The results for the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2025 are declared on December 24. Candidates can check and download the CAT 2025 result at the official website of CAT – iimcat.ac.in. As many as 12 candidates have scored 100 percentiles. A total of 26 candidates have scored 99.99 percentiles and 99.98 percentiles, each. IIMs will release their shortlists for subsequent admission processes based on the CAT 2025 scores and other criteria specific to each IIM’s admissions policies.
Candidates may also be informed individually by mobile SMS, a statement on the CAT official website said. The CAT 2025 score is valid only till December 31, 2026 and will accordingly be accessible on the website. The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM Kozhikode) conducted CAT this year.
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CAT 2025 was held on November 30 in three slots for a total of 2.58 lakh candidates. Of them, 0.97 lakh were women candidates, 1.61 lakh were men candidates, and nine were transgender candidates. As many as 2.95 lakh candidates registered for CAT 2025. Out of the 2.95 lakhs registered eligible candidates, 1.10 lakh were women candidates, 1.85 lakh were men candidates, and 9 were transgender candidates, as per a statement by IIM-K.
Among the 100 percentile scorers, the maximum number are from Delhi (three), followed by Haryana and Gujarat with two candidates each, while Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Odisha have one candidate each. Of these 12 candidates, 10 are male, and two are female; three are from engineering backgrounds, and nine are from non-engineering disciplines.
For more updates on CAT 2025, including answer keys, normalisation, result date, and IIM selection process, check the IE Education portal.
In the 99.99 percentile category, 26 candidates have qualified, with the highest representation from Haryana (five), followed by Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra with four candidates each, Rajasthan with three, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal with two each, and one candidate each from Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Delhi and Chhattisgarh. This group includes 22 male and four female candidates, with 12 from engineering streams and 14 from non-engineering backgrounds.
Of the 26 candidates obtaining 99.98 percentiles, the maximum number came from Uttar Pradesh (seven), followed by Delhi (four), West Bengal (three), Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana with two candidates each, and one candidate each from Rajasthan, Chandigarh, Karnataka and Odisha. Of these candidates, 21 are male and five are female, while eight are from engineering backgrounds and 18 from non-engineering disciplines.
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As many as 93 non-IIM institutions will also use CAT 2025 scores this year for admission into their management programmes. The details of non-IIM institutions registered with CAT 2025 can be found on the CAT 2025 website. Candidates are advised to check the CAT website to ensure that the institutions to which they are applying with their CAT score are registered with the CAT 2025 centre.
The CAT 2025 question paper had 68 questions in total, 24 of which were from the verbal ability and reading comprehension (VARC) section and 22 each from data interpretation and logical reasoning (DILR), and quantitative ability (QA) sections.
CAT 2025 provisional answer key and response sheets were released on December 4. Candidates had the opportunity to raise objections against the answer key between December 8 and 10, and the final answer key was released on December 17. During the IIM CAT answer key objection window, a total of 187 objections were received across all three sections. The maximum objections – 113 – were received in the first shift of QA. However, only one has been accepted from them. No question was dropped.
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In order to ensure fairness and equity in the comparison of the performances of candidates across different test sessions, the scores of candidates will be subjected to a process of normalisation. The normalisation process will adjust for location and scale differences of score distributions across different forms. After normalisation across different forms, the scores will be further normalised across different sections. The scaled scores obtained by this process will be converted into percentiles for purposes of shortlisting, read a statement on the website.
Last year, CAT was held on November 24 and the provisional answer key was released on December 3. Candidates were also given time till December 5 to raise objections against the CAT answer key. The final answer key was released on December 17 and the result was declared on December 19.
