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How many top college only focus on overall percentile in cat exam and not in sectional percentile..in range of above 80percentile overall.?


hitesh jain 25th Nov, 2017
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Mrudul Vasant Naik 5th Jan, 2019

Hello Hitesh,

The sectional percentiles are considered for admissions only in the IIMs. Rest all the institutes consider overall percentile for shortlisting candidates.

Please check the table provided below for cut-off and other criteria for Non-IIMs accepting overall percentiles of CAT Score.


   
FMS, DelhiNo Sectional Cut-off
IIT-Bombay - SJMSOM No Sectional Cut-off
IIT-Delhi No Sectional Cut-off
IIT-Roorkee No Sectional Cut-off
IIT-Kharagpur   No Sectional Cut-off
JBIMS, Mumbai- MMS* No Sectional Cut-off
NITIE, Mumbai No Sectional Cut-off
S.P. Jain, Mumbai CAT: each section 75 

MDI, Gurgaon Sec 1:QADI: 70 
  Sec 2: VALR: 70
IMT, Ghaziabad No Sectional Cut-offs
Goa Institute of Management No Sectional Cut-offs
TAPMI, Manipal-PGDM No Sectional Cut-offs
TAPMI Manipal PGDM-HCM No Sectional Cut-offs
XIM, Bhubaneswar-MBA in BM, MBA in HRM, MBA in RM, MBA in SM CAT: QA 84, VA 94, LR 91 

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Siddharth R 27th Nov, 2017

Hi,

All the IIMs have sectional cutoffs. You can check this list of cutoffs of various Non-IIMs accepting CAT Score

BIM, Trichy

CAT

Gen: 86.5,OBC/PWD/DA: 70,SC/ST: 50 

No Sectional Cut-offs

FMS, Delhi

CAT/GMAT (FN)

Gen: 98.54, GMAT: 650, OBC: 90.60, SC: 78.71, ST: 60.57, PH-1: 67.54, PH-2:17.50, PH-3:83.89, CW-1: 10.34, CW-2: 23.02, CW-3:9.00, CW-4:3.93, CW-5: 78.45

30% weightage to QA & DI/LR
40% weightage to VARC

IIT-Delhi

CAT

98.07 (all Categories)

No Sectional Cut-offs

IIT-Kharagpur  

CAT

Gen: 95, OBC: 85, SC/ST/PWD: 80

No Sectional Cut-offs

IMT, Ghaziabad

CAT/XAT/GMAT

CAT/XAT: 95, GMAT: NA

No Sectional Cut-offs

IRMA, Anand

CAT/XAT + ISC(own test-Issues of Social concern)

*CAT (89.203)+ own test: *Gen: 55.80, OBC:47, SC: 34, ST: 34, DAP: 34 Sponsored: 34

Sec 1:QADI: 50 
Sec 2: VALR: 40 

JBIMS, Mumbai- MMS*

MH-CET/CAT

CET/CAT: Gen 99.98

No Sectional Cut-offs

MDI, Gurgaon

CAT

PGPM/PGP-HRM/PGP-IM: Gen: 96

Sec 1:QADI: 70 
Sec 2: VALR: 70

NITIE, Mumbai

CAT

PGDIM:Gen: 97,PGDISEM: Gen: 93,  OBC/PD: 90, SC/ST:75

Both Sections PGDIM: 90, PGDISEM: 80 

S.P. Jain, Mumbai

CAT/XAT/GMAT

CAT/XAT: 85, GMAT: 85

CAT/XAT: each section 75 
GMAT: VA and QA: 75 and IR: 6 Score

SJMSOM, Mumbai

CAT

Gen: 99.08

No Sectional Cut-offs

TAPMI, Manipal-PGDM and PGDM-B&FS

CAT, XAT and GMAT

PGDM and PGDM-B&FS: CAT/XAT: 80+, GMAT 600+

No Sectional Cut-offs

TAPMI Manipal PGDM-HCM

CAT, XAT, GMAT and MAT Sept & Dec

PGDM-HCM: CAT/XAT/MAT: 80+, GMAT 600+

No Sectional Cut-offs

XIM, Bhubaneswar-MBA in BM, MBA in HRM, MBA in RM, MBA in SM

CAT/XAT/GMAT/X-GMAT/NMAT^

CAT/XAT: 94, GMAT: 550

CAT: QA 84, VA 94, LR 91 
XAT: QA 60, VA 75, DM 65 

 

As you can see, Institutes like BIM Trichy,  IIT Kharagpur. IMT Ghaziabad, IRMA, MDI, IIT Delhi, NITIE Mumbai, SJMSOM IIT Bombay, TAPMI Manipal have Very low or no sectional cutoff

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