CAT 2025 Score & Percentile Required for Top IIMs (IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode)
Common Admission Test 2025 ( CAT )
Exam On - 30 Nov '25
To get into top IIMs, minimum requirement of CAT percentile is 97 to 99 percentile and above. Check here CAT Score & Percentile Required for Top IIMs - IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode.
CAT score required for IIM BLACK
To ensure you get PI calls from the top 5 IIMs – BLACK, you must score above 95 percentile. CAT 2025 exam was conducted today and all test takers must have already started evaluating their chance of getting a call from II Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow or IIM Kozhikode. All these top 5 IIMs shortlist candidates having CAT score above 97 percentile. So, how much marks in CAT 2025 to get 99, 98 or 97 percentile.
Basis the estimation of CAT 2025 question paper difficulty level, about 105 marks out of 204 should get you 99+ percentile. For getting 98 percentile, you need to score 80-85 marks. If you score near about 70 to 71 percentile, you will get 97 percentile. Let’s take a look at sectional and overall CAT 2025 marks vs percentile between 97 to 99 percentile.
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CAT Score vs Percentile 2025
CAT 2025 is conducted in three slots. To ensure fairness in evaluation of every candidate’s performance considering the variance in difficulty level of every slot, the CAT result is prepared from scaled CAT score and not the raw score. The conversion of a certain CAT score into a certain percentile is based on difficulty level of the CAT question paper. If the difficulty level is high, lower score is needed for 99 percentile and vice versa.
CAT 2025 Score & Percentile Required for Top IIMs
CAT 2025 score vs percentile tabulated below is an estimation based on the difficulty level of the exam held today. IIM BLACK are the most prestigious B-schools of India, renowned even internationally. CAT percentile of 97, 98 or 99 and above can get you only through the first round of IIM admission, i.e. Personal Interview and Written Ability Test. Candidate’s overall profile matters a lot in the final selection.
| IIMs |
CAT score |
*CAT cut offs 2025 (percentile) |
|---|---|---|
| 105 |
99-100 |
|
| 105 |
99-100 |
|
| 85-89 |
99 |
|
| 71-80 |
97-98 |
|
| 71-80 |
97-98 |
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CAT Score Required for 99 Percentile
Check the table below for sectional as well as overall CAT scores required to get 99 percentile and above.
| CAT Percentile |
VARC score |
DILR score |
QA score |
Overall score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99.9 %ile |
48 |
36 |
40 |
105 |
| 99.5 %ile |
44 |
32 |
30 |
90 |
| 99 %ile |
40 |
28 |
27 |
85-89 |
CAT Score Required for 98 Percentile
Check the table below for sectional as well as overall CAT scores required to get 98 percentile and above. 98 percentile can get you IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode, SPJIMR, MDI Gurgaon, FMS Delhi and such top ranked B-Schools.
| CAT Percentile |
VARC score |
DILR score |
QA score |
Overall score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 %ile |
36 |
25 |
23 |
80 |
CAT Score Required for 97 Percentile
Check the table below for sectional as well as overall CAT scores required to get 97 percentile and above. With 97 percentile and a good profile, aspirants can hope to get IIM Indore, IIM Mumbai, IIM Udaipur, IIM Trichy, IITs (DoMS) and many more Tier 1 colleges.
| CAT Percentile |
VARC score |
DILR score |
QA score |
Overall score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97%ile |
32 |
30 |
3 0 |
71 |
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CAT Score Required for 95 Percentile
Check the table below for sectional as well as overall CAT scores required to get 95 percentile and above. With 9 5 percentile and a good profile, aspirants stand a chance to get selected at IIM Nagpur, IIM Jammu, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Trichy, IIM Shillong, IIM Ranchi, IIM Udaipur and many more Tier 1 and Tier 2 colleges.
| CAT Percentile |
VARC score |
DILR score |
QA score |
Overall score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95 %ile |
30 |
19 |
18 |
57 |
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