Hi Shaikh,

For IIMs, there are several categories that they take into account while calling a person for Group Discussion and Personal Interview rounds. There is separate cut off percentile for SC,ST,OBC and General category. Though the General category cut off is very high, other cut offs are significantly low. Plus, IIMs do consider diversity in their batch. Since most of the applicants have an engineering background, people with low CAT score but graduation in some other streams other than Engineering are also given a call, even though they are of the general category.

I am giving you the list of some of the best B-Schools and their CAT cut off percentile as well:

For some of the baby IIMs like:

• IIM Sirmaur
• IIM Bodh Gaya
• IIM Udaipur
• IIM Jammu
• IIM Ranchi
• IIM Amritsar

-they may give you a call even if your CAT percentile is 90-95. But for IIMs there is a catch. The catch is they consider sectional cut offs as well. So even if you score more than 95 percentile in CAT but low in one section which doesn’t qualify in their eligibility criteria, then you will be out of the race.

IIM  Kozhikode tells you to fill their second form if you have cleared their sectional cut offs and your overall percentile is more than 90. IIM Ranchi HR program, gives you a call to fill another form if you have scored more than 85 percentile in CAT.

IIMs do carry a brand name with them but other tier-1 institutes are equally good. So try hard and I wish that you convert one of the IIMs . Do write to us in case of any other query and we will be glad to help you. All the best!!!

Hello Aspirant,

After CAT exam every IIM prepares a merit list to call students for next round of interview and WSAT which is based on your aggregate score of many factors such as CAT marks, 10th 12th and Graduation percentage, work experience, engineer or non engineer, Gender with different weightages for different colleges. After 2nd round again a new merit list is prepared including interview and WSAT marks which along with CAT marks generally have highest weightage and is used to call students for admission.

If you are targeting top IIMs A,B,C then you should have more than 99 percentile and for New IIMs you should have more than 90 percentile.

You can also check the cutoff with the given below link.

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-cutoff

Good Luck!