How CAT score is different from CAT percentile?

Hi

Actually, your CAT score and CAT percentile are completely two different things

-) your CAT percentile tells you your position among those who have appeared in CAT examination  while your cat score is the total marks obtained by you in the CAT examination

Your CAT Score is simply the sum  of the marks obtained by you in all 3 sections of CAT i. e
- Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension ,
- Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning ,
- Quantitative Ability

-)Your CAT percentile is the   total percentage of students who have scored less than or equal to your score.

For example,
if you get 92 percentile,  it means that your performance was better than 92 per cent of the total candidates that appeared in  CAT examination .

Let us have an example, just to understand easily , let's say CAT exam is of 100 marks, 1000 students write the CAT examination, you get 80 marks out of 100 marks and you get 10th rank in CAT examination.

Then your percentile,

P = (N- r) / N   x 100 ,
where  P is your percentile , N is the number of student that appeared in CAT.

= (1000 - 10) / 1000   x 100
= 990/ 1000 x 100
= 0.99 x 100
= 99 percentile.

I hope that this clears all your doubts

You can also refer to our page to understand the difference between CAT percentile and score, the link for the same page is provided below

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-score-vs-percentile

Thank you

Hello Candidate,

In the year 2020, the examination was head of total 300 marks comprising of a total of hundred questions. So, the CAT score refers to the marks which a candidate gets out of the total number of marks (here 300) in the examination.

The percentile in CAT exam refers, that the candidates for the highest number of mass is awarded 100 percentile and the percentile gradually decreases with marks decreasing. For example- if a candidate X gets highest marks in the country that is 280, then he gets hundred percentile.

Hope it helps!!