How Much CAT Score is Required for IIM Admissions?

How Much CAT Score is Required for IIM Admissions?

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Himanshu ShekharUpdated on 10 Dec 2024, 05:28 PM IST

How Much CAT Score is Required for IIM - The question that every CAT aspirant encounters is ‘How much CAT score is required for IIM’. Every year over 2.5 lakh candidates appear for the CAT exam and have this question as IIMs are considered the most prestigious B schools in India. The CAT scores required are different for every IIM. The CAT score required for IIMs is released as a CAT cutoff by the individual IIM for shortlisting candidates for PI and WAT rounds.
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This Story also Contains

  1. CAT score vs percentile required for IIM
  2. When will CAT results be out?
  3. CAT score required for IIM in 2024 (Expected)
  4. CAT score required for IIM for past years
How Much CAT Score is Required for IIM Admissions?
How Much CAT Score is Required for IIM?

CAT score vs percentile required for IIM

The CAT score is the score that the candidate obtains after the CAT normalization process is implemented. The CAT percentile indicates that a candidate's score is above the percentage of the candidates that appeared for the CAT 2024. The sectional and the overall CAT scores for different CAT percentiles are mentioned in the table below.

CAT percentile

Score VARC

Score DILR

Score QA

CAT Total Marks

99.5

42

30

30

86

99

36

25

25

74

95

30

20

22

52

90

24

14

13

42

80

20

11

9

35

70

18

9

7

30

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When will CAT results be out?

The expected CAT 2024 result date is December 19, 2024. The CAT result 2024 will be available on the official website iimcat.ac.in. The result of CAT 2024 will be declared in scorecard form.

CAT score required for IIM in 2024 (Expected)

Considering the trends from past years, the CAT scores required for IIMs are between 98-99.9 percentile. The expected IIM Cut off required for IIMs in 2024 is given below.

CAT score required for IIM for past years

According to the CAT score required for IIM for the past years, IIM Ahmedabad has had the highest cutoff while IIM Bodh Gaya has had the lowest. The past years' CAT scores required for IIMs are given in the table below.

Name of IIM

CAT scores 2023

CAT scores 2022

CAT scores 2021

IIM Ahmedabad

99.68

99-100

99-100

IIM Bangalore

99.89

99-100

99-100

IIM Calcutta

99.71

99

99

IIM Lucknow

98

97-98

97-98

IIM Indore

98

97-98

97-98

IIM Kozhikode

98

97-98

97-98

IIM Amritsar

96

95-96

95-96

IIM Nagpur

96

95-96

95-96

IIM Sambalpur

96

95-96

95-96

IIM Trichy

95

94-95

94-95

IIM Raipur

95

94-95

94-95

IIM Ranchi

95

94-95

94-95

IIM Vizag

95

92-94

92-94

IIM Udaipur

93

92-94

92-94

IIM Bodh Gaya

93

92

92

IIM Shillong

93

90

90

IIM Sirmaur

92

92

92

IIM Rohtak

96

92-94

93-94

IIM Mumbai

96

90

91-92

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: Which IIM is the toughest to get into?
A:

IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore are the toughest to get into as per the feedback of the previous CAT candidates. The CAT cutoff is the highest for these two IIMs. The overall selection metric is also the strictest for these two IIMs.

Q: Does IIM see 12th marks?
A:

IIMs do consider the marks obtained by an applicant in their 12th standard. The weightage and the round for which they are considered would vary from one IIM to another. The weightage of the 12th marks varies anywhere from 5% to 15%.

Q: Which IIM is easiest to get into?
A:

IIM with lower CAT pass percentage are easy to get into. IIMs such as IIM Bodh Gaya, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Amritsar, IIM Shillong, and IIM Nagpur are much easier to get into if the CAT scores are low and the overall is not strong enough for top IIMs.

Q: Is 80% good for IIM Ahmedabad?
A:

The minimum CAT percentile for IIM Ahmedabad is considered to be around 99. At 80% it will be hard to get into any of the IIMs. For 80% in CAT, candidates should look for colleges other than IIMs.

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