CAT 2025 Score vs Percentile for Top IIMs (IIMA, IIMB, IIMC, IIM Lucknow, IIM Kozhikode)
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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
CAT 2025 result is expected anytime soon and you will finally know if your hard work has paid off or not. For most of you, the efforts put in to CAT is to get a seat in the top IIMs. To ensure you get PI calls from the top 5 IIMs – BLACK, you must score above 95 percentile. CAT 2025 exam was conducted on November 30 in which 2.58 lakh candidates appeared. After the release of provisional CAT 2025 answer key, all test takers must have already evaluated their chance of getting a call from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow or IIM Kozhikode. All these top 5 IIMs shortlist candidates having CAT score above 97 percentile. Cut offs for Reserved category candidates can be lower. So, how much marks you need 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.
- CAT Score vs Percentile 2025
- CAT 2025 Score vs Percentile for Top IIMs
- CAT Score Required for 99 Percentile
- CAT Score Required for 98 Percentile
- CAT Score Required for 97 Percentile
- CAT Score Required for 95 Percentile
CAT Score vs Percentile 2025
CAT 2025 was 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 2025 will be prepared from scaled CAT score and not the raw score. Conversion of a certain CAT score into a certain percentile is based on difficulty level of the CAT 2025 question paper. If the difficulty level is high, lower score is needed for 99 percentile and vice versa.
Minimum qualifying cut off for IIM Ahmedabad is 95 percentile whereas for IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta, it is 85. However final cut offs for these three top IIMs are between 99 to 100 percentile.
CAT 2025 Score vs Percentile for Top IIMs
CAT 2025 score vs percentile tabulated below is an estimation based on the difficulty level of the exam. 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 |
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| 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. These figures are estimation and for reference only.
| 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 |
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The MBA institute with an 85 percentile CAT cutoff that has the lowest fee is Delhi School of Economics. The fee is INR 30,000 for two years. The course fee is low in this institute because it is a government aided institution. DSE is a highly reputed for Economics and MBA programmes and provides excellent placement opportunities to its students.
CAT cut offs for non-IIMs is usually lower than IIMs.
Top MBA College | CAT Cut Offs (percentile) |
|---|---|
FMS, Delhi | 98-99 |
IIFT Delhi | 95-99 |
SPJIMR, Mumbai | 95-99 |
IMT, Ghaziabad | 95-97 |
JBIMS, Mumbai | 96 |
MDI, Gurgaon | 97-99 |
IMI, New Delhi | 90 |
XIM, Bhubaneshwar | 91 |
GIM Goa | 85 |
K J Somaiya, Mumbai | 86 |
TAPMI, Manipal | 80 |
FORE, New Delhi | 85 |
IFMR, Chennai | 80 |
IRMA, Anand | 80 |
MICA, Ahmedabad | 80 |
LIBA, Chennai | 70 |
XIME, Bangalore | 70 |
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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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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.