Engineering students still come first when it comes to cracking CAT

Common Admission Test (CAT), the test that Indian students have to pass to get an MBA degree from prestigious colleges, continues to be topped by candidates with engineering backgrounds.

The recent report was submitted by Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, one of India’s top management colleges.

Out of the total of 1.8 lakh people who appeared in CAT 2015, 17 students scored 100 percentile and all 17 of them had engineering degrees.

"Many students with an engineering background are bent on pursuing an engineering-MBA combination and prepare accordingly. People from other backgrounds don't always take the CAT equally seriously. Also, a lot of the best students from streams such as physics, chemistry and English don't even opt for CAT," said CAT convenor Tathagata Bandyopadhyay of IIM-A. "Otherwise, motivated students from other streams can fare just as well."

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