CAT Answer Key 2025, Response Sheet PDF (Final Soon): Download Slot 1, 2 & 3 Provisional Answer Sheet

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Updated on Dec 11, 2025 12:02 IST

By Vipra Shrivastava, Senior Manager - Content

CAT 2025 answer key objection window closed on Decembe 10, 2025. IIM Kozhikode will release the final answer key after examining the objection raised by candidates. The CAT 2025 final answer key will be released at iimcat.ac.in as a downloadable PDF. CAT response sheet and answer key 2025 were released on December 4, 2025. The window to challenge provisional answer key of the CAT was opened on December 8, 2025.

Upon examination of all the objections received, the provisional CAT 2025 answer key will be revised basis which CAT exam 2025 result will be prepared. Read here all about CAT response sheet and answer key 2025.

Table of contents

How to Download CAT Answer Key 2025?
CAT 2025 Exam Dates & Schedule
Information Mentioned on CAT Answer Key (Official)
CAT 2025 Answer Key: How to raise objection?
CAT 2025 Answer Key (Memory Based)
How to Calculate CAT score with Answer Key?
FAQs on CAT Answer Key 2025

How to Download CAT Answer Key 2025?

Candidates could download CAT 2025 answer key by using their CAT login ID and password. Check process below:

Visit IIMCAT website
Click on 'login'
Enter CAT login ID/ password
CAT 2025 answer key will appear on screen
Take a printout of it

CAT 2025 Answer Key PDF Download (Slot Wise)

CAT 2025 Answer Key Slot 1	Download PDF
CAT 2025 Answer Key Slot 2	Download PDF
CAT 2025 Answer Key Slot 3	To be Updated

Commonly asked questions

Q: What are the qualifying CAT cutoffs for all the IIMs?

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.

Q: Are CAT cut offs announced along with the CAT result?

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.

CAT 2025 Exam Dates & Schedule

Take a look at the table below for the complete schedule of CAT 2025 exam

Dates	Upcoming Exam Dates
To Be Notified	CAT 2025 result announcement

Dates	Past Exam Dates
08 Dec ' 25 - 10 Dec ' 25	CAT 2025 answer key challenge
To Be Notified	CAT 2025 answer key release

Information Mentioned on CAT Answer Key (Official)

The CAT 2025 answer key/response sheet will contain section wise questions and its status – your answer, right answer and unanswered questions. The following information will be mentioned on the CAT answer key 2025:

Name of the candidate
CAT registration number
CAT 2025 exam centre
Test date
Test time
Question
Question type
Question ID
Status (attempted/not attempted)
Right option/answer
Candidate's response

Also Read: CAT score vs CAT percentile-Know the difference

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CAT 2025 Answer Key: How to raise objection?

CAT answer key objection form is to be filled using their CAT login ID and password. Objection fee of INR 1,500 per question has to be paid online. Following is the process to fill the CAT answer key objection form:

Visit the official website of CAT 2025: IIMCAT
Click on 'Login'
Enter CAT login ID and password
Go to Objection tab
Click on ‘+’ sign to add an objection
Check the question number from the PDF of the question paper on the official website
Enter relevant details
Upload supporting document
Pay objection fee, i.e. INR 1,200 per objection through credit/debit card or net banking

Raising Objection to CAT Answer Key: Points to Remember

Candidates must raise objection only if they are 100 percent sure of the error
The fee will be refunded to only those candidates whose objection have been accepted
The objection form will not get submitted without the payment of fees
The objection fee will be refunded in 5 working days
Objections that have been submitted once cannot be edited
There is no limit to raising objections against the official CAT answer keys
CAT result is nnounced only after the CAT answer key objection process is over and the objections have been evaluated
No objection will be entertained after the release of final CAT answer key and result
There will be no re-checking of CAT question paper or candidate responses under any circumstance

CAT 2025 Answer Key (Memory Based)

Check below some memory based CAT 2025 questions from Slot 1

Q: 200l volume, with 30% Acid and 70% water. if 20% is replaced with water and 10% replaced with acid. What will be the percentage approximate of acid.

Answer: 27% approximate.

Q: Find values in two equations

2a - 5b + 11c = 0, 11a + 10b - 2c = 5

Q: In a class there were more than 10 boys than a certain number of girls. After 40% of the girls and 60% of the boys left, the remaining number of girls were 8 more than remaining boys. Find the possible number of students initially in the class.

Q: Stocks A, B and C, at 120, 90 and 80 rs respectively. A trader holds a portfolio consisting 60 shares of A, 20 of B and C together. If total value is 3300 what is the number of shares he holds.

Q: A shopkeeper allows a discount of 22% on market price of each chair. Gives 13 chair to a customer at a discounted price of 12 chairs to earn a profit of 26% If CP of each chair is 100, find the marked price of each chair.

