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Hi Roopak,
The best rated examination of India, Common Admission Test or CAT is conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM). CAT scores are used for admission by 20 IIMs and various other management institutes across the country. Approximately about two lakh students or more appear for this exam every year.
CAT started in 1950 as a paper-based exam and transformed to become an online-entrance test in 2009. The question paper consists of 100 questions (MCQs) and the students are required to solve the same in 180 minutes. The number of questions might differ every year and are pre-informed to the students. Registration for CAT starts in the month of August or September and the exam is held in November or December.
The exam consists of four segments: Verbal, Quantitative, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. These segments are accordingly grouped into sections. CAT has three sections:
The selection process of IIMs involves a public declaration of expected cut-offs and reveal the final cut-offs only to the students involved in the process.
The top IIMs have declared their cut-off criteria as shown below,
There are various factors that determine the percentile kept for CAT cut-off. They are listed below,
Further there are two types of cut-offs in the selection process,
Let me give a snapshot of the previous year’s cut-off of some top IIMs,
Category
CAT 2017 cut off (percentile)
CAT 2016 cut off (percentile)
General
100
NC-OBC
99.99
SC
99.82
99.97
ST
99.92
99.88
DA
99.28
CAT cutoff 2017 (percentile)
CAT cutoff 2016 (percentile)
90.72
92.48
81.48
81.14
75.22
76.35
70.01
64.21
76.21
CAT cut off 2017 (percentile)
CAT cut off 2016 (percentile)
95.16
94.82
80.19
65.03
65.56
55.28
55.23
56.02
55.86
90.05
90.01
80.05
80.08
50.19
50.03
60.16
61.38
50.87
50.59
95
96
78 (78.01)
78
60 (60.01)
60
40 (40.01)
42 (42.07)
40 (40.16)
40 (40.19)
As we can see, there is not drastic change in the percentile for cut-off, we can take them safely for next year as well as for a student’s target. But the IIMs declared cut-off is the final cut-off required to clear.
After the candidate has cleared the required cut-off to be eligible for further selection, they will be subjected to Group Discussions and Personal Interviews. Candidate must take this round very seriously as this round can be interpreted as selection round unlike the CAT round, which is a pure eliminator round. IIMs like IIM Shillong, IIM Kozhikode also conduct GD round based on the WAT.
After the final selection round, a weightage is awarded to entrance scores, academic profile & diversity, work experience and gender diversity, and a final merit list is generated. Based on this merit list, admission offers are made by the respective B-schools to the deserving candidates. Also, a waiting list is prepared which contains the names of the students whose admission offers will be made automatically if few students in the original list offer to back out.
All the very best!!
Dear Aspirant,
If you have a decent profile like 90+ in 10th and 12th and 80+ in graduation along with a work ex of 1-1.5 years then you might get into top B schools with only 95 percentile or maybe even less than that and you can get a call from some new IIMs as well.
However, if you are not in the elite who have this ideal profile and you are lagging in any of the 10th/12th/grad/work-ex then anything below 99 is not safe, even 99 is not safe if you have below 70 in grad or below 90 in 10th/12th.
The best score to ensure a call from either one of ABC(Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta) you have to score at least 99.50 percentile with average acads.
Hope this helps. Thank you.
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