CAT 2024 result, response sheet release date soon; how to calculate score, percentile?

NEW DELHI: Indian Institute of Management (IIM Calcutta) will be declaring the Common Admission Test (CAT 2024) results for around 3.29 lakh candidates by the second week of January 2025. The CAT answer key 2024 release date has not been announced yet, however, it is expected to be out in the first week of December, as per reports.

The institute had indicated that it would declare the CAT results 2024 in the month of January, however, the official CAT result date 2024 has not yet been announced. Some media reports claim that the CAT answer key 2024 will be issued between December 5 to 8.

As per the marking scheme, each correct response will fetch 3 marks and a mark will be deducted for each wrong answer. Whereas, for the non-MCQ questions, there will be no negative marking. As per the official announcement, the IIM CAT 2024 score will be valid only till December 31, 2025.

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How to calculate CAT score 2024?

Here’s the step by step process to calculate the CAT score and percentile 2024 to know the probability of selection in IIM admission. The exam was conducted in three sections to test candidates' ability in Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Ability (Quant).

Step 1 - Calculate the mean and the standard deviation (SD) of the raw scores in QA section for

all candidates appearing in the morning session.

Let Mean = M₁ and SD = S₁ and G₁ = M₁ + S₁

Step 2 - Calculate the mean and the standard deviation (SD) of the raw scores in QA section for

all candidates appearing in the afternoon session. Same method for slot 3 as well.

Let Mean = M₂ and SD = S₂ and G₂ = M₂ + S₂

Step 3 - Calculate the mean and standard deviation (SD) of the raw scores in QA section for all candidates of all three slots.

Step 4 - Calculate the mean raw score in QA section of the top 0.1% candidates in the morning

session and denote it by M₁^0.1

Step 5 - Now, calculate the mean raw score in QA of top 0.1% candidates appearing in all three slots.

Step 6 - CAT score calculator 2024. (Image: iimcat.ac.in)

Step 7 - If this formula yields any scaled score as more than 100, it will be rounded down to 100.

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How to calculate CAT percentile 2024?

Step 1 - Calculate the total number of candidates (N) who appeared for CAT in all three sessions. Around 3.29 lakh registered for the MBA entrance exam this year.

Step 2 - Each candidate will be assigned a rank based on the scaled score calculated in each section.

Step 3 - In case of a tie, candidates scoring the same marks will be assigned the same rank. Eg. If two candidates obtain the same marks, they will be ranked number 1 and the candidate with the second highest score will be assigned rank 3 and so on.

Step 4 -