CAT Percentile Predictor 2025: Know How is CAT Percentile Calculated?
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Shiksha's CAT Percentile Predictor is a near perfect tool to predict your percentile and MBA admission chances. The CAT percentile predictor & calculator is easy to use and free. Try the Shiksha CAT percentile calculator to know which college you're likely to get for MBA.
CAT Percentile Calculator & Predictor- To be able to make the right decision about MBA college selection, you need to know the minimum CAT percentile needed for it. CAT percentile is the minimum score required for shortlisting of candidates for Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI) rounds of MBA colleges. That minimum score is called CAT cut off. The CAT cut off percentile for IIM admission is usually high (97-100 percentile). For other top MBA colleges, the CAT cut off is usually in the range of 91-98 percentile. However, many popular MBA colleges accept CAT score in lower range percentiles.
While preparing for the exam and after appearing for it, aspirants are usually eager to assess their expected CAT percentile. For that, using a CAT score calculator is best. You can use the CAT percentile predictor or the CAT score predictor basis your CAT mock tests score too, to understand your progress.
- CAT Percentile Predictor & Calculator: Why Use It?
- What is CAT Percentile Predictor 2025?
- What is CAT Percentile?
- How is CAT Percentile Calculated?
- CAT Score vs Percentile Calculator
- IIM Admission Criteria and Selection Process
CAT Percentile Predictor & Calculator: Why Use It?
A candidate cannot apply to every MBA college for admission. They need to know in which colleges their admission chances are high so that they can fill the forms accordingly. And for that, they need to know their expected CAT percentile. Shiksha CAT percentile predictor is helpful in shortlisting the B-schools that are within the reach of a candidate based on their CAT score.
To understand how is CAT percentile calculated, you can use, Shiksha’s CAT Percentile Predictor Tool. It will help you to predict your CAT 2025 percentile on the basis of which, you can check which IIM campus or top B-schools might call you for the personal interview round. And therefore, fill their application forms.
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What is CAT Percentile Predictor 2025?
CAT percentile predictor is an online tool by Shiksha which helps candidates in assessing their performance in the CAT exam and predict your sectional as well as overall scores. The CAT score calculator tool uses expected/estimated CAT score to predict the CAT percentile. This tool is free and can be used on any device - laptop, desktop, tablet or mobile phone. Aspirants can use this CAT percentile calculator tool and assess their admission chances basis their score.
Being the top MBA colleges in India, the IIMs have stringent admission process. Although, the basic IIM MBA eligibility criteria is minimum 50 per cent aggregate in any discipline at Graduation level, what makes the candidates sweat over it is the high CAT cut off percentile for selection to the Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI) round.
Once the candidate has appeared for the exam it is prudent to calculate how much CAT score will convert into percentile. And whether they can expect interview calls from the IIMs. Use the Shiksha CAT percentile predictor using your estimated/expected score to find out your CAT percentile 2025.
What is CAT Percentile?
CAT percentile is a relative score which indicates your rank as opposed to the rest of the CAT test takers. In simple words, CAT percentile is a measure of categorising a candidate on the basis of other candidates scoring below him/her. For example, if a candidate has 99 percentile, it means that his/her performance was better than 99 per cent of the all the CAT test takers that year.
How is CAT Percentile Calculated?
The formula to calculate sectional as well as the overall CAT percentile of each candidate is mentioned below. For percentile calculation, the raw CAT scores of every candidate across the exam sessions are scaled to be marked on the same scale. This is done to mitigate any advantage or disadvantage to the student due to difference in difficulty levels of the exam slots. The CAT percentile of every candidate irrespective of their category or exam slot is then calculated on the basis of the following formula:
P = (R/N) × 100
where,
P= Percentile score
R= Rank of the candidate assigned on the basis of scaled CAT score or total number of candidates who rank below you.
N= Number of candidates who appeared in CAT exam (all three sessions)
Suppose, 1,000 people take CAT and you bag the top rank, which means 999 candidates scored less than you. Then your percentile will be 999/1000*100= 99.9.
