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CAT 2024 Result Controversy: The Delhi High Court dismissed the petition challenging the CAT 2024 results. The petitioner claimed that there was an error in the CAT answer key for the English Comprehension section. Despite objections, the CAT final answer key remained unchanged. The Court finds no reason to set aside the CAT results announced on December 19, 2024. The petitioner's request to constitute an expert committee was also rejected. Addressing allegations of errors in the CAT answer key and transparency concerns, the Delhi High Court was announced its verdict in the CAT 2024 result controversy on January 7, 2025.
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A CAT 2024 aspirant has approached the Delhi High Court seeking annulment of the CAT 2024 result, alleging an error in the official CAT answer key 2024. According to a Bar and Bench report, Aditya Kumar Mallick, who appeared for the CAT 2024 exam on November 24, 2024, objected to the provisional answer key, citing an error in a question from the VARC section of the CAT 2024 question paper. He filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the CAT 2024 result. A bench comprising Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav took up the case on December 24 and 31. The next hearing of the CAT result controversy case has been adjourned on January 3, 2025.
The CAT 2024 exam was conducted on November 24, 2024 and 2.93 lakh candidates appeared in it. The official CAT 2024 answer key was released on December 3, and the objection window opened till December 5, 2024. A total of 405 objections were received, and on scrutiny, none were found to be valid. Maximum objections were raised in the VARC category (371) in all three exam slots, but none of them were valid. The final CAT 2024 answer key was released on December 16, 2024, three days before the CAT 2024 result declaration.
The petitioner claims that the final CAT 2024 answer key was released without any change in the provisional answer key. He also said that his objection is supported by renowned experts and faculty members of various CAT coaching centers.
The candidate highlighted that he has submitted analysis of CAT 2024 experts and faculty members of various coaching centers in support of his objections to the CAT answer key 2024. Additionally, a total of 272 complaints were raised by candidates against the VARC section of the CAT 2024 exam. The MBA aspirant argued that the CAT result 2024 was expected in the second week of January 2025, but it was announced in haste on December 19, without any response from the examination authorities regarding the challenges against the answer key.
Aditya Kumar Mallick argues that this early notification casts doubt on whether sufficient time was allotted to address the objections raised by the candidates. He argues that the decision to release the results so quickly 'raises concerns' about the thoroughness of the review process.
Check below the decision shared by IIM Calcutta after considering the candidates' objections against the CAT 2024 answer key.
Section Name | Assessment Shift | Number of Objections | Decision |
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) | Shift 1 | 5 | No change |
Shift 2 | 9 | ||
Shift 3 | 7 | ||
Quantitative Ability (QA) | Shift 1 | 11 | No change |
Shift 2 | 1 | ||
Shift 3 | 1 | ||
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC) | Shift 1 | 31 | No change |
Shift 2 | 272 | ||
Shift 3 | 68 |
The candidate has further demanded that the CAT 2024 results be canceled and a committee appointed to find the correct answer. According to the CAT 2024 result notice, a total of 14 students got 100 percentile, 29 students got 99.99 percentile, and 30 students secured 99.98 percentile.
Out of the 3.29 lakh registered eligible candidates, 1.19 lakh were female, 2.10 lakh were male, and 14 were transgender candidates. Of the 2.93 lakh candidates who appeared, 1.07 lakh were female, 1.86 lakh were male, and 9 were transgender candidates.
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Category | Registered Percentage | Appeared Percentage |
General | 67.53% | 67.20% |
EWS | 5.09% | 4.80% |
NC-OBC | 17.5% | 16.91% |
SC | 8.51% | 8.08% |
ST | 2.25% | 2.12% |
PwD (Across Categories) | 0.44% | 0.41% |
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