The Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is a gateway exam that allows management students to enroll in MBA and PGDM programmes at AICTE-approved B-schools across India. CMAT cut offs of top MBA colleges accepting the exam score are usually around 95 to 99 percentile every year. About 70,000 candidates appear in it every year. CMAT is similar to other MBA entrance exams so it is not very difficult to prepare for it. As per the government norms 10% seats are reserved for General-Economically Weaker Section (GEN-EWS), 15% of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and 7.5% for Schedule Tribe (ST) Candidates and 27% seats are reserved for Other Backward Classes belonging to the 'non-creamy' layer (NC-OBC).
Colleges have a fixed number of seats in their courses for which they shortlist a fixed number of candidates. The cutoff is calculated based on the score of the lowest-ranking candidate shortlisted for the selection process. IIM A, B and C require around 99.9 +%ile for A.B,C for general category, around 95%ile for OBC and around 90% for SC/ST. ST category required 30 in verbal percentile rank and 40 overall percentile rank. Colleges follow the reservation criteria set by the Government of India. The reservation percentile for ST(Scheduled Tribe) category is 7.5%.The CMAT cut off for ST category in 2017 [70.01 (percentile)] and in 2016 [75.22 (percentile)].

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