you just need to get your OBC certificate corrected and need to inform the CAT helpdesk about this error.
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The CAT sectional cutoff marks are the required marks in each section of the CAT question paper specified by the CAT accepting colleges. Candidates must clear the CAT sectional cutoff marks to become eligible for applying to a particular college, such as an IIM or other management institute. Similar to the CAT cutoff institutes, they release their individual CAT sectional cutoff marks for the admission process. CAT sectional cut-off marks for OBC/SC/ST may differ from the general candidates. Read on to find out the sectional cutoff in CAT for all the IIMs.
A few of the IIMs have the sectional marks as a component in their overall selection process for the final merit list of candidates. Clearing the required CAT sectional marks is mandatory but does not guarantee admission.
The CAT sectional cutoff marks vary as per the institute and the category to which a candidate belongs. The CAT sectional cutoff marks for individual CAT exam sections for different IIMs are given below.
Name of the IIM | VARC sectional cutoff | DILR sectional cutoff | QA sectional cutoff | Overall CAT cutoff |
70 | 70 | 70 | 99-100 | |
80 | 75 | 75 | 99-100 | |
80 | 80 | 75 | 99 | |
85 | 85 | 85 | 97+ | |
80 | 80 | 80 | 97+ | |
75 | 75 | 75 | 97-98 | |
75 | 75 | 80 | 95+ | |
72 | 72 | 72 | 95+ | |
70 | 70 | 70 | 94 | |
80 | 80 | 80 | 94 | |
70 | 70 | 70 | 92 | |
70 | 70 | 70 | 95 | |
70 | 70 | 70 | 92 | |
80 | 80 | 75 | 97 | |
75 | 75 | 75 | 90 |
Top B schools other than IIMs also have the criteria of CAT sectional cutoff marks for the selection of candidates. The sectional cutoff marks and the overall CAT cutoff for Non-IIM colleges are given in the table below.
Name of the College | VARC sectional cutoff | DILR sectional cutoff | QA sectional cutoff | Overall CAT cutoff |
40 | 30 | 30 | 97-99 | |
70 | 70 | 70 | 88-90 | |
80 | 80 | 80 | 90 | |
60 | 60 | 60 | 75 | |
75 | 75 | 75 | 90 | |
75 | 75 | 75 | 85-90 | |
80 | 80 | 80 | 94 | |
75 | 75 | 75 | 94 | |
80 | 80 | 80 | 90-95 |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Only IIM Rohtak has no sectional cutoff, this institute only specifies the overall CAT cutoff percentile. Check out the list of colleges that offer MBA admission without sectional cutoff.
College Name | Overall CAT Percentile Requirement |
IIM Rohtak | 95+ |
DoMS IIT Madras | 96+ |
MHRM IIT Kharagpur | 80+ |
DMS IIT Delhi | 98+ |
IMT Ghaziabad | 85+ |
SJIMSR Pune | 85+ |
IMI Delhi | 90+ |
TAPMI Manipal | 85+ |
GIM Goa | 85+ |
XIMB Bhubaneswar | 85+ |
FMS Delhi | 98+ |
DSE Delhi University | 90+ |
MDI Gurgaon | 90+ |
Going by past year trends, the minimum CAT cutoff will be 90 percentile to get admission into the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) or other top MBA colleges in India.
The IIM Ahmedabad has one of the lowest sectional cutoffs for the CAT exam. The CAT sectional cutoff marks specified by the IIM Ahmedabad are 70 for VARC, 70 for DILR, and 70 for QA.
FMS considers the overall CAT cutoff as well as the CAT sectional cutoff marks for its shortlisting process for the PI round and the final merit list. The sectional scores are given a weightage of 40% (VARC), 30% (DILR), and 30% (QA) in the shortlisting process.
CAT sectional cutoff is mandatory to be cleared by every candidate along with the specified overall CAT cutoff for applying to a particular IIM. Candidates failing to meet the sectional cutoff marks criteria for any one of the sections will not be considered for applying.
IIM Rohtak is the IIM with no CAT sectional cutoff marks criteria for any of the CAT exam sections. The candidate only needs to clear the overall CAT cutoff specified by IIM Rohtak to get shortlisted for further WAT and PI rounds.
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With a 70 percent in CAT Examination, you can go for various B-Schools or private collages. The S. K. Patel Institute of Management in Gandhinagar is an option for those who score 70-80 percent in their CAT examination or The Gujarat Institute of Management (GIM) in Goa with a cutoff of 60-80 percentage. These are the collages you can look for in Gujarat or nearby.
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Hello dear candidate,
NO. your application for CAT will not rejected for wrong gender small mistake in the OBC NCL certificate. You will be considered as an OBC candidate.
you just need to get your OBC certificate corrected and need to inform the CAT helpdesk about this error.
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Here are some top MBA colleges in India with fees under Rs. 2 lakh and their exam/cutoff details:
SIMSREE, Mumbai – Fee around Rs. 1.3–1.4 lakh for 2 years. Accepts CAT, CMAT, MAH-CET, MAT, ATMA. Cutoff is very high, usually 99+ percentile in CAT/CMAT.
PUMBA (Dept. of Management Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University) – Fee around Rs. 1.2–1.3 lakh. Accepts CAT, CMAT, MAH-CET, ATMA. Cutoff approx. 75+ percentile in CAT, 90–95+ percentile in CMAT, high scores in MAH-CET.
TISS, Mumbai (MA HRM & other management-related programmes) – Fee around Rs. 1.7–1.9 lakh. Accepts CAT for some courses. Qualifying cutoff is around 60–70 percentile, but final selection cutoffs are higher.
These are the main government institutes where the full MBA/PG programme fee is within Rs. 2 lakh. Cutoffs vary slightly each year and by category, but SIMSREE and PUMBA generally need high scores, while TISS has its own process along with CAT shortlisting.
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Hey! With a NEET score of 344 in the ST category, it is highly unlikely to get admission in any government BDS college in Delhi through the All India Quota. The cutoff for government BDS seats in Delhi usually falls around 400–450 for ST category, so your score is below that range.
You can consider private dental colleges, state quota seats in other states, or reattempt NEET next year to improve your chances.
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