CAT Cutoff 2018

Sreetama Datta, 13 Feb 2019, #CAT

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CAT Cutoff 2018 - The CAT 2018 cutoff depends on the difficulty level of the exam and other factors. Experts released the expected CAT cutoff 2018 after the exam got over. The cutoff of CAT 2018 refers to the minimum percentile a test taker must obtain in order to qualify for the next round of selection process. Almost all the 20 IIMs including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow and IIM Calcutta have already released the CAT cutoff for the academic year 2019-21. CAT was conducted in two slots, forenoon and afternoon on November 26. The result has been announced on January 5, 2019.

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CAT cutoff 2018 depends on various factors such as the total number of test takers, the difficulty level of the exam, the total number of seats, etc. Candidates appearing for CAT 2018 exam must qualify the sectional as well as the overall cutoff in order to get shortlisted for the next rounds of the CAT 2018 selection process – WAT-GD/PI. CAT is conducted every year by IIMs on a rotational basis for admission MBA/PGDM course offered by IIMs and 100 other top B-schools in the country. This article brings to you the estimated CAT cutoff 2018 of the 20 IIMs and the other top B-schools.

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Events	Important Dates
CAT 2018 exam	November 25, 2018, Sunday
CAT 2018 Answer Key (released)	December 7, 2018
CAT 2018 Result (Declared)	January 5, 2019
Declaration of Shortlisted candidates	January 2019
Final selection rounds at CAT participating B-schools	February-March 2019

CAT Cutoff 2018 - Determining Factors

The cutoff percentile/marks of CAT 2018 depend on various factors. Some of the factors determining CAT 2018 cutoff are mentioned below:

Difficulty level of exam
Number of test takers
Number of candidates qualifying for the next rounds
Number of seats
Institute repute or ranking

Usually, the CAT cutoff for old IIMs and top B-schools such as FMS (University of Delhi), MDI Gurgaon, SPJIMR Mumbai, etc. goes over 99 percentile. New IIMs including IIM Sambalpur, IIM Ranchi, etc. and other top B-schools have cutoff 90 percentile and above. On the other hand, the cutoff for B-schools belonging to tier two to four range from 80 to 50 percentile.

CAT Cutoff 2018 for IIMs

IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta, and IIM Lucknow have already released the CAT 2018 cutoff category-wise and the rest of the IIMs are expected to release the same soon. There is no change in the cutoff.

IIM Ahmedabad CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall percentile
General	70	70	70	80
NC-OBC cum Transgender	65	65	65	75
SC	60	60	60	70
ST	50	50	50	60
PWD (General, NC-OBC-cum-transgender, SC)	60	60	60	70

IIM Calcutta CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	QA	DI & LR	VARC	Overall percentile
General	≥80	≥80	≥80	≥90
NC-OBC	≥75	≥75	≥75	≥85
SC	≥65	≥65	≥65	≥70
ST	≥60	≥60	≥60	≥70
PWD/DA	≥60	≥60	≥60	≥70

IIM Lucknow CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	PGP					PGP-ABM					PGP-SM
Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Total	VARC		DI & LR	QA	Total	VARC		DI & LR	QA	Total
General	85	85	85	90	80		80	80	85	80		80	80	85
NC-OBC	77	77	77	82	72		72	72	77	72		72	72	77
SC	55	55	55	70	55		55	55	65	55		55	55	65
ST	50	50	50	65	50		50	50	60	50		50	50	60
PWD	50	50	50	65	50		50	50	60	50		50	50	60

IIM Udaipur CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
DAP	30	30	30	40

IIM Visakhapatnam CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Aggregate
General	85	80	80	90
NC-OBC	75	70	70	80
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	55
DA	50	50	50	50

IIM Indore CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	QA	DI & LR	VARC	Overall percentile
General	80	80	80	90
OBC (NC)	70	70	70	80
SC	55	55	55	60
ST	45	45	45	50
PWD	45	45	45	50

IIM Bangalore CAT cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	85	80	80	90
NC-OBC	75	70	70	80
SC	70	65	65	75
ST	60	60	60	70
DA	50	50	50	60

IIM Kozhikode CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	50	50	50	65
ST	40	40	40	55
NC-OBC	70	70	70	80
PWD	40	40	40	55

IIM Ranchi CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	Section 1 (VARC)	Section 2 (DI & LR)	Section 3 (QA)	Aggregate
General	80	80	80	95
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
DA	30	30	30	40

IIM Nagpur CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	DILR Percentile	VARC Percentile	QA Percentile	Aggregate
General	72	72	72	90
NC-OBC	65	65	65	81
SC	50	50	50	65
ST	40	40	40	40
DAP	40	40	40	55

IIM Raipur CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	DILR	VARC	QA	Aggregate
General	80	80	80	95
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
DAP	30	30	30	40

IIM Sirmaur CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	95
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
PWD	30	30	30	40

IIM Rohtak CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	95
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
PWD	30	30	30	40

IIM Trichy CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	95
SC	60	60	60	78
ST	30	30	30	40
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
PWD	30	30	30	40

IIM Kashipur CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
PWD	50	50	50	65

IIM Bodh Gaya CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	Section – 1 VARC	Section – 2 DI & LR	Section – 3 QA	Overall
OPEN	80	80	80	95
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
DA	30	30	30	40

CAT 2018 Cutoff for IIM Shillong

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA
General	75	75	75
SC	60	60	60
ST	50	50	50
DA	50	50	50

CAT 2018 Cutoff for IIM Jammu

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	95
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
PWD	30	30	30	40

IIM Sambalpur CAT Cutoff 2018

Category	DILR Percentile >=	VARC Percentile >=	QA Percentile >=	Aggregate
General	80	80	80	95
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
DAP	30	30	30	40

Previous Year CAT Cutoff for IIMs

Let’s have a look at the CAT cutoff for various B-schools and IIMs.

IIM Kashipur CAT Cutoff 2017

Category	DILR	VARC	QA	Aggregate
General	80	80	80	90
NC-OBC	60	60	60	78
SC	50	50	50	60
ST	30	30	30	40
DAP	30	30	30	40

CAT Cutoff for IIM Amritsar

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	70	70	70	90
SC	50	50	50	55
ST	30	30	30	35
NC-OBC	55	55	55	70
PWD	30	30	30	35

Now let us take a look at the expected CAT cutoff of non-IIM CAT participating institutes.

CAT Cutoff for Various Colleges

B-School	CAT Cutoff (expected)
Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (FMS, DU)	98.20 Percentile
DMS, IIT Delhi	98+ Percentile
SJMSOM, IIT Bombay	99+ Percentile
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras	95+ Percentile
Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon	95+ Percentile
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai	85+ Percentile
Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB)	90+ Percentile
Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad	90+ Percentile
National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai	95+ Percentile
T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Manipal	85+ Percentile
Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Chennai	90+ Percentile

As the CAT cutoff depends largely on the difficulty level of the exam, it’s important to know that the exam last year was moderately tough on the difficulty scale.

As the CAT 2018 result has been declared on January 5, 2019, the participating institutes will shortlist candidates based on their cutoffs and other CAT eligibility criteria. Shortlisted candidates will appear for the selection procedure which includes Writing Ability Test (WAT) or Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI) rounds. More than 4000 seats are offered by 20 IIMs through CAT exam.

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