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Candidates must know that all percentile scores are rounded off up to two decimal points to allot ranks. For example, percentile scores greater than or equal to 99.995 are rounded off to 100, all percentile scores greater than or equal to 99.985 but strictly less than 99.995 are rounded off to 99.99 and so on. And, in the case of two or more candidates obtaining identical scaled scores in a section, identical ranks are assigned to all of them.
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CAT Score vs Percentile Calculator
This table will help you understand how much CAT score converts into how much CAT percentile, as the latter is taken into consideration by the IIMs at the time of screening of the candidates for WAT-GD/PI. Here are the estimated CAT scores versus CAT percentiles.
| CAT Percentile |
CAT VARC |
CAT DILR |
CAT QA |
Overall Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99.5 %ile |
44 |
35 |
40 |
101 |
| 99 %ile |
41 |
30 |
37 |
91 |
| 98 %ile |
35 |
27 |
32 |
80 |
| 95%ile |
29 |
22 |
25 |
66 |
| 90%ile |
24 |
18 |
19 |
53 |
| 85%ile |
20 |
15 |
16 |
45 |
*The above figures are estimation, not actual representation
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14 candidates have scored 100 percentile in CAT 2024, out of a total of 2.93 Lacs candidates. Out of 14 toppers, 1 is a woman candidate. Check below CAT 2024 result data:
Check the below table for data and statistics of CAT 2024 test takers and toppers.
| CAT Toppers | Gender and Discipline | State |
|---|---|---|
| 100 percentiles 14 - Nos | Female - 1 Male - 13 Engg – 13 Non-Engg – 1 | Andhra Pradesh 1 Delhi 2 Haryana 1 Kerala 1 Maharashtra 5 Odisha 1 Rajasthan 1 Telangana 2 |
| 99.99 percentiles 29 -Nos. | Female - 2 Male - 27 Engg – 25 Non-Engg - 4 | Chandigarh 1 Delhi 4 Gujarat 2 Haryana 1 Karnataka 3 Kerala 1 Madhya Pradesh 1 Maharashtra 5 Odisha 1 Punjab 1 Rajasthan 3 Tamil Nadu 1 Telangana 1 Uttar Pradesh1 Uttarakhand 1 West Bengal 2 |
| 99.98 percentiles 30-Nos | Female - 1 Male - 29 Engg – 20 Non-Engg -10 | Bihar 1 Delhi 2 Gujarat 2 Haryana 4 Karnataka 4 Madhya Pradesh 3 Maharashtra 3 Tamil Nadu 2 Telangana 3 Uttar Pradesh 2 West Bengal 4 |
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)
Yes, it is possible to score 99.99 percentile in CAT in first attempt. Many candidates have scored 99.99 percentile in their first attempt in previously. But for that one needs to have a preparation strategy which is comprehensive and covers all the aspects of CAT. Apart from covering CAT syllabus through books and sample papers, one need constant guidance and study sessions with mentors and subject matter experts to develop deep understanding and capability to crack any type of question.
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On an average, about 10-15 CAT aspirants score 100 percentile. Given below is the data of CAT 100 percentilers of last 3 years:
Exam year
CAT 100 percentilers
State wise numbers
CAT 2024
14
1- Andhra Pradesh
2- Delhi
1- Haryana
1-Kerala
5- Maharashtra
1- Odisha
1- Rajasthan
2- Telangana
CAT 2023
14
1 – Andhra Pradesh
1 - Delhi
1 – Gujarat
1 – Jammu & Kashmir
1 - Karnataka
1 - Kerala
4 – Maharashtra
1 – Tamil Nadu
2 - Telangana
1 - Uttar Pradesh
CAT 2022
11
2 - Delhi
1 - Gujarat
1 - Haryana
1 - Kerala
1 - Madhya Pradesh
2 - Maharashtra
2 - Telangana
1 - Uttar Pradesh