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The cutoff of CAT 2018 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 2018 cutoff after the announcement of result i.e. after 8th January 2019. The information regarding CAT Cut-Off 2018 will be made available as soon as it is made public for students. Candidates can check the expected cut off for all the IIMs here.
Minimum CAT 2018 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 short listing. The actual CAT 2018 cutoff will remain on a higher side as compared to this minimum percentile.
The minimum expected CAT percentile for 2018-19 admission for the IIMs individually has been given below:
IIM Ahmedabad 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected Cutoff
| Category | Quantitative Aptitude (QA) | Data Interpretation and Logical 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected Cutoff
| S. No. | Category | Verbal and Reading Comprehension | 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 2018 Expected 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 2018 Expected score other than IIMs
Over 100 B-schools offer admission to the students on the basis of their CAT percentile. The CAT cutoff 2018 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 2018 for some of the top B-Schools has been given in the table below here:
| S.No. | Name of B-Schools | CAT 2018 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.
CAT 2018 was conducted successfully in 374 test centres spread across 147 cities in India. This year approximately 2.41 lakh candidates have applied successfully for CAT 2018 and almost 2 lakh candidates appeared for the examination. The final result of CAT 2018 is still awaited and hopefully will be declared on 8th January 2019 (as per CAT 2018 schedule), till then visit www.fillandfind.com regularly.
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