CAT Cut Off 2025: Previous years' IIM CAT Cutoff, Top B-School Percentile

CAT cutoff 2025 is the minimum score that candidates must secure in order to be considered for admission to the IIMs and other top business schools in India.

Aakanksha SinghUpdated on : Dec 24 2025 16:04 IST

CAT Cutoff 2025: The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2025 is conducted by Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK). CAT 2025 is scheduled to be held on November 30, 2025. IIMK will announce the CAT result 2025 once the exam are successfully concluded, at official website - iimcat.ac.in. The IIMs releases qualifying cut-off 2025 for CAT before the CAT exam and the final CAT cut-off 2025 will be released after the result. The CAT cutoff is the minimum score that candidates must secure in order to be considered for admission to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other top business schools in India.

The cutoff for CAT 2025 will be determined based on a variety of factors, including the difficulty of the CAT exam, Number of aspirants who cleared the exam, Number of seats in a particular Institute, Number of candidates who appeared for the exam and the All India Ranking of the Institute. Aspirants aiming for admission to top IIMs need to achieve a CAT percentile score between 98 and 100. For non-IIMs and newer IIMs, a percentile score of 94 to 97 is typically required.

Candidates who score above the cutoff are considered for further rounds of selection, such as Group Discussion (GD) and Personal Interviews (PI) at IIMs. The cutoff score is typically announced along with the release of the CAT result 2025. CAT (Common Admission Test) is a highly competitive entrance exam for admission into MBA programs at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other top B-schools in India.

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CAT Cutoff 2025

CAT cut-off 2025 will be released after the CAT 2025 result. Meanwhile, candidates can check the expected CAT cutoff below based on the scores obtained by candidates in different sections:

VARC Score	DILR Score	QA Score	Overall Score	CAT Percentile
49	35	46	106 ± 1	99.9 percentile
45	33	33	89 ± 2	99.5 percentile
42	27	30	80 ± 1	99 percentile
38	26	23	71 ± 1	98 percentile
32	21	21	57 ± 2	95 percentile
27	17	16	49 ± 1	90 percentile
23	12	14	40 ± 2	85 percentile
22	13	11	36 ± 1	80 percentile
19	11	10	31 ± 1	75 percentile
16	11	10	29 ± 2	70 percentile

CAT Cut Off 2025: List of MBA colleges accepting 90-95 percentile

Candidates seeking admission to MBA programmes through CAT 2025 may check the expected list of colleges accepting 90-95 percentile below based on the previous year analysis:

Institute	Final Cutoff	Eligibility Criteria
IIM Udaipur	93-95	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Sirmaur	91-92	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Rohtak	94.5-96	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Vishakhapatnam	92-93	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Nagpur	95-97	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Ranchi	94-96	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Bodhgaya	93-95	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Shillong	92	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Jammu	93-94	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Amritsar	95	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Trichy	95-96	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Kashipur	94	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks
IIM Lucknow	90	Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 50% marks

CAT Cutoff 2025: Expected Cut Off for IIMs

Expected CAT Cutoff for IIM (Qualifying)
IIMs	Qualifying CAT cut-offs
IIM Ahmedabad	85
IIM Bangalore	85
IIM Calcutta	85
IIM Lucknow	90
IIM Indore	90
IIM Kozhikode	85
IIM Amritsar	90
IIM Nagpur	85
IIM Sambalpur	93
IIM Trichy	93
IIM Raipur	93
IIM Ranchi	90
IIM Kashipur	94
IIM Vizag	80
IIM Udaipur	93
IIM Bodhgaya	93
IIM Shillong	75
IIM Sirmaur	92
IIM Rohtak	95
IIM Nagpur	85
IIM Jammu	93

Top Colleges in India Offering MBA
Great Lakes Chennai	Great Lakes Gurgaon
ICFAI Dehradun	IMT Ghaziabad
UPES Dehradun	LPU Jalandhar
SRM University Chennai	GD Goenka University, Gurgaon
Chandigarh University	BML Munjal University, Gurgaon
Manipal University (MAHE)	Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida
IPE Hyderabad	IFIM Business School

List of B-schools	Expected CAT cutoff
FMS Delhi	98.20 Percentile
DMS, IIT Delhi	98+ Percentile
Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Chennai	90+ Percentile
SJMSOM, IIT Bombay	99+ Percentile
Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad	90+ Percentile
MDI Gurgaon	95+ Percentile
National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai	95+ Percentile
SPJIMR	85+ Percentile
XIMB	90+ Percentile
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras	95+ Percentile
TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Manipal	85+ Percentile

