CAT 2017 Cutoff

Kundan Mishra

28 Jul 23

The students writing CAT this year can check the expected CAT 2022 cutoff for IIMs and other B-schools here on this page. CAT 2022 notification is expected to release on July 30, 2022. IIM Lucknow will be conducting the Common Admission Test this year. The CAT 2022 exam date is most likely to fall in first week of December 2022. The CAT cutoff is decided by the IIMs but is never officially announced by them. Thousands of candidates who dream of studying at IIMs write CAT but admission is granted to few deserving ones only. The candidates who will obtain the marks in the exam equal to or more than the CAT cutoff 2022 percentile will only be called up to attend the selection process, which will comprise of a Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI).

The cutoff of CAT 2022 will be determined by the IIMs after the announcement of CAT exam result. Till then, the candidates can check the CAT 2022 cutoff of IIMs and other top b-schools accepting CAT score. Having an idea of the previous year CAT cutoff will help the candidates have an idea about the CAT 2022 cutoff and target a CAT 2022 score for themselves, which they must obtain in order to be considered for the shortlisting.

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CAT 2022 Cutoff

At present, there are 20 IIMs, which are operating in India and more than 100 B-Schools which grant admission to various post graduate management courses. The cutoff is decided individually for different category of students and the CAT 2022 cutoff will remain on a lower side for the students belonging to reserved categories. Apart from the cutoff, the B-Schools also take into consideration the past academic record, candidate's involvement in co-curricular activities, work experience (if any), internship experience (if any) and such other factors.

Types of CAT 2022 Cutoff

There are three types of cutoff, which are as follow -

Qualifying CAT cutoff – All the IIMs announce the admission policy and in it, they provide the minimum CAT percentile, which is referred to as qualifying percentile.
Official cutoff of CAT – The IIMs decide and apply the cutoff but they never announce it officially.
Cutoff announced by Experts – Various experts having years of experience and knowledge in the field of CAT coaching predict the cutoff mainly after the completion of CAT exam.

Difference between Qualifying and Official CAT cutoff

The official cutoff always remains higher than the qualifying percentile.
To be considered for the IIM PI shortlisting, it is important for the candidates to obtain marks in CAT equal to or more than the announced minimum CAT percentile.

CAT Cutoff 2022 - Deciding Factors

For deciding the cutoff, various factors are taken into consideration. Some of these factors have been listed here below -

Difficulty level of CAT
Previous year's CAT cutoff
Number of candidates who wrote CAT
Number of seats offered by the B-School
Reservation norms followed by the Management Institute

CAT 2022 Cutoff (Expected)

Since the CAT exam has not been conducted yet, it is not practically possible to predict the CAT 2022 cutoff. However, seeing the past trends of the IIM admission and the cutoff, the students who aim to grab a seat in one of the IIMs must try to obtain 94 to 99+ percentile in CAT.

The candidates can check the tables given below to know the expected CAT cutoff 2022 for all the IIMs. These are last year's cutoff of CAT, based on which the students got calls from the IIMs to attend GD/PI.

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Ahmedabad

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	75	70	70	80
SC	65	65	65	75
ST	60	60	60	70
NC-OBC cum Transgender	50	50	50	60
PWD	60	60	60	70

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Bangalore

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	85	80	80	90
SC	70	65	65	75
ST	60	60	60	75
NC-OBC	75	70	70	80
PWD	60	60	60	75

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Calcutta

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	65	65	65	70
ST	60	60	60	70
NC-OBC	75	75	75	85
PWD	65	65	65	70

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Lucknow

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	85	85	85	90
SC	55	55	55	70
ST	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	77	77	77	82
PWD	55	55	55	70

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Indore

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	55	55	55	60
ST	55	55	55	60
NC-OBC	70	70	70	80
PWD	45	45	45	50

CAT 2022 Cutoff for IIM Kozhikode

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	50	50	50	65
ST	40	40	40	55
NC-OBC	70	70	70	80
PWD	40	40	40	55

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Shillong

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	70	70	70	70
SC	60	60	60	60
ST	50	50	50	50
NC-OBC	70	70	70	70
PWD	50	50	50	50

CAT 2022 Cutoff for IIM Ranchi

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
PWD	50	50	50	65

CAT 2022 Cutoff for IIM Rohtak

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	85
SC	45	45	45	60
ST	40	40	40	60
NC-OBC	70	70	70	75
PWD	50	50	50	60

CAT 2022 Cutoff for Raipur

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
PWD	50	50	50	65

CAT 2022 Cutoff for IIM Trichy

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	75
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
PWD	50	50	50	65

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Udaipur

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
PWD	50	50	50	65

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Kashipur

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
PWD	50	50	50	65

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Nagpur

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
NC-OBC	72	72	72	81
PWD	50	50	50	65

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Visakhapatnam

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	85	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	55
NC-OBC	75	70	70	80
PWD	50	50	50	55

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Bodhgaya

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	60	60	60	75
ST	50	50	50	65
PWD	50	50	50	65

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Sirmaur

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	75	75	75	80
SC	50	50	50	70
ST	45	45	45	65
NC-OBC	68	68	68	72
PWD	50	50	50	70

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Jammu

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	75	75	75	80
SC	50	50	50	65
ST	45	45	45	60
NC-OBC	68	68	68	72
PWD	50	50	50	70

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Sambalpur

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
SC	50	50	50	35
ST	30	30	30	35
NC-OBC	65	65	65	75
PWD	30	30	30	35

CAT Cutoff 2022 for IIM Amritsar

Category	VARC	DI & LR	QA	Overall
General	70	70	70	90
SC	50	50	50	55
ST	30	30	30	35
NC-OBC	55	55	55	70
PWD	30	30	30	35

Minimum CAT 2022 Percentile

IIMs announce their admission criteria every year, in which they provide the minimum CAT percentile. This CAT cutoff is often misunderstood by the students as the official cutoff. However, this minimum percentile is the qualifying cutoff which must be secured by the candidates to be considered for the PI shortlisting. The actual CAT 2022 cutoff will remain on a higher side as compared to this minimum percentile.

Top B-Schools accepting CAT 2022 score other than IIMs

Over 100 B-schools offer admission to the students on the basis of their CAT percentile. However, every management aspirant wishes to take admission in country's best and top management Institutes. The CAT 2022 cutoff for all the top B-schools granting admission on the basis of CAT score generally remains above 90 percentile.

The expected cutoff of CAT 2022 for some of the top B-Schools has been given in the table below here.

S.No.	Name of B-Schools	Expected CAT 2022 Cutoff
1	SJMSOM, IIT Bombay	99+ Percentile
2	Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (FMS, DU)	98.20 Percentile
3	JBIMS	99+ Percentile
4	Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras	95+ Percentile
5	VGSOM - IIT Kharagpur	95+ Percentile
6	DMS, IIT Delhi	98+ Percentile
7	Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB)	90+ Percentile
8	Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad	90+ Percentile
9	National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai	95+ Percentile
10	FORE-Delhi	90+ Percentile
11	Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Chennai	90+ Percentile
12	S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) Mumbai	85+ Percentile
13	T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Manipal	85+ Percentile
14	DMS - IIT Roorkee	94+ Percentile
15	Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon	95+ Percentile
16	IMI- Delhi	91+ Percentile
17	IRMA - Anand	90+ Percentile
18	BIM - Trichy	88+ Percentile
19	K J Somaiya	86+ Percentile
20	IIFM - Bhopal	80+ Percentile
21	Great Lakes - Gurgaon	74+ Percentile
22	NIBM Pune	74+ Percentile