CAT Result 2025 OUT: Date, Percentile, Normalisation, Cut off, Scorecard

CAT Result 2025: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode has released the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2025 result on December 24, 2025. The CAT scorecards have been made available on the official CAT website, iimcat.ac.in.The exam conducting body released the CAT 2025 final answer key on December 17, 2025, at 5:00 PM. The final answer key login window is available from December 17, 2025, to December 31, 2025 (11:55 PM). 

The CAT exam is one of the most prestigious MBA entrance exams in India. This year, IIM Kozhikode conducted the CAT 2025 exam on November 30, 2025, in three shifts. Around 2.58 lakh candidates appeared for the CAT 2025 exam at 339 test centres spread across 170 cities in India.  The overall attendance was approximately 86% for the CAT exam 2025.

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IIM Kozhikode had earlier announced in the CAT Notification 2025 that the CAT result 2025 will tentatively be announced in the first week of January 2026. The result is usually released in the form of a scorecard, which includes the candidate's overall score, as well as his/her scores in the individual sections of the exam. After the result declaration, IIMs will also release the list of toppers for the CAT 2025 exam. Candidates may also be informed individually by SMS regarding their CAT 2025 results. The CAT 2025 score is valid only till December 31, 2026. 

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CAT Result Date 2025: Past Years' Trend Analysis

The CAT 2025 result is expected to be released in the second/third week of December 2025. Meanwhile, candidates can check the past year's result dates from the table below:

Also check: CAT 2025 Result Date and Time: Final Answer Key Released at iimcat.ac.in

CAT 2025 Result: Next Steps

IIM will also use the normalisation method to calculate the CAT percentile. Students who score above the required CAT cut-off 2025 will be called for the WAT & GD/PI round. The final selection will be done on the basis of the overall performance of the candidate in the written examination, WAT, & GD/PI. Some institutes also give weightage to the previous academic record and work experience of the candidate.

CAT 2025 Result: Normalisation Process

The CAT 2025 exam was conducted in three sessions on November 30, 2025. In order to ensure fairness and equity in comparison of the performances of candidates across different test sessions, the scores of the CAT 2025 candidates are subjected to a process of normalisation. The normalisation process adjusts for location and scale differences of score distributions across different forms. After normalisation across different forms, the scores are further normalised across different sections. The scaled scores obtained by this process are converted into percentiles for purposes of shortlisting.

CAT Result 2025: Expected Cut-off for IIMs

Interested candidates can check the expected qualifying CAT cut-off for different IIMs. Students must note that this analysis is only indicative. Also note that clearing the qualifying cut-off does not necessarily mean that they will be granted admission to their preferred programme.

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CAT Result 2025: Top B-School Percentile

Interested candidates can check the Top B-School percentile (expected) apart from IIMs in the table below.

Candidates must note that the CAT 2025 scorecard is valid only till December 31, 2026. 

CAT Result 2025: Previous Years' Toppers and Statistics

Last year, 14 candidates achieved a perfect 100-percentile in the CAT exam. Additionally, 29 candidates secured a 99.99 percentile, while 30 candidates attained a 99.98 percentile.

CAT Scorecard 2025: Details Mentioned

CAT Percentile 2025: Steps to Calculate

To keep transparency in the CAT result procedure, the IIM publishes the CAT percentile and score calculation methodology. CAT raw scores are converted into scaled scores and then into the CAT percentile. As per the CAT exam pattern 2025, each question is of three marks. For each wrong answer, 1 one mark is deducted. However, there is no negative marking for questions that are non-MCQ. 

Three important steps in calculating the CAT percentile are

• The CAT overall scores are computed after the section-by-section scores have been determined. 
• In the second step, both section-wise and overall raw scores are normalised to calculate the scaled CAT scores. 
• In the last step, these normalised scores are converted into CAT percentiles. 

Calculation of CAT Score (Raw Scores)

• CAT Score = No. of Correct Answer  3 - (No. of Incorrect Answers  1)

Calculation of CAT Percentile

• Step 1: Take total number of candidates = N, who have appeared in both shifts
• Step 2: Assign rank = R, based on the scores obtained in a section. If two candidates have scored the same scores, then the same ranks will be assigned. 
• Step 3: Calculate the CAT Percentile P, for a candidate who has scores rank R using the formula P= (N-r)/ N*100 
• Step 4: Round off the CAT Percentile P, like 99.995 is rounded off to 100, but if the percentile is less than 99.995, it will be rounded off to 99.99

Please note that there is no negative marking for incorrect non-MCQ questions.

CAT 2025 Score vs Percentile

CAT Percentile Range vs Overall Score

The CAT 2025 results will be announced on the official website, iimcat.ac.in. Candidates can access their scorecards using their CAT application ID and password. The CAT 2025 score is valid only till December 31, 2026.