Previous Year CAT Cutoff for IIMs (Minimum criteria)
IIMs	CAT 2021 Cutoff	CAT 2022 Cutoff	CAT 2023 Cutoff
IIM Ahmedabad	80	85	80
IIM Bangalore	85	85	85
IIM Calcutta	>85	85	>85
IIM Lucknow	90	90	90
IIM Indore	90	90	90
IIM Kozhikode	85	85	85
IIM Amritsar	85	90	90
IIM Nagpur	85	85	85
IIM Sambalpur	92	94	93
IIM Trichy	>=92	94	93
IIM Raipur	>=92	94	93
IIM Ranchi	94	90	92
IIM Kashipur	92	93	92
IIM Vishakhapatnam	80	85	80
IIM Udaipur	92	95	92
IIM Sirmaur	>=92	92	92
IIM Rohtak	95	95	95

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Overall CAT Cutoff
General	80-82	80-82	80-82	80-82
EWS	80-82	80-82	80-82	80-82
NC-OBC	70-72	70-72	70-72	70-72
SC	54-56	54-56	54-56	60-62
ST	40-44	40-44	40-44	45
PwD	40-44	40-44	40-44	45

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Overall Percentile
General	75-77	75-77	80-83	85-87
NC-OBC	60-62	60-62	65-67	75-77
SC	50-52	50-52	55-57	55-58
ST	35-37	35-37	35-37	40-42
PwD	33-35	33-35	33-35	40-43

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Overall Percentile
General	80-82	75-77	75-77	83-85
NC-OBC	70-72	65-67	65-67	75-77
EWS	70-72	65-67	65-67	75-77
SC	65-68	60-62	60-72	70-73
ST	55-57	55-57	55-57	65-67
PwD	50-52	50-52	50-62	60-64

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Aggregate
General	75	80	80	80
NC-OBC	65	65	70	75
EWS	65	65	70	75
SC	60	60	65	70
ST	55	55	55	65
PwD	55	55	55	65

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Overall Percentile
General	83-85	83-85	83-85	90-93
NC-OBC	75-77	75-77	75-77	82-85
SC	55-57	55-57	55-57	70-73
ST	50-53	50-53	50-53	65-67
PwD	48-51	48-51	48-51	65-68
EWS	77-79	77-79	77-79	82-84

Category	CAT Percentile	Sectional Percentile
General	85-87	75-77
NC-OBC/ EWS	75	65
SC	65	55
ST/ PwD	55	45

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	CAT Percentile
General	80-83	80-83	80-83	90
EWS	80-83	80-83	80-83	90
NC-OBC	70-74	70-74	70-74	80-82
ST	43-46	43-46	43-46	50-53
SC	55-58	55-58	55-58	60-63
PwD	45-47	45-47	45-47	50-53

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	CAT Percentile
General	80-82	80-82	80-82	95-97
ST	50-53	50-53	50-53	60-62
SC	30-35	30-35	30-35	40-43
Differently Abled Person	30-35	30-35	30-35	40-43
NC-OBC	60-62	60-62	60-62	78-82

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Overall
General	72-75	72-75	72-75	85-86
ES	72-75	72-75	72-75	85-86
NC-OBC	65-67	65-67	65-67	76-77
SC	50-52	50-52	50-52	60-62
ST	35-37	35-37	35-37	40-43
PwD	35-37	35-37	35-37	40-43

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Percentile
General	85-87	80-82	80-82	85-87
NC-OBC	60-63	60-61	60-61	60-62
SC	50-51	50-52	50-52	55-57
ST	30-31	30-32	30-32	40-43
PwD	30-32	30-32	30-32	40-43

Category	VARC	DILR	QA	Percentile cut off
General	80-81	80-81	80-81	94-96
SC	45-47	45-46	45-46	53-55
ST	30-31	30-32	30-32	40-46
NC-OBC	60-61	60-61	60-62	75-77
PwD	30-32	30-32	30-32	40-43
EWS	60-62	60-62	60-62	75-76

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

When will the CAT 2024 results be released?

CAT result will be released tentatively in December 2024.

Will the sectional cutoff remain the same each year? What was the CAT cutoff for last year?

CAT sectional cutoff varies annually. The final CAT cutoff for top IIMs is often in the 99 to 100 percentile range for students in the General category. The same was noted with the CAT cut-off last year.

Is the CAT cutoff the same for all students?

No, a separate category-wise cutoff score is released for the CAT exam.

What does a CAT score mean? What is the CAT cutoff?

CAT score refers to the marks that students obtained in the exam. CAT cutoff is the minimum percentile that candidates must achieve in order to be called for the WAT & GD/PI round.