CAT Answer Key 2025, Response Sheet PDF (Final Soon): Download Slot 1, 2 & 3 Provisional Answer Sheet
Common Admission Test 2025 ( CAT )
Result - To be notified
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.
- 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 |
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- CAT 2025 slot 1 answer key (memory based) PDF question paper analysis
- CAT 2025 slot 2 answer key (memory based) PDF question paper analysis
- CAT 2025 slot 3 answer key (memory based) PDF question paper analysis
- CAT 2025 response sheet and answer key PDF download
- CAT 2025 question paper PDF download slot 1, 2 and 3
Commonly asked questions
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.
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 |
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| To Be Notified | CAT 2025 result announcement |
| Dates | Past Exam Dates |
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| 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:
CAT answer key details
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Name of the candidate
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CAT registration number
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CAT 2025 exam centre
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Test date
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Test time
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Question
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Question type
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Question ID
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Status (attempted/not attempted)
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Right option/answer
- Candidate's response
Also Read: CAT score vs CAT percentile-Know the difference
A snapshot of CAT answer key:
Details mentioned under every question of the CAT response sheet
Download:
| Download CAT question papers PDFs | Free CAT mock tests for practice |
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:
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Visit the official website of CAT 2025: IIMCAT
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Click on 'Login'
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Enter CAT login ID and password
- Go to Objection tab
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Click on ‘+’ sign to add an objection
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Check the question number from the PDF of the question paper on the official website
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Enter relevant details
- Upload supporting document
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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
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Objections that have been submitted once cannot be edited
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There is no limit to raising objections against the official CAT answer keys
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CAT result is nnounced only after the CAT answer key objection process is over and the objections have been evaluated
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No objection will be entertained after the release of final CAT answer key and result
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There will be no re-checking of CAT question paper or candidate responses under any circumstance
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Predict IIM & Non IIM CallsCAT 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.
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- CAT 2025 review and student reactions
- CAT 2025 exam analysis slot 1, 2 and 3 by Career Launcher
- CAT 2025 exam analysis by TIME (slot 1, 2 and 3)
- IMS CAT paper analysis slot 1, 2 and 3 (DILR, VARC, QA)
CAT Answer Key PDFs
Download previous years' CAT question papers and answer keys
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.
Also Read: CAT 2025 result download
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
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Commonly asked questions
FAQs on CAT Answer Key 2025
Check below Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) related to CAT Answer Key 2025:
Commonly asked questions
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.
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:
- Visit iimcat. ac.in
- Click on the 'login' tab
- Enter CAT login ID and password
- Click on sign in to go to student dashboard
- Look for response sheet/answer key tab
- Click on the link to open the answer key
- Download the PDF and save it The CAT answer key
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Anything you would want to ask experts?Answered 20 hours ago
The Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2025 will be released soon. In the meantime, according to the Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2024, students needed to secure overall 70 percentile and 40 percentile sectional for admission to the MBA/PGDM course. In 2023, and 2022, the cutoff was also
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The Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2025 will be released soon. In the meantime, according to the Jaipur National University CAT Cutoff 2024, students needed to attain 70 percentile overall and 40 percentile sectional. In 2023 and 2022, the cutoff was the same, indicating that the CAT Cutoff 2
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For MBA admission, Sister Nivedita University accepts the national-level entrance exams, such as CAT, MAT, etc. It also accepts valid SNUET entrance exam score conducted by Sister Nivedita University for MBA admission. In 2024, the sectional CAT cutoff percentile was 25, for the General AI category
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Answered 23 hours ago
The K J Somaiya Institute of Management CAT Cutoff 2024 was released for admission to the MBA/ PGDM courses. The CAT Cutoff 2024 was 84 for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) course at K J Somaiya Institute of Management. Students who are aiming for admission have to attain qualifying cut
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The IMT Nagpur CAT Cutoff 2025 will soon be released by the institute for admission to the MBA/PGDM courses. In the meantime, judging from the IMT Nagpur CAT Cutoff 2024, the qualifying CAT percentile was 85 for all categories under the All India quota. The institute also accepts the cutoff of vario
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For PGDM and MBA admissions at GIBS Business School, Bangalore, the following entrance exams are accepted:
Accepted Entrance Exams
| Exam | Type / Level |
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| CAT – Common Admission Test | National-level MBA entrance exam |
| XAT – Xavier Aptitude Test | National-level MBA entrance exam |
| MAT – Management Aptitude Test | National-level MBA entrance exam |
| CMAT – Common Management Admission Test | National-level MBA entrance exam |
| GMAT – Graduate Management Admission Test | International / National-level MBA entrance exam |
| ATMA – AIMS Test for Management Admissions | National-level MBA entrance exam |
| State CET (e.g., Karnataka PGCET) | State-level MBA entrance exam for Karnataka candidates |
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GIBS considers any one valid score from these exams for shortlisting candidates.
Some exams (like CAT, XAT, CMAT) are preferred for national-level merit-based selection, but State CET scores are also accepted for Karnataka domicile candidates.
Along with the entrance score, academics, work experien
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Answered Yesterday
The GIM GOA CAT Cutoff 2024 was released for admission to its MBA/PGDM courses. Candidates seeking admission should have a valid CAT Cutoff to be able to avail a seat at this institute. The CAT Cutoff 2024 for the PGDM in Healthcare Management course was at 88 percentile for all categories under the
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Yes — you can pursue an MBA at Chandigarh University (CU) without appearing for CAT or MAT. CU has its own entrance process for MBA admissions, and they accept multiple types of eligibility credentials.
CU MBA Admission Eligibility
To be eligible for MBA at CU:
Bachelor's degree in any discipline fr
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The Institute of Management, Nirma University CAT Cutoff 2024 was released for admission to the MBA/PGDM courses. Students who are aiming for admission at this institute have to attain qualifying percentile to get a chance at admission. The overall CAT Cutoff 2024 was 60 percentile and 40 percentile
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1648 Institutes accepting CAT
IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management
Vastrapur, Ahmedabad • Public
4.7IIM Bangalore - Indian Institute of Management
Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore • Public
IIM Kozhikode - Indian Institute of Management
Kozhikode • Public
Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi
Hauz khas, Delhi • Public
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