CAT Cutoff 2018 - IIM Calcutta has released the CAT answer key 2018 for both slot 1 and slot 2 on December 7, 2018. The CAT 2018 exam was conducted by IIM Calcutta on November 25, 2018. The CAT 2018 cutoff would depend 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. Around 10 out of 20 IIMs including IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow and IIM Calcutta have already released the CAT cutoff for the academic year 2019-21. Other IIMs and participating institutes are expected to release the CAT 2018 cutoff soon. CAT is being conducted in two slots, forenoon and afternoon. The result will be announced in the second week of January 2019.
Latest: CAT 2018 Answer Key available now.
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.
Important Dates related to CAT 2018 Cutoff
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Use NowEvents | Important Dates |
CAT 2018 exam | November 25, 2018, Sunday |
CAT 2018 Answer Key (released) | December 7, 2018 |
CAT 2018 Result | Second week of January 2019 |
Declaration of Shortlisted candidates | Fourth week of 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 | |||||||||||
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
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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 |
Previous Year CAT Cutoff for IIMs
Let’s have a look at the CAT cutoff for various B-schools and IIMs.
IIM Bodh Gaya CAT Cutoff 2017
Category | Section – 1 VARC | Section – 2 DI & LR | Section – 3 QA | Overall |
OPEN | >80 | >80 | >80 | >90 |
NC-OBC | >55 | >55 | >55 | >75 |
SC | >50 | >50 | >50 | >55 |
ST | >30 | >30 | >30 | >35 |
DA | >50 | >50 | >50 | >65 |
IIM Sambalpur CAT Cutoff 2017
Category | DILR Percentile >= | VARC Percentile >= | QA Percentile >= | 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 |
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 Shillong
Category | VARC | DI & LR | QA | Overall |
General | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
SC | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 |
ST | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
NC-OBC | 75 | 75 | 75 | 75 |
PWD | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
CAT Cutoff for IIM Jammu
Category | VARC | DI & LR | QA | Overall |
General | 75 | 75 | 75 | 80 |
SC | 50 | 50 | 50 | 65 |
ST | 45 | 45 | 45 | 60 |
NC-OBC | 68 | 68 | 68 | 72 |
PWD | 50 | 50 | 50 | 70 |
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 |
98+ Percentile | |
99+ Percentile | |
95+ Percentile | |
95+ Percentile | |
SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai | 85+ Percentile |
90+ Percentile | |
90+ Percentile | |
95+ Percentile | |
85+ Percentile | |
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.
After the CAT 2018 result is declared in the second week of January 2019, participating institutes will shortlist candidates based on their cutoffs and other CAT eligibility criteria. Shortlisted candidates will have to appear for the selection procedure of CAT which includes Writing Ability Test (WAT) or Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interview (PI) rounds. Approximately 4000 seats are offered by 20 IIMs through CAT exam.
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