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The cutoff of CAT 2017 is minimum percentile required by the aspirant to be part of next round of selection process. The other top B-schools will also release their CAT 2017 cutoff after the announcement of result. The information regarding CAT Cut-Off 2017 will be made available as soon as it is made public for students. Till then you must check CAT 2016 Cut-off.
Minimum CAT 2016 Percentile
IIMs have announced their admission criteria, 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 2016 cutoff will remain on a higher side as compared to this minimum percentile.
The minimum CAT percentile for 2017-19 admission announced by the IIMs individually have been given below:
IIM Ahmedabad 2016 Cutoff
Category | Verbal & Reading Comprehension Percentile Rank(Section 1) | Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning Percentile Rank (Section 2) | Quantitative Aptitude Percentile Rank(Section 3) | Overall Percentile Rank |
General | 70 | 70 | 70 | 80 |
Non-Creamy Other Backward Classes (NC-OBC) -cum-transgender | 65 | 65 | 65 | 75 |
Scheduled Classes (SC) | 60 | 60 | 60 | 70 |
Scheduled Tribes (ST) | 50 | 50 | 50 | 60 |
Differently-Abled (DA) | 60 | 60 | 60 | 70 |
IIM Bangalore 2016 Cutoff
Minimum percentile requirement for the 1st shortlisting |
Category | Section 1 (VARC) | Section 2 (DILR) | Section 3 (QA) | Aggregate |
General | 85 | 80 | 80 | 90 |
NC – OBC | 75 | 70 | 70 | 80 |
SC | 70 | 65 | 65 | 75 |
ST | 60 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
PWD | 60 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
IIM Calcutta 2016 Cutoff
Category | Section – I Quantitative Ability (QA) | Section – II Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning | Section – III Verbal Ability (VA) | Overall Percentile |
Open | ≥ 80 | ≥ 80 | ≥ 80 | ≥90 |
NC-OBC | ≥ 75 | ≥ 75 | ≥ 75 | ≥85 |
SC | ≥ 65 | ≥ 65 | ≥ 65 | ≥70 |
ST | ≥ 60 | ≥ 60 | ≥ 60 | ≥70 |
DA | ≥ 65 | ≥ 65 | ≥ 65 | ≥70 |
IIM Lucknow 2016 Cutoff
PGP | PGP-ABM | PGP-SM |
Category | QA | DI & LR | VRC | Total | QA | DI & LR | VRC | Total | QA | DI & LR | VRC | Total |
General | 85 | 85 | 85 | 90 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 85 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 85 |
NC-OBC | 77 | 77 | 77 | 82 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 77 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 77 |
SC | 55 | 55 | 55 | 70 | 55 | 55 | 55 | 65 | 55 | 55 | 55 | 65 |
ST | 50 | 50 | 50 | 70 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 60 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 60 |
PWD | 55 | 55 | 55 | 70 | 55 | 55 | 55 | 65 | 55 | 55 | 55 | 65 |
IIM Bodhgaya 2016 Cutoff
Category | Section – I Verbal Ability (VA) | Section – II Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) | Section – III Quantitative Ability (QA) | Overall |
OPEN | ≥ 80 | ≥ 80 | ≥ 80 | ≥ 90 |
NC-OBC | ≥ 72 | ≥ 72 | ≥ 72 | ≥ 81 |
SC | ≥ 60 | ≥ 60 | ≥ 60 | ≥ 75 |
ST | ≥ 50 | ≥ 50 | ≥ 50 | ≥ 65 |
DA | ≥ 50 | ≥ 50 | ≥ 50 | ≥ 65 |
IIM Raipur 2016 Cutoff
Category | QuantitativeAptitude (QA) | Data Interpretation andLogical Reasoning(DILR) | Verbal and ReadingComprehension(VRC) | Total(Overall) |
General | 80 | 80 | 80 | 90 |
NC-OBC | 72 | 72 | 72 | 81 |
SC | 60 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
ST | 50 | 50 | 50 | 65 |
DAP | 50 | 50 | 50 | 65 |
IIM Kozhikode 2016 Cutoff
S. No. | Category | CAT Score Percentile | Sectional Percentile |
1 | General | 90 | 80 |
2 | Other Backward Classes (NC) | 80 | 70 |
3 | Scheduled Caste | 65 | 50 |
4 | Scheduled Tribe/Persons with Disability | 55 | 40 |
IIM Indore 2016 Cutoff
S. No. | Category | Section 1 (Quantitative Aptitude) | Section 2 (Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning) | Section 3 (Verbal and Reading Comprehension) | Overall Percentile |
1 | General | 80.00 | 80.00 | 80.00 | 90.00 |
2 | Other Backward Classes (NC) | 70.00 | 70.00 | 70.00 | 80.00 |
3 | Scheduled Caste | 55.00 | 55.00 | 55.00 | 60.00 |
4 | Scheduled Tribe | 45.00 | 45.00 | 45.00 | 50.00 |
5 | Persons with Disability | 45.00 | 45.00 | 45.00 | 50.00 |
IIM Trichy 2016 Cutoff
S. No. | Category | Section 1 (Quantitative Aptitude) | Section 2 (Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning) | Section 3 (Verbal and Reading Comprehension) | Overall Percentile |
1 | General | 80 | 80 | 80 | 90 |
2 | Other Backward Classes (NC) | 72 | 72 | 72 | 81 |
3 | Scheduled Caste | 60 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
4 | Scheduled Tribe | 50 | 50 | 50 | 65 |
5 | Differently Abled People | 50 | 50 | 50 | 65 |
IIM Udaipur 2016 Cutoff
S. No. | Category | Verbal and ReadingComprehension | Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning | Quantitative Aptitude | Overall Percentile |
1 | Scheduled Caste | 60 | 60 | 60 | 75 |
2 | Scheduled Tribe | 50 | 50 | 50 | 65 |
3 | Differently Abled People | 50 | 50 | 50 | 65 |
4 | Other Backward Classes (NC) | 72 | 72 | 72 | 81 |
5 | General | 80 | 80 | 80 | 90 |
IIM Rohtak 2016 Cutoff
Sections | General | SC | ST | NC-OBC | PWD |
VRC | 80 | 45 | 40 | 70 | 50 |
DI & LR | 80 | 45 | 40 | 70 | 50 |
QA | 80 | 45 | 40 | 70 | 50 |
Overall Percentile | 85 | 60 | 60 | 75 | 60 |
Top B-Schools accepting CAT 2016 score other than IIMs
Over 100 B-schools offer admission to the students on the basis of their CAT percentile. The CAT cutoff 2016 for the tier two B-schools may range between 70 – 80 percentile and it will be between 50 – 60 percentile for three tier B-Schools.
The expected cutoff of CAT 2016 for some of the top B-Schools has been given in the table below here.
S.No. | Name of B-Schools | CAT 2016 Cutoff (Expected) |
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 |
The detail above is published after consulting various reports available for public use on the internet. Though utmost care is taken while publishing this information and any update will be made available for students.
After CAT 2017 is conducted, experts from top coaching institutes will release the expected CAT cutoff 2017 in the form of scores. This will denote the scores which will lead to 90 percentile or above.
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