CAT 2025 Notification can be expected by the end of this week. The official CAT exam notification will contain all the details regarding the exam that an aspirant must know. Check here what to expect in CAT notification.
CAT 2025 notification
CAT 2025 notification is expected to be released this week. The tentative CAT 2025 notification date is July 25, 2025. The official notification will be released along with the CAT brochure 2025. Aspirants planning to pursue MBA degree in 2026, must appear for CAT exam as the score is accepted by all 21 IIMs and other top MBA colleges in India. Overall, the CAT score is accepted by over 1300 MBA college in India which includes government, government aided and private institutions.
CAT 2025 exam will be held on November 30, 2025. This year, the CAT exam convening institute is IIM Kozhikode. Registration process for the exam will begin in the first week of August 2025. The official CAT 2025 notification will carry full schedule of the exam.
CAT 2025 Notification: What to Expect in the Official Brochure
The following information will be mentioned in the CAT 2025 notification and official brochure.
- CAT 2025 exam dates
- CAT exam fee
- CAT eligibility criteria
- Reservation criteria
- CAT exam duration and sections
- Courses offered through CAT in IIMs
- CAT application process 2025
- CAT test centre information
Expected changes in CAT 2025
No change is expected in CAT 2025 apart from application fee. It has been seen in the past few years, that the CAT fees increases every year. The CAT syllabus and exam pattern will be same as previous years. The number of questions were increased last year, so it is unlikely that the pattern will be changed again this year.
CAT 2025 notification will be released online as well as offline. The online notification of CAT 2025 exam will be released at iimcat.ac.in website and the offline notification will be issued in all the national dailies – Hindi, English and Vernacular. Aspirants can either check the notification and CAT 2025 exam dates online at the official website or in the newspapers (to be published in the last week of July 2025).
CAT exam is conducted by any one of the top 6 Indian Institute of Management on rotation basis. Each of the top IIM conducts the exam after a gap of five years. The responsibility to conduct the CAT 2024 was given to IIM Calcutta. For CAT 2025, IIM Kozhikode will be the exam convening institute. IIM Kozhikode will be responsible for preparation and conduct of the exam without glitches, in collaboration with TCS for test labs and centres. The institute will design the question papers, exam pattern and guidelines, as well as manage the conduct of exam and preparation of admit card, answer key and result. CAT Conducting Indian Institute of Management Over the Years:
2024: IIM Calcutta
2023: IIM Lucknow
· 2022: IIM Bangalore
· 2021: IIM Ahmedabad
· 2020: IIM Indore
· 2019: IIM Kozhikode
· 2018: IIM Calcutta
· 2017: IIM Lucknow
· 2016: IIM Bangalore
· 2015: IIM Ahmedabad
· 2014: IIM Indore
· 2013: IIM Indore
· 2012: IIM Kozhikode
· 2011: IIM Calcutta
· 2010: IIM Lucknow
· 2009: IIM Ahmedabad
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CAT 2025 exam will be conducted on November 30, 2025. Official announcement of the CAT exam date 2025 was made on July 27, 2025, along with the release of the official notification of CAT 2025. The CAT exam is always conducted on the last Sunday of November. The exam is conducted on a single day in three slots.
Along with the exam date, the CAT 2025 notification will have CAT registration and admit card dates. CAT 2025 registration dates are August 1 to September 13, 2025.