IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2026 Soon; Check CAT Cut Offs & PI Process

IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2026 Soon; Check CAT Cut Offs & PI Process

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Vipra Shrivastava
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New Delhi, Updated on Dec 30, 2025 12:08 IST
IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2026 is expected to be released soon. Check here CAT 2025 cut offs and PI registration process. Admission policy and selection criteria had already been released according to which the minimum CAT 2025 cut off required for PI shortlist is 95 percentile.

IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2026 is expected to be released soon. Check here CAT 2025 cut offs and PI registration process.

IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2026

IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2026 soon

IIM Ahmedabad PI shortlist 2026 will be released soon. The expected schedule is anytime in the first week of January 2026. Admission policy and selection criteria had already been released according to which the minimum CAT 2025 cut off required for PI shortlist is 95 percentile. Until last year, the qualifying CAT cut off for IIM Ahmedabad shortlist was 80 percentile.

CAT 2025 result was announced on December 24, 2025 and the IIM shortlist process has already started for IIM Rohtak and campuses that are a part of IIM CAP and IIM JAP.

IIM Ahmedabad Shortlist 2026: How to Check PI Status

Candidates who had selected IIM Ahmedabad in their CAT 2025 application form and meet the qualifying cut offs, will be eligible for the PI round. The IIM Ahmedabad PI shortlist form will be released at the institute website. Check below the process to check status and apply:

  • Visit IIM Ahmedabad website
  • Go to Announcement section
  • Click on ‘Admission Status: PGP 2026-28 batch’
  • Enter CAT registration number and Email ID
  • Click on ‘Go’
  • Your PI shortlist status will be displayed
  • Fill the relevant fields in the form for PI confirmation

IIM Ahmedabad CAT Cut Off 2025

Check below IIM Ahmedabad CAT cut off 2025 for PI shortlist 2026. Candidates have to meet sectional as well as overall cut offs to make it to the IIM Ahmedabad PI round.

 

Category

Non-PwD CAT Cut Off

PwD CAT Cut Off

Overall percentile rank

VARC, DILR, QA

Overall percentile rank

VARC, DILR, QA

General/ EWS

95

85

85

75

NC-OBC

90

80

80

70

SC

85

75

75

65

ST

75

65

65

55

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Q:   What is the CAT exam cutoff required to get admission to IIM Bangalore?
A:

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.

  • General category: 80 VARC 75 DILR 75 Quantitative Aptitude 85 (Overall)
  • NC-OBC category: 75 VARC 65 DILR 65 Quantitative Aptitude 75 (Overall)
  • EWS category: 70 VARC 65 DILR 65 Quantitative Aptitude 75 (Overall)
  • SC category: 65 VARC 60 DILR 60 Quantitative Aptitude 70 (Overall)
  • ST category: 55 VARC 55 DILR 55 Quantitative Aptitude 65 (Overall)
  • PwD category: 50 VARC 50 DILR 50 Quantitative Aptitude 60 (Overall)
Q:   What is the difference between qualifying CAT cut off and final CAT cut off?
A:
Qualifying CAT cut off percentiles of an IIM is the minimum percentile (sectional as well as overall) required by candidates to be eligible for the Written Ability Test (What) and Personal Interview PI round. These are only eligibility score and not the score for selection. The final CAT cut off percentiles are the scores on the basis of which a candidate is actually selected for the What-PI round. The qualifying CAT cut offs are released publically before the CAT exam and result as a part of selection criteria for the MBA/PGP batch of that year. The qualifying cut offs for CAT are release category wise - General, NC/OBC. General-EWS, SC/ST, PwD. The qualifying cut offs percentiles of General category candidate is higher than then rest. The final CAT cut offs are not released publically. The cut offs are estimate on the basis of candidate's selection for What-PI. The final CAT cut offs for General category candidate is also higher than then rest.
Q:   Which are some of the top MBA colleges for 85 percentile in CAT?
A:

Some of the top CAT 85 percentile colleges are mentioned below:

·       IIM Amritsar

·       IIM Bodh Gaya

·       IIM Nagpur

·       VGSoM IIT Kharagpur

·       Department of Management Studies – IIT Madras 

·       Department of Management Studies-IIT Roorkee,

·       Department of Management Studies-Delhi Technological University

·       TAPMI Manipal

·       IMT Nagpur

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