As many as 16 candidates, including a girl scored 100 percentile in the Common Admission Test (CAT)-2014, conducted by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore, results of which were announced on Saturday.
Although the results have been declared at the designated time at 7 pm the official website iimcat.ac.in has crashed apparently due to the heavy traffic. As a result, the candidates failed to know their results from the website till Sunday. Around 5,000 candidates from the State, who had appeared the examination, have not able to know their results, due to the crashing of the website.
However, the results were declared relatively earlier as compared to the previous years when they used to be announced in the first week of January. On the basis of the results, candidates will also be eligible for admission in the existing 13 IIMs and six proposed ones. Candidates aspiring to appear for CAT 2014 can also apply for the six new Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) (outside the existing 13), which is expected to be set up in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab.
Eligible candidates will take admission in 60 seats of the proposed IIM in Odisha. The CAT 2014 exams were held on November 16 and 22 this year.