Expected CAT 2022 Cut Offs for IIMs and Top MBA Colleges
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Check out CAT 2022 expected cut offs based on analysis of the question paper. These CAT cut offs are estimations which will help you in analysis your admission chances.
Expected CAT 2022 cut offs for MBA admission
CAT 2022 cut offs for IIM admission will most likely remain the same as last year. The CAT exam conducted on November 27 was of moderate difficulty level, same as last year. So, there will be no change in the cut off for shortlisting of candidates for MBA admission.
The IIM CAT cut offs 2022 are expected to remain as high as 99-100 percentile for General categories, as usual. The cut offs for other top MBA colleges such as SPJIMR, FMS, IIT-DoMs, IMT, MDI, IMI, Welingkar, KJ Somaiya and others are expected to range between 95-99 percentile. Minimum CAT cut off requirement for Reserved category student will be lower.
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On the basis of their performance, CAT 2022 candidates can calculate their raw score in the exam. However, the B-Schools fix admission cut offs in percentiles.
CAT Score vs Percentile 2022
Here’s a table indicating how much CAT score will fetch how much CAT percentile by IMS India. This table will also help in understanding whether you’ll be able to meet the CAT 2022 cut off percentile of your preferred college or not.
Commonly asked questions
Sectional cut-off in the CAT exam refers to the section-wise percentiles required by the candidate to make it to the Personal Interview round of the IIMs or other top MBA colleges. The sectional cut-offs are lower than the overall cut-offs of any institute. To understand better, check the table below for sectional CAT cut-offs for IIM Ahmedabad:
Category | VARC percentile | DILR percentile | QA percentile | Overall percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
General | 70 | 70 | 70 | 80 |
NC-OBC-Transgender | 65 | 65 | 65 | 75 |
SC | 60 | 60 | 60 | 70 |
ST | 50 | 50 | 50 | 60 |
PwD (General, NC-OBC-cum-transgender, SC) | 60 | 60 | 60 | 70 |
PwD (ST) | 50 | 50 | 50 | 60 |
For sectional cut-offs of all IIMs, check this article – IIM shortlist and selection criteria
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.
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| CAT Percentile |
CAT 2022 Slot 1 |
CAT 2022 Slot 2 |
CAT 2022 Slot 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99.5%ile |
101 |
101 |
98 |
| 99%ile |
90 |
92 |
88 |
| 97%ile |
80 |
80 |
77 |
| 95%ile |
66 |
66 |
63 |
| 90%ile |
53 |
53 |
50 |
| 85%ile |
45 |
45 |
42 |
| 80%ile |
40 |
40 |
37 |
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Expected CAT 2022 Cut Offs
On the basis of previous year CAT cut offs for MBA admission here are expected CAT 2022 cut offs for admission to 2023 academic session.
| Top MBA College |
CAT Cut Offs (percentile) |
|---|---|
| 99-100 |
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| 99-100 |
|
| 99 |
|
| 97-98 |
|
| 97-98 |
|
| 97-98 |
|
| 95-96 |
|
| 95-96 |
|
| 95-96 |
|
| 94-95 |
|
| 94-95 |
|
| 94-95 |
|
| 92-94 |
|
| 92-94 |
|
| 92-94 |
|
| 90 |
|
| 90 |
|
| 98-99 |
|
| 95-99 |
|
| 95-97 |
|
| 96 |
|
| 97-99 |
|
| 90 |
|
| 91 |
|
| 85 |
|
| 86 |
|
| 80 |
|
| 85 |
|
| 80 |
|
| 80 |
|
| 80 |
|
| 70 |
|
| 70 |
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Commonly asked questions
CAT cutoffs are usually not announced with the CAT result. The CAT cutoffs are also not released to the public.
They are published after a few days of the result announcement when the IIMs and other colleges start their shortlisting process. The IIMs opens their shortlisting window based on the CAT cut-offs two to three days after the result announcement. The CAT percentile of candidates shortlisted for the Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD), and Personal Interview (PI) can be considered the cut-off for that IIM. For example, if a candidate with a CAT percentile of 99 belonging to the General category is selected for the WAT/GD-PI of IIM Calcutta, then the CAT cut-off for IIM Calcutta is 99 percentile. Only those candidates who make it to the WAT/GD-PI round of IIMs will get to know the cut-offs.
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