Engineers Dominate CAT 2024: 13 Achieve Perfect 100 Percentiles, Widening Discipline Gap
The IIM Calcutta has declared the CAT 2024 on December 19, 2024, the Common Admission Test is conducted by the 13 IIMs on a rotating basis. To be precise, CAT is one of the biggest battlegrounds in India witnessing MMI: thousand of applicants fight for a chance to enter the best IIMs and other B-schools in the country for postgraduate management programmes.
CAT is written by students from different faculties although it is taken once a year. Some of you might expect that students with commerce background would be one the top but it’s the opposite. Once again like in the previous years engineers continued to hold many of the top positions. It’s a clear pattern: Over the years, the authors also found that engineers are more successful than candidates from other backgrounds in CAT.
CAT 2024 100 percentiles
The CAT 2024 results once again highlight the strong performance of engineering students. Here’s how the top scorers break down by discipline:
- 100 Percentile: Out of 14 perfect scorers, 13 were engineers.
- 99.99 Percentile: Engineers claimed 28 out of 29 spots.
- 99.98 Percentile: 22 of the 30 top scorers were engineers.
In total, 63 of the top 73 scorers were from engineering backgrounds:
| Discipline |
100 Percentile (Total: 14) |
99.99 Percentile (Total: 29) |
99.98 Percentile (Total: 30) |
| Engineers |
13 |
28 |
22 |
| Non- Engineer |
1 |
1 |
8 |
Discipline Gap in CAT Scores
A look at the CAT 2024 and CAT 2023 results shows that engineers continue to dominate the top scorers, but the gap has widened this year. In CAT 2024, 63 out of the top 73 scorers (86%) were engineers, compared to 53 out of 73 (73%) in CAT 2023—a noticeable increase in their share.
Engineers Dominate CAT Results
For candidates who achieved a perfect 100 percentile, the number of engineers grew from 11 (78.5%) in 2023 to 13 (92.8%) in 2024. While there was an increase in engineers from 22 (75.8%) scorers at 99.99 percentile in 2023 to 28 (96.5%) 2024. The scenario was the same in the 99.98 percentile range which revealed a decreased number of non engineers from nine in 2023 to eight in 2024 while the engineers increased slightly.
This emerging trend indicates a relative ease for engineers in the CAT exam, raising questions about standardization and if students from all sorts of backgrounds are being able to penetrate into the management institutes.
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