CAT Exam Evaluation

Can you tell me about the factors required for evaluating the Common Admission Test (CAT) Cut off for admission in Post Graduate Management Courses in India?

[Rajkumar Agarwal]

Common Admission Test (CAT) cut off refers to the minimum percentile a test taker must obtain in order to get short listed by the participating institutes. In terms of sectional CAT cut off, candidates have to score 70, 57 and 60 in Verbal Ability, DI & LR and Quantitative Ability sections respectively.

Factors determining the CAT Cut off

• Number of candidates' appeared for the exam
• Number of candidates' passed the exam
• Difficulty level of the question paper
• Number of seats available

CAT 2016 Cut off

B-Schools Cut off in Percentile

IIM, Bangalore CAT: 99.5+

IIM, Ahmedabad CAT: 99.6+

IIM, Calcutta CAT: 99.5+

IIM, Lucknow CAT: 99.5+

IIM, Kozhikode CAT: 96.3+

IIT, Roorkee CAT: 94.6+

IIM, Indore CAT: 94.7+

IIM, Rohtak CAT: 97.11+

IIM, Raipur CAT: 90.0+

IIM, Trichy CAT: 94.0+

CAT 2016 cut off for Top Non-IIM B-Schools

Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (FMS, DU)
98.20 Percentile

DMS, IIT Delhi
98+ Percentile

SJMSOM, IIT Bombay
99+ Percentile

Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras
95+ Percentile

Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon
95+ Percentile

S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai
85+ Percentile

Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB)
90+ Percentile

Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad
90+ Percentile

National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai
95+ Percentile

T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Manipal
85+ Percentile

Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Chennai
90+ Percentile