CAT Expected Cutoff 2023

CAT (Common Admission Test) is a National level Entrance Test that is conducted by the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. CAT exams are the gateway to admission at the several IIMs and other top Business Schools for the MBA course

The CAT expected cutoff 2023 marks will be released in the form of a PDF file on the official website of IIM. The cutoff will be released after the declaration of the results. Candidates have to secure the minimum CAT cutoff marks to get admission to their desired Management Institutes. You can check the details of the CAT expected cut-off 2023 for IIMs and Top MBA Colleges in this article.

Stages of CAT cut off 2023:

  • Qualifying CAT cut-off - This will be declared before the announcement of the result.
  • Final CAT cutoff- This will be declared after the announcement of the CAT result.

Factors determining CAT expected cutoff 2023

  • Total number of students appearing for the CAT Exam.
  • Weightage of the Management Institute 
  • Availability of seats 
  • The difficulty level of the exam 
  • Common marks secured by the candidates 
  • Last year’s cutoff marks 

Sections and weightage of the CAT exam

  • Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension(VARC)- 34% weightage
  • Data interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR)- 32% weightage
  • Quantitative Ability (QA)- 34% weightage

CAT cutoff expected 2023 for top IIMs

IIM-Ahmedabad

Candidate category

DILR 

VARC 

QA

Total

General 

70 

70  

70

80

NC/OBC/Trans gender

65 

65  

65

75

SC 

60 

60  

60

70

ST 

50 

50  

50

60

PwD 

60 

60  

60

70

PwD (ST) 

50 

50 

50

60

IIM Bangalore 

Candidate 

category

DILR 

VARC

QA 

Total

General 

80 

75

75 

85

NC/OBC/Trans gender

70 

65

65 

75

EWS 

65 

70

65 

75

SC 

60 

65

60 

70

ST 

55 

55

55 

65

PwD (ST) 

50 

50

50 

60

IIM Kozhikode

Candidate 

category

DILR 

VARC

QA 

Total

General 

85 

75

60 

60

NC-OBC/EWS 

75 

65

60 

60

SC 

65 

55

55 

55

ST/PwD 

55 

45

55 

55

CAT cutoff 2023 expected for top 10 Business Schools other than IIMs:

S.No 

Name of the Business School

CAT cut off 2022 (percentile)

Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar 

90 +

Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras 

95+

National Institute of Industrial Engineering

95+

Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (FMS DU) 

98.20+

Management Development Institute (MDI) , Gurgaon

95+

6  

Loyola Institute of Business Administration 

Chennai 

90+

7

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad 

90+

T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) 

85+

S P Jain Institute of Management and 

Research(SPJIMR), Mumbai 

85+

10 

Department of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi 

98+

What to do for low CAT percentile 2023?

  • Apply for admission to new IIMs like IIM Shillong, IIM Kashipur, IIM Bodhgaya, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Ranchi which have low cut off requirements.
  • Apply to Business Schools other than IIMs which have a cutoff between 90 and 60 percentile. These Institutes also have a high NIRF- ranking and excellent placement facilities.

List of Business schools accepting low CAT cutoff scores

CAT Percentile (80%-90%)

CAT Percentile (70%- 80%)

CAT Percentile (60%-70%)

T.A Pai Management Institute

BITS Pilani 

Jagan Institute Of Management 

Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management 

Great Lakes Institute of Management 

Sharda University 

S.P Jain Institute of Management and Research

Amity University 

Indus Business Academy

 

IBS Business School

IIBS Bangalore

Nirma University

 

BIMTECH

Taxila Business School