When will CAT Result 2025 be Announced? Check past years’ trends

The CAT 2025 result is expected to be released by the last week of December 2025. The CAT exam 2025 was conducted on November 30, 2025. Check the last five years’ result trend and steps to calculate CAT percentile 2025.

CAT 2025
CAT 2025

The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2025 was conducted by IIM Kozhikode on November 30, 2025. As per the official notice, the CAT 2025 result is likely to be released by the last week of December 2025. Once the results are released, candidates can check and download their scorecard from the official website – iimcat.ac.in. Candidates will also be informed individually by SMS regarding their CAT 2025 result. The CAT 2025 answer key was released on December 4, 2025, and if any candidates had any objections regarding the answer key, they should have submitted them before December 10. 

The CAT 2025 result is usually released in the form of a scorecard, which will include the candidate’s overall scores as well as their scores in the individual sections of the exam. Along with the CAT result 2025, IIM Kozhikode will also release the CAT cutoff 2025 marks and topper’s list 2025. To access their CAT result 2025, candidates need to enter their CAT application ID and Password. For every correct answer, candidates will be awarded 3 marks, and for every incorrect response, 1 mark will be deducted. The CAT 2025 score will be only valid till December 31, 2026. 

CAT Result 2025 Date: Past Five Years’ Trends

Since the result for CAT 2025 exam is yet to be released, candidates can check the CAT result announcement from the past 5 years’ from the table below:

CAT Exam YearCAT Exam DateCAT Exam ResultNo. of Days
CAT 2024November 24, 2024December 19, 2024 25 days
CAT 2023November 26, 2023December 21, 202325 days
CAT 2022November 27, 2022December 21, 202224 days
CAT 2021November 28, 2021January 3, 202236 days
CAT 2020November 29, 2020January 2, 202134 days

Candidates can check the CAT result announcement date from past five years and can estimate when the result for CAT will be released for the academic year 2025.

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CAT 2025 Result: Percentile Calculation 

Candidates can follow the steps mentioned below to calculate their CAT 2025 percentile:

Step 1: Take the 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

Candidates are advised to regularly visit the official website and stay updated on all the upcoming CAT 2025 result announcements and updates.