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IIM Trichy Cutoff 2024: Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Trichy will release the IIM Trichy CAT 2024 cutoff for admission to its PGP program for the academic year of 2025-27. IIM Trichy CAT cutoff will be available on the official website- iimtrichy.ac.in. Going by past year trends, candidates belonging to the General category overall and sectional IIM Trichy CAT cutoff will be 92 to 95 and 70-75 percentile respectively.
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Candidates who appear for the CAT exam must secure the required IIM Trichy CAT cutoff to get a call for MBA admission. Those who will clear the CAT entrance exam will have to go through the admission rounds conducted by IIM Trichy.
Post-release of the IIM Trichy CAT cutoff, authorities will start the admission process. The final selection will be made based on CAT score, work experience, past educational qualification, gender diversity, and so on. IIM Trichy offers PGPM, PGPM-HR, and FPM. Read this article by Careers360 to know all the details about the IIM Trichy CAT cutoff, IIM CAT previous year cutoff, IIM admission process, etc.
While preparing for the IIM Trichy CAT cutoff, authorities will consider certain factors. Here we have listed all the factors.
Check out the table below that indicates the overall and sectional CAT 2024 score required for IIM Trichy selection rounds.
Category | VARC | DILR | QA | Overall |
General | 73-75 | 73-75 | 73-75 | 93-96 |
EWS | 50-52 | 50-52 | 50-52 | 77-80 |
NC-OBC | 50-52 | 50-52 | 50-52 | 77-80 |
SC | 44-46 | 44-46 | 44-46 | 60-62 |
ST | 30-32 | 25-27 | 25-27 | 40-42 |
DAP | 30-32 | 25-27 | 25-27 | 40-42 |
The components of the selection process for shortlisting candidates for PI are mentioned in the table below along with their weightage.
Component | Weightage |
CAT Score | 50% |
Personal Interview | 25% |
Verbal Comprehension | 3% |
Class 12th Score | 3% |
Class 10th Score | 2% |
Work experience (up to December 31, 2025) | 5% |
Performance at the Undergraduate level | 5% |
Professional Qualification | 2% |
Gender Diversity | 5% |
Total | 100% |
In PI candidates will be judged for the following skills
Academic ability
Communication skills
Current Affairs & General Awareness
Managerial & Leadership Abilities
Co-curricular and Extra-curricular Activities
Performance at UG level
Undergraduate performance score= (percent score at UG * discipline weightage * 0.50)
Engineering/ Technology: 0.7
Science/ Medicine (including Pharmacy)/ Arts/ Economics/ Commerce/ Management/ other discipline: 1.0
The IIM Trichy CAT cutoff 2024 across all categories for different sections as well as the overall CAT exam is given in the table below.
Category | VARC | DILR | QA | Overall |
General | 73 | 73 | 73 | 94 |
EWS | 50 | 50 | 50 | 77 |
NC-OBC | 50 | 50 | 50 | 77 |
SC | 44 | 44 | 44 | 60 |
ST | 30 | 25 | 25 | 40 |
DAP | 30 | 25 | 25 | 40 |
The IIM Trichy CAT cutoff 2023 according to all categories for different sections as well as the overall CAT exam is given in the table below.
Category | Overall | Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension | Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) | Quantitative Aptitude (QA) |
General | 92 | 70 | 70 | 70 |
EWS | 70 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
NC-OBC | 74 | 45 | 45 | 45 |
SC | 54 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
ST | 40 | 25 | 32 | 32.5 |
DAP | 40 | 25 | 32 | 32.5 |
The 2022 CAT cutoff for IIM Trichy for all the CAT exam sections and different categories is provided in the table below.
Category | Quantitative Aptitude | Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning | Verbal & Reading Comprehension | Total (Overall Percentile) |
General | 70 | 70 | 70 | 92 |
EWS | 40 | 40 | 40 | 70 |
NC-OBC | 45 | 45 | 45 | 74 |
SC | 35 | 35 | 35 | 54 |
ST | 32.5 | 25 | 25 | 40 |
DAP | 32.5 | 25 | 25 | 40 |
| Category | Quantitative Aptitude | Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning | Verbal & Reading Comprehension | Overall |
| General | 70 | 70 | 70 | 92 |
| EWS | 40 | 40 | 40 | 70 |
| NC-OBC | 45 | 45 | 45 | 74 |
| SC | 35 | 35 | 35 | 54 |
| ST | 32.5 | 25 | 25 | 40 |
| DAP | 32.5 | 25 | 25 | 40 |
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IIM Trichy follows a three-stage admission process to offer admission into PGP courses. Here we have listed the three stages of the IIM Trichy admission process.
Stage 1: Securing minimum marks in the CAT entrance exam
Those candidates who meet the required CAT qualifying cutoff and eligibility criteria of the programs offered by IIM Trichy will be shortlisted for the CAP process. Shortlisting of candidates for Personal Interview (PI) will be done among the candidates who have a valid CAT scorecard.
Stage 2: Shortlisting of candidates for the CAP process
Those candidates who have been shortlisted in the Stage 1 will be required to appear for the Common Admission Process (CAP). Those who failed to meet the minimum performance in Personal Interview (PI) will not be considered for the final selection process.
Stage 3: Final selection of candidates
After the PI process, IIM Trichy will offer admission to candidates based on the composite score of the candidates. This includes candidates' performance in CAT 2024, performance in Personal Interview (PI), past academic performance, work experience, gender diversity etc. Later on, a category-wise merit list will be generated with all the names of shortlisted candidates.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
IIM Trichy MBA fees is Rs 14,50,000/- which includes the tuition fee, library, textbooks, case permission royalty, examination fee, academic course pack, Alumni membership etc.
In order to get a MBA seat at IIM Trichy, candidates need to qualify CAT entrance exam and also need to clear the selection rounds for the same.
Last year, the minimum cutoff for IIM Trichy for general category candidates was 94 percentile.
Going by past years' IIM Tricy CAT cutoff trends, candidates belonging to the general category need to score between 90 to 95 percentile in the CAT entrance test.
On Question asked by student community
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