Results out, students await CAT calls now

The CAT is out of the bag, and Ankit Top companies hiring in India Garg is rolling in the satin. The 21-year-old from Chandigarh is among the rarest of the rare who landed cent per cent marks in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2010, the entrance exam to India’s elite B-schools, including the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). The results were out on Sunday after three false alarms, and within hours, the oldest among the IIM campuses—Ahmedabad—and the youngest—Shillong—announced the names of shortlisted candidates. The other six IIMs will announce their lists in the coming days. The exam, taken by around 2.15 lakh candidates, migrated this year from the traditional pencil-and-paper format to the online platform, a change that saw a series of software glitches that made the original CAT schedule go haywire. But for those like Ankit, after months of waiting, it’s finally time to celebrate. IIM-A to take biggest batch yet A B.Tech from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, Ankit says he was plain ucky. “It was my first attempt and the exam was online, yet everything went off smoothly,” he says, adding that by 30, he wants to start his own venture. “I want to be an entrepreneur and build an organisation that provides employment to a large number of people,” he says.

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