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The city has earned the distinction of producing four of the top 10 scorers the highest tally-in the country in the first ever Common Management Admission Test (CMAT),an entrance exam to management colleges affiliated to All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE).
Though Vijay Jha from Delhi has topped the list,the second position was bagged by Mulund resident Sujit Kumar Birendranath.The results of CMAT,which was conducted over a period of nine days in February,were declared on Sunday.Besides Sujit,the other rankers from the city are Tejas Sawant who has come fourth on the all-India merit list,followed by Dilip Shashank Patodia at the sixth position and Ashwini Kumar Singh from Kanjurmarg at the eighth.Dadars Priyamvadha Maddalkar is the highest scorer among female candidates from the city and her all-India rank is 43rd.Two others from the girls list are also from the city.
Mumbai had the highest numbers of toppers,followed by Delhi (two).The rest of the places on the top-10 list was filled up by candidates from Kolhapur,Hyderabad,Rajkot and Indore.
The AICTE,which put up the results on CMATs as well as its own websites at 11am,has not announced any cut-off score for admissions but instead,has left the decision to individual institutes.We have released the total scores of students and their ranks.We will not calculate their percentile using the normalization process.Institutes can decide on their own on how they wish to use the scores.They will decide the cut-offs as well, said AICTE chairman S S Mantha.
Clarifying about how certain questions,with erroneous option pattern,were marked,Mantha said for some sets,the answer options were in the sequence of a,b,c and e,instead of a,b,c and d.If students attempted any of those questions,they received full marks for them.There are not too many such sets, added Mantha.
The total marks for the paper was 400,with the highest score earned by the topper being 327 and the lowest -30.A total of 190 students have scored in negative.Besides having the most number of high-scorers,Maharashtra also had the highest number of candidates who registered for the exam.Of the 70,000 students in the country registering for the exam,14,858 were from the state.Around 36% of the candidates who have appeared for the exam were girls. CMAT will be conducted twice a year.For admission to management courses for the 2013-14 session,the first test will be conducted in August-September this year.
