CAT 2022 Score vs Percentile
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CAT score is the number of marks you earn in the exam, while a CAT percentile is your relative rank compared to all other test-taker. CAT score vs percentile analysis is done by coaching institutes every year based on the exam difficulty. Check complete analysis of CAT 2022 score vs percentile below.
CAT 2022 core vs percentile
CAT 2022 Score vs Percentile: IIM Bangalore conducted CAT 2022 on November 27, 2022 in three shifts. CAT exam had 66 questions for 198 marks. CAT 2022 score of 84, 60 and 49 marks was converted into 99, 95 and 90 percentile. CAT conducting body IIMs do not publish official score vs percentile data. Official website, iimcat.ac.in only gives you scorecard with your score and percentile. So, score vs percentile data present anywhere was prepared on basis of exam difficulty level and student reactions.
CAT score is number of marks you get in exam. CAT percentile shows your rank compared with other candidates. A 95 percentile means you scored better than 95 out of every 100 candidates.
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- CAT 2022 Exam Details
- Section wise CAT 2022 Score vs Percentile
- How the CAT Normalisation Process Works
- CAT 2022 score vs percentile: Raw Score Calculation
- CAT Scaled Score Calculation Process
- How Is CAT Percentile Calculated?
- Difference between Percentile and Percentage
CAT 2022 Exam Details
Candidates can check CAT 2022 exam details below
| Particulars |
Details |
|---|---|
| Conducted by |
IIM Bangalore |
| Exam date |
November 27, 2022 |
| Shifts |
3 |
| Registered candidates |
255501 |
| Total questions |
66 |
| Total marks |
198 |
| Duration |
2 hours |
| Result date |
December 21, 2022 |
Source: Analysis of CAT 2022 scorecards by coaching institutes. Values may vary between sources.
Commonly asked questions
The CAT cut offs for IIM Bangalore hovers between 97-100 percentile. The qualifying CAT cut off required for being eligible for IIM Bangalore's Written Ability test (What) and Personal Interview PI is 85 percentile for General category students, whereas for SC candidates, it is 70 percentile. For ST candidates, it is 65 percentile and for PwD candidates it is 60 percentile. Given below are the sectional and overall qualifying CAT cut offs for IIM Bangalore.
- General category: 80 VARC 75 DILR 75 Quantitative Aptitude 85 (Overall)
- NC-OBC category: 75 VARC 65 DILR 65 Quantitative Aptitude 75 (Overall)
- EWS category: 70 VARC 65 DILR 65 Quantitative Aptitude 75 (Overall)
- SC category: 65 VARC 60 DILR 60 Quantitative Aptitude 70 (Overall)
- ST category: 55 VARC 55 DILR 55 Quantitative Aptitude 65 (Overall)
- PwD category: 50 VARC 50 DILR 50 Quantitative Aptitude 60 (Overall)
CAT cut off is prepared by all accepting colleges individually. There is no one authorized body to do so. Even the IIMs determine their admission cut offs separately.
Qualifying CAT cut off percentiles of Iims for Written Ability Test (What) and Personal Interview PI are listed below. Candidates who MET the qualifying CAT cut off, were eligible for What-PI round. These qualifying CAT cut offs are for General Category. The cut offs for Reserved category students are lower:
- IIM Ahmedabad: 95 percentile
- IIM Bangalore: 85 percentile
- IIM Calcutta: 85 percentile
- IIM Lucknow: 90 percentile
- IIM Kozhikode: 85 percentile
- IIM Indore: 90 percentile
- IIM Udaipur: 93 percentile
- IIM Shillong: 75 percentile
- IIM Trichy: 93 percentile
- IIM Visakhapatnam: 80 percentile
- IIM Rohtak: 95 percentile
- 1IIM Nagpur: 85 percentile
- IIM Jammu: 93 percentile
- IIM Ranchi: 90 percentile
- IIM Sirmaur: 92 percentile
- IIM Bodhgaya: 93 percentile
- IIM Sambalpur: 93 percentile
- IIM Kashipur: 94 percentile
- IIM Raipur: 93 percentile
- IIM Amritsar: 90 percentile
For complete details of IIM selection and admission process read this article: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/articles/iim-shortlist-selection-admission-criteria-blogId-18787.
Getting a 99 percentile in the CAT exam is usually considered difficult, as it places you in the top 1 per cent of roughly 2.5 to 3 Lacs test-takers.
Section wise CAT 2022 Score vs Percentile
Each section is scaled separately and three scale scores are added for your overall score.
| Percentile |
Approximate Scaled Score (Out of 198) |
|---|---|
| 99.9 |
110 |
| 99.5 |
92 to 95 |
| 99 |
84 |
| 98 |
72 to 74 |
| 95 |
60 to 62 |
| 90 |
49 |
| 85 |
41 |
| 80 |
36 |
Source: Coaching institute analysis.
How the CAT Normalisation Process Works
CAT is conducted in more than one shift. Some shifts can see easier paper and others can see tougher. To keep things fair conducting body IIMs use CAT normalisation process. In simple words, your raw score is compared with average performance of all candidates of your shift. It is then adjusted using overall performance across all shifts. This converts your raw score into a scaled score.
CAT 2022 score vs percentile: Raw Score Calculation
Understanding the difference between raw score and scaled score is important for aspirants to calculate their performance properly. Percentiles are also calculated entirely from scaled scores and not raw marks.
The CAT exam pattern consisted of 66 questions with CAT total marks of 198 (VARC: 72 marks; DILR: 60 marks, QA: 66 marks). CAT marking scheme awards +3 marks for every correct answer, imposes a −1 mark penalty for incorrect Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), and applies no negative marking for Type In The Answer (TITA) questions or unattempted items.
Raw Score Formula= (3 × Number of Correct Answers) − (1 × Number of Incorrect MCQs)
CAT Scaled Score Calculation Process
Know how is scaled CAT score calculated for three slots below:
In above formula,
- R: The candidate's raw score in a specific section.
- M1: Mean raw score of all candidates in that specific slot/session.
- M: Mean raw score across all sessions combined.
- M0.1: Mean raw score of the top 0.1% of candidates in that specific slot.
- M0.1 (overall): Mean raw score of the top 0.1% of candidates across all sessions combined. (Note: Exact parameter definitions can slightly adapt per year's official IIM specification).
Also Read: CAT 2022 Toppers List: Know Toppers Name, Score & Percentile
How Is CAT Percentile Calculated?
CAT percentile formula is CAT percentile = ((N − r)/ N) × 100
In this, N is total number of candidates who appeared in exam across all shifts ( approx. 255501 for CAT 2022). r is your rank based on scaled scores. Candidates with same scaled score share same rank. Percentiles are shown up to two decimal places.
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Difference between Percentile and Percentage
A 99 percentile does not mean you scored 99% marks. In CAT 2022, a 99 percentile matched about 84 marks out of 198, which is roughly 42% of total marks. Percentile only tells you how you did compared with others. Also remember that marks for a given percentile change from year to year with as per difficulty of paper.
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