CAT Exam Registration 2025 Dates Announced: Know Last Date, Exam Fees & Mistakes to Avoid

CAT Exam Registration 2025 Dates

Common Admission Test 2025 is scheduled to be held on November 30, 2025, the last Sunday of the November month. Check out other CAT exam dates 2025 and important details in the table below.

Will CAT 2025 Application Number Be Over 3 Lakh This Year?

There has been a steady increase in the number of CAT applications over the last few years irrespective of top MBA colleges including the IIMs failing at achieving the 100% placement mark. IIMs, the most prestigious INIs for MBAs, have also been failing at imparting relevant skills to their students. Even the top recruiters have been seen complaining about the fresh graduates not having the contemporary skills, strategic thinking and aptitude to deal with today’s corporate problems. IIMs, IITs, and other top MBA colleges have also been under the radar for inflating their placement numbers or asking students to opt out from the placements, tweaking the median and average salary package figures etc.

In recent years, students didn’t even get a call from IIM BLACKIs even after scoring 99+ percentile in CAT with a good academic record. Reddit threads are filled with students cribbing about these top cream of BSchools and how they are losing the trust in these colleges and the MBA degree all together. However, the interesting thing to note is that irrespective of the issues and problems, we see an increase in the number of applications for these MBA entrance exams every year.

In 2024, 3.29 lakh MBA aspirants applied for the CAT entrance exam. In 2023, 3.30 lakh registered for CAT MBA exam and 2.88 lakh appeared. This year also, the CAT application number is expected to be over 3 lakh.

CAT 2025 Application Form: Where to get the form and how to fill

CAT 2025 notification is out in the leading newspapers today, July 27 and the notification is out on IIM Calcutta’s official website as well. The CAT notification 2025 will soon be available on the official website - iimcat.ac.in followed by the release of the CAT application 2025.

• CAT Registration 2025 Link: Online Mode Only @iimcat.ac.in

• CAT 2025 Form Link Date: August 1, 2025

• How to fill CAT 2025 Application: Begin by creating CAT 2025 login using mobile number & email id. Use these details to further fill CAT 2025 application with details - personal, academic, work experience, test centres, and uploading needed documents.

CAT Exam Fees 2025

Continuing the CAT exam fees increase trend, IIM Kozhikode has increased the CAT registration fees this year also. MBA aspirants from Genera/OBCl category will have to pay CAT exam 2025 fees of Rs. 2600 and SC/ST category ones will have to pay Rs. 1300 for submission of CAT registration form 2025.

CAT Registration 2025: DO NOT MAKE THESE MISTAKES

A lot of students have made these mistakes in the past but CAT 2025 applicants can avoid these.

• Filling Correct Marks/Percentages: Students must fill in their exact marks in the CAT form to avoid disqualification at later stages

• Work Experience Details: Students must fill their work experience details in the CAT registration form 2025 as it helps in getting a score while calculation of overall profile score in IIM admissions. A lot of students miss adding these details and it hampers their admission process.

• Photograph: Candidates must upload a recent passport size photograph with white background and no accessories for submission of the CAT application. Also, they must keep the copies of this same photograph for future use also. They will be required to paste the same photograph on their CAT admit card 2025 on the exam day for verification purposes.

• Exam Centres: Candidates must carefully pick the order of the CAT exam centres 2025 in the application. They must fill the nearest centres in the top order as the probability of getting allotted one of the top 3 is the highest.

CAT 2025 Registration: Key Points to Note

• MBA aspirants must register with a valid email id and mobile number that they can keep accessible till the final admission offers are made.

• Details in the CAT registration form 2025 must be filled correctly as only a few details are allowed to be changed at the time for CAT correction window and incorrect details does lead to disqualification of candidature at the time of MBA admission 2025-27.

• CAT 2025 applicants must strictly follow the form filling instructions and upload neatly scanned copies of the photograph and other enclosures.