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CAT Cutoff 2024: Previous year IIM CAT Cut off, Top B-School Percentile

CAT cutoff 2024 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.

Abhishek AroraUpdated on : Dec 03 2024 11:17 IST

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CAT Cutoff 2024

CAT Cutoff 2024: IIM Calcutta will soon announce the CAT result 2024 on the official website. It is expected to be announced in the third week of December, 2024. 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.

CAT exam 2024 was successfully conducted on November 24, 2024. The cutoff for CAT is determined based on a variety of factors, including the number of test takers, the difficulty level of the exam, and the number of available seats. Aspirants who wish to secure admission to MBA programs in top IIMs must have a 98-100 percentile score. For non-IIMs and baby IIMs, candidates must have at least a 93-100 percentile score in the CAT exam.

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 2024. 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.

CAT Cutoff 2024

Below is the expected CAT cutoff 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 Cutoff 2024: Expected Cut Off for IIMs

Based on the previous year analysis, the expected qualifying CAT 2024 cutoff for all the IIMs is provided in the table below. Meanwhile, aspirants must know that admission to IIM Kashipur will require the highest cutoff, and IIM Vizag will have the lowest expected cutoff for admission in its management course

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

CAT Cut Off 2024: Top Colleges in India Offering MBA

Apart from IIMs, the CAT score is accepted by over 8 IITs offering management courses and 200+ business schools in India. In the table below you can find the list of some of the accredited B-School in India:

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

Apart from the Top B-school accepting CAT score for admission, we have also prepared a list of premier B-school along with the expected cutoff in 2023 to get admission into these institutes:

List of B-schools	Expected CAT cutoff 2023
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

CAT Cutoff for IIMs(Minimum criteria)

In the table below, the CAT Cutoff for the 20 IIMs for the previous years has been provided for aspirants to get a clear idea of the individual IIM Cutoff in 2024.

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

IIM Cutoff 2024: Sectional Cut off

As per the CAT exam pattern, candidates will be required to qualify for the sectional cutoff along with the overall CAT cutoff. Moreover, along with the expected sectional and overall IIM cut-off score the data also contains the expected category-wise CAT cutoff for 2024.

Expected IIM Ahmedabad CAT Cut-Off 2024

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Ahmedabad Cut-off percentile 2024:

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

IIM Amritsar Expected Cutoff 2024

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Amritsar cut-off percentile 2024:

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

Expected IIM Bangalore Cutoff 2024

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Bangalore cut-off percentile 2024:

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

IIM Calcutta Expected Cutoff 2024

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Calcutta cut-off percentile 2024

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

IIM Lucknow CAT Cut Off 2024

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Lucknow cut-off percentile 2024:

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

IIM Kozhikode Expected Cutoff

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Kozhikode cut-off percentile 2024:

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

IIM Indore Expected Cutoff

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Indore cut-off 2024 percentile:

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

IIM Udaipur Expected Cutoff

The table below contains expected category-wise IIM Udaipur Cut-off percentile 2024:

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

IIM Nagpur Expected Cutoff

The table below contains the expected category wise IIM Nagpur Cut-off percentile 2024:

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

IIM Visakhapatnam Expected Cutoff

The table below contains the expected category wise IIM Visakhapatnam Cut-off percentile 2024:

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

IIM Kashipur Expected Cutoff

The table below contains the expected category-wise IIM Kashipur cut-off percentile 2024:

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.