CAT

The CAT exam is always conducted on the last Sunday of November with the CAT 2024 exam conducted similarly on Nov 24, 2024. Official announcement of the CAT 2024 exam date was made by the convening IIM on Jul 30, 2024. The announcement was made at the iimcat.ac.in website as well as in all the national dailies across India. Registrations cum application process for CAT 2024 began from the first week of August and ended in the third week of September 2024.

Check below CAT exam dates for 2023-2019:

• CAT 2023: November 26
• CAT 2022: November 27
• CAT 2021: November 28
• CAT 2020: November 29 
• CAT 2019: November 24

Candidates are allowed to get admission to the MBA course at Tecno India University without CAT. If the students do have not valid scores in CAT, so they have to secure good scores in  MAT/ XAT/ CMAT/ ATMA/ GMAT/ WBJEE/ NMAT/ KMAT/ JEMAT/ TISSNET. Hence, candidates can submit any of the entrance examination scorecards to be eligible for admission. 

After the release of the CUSAT CAT 2025 final answer key, The exam authority will release the CUSAT CAT 2025 result in form of CUSAT CAT 2025 Rank list. All candidates whose name is mentioned in the CUSAT CAT 2024 Rank list can participate in the counselling process. The CAT 2025 Rank list will be released online on the official website. The CUSAT CAT 2025 counselling will be done on the basis of the rank secured in the exam. Shortlisted candidates for CUSAT CAT 2025 have to register online in order to participate in the counselling process.

FORE School of Management considers CAT score for admission to PGDM course. The last three-year cutoff for MBA was 85 in CAT. In 2022, the minimum percentile for XAT was 70. Candidates need to qualify any of the accepted entrance exams for admission to PGDM course.

For IIM Bangalore admissions 2025, the minimum required CAT cutoff is 85 percentile for general category students. The qualifying CAT cutoffs have also been announced for candidates in other categories. Students can find IIM Bangalore section CAT cutoffs for various categories are listed in the table below:

Note: The tabulated cutoff percentile is for 2024 admission and is sourced from the official website. For the academic batch 2025–27, the CAT qualifying IIM Bangalore cut off percentile is likely to remain the same.