CAT Answer Key PDFs

Download previous years' CAT question papers and answer keys

CAT_2024_Answer_Key_Question_Paper_ Slot_3	CAT_2023_Answer Key _Question_Paper_Slot_3
CAT_2023_Answer Key_Question_Paper_-_Slot_1	CAT_2022_Answer Key_Question_Paper_Slot_3
CAT_2022_Answer Key_ Question_Paper_Slot_1	CAT_2020_Answer key_Question_Paper
CAT_2021_Answer Key_ Question_Paper	CAT_2018_Answer Key_Question_Paper
CAT_2019_Answer Key_Question_Paper

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How to Calculate CAT score with Answer Key?

To calculate exam score with CAT response sheet and answer key, candidates have to add and subtract marks per question as per the official status - correct, incorrect or unanswered. They can martch their responses in the answer key and calculate expected marks.

CAT Marking Scheme

There is negative marking in CAT so while calculating the score, candidates need to keep that in mind. Given below is the table indicating latest marking scheme of the CAT exam

Type of Questions	Correct Answer	Incorrect Answer
MCQ	+3	-1
Non-MCQ	+3	0

Note: There will be no deduction of marks for unanswered questions and for incorrect attempt in non-MCQs.

How to Calculate CAT score?

Based on the marking scheme, CAT raw score can be calculated as; 0 correct attempts means (50x3 = 150 marks). 10 incorrect attempts means minus 10. Thus, the raw score Will be 140.

CAT Percentile Calculation

The raw CAT scores are normalised to ensure candidates from all three exam slots are assessed on the same level.
The normalised CAT score is then used for percentile calculation.
The CAT result is declared in percentile and B-schools select candidates on the basis of percentile, not score.
Once you know the raw score you can use Shiksha's CAT percentile predictor to know your expected CAT percentile

CAT Percentile predictor prepared by Shiksha.com helps students to get their predicted CAT percentile on the basis of their expected exam score. So, predict your CAT score by clicking the link below:

CAT Percentile Predictor

Commonly asked questions

Q: Which CAT slot has the toughest question paper?

There is no pattern to which CAT question paper can be the toughest. The CAT question paper of every slot has unique questions. The examination body strives to maintain the same difficulty level of the paper across all slots but it may happen that a question can be more difficult from another. It is seen that, to keep the uniqueness of the question paper intact, the examination authority also changes the topic wise weightage a little bit across the exam slots. In most of the previous years, it is seen that the morning slot of the CAT exam is tougher than the rest two. However, candidates must not worry about the difficulty level of the slots as, the scores of all the candidates are normalised on a common scale to root out the possibility of advantage or disadvantage to any student due to difference in difficulty level. To know how the CAT scores are normalised, read this article: https://www.shiksha.com/mba/articles/understanding-cat-normalization-process-blogId-9386.

Q: What is the difference between CAT preliminary answer key and final answer key?

The preliminary answer key is the one released after the exam and the final answer is the one released after all the objections raised by candidates have been examined and accepted. The final CAT answer key is released along with the result. It is the final CAT answer key on the basis of which the CAT result is prepared. Which means, score of a candidate is based on the calculation of number of correct, incorrect and unanswered questions after all the objections have been examined. The preliminary CAT answer key is released with candidate's response sheet and there is option to challenge it. However, the final answer key is released only as question ID and correct answer option and there is no provision of challenging it. In CAT 2022, objection on two DILR questions raised by candidates was accepted and the question was dropped from final score calculation as it was found to be erroneous.

FAQs on CAT Answer Key 2025

Check below Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to CAT Answer Key 2025:

Commonly asked questions

Q: How to challenge CAT answer key?

The CAT examination body allows candidates to challenge the official answer key. In case a candidate feels any answer shared by the examination body is incorrect, they can challenge it by filling an objection form which is released on the same day as release of the CAT answer key and candidate response sheet. The candidates can fill the objection form by using their CAT login ID and password. Check below: 1. Visit the official website of CAT exam 2. Click on 'Login' 3. Enter CAT login ID and password to sign in 4. Go to 'Objection' tab 5. Click on plus sign to add an objection 6. Check the question number from the PDF of the question paper 7. Enter relevant details 8. Upload supporting document 9. Pay objection fee through credit/debit card or net banking The objection fee is INR 1,200 per objection. Candidates can raise any number of objections. The CAT answer key objection fee will be refunded to only those candidates whose objections will be accepted. Objections that have been submitted once cannot be edited.

Q: How to download CAT response sheet and answer key?

CAT answer key is released in online mode only. The link to download it is made live at official website within a week of the exam. Candidates can download it by using their CAT login ID and password. Given below is the process to download: