result 2021: Answer key, toppers, top MBA colleges and their cut off
Devyani Prakash | January 4, 2022 | 11:14 AM IST | 3 mins read
CAT 2021 result has been announced. Check out the CAT 2021 toppers list and the top MBA colleges where you can apply for MBA admission using CAT score.
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Use NowNEW DELHI: IIndian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad announced the IIM CAT result 2021 on January 3, 2022, at 05:00 PM. Candidates can check their CAT 2021 result at iimcat.ac.in using their CAT login id and password. As per the media release by CAT officials, 47 candidates have scored above the 99.98 percentile in the CAT exam 2021. Male engineers have dominated the CAT result 2021. A detailed list of CAT 2021 toppers is expected to be released soon. The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2021 for MBA admission 2022 was held at 438 test centres spread across 156 cities in India on November 28, 2021.
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CAT 2021: How to check CAT result
Candidates can find out how to check their CAT 2021 result below:
- Visit the IIM CAT official website - iimcat.ac.in
- Click on ‘CAT Result’
- Login using your credentials: CAT login ID and CAT password
- Click on ‘IIM CAT Score Card’
- The CAT result 2021 will be displayed on the screen
- Make sure all the details mentioned on the scorecard are correct
- Download CAT 2021 result
- Take print outs of your result for future reference
CAT Answer Key 2021
- After the CAT 2021 exam, students had the option to raise objections against the CAT answer key 2021.
- The Objection Management Exercise was opened between 8th to 11th December.
- The CAT Centre received 161 objections across 3 sections and 3 shifts.
- The panels of subject experts for CAT 2021 reviewed all the objections which were received during this window. The divisions and decisions are:
|
Section |
Total |
Objection Response |
|
VARC |
212 |
No change |
|
DILR |
17 |
No change |
|
QA |
23 |
One objection accepted |
|
Total |
161 |
|
The revision of one QA question is from Shift 3 with the Question ID 48916813385. The QA working group considered the responses and agreed that there could be two possible answers: 92 and 460. Both the answers were given marks. The question ID is of a non-negative marking type.
Expected CAT cut off 2021 of top MBA colleges accepting CAT exam scores
88 non-IIM institutions will also use CAT 2021 scores this year for admission into their management programmes.Here’s a list of top institutes accepting CAT scores as per NIRF 2021:
|
Top MBA colleges accepting CAT score |
Expected CAT cut off 2021 (Minimum CAT Percentile) |
|
IIM Ahmedabad |
80 |
|
IIM Bangalore |
85 |
|
IIM Calcutta |
85 |
|
IIM Lucknow |
90 |
|
IIM Delhi |
90 |
|
IIM Indore |
90 |
|
IIM Kozhikode |
90 |
|
IIM Tiruchirappalli |
90 |
|
SPJIMR Mumbai |
90-100 |
|
MDI Gurgaon |
90-100 |
|
FMS Delhi |
90-100 |
|
Great Lakes Institute, Chennai |
85-95 |
|
IMI Delhi |
90-100 |
|
IMT Ghaziabad |
90-100 |
|
BITS Pilani |
80-90 |
|
MICA Ahmedabad |
80-90 |
|
Department of Management Studies (DMS) IIT Delhi |
90 |
|
TAPMI, Manipal |
85 |
|
IBS Hyderabad |
60< |
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CAT 2021 Toppers List
Students pursuing engineering were the CAT 2021 toppers this year. 9 candidates managed to score a perfect 100 percentile marks in CAT exam 2021. All are male students. Of these CAT toppers 2021 - 4 toppers are from Maharashtra and 2 from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Haryana, Telangana, and West. CAT 2021 topper amongst the females is an engineer and got 99.98 percent. The remaining 18 toppers in this percentile are men. Of these, 15 are engineers, and 4 are non-engineers. Find below the list of students who topped CAT 2021 below:
|
Name of CAT 2021 toppers |
CAT toppers score 2021 |
|
Maruti Konduri |
100 percentile |
|
Parth Chowdhary |
99.99 percentile |
|
Prakhar Sinha |
99.91 percentile |
|
Manavdeep Singh |
99.77 percentile |
|
Tushar Saneja |
99.73 percentile |
What will happen after the CAT 2021 result declaration
Now that the CAT result has been declared, the individual IIM cutoffs will be released. Based on the CAT cutoff, IIM shortlisting procedure will begin. The CAT 2021 cutoff will include the minimum marks required by aspirants to be eligible for admission into MBA courses. The admission process will start for the eligible candidates. Along with the candidates’ performance in the CAT exam 2021, the shortlisting of students will also be done based on Personal Interview, Written Ability Test/ Group Discussion.
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