Hello aspirant,

There is no minimum marks required to qualify the CAT exam because this exam’s result declares as a percentile form. According to CAT percentiles, Class 10th score, Class 12th score, Graduation score, Work Experience, Academic Stream and Gender IIMs and top B-schools shortlists you for further like Group discussion and Personal interview. After this all process IIMs and top B-schools will offer you a 2 year MBA program. In this whole process your CAT score have highest weight-age.

Now ‘How much marks is required for CAT’ depends upon which collage do you want to perusing your MBA. Following percentile required for IIMs and top B-schools-

CAT percentile for IIMs

• IIM A - 99.6 +
• IIM C - 99.5 +
• IIM B - 98.5 +
• IIM L - 98.2 +
• IIM K- 98+
• IIM I - 98+

Following IIMs cutoffs in the 90-95 range

• IIM Nagpur
• IIM Visakhapatna
• IIM Sirmaur
• IIM Sambalpur
• IIM Amritsar

CAT percentile for all IITs- Typically more than 95+ percentile except Roorkee, Kanpur and Madras.

CAT percentile for FMS and SP Jain- 97–98 percentile.

CAT percentile for MDI and NITIE- 95–96 percentile.

CAT cutoffs in the 90-95%ile range

• MDI, Gurgaon
• IMT Ghaziabad
• IIT Madras
• IIT Roorkee
• IIT Kanpur
• IIM Nagpur
• IIM Visakhapatnam
• IIM Sirmaur
• IIM Sambalpur
• IIM Amritsar
• IIM Jammu
• MIB , Delhi
• Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
• IISWBM Kolkata

CAT cutoffs in the 80-90%ile range

• FORE school of Management
• Nirma University
• UBS Chandigarh
• BIM Trichy
• Goa Institute of Management (GIM), Goa
• IMI Delhi
• IIFM, Bhopal
• Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM)
• National Institute of Technology (NIT Trichy), Tiruchirappalli
• National Institute of Technology ,Trichi
• Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management development & Research, Bangalore
• SIMSREE
• TAPMI, Manipal
• Trinity College for Management and Technology, Ghaziabad
• Nirma University
• SIBM, Bengaluru
• KJ Somaiya
• Syednam
• LIBA, Chennai
• LBS, New Delhi
• IIFM Bhopal, Welingkar, Mumbai
• LIBA, Chennai

Hope this will be helpful....

There is no PASS or FAIL in CAT exam. The percentage depends on your Category and your target College. If you want to get into IIMs, it should be nothing less than 95%. Other new IIMs might need a percentile of 90. And the cut offs go down further based on the reputation of the College.The basic eligibility criteria remains 50% aggregate for General Category in Graduation and 45% for Reserved Categories or equivalent CGPA from any recognised University. Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes. Other than IIMs there are almost 1000 Institutions that accept CAT score. Most colleges conduct Written Ability Test and Personal Interview as well. To be shortlisted for this round, your CAT composite score and your Academic track will also be assessed.The 20 IIMS and all the Participating Institutions will announce their Cut offs. The cut off is prepared after checking various factors. MBA aspirants will have to apply separately to all the Colleges that accept CAT scores. While CAT score remains the main criteria for selection, IIMs also consider other factors like previous academic performance, work experience, gender and Academic diversity. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes.
IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Calcutta and IIM Bangalore conduct their admission process separately.
The newly established IIMs follow a Common Admission Process which is also called CAP. The shortlisted candidates will have to appear for a Common Written Ability Test and Personal Interview Rounds. A separate Institute wise merit list will be prepared and this merit list will be declared based on individual admission and selection criteria.
IIM Sirmaur, IIM Jammu, IIM Nagpur will release their own merit list according to the CAT score or percentile and profile of the Candidate. There are no further rounds for these Institutions
But other Top B Schools and Other Participating Institutions release their cut offs post the declaration of CAT scores.
For shortlisting for WAT and PI rounds, each I stitution has its own criteria. For example, IIM Lucknow follows this method:
Scaled CAT Score: 60
12th marks: 10
Graduation: 10
Work Experience: 10
Diversity Factor for Academics: 5
Diversiry Factor for Gender: 5
And for final selection, the scores in WAT and PI are also given weightage. The final merit list is prepared and admissions are conducted. For Institutions which do not have WAT and PI rounds, it is direct admissions. Again it all depends on the Institution you want to take admission in.

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