CAT Result 2025: Date, Percentile, Normalization, Cut off, Scorecard

CAT Result 2025: The Common Admission Test (CAT) is one of the most prestigious MBA entrance exams in India. This year IIM Kozhikode is conducting CAT 2025. The CAT result cum scorecard 2025 is eagerly awaited by thousands of MBA aspirants and it will be availabe for download at the offical website - iimcat.ac.in, likely by the first week of January 2026. Candidates may also be intimated individually by SMS regarding their CAT 2025 results. The CAT 2025 score is valid only till December 31, 2026. The CAT exam 2025 is scheduled to be held on November 30, 2025. 

The CAT result 2025 is likely to be announced in the first week of January 2026 and it will be available on the official website. The result is usually released in the form of a scorecard, which includes the candidate's overall score, as well as their scores in the individual sections of the exam. After the successful completion of the CAT exam, IIM will also release the list of toppers who will score the highest.

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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.

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CAT Result 2025: Key Highlights

• 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.
• The CAT result 2025 will be disclose individually to the candidate via the SMS.
• 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.
• Among the top percentile scorers, only 4 female candidates made it to the topper list, compared to 69 male candidates.
• Regarding academic backgrounds, 59 of the toppers are from engineering disciplines, while 15 are from non-engineering fields.

CAT Result Date 2025

The CAT 2025 result is expected to be released in the first week of January 2026. Meanwhile candidates can check the past year's result dates from the table below:

CAT Result 2025: Expected Cut-off for IIMs

Interested candidates can check the expected qualifying CAT cutoff for different IIMs. Students must note that clearing the qualifying cutoff does not necessarily mean that they will be granted admission to their preferred program.

CAT Result 2025: Top B-School Percentile

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

CAT Result 2025: Previous Years Toppers and Statistics

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 CAT Percentile. As per CAT Exam Pattern, each question is of 3 marks. For each wrong answer, 1 mark is deducted. However, there is no negative marking for questions which 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 no. 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

CAT 2025 Score vs Percentile

CAT Percentile Range vs Overall Score