CAT 2025 cut-offs for all IIMs out; sectional cut-off percentiles remain high for first-stage selection
Anu Parthiban | December 24, 2025 | 04:42 PM IST | 3 mins read
CAT Sectional Cut-off 2025: Among top ranked management institutes, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Calcutta continue to set the cut-offs as high as 85-95 percentile.
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Download EbookThe Common Admission Test (CAT 2025) results for 2.58 lakh MBA aspirants have been declared today. While there is a slight drop in the number of toppers with 100 percentile compared to previous year, the sectional cut-off for top IIMs still stands high between 80-95 percentile. CAT 2025 Result (OUT) LIVE
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IIM selection criteria evaluate multiple parameters that go beyond CAT scores, and include academic performance in Class 10, 12, graduation, sectional cut-off marks in CAT exam, work experience, gender and academic diversity, and performance in interview.
Although there are several factors that will contribute to MBA selection at IIMs, sectional and overall CAT cut-offs play a significant role, as they are used to shortlist candidates for the second-stage of admission.
This year, out of 2.95 lakh registered candidates, 2.58 lakh candidates appeared in the exam. Of them 0.97 lakh are female, 1.61 lakh are male, and nine are transgender.
IIM Kozhikode said that 93 non-IIM institutions will use CAT 2025 scores this year for offering admission into postgraduate management programmes.
CAT 2025 sectional cut-off 2025 for all IIMs
Among top ranked management institutes, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, and IIM Calcutta continue to set the CAT cut-off as high as 85-95 percentile. In contrast, mid-ranked IIMs, such as IIM Kozhikode, IIM Lucknow, and IIM Indore have fixed CAT cut-off percentile around 85-90.
In a major change in the admission policy, four IIMs - Raipur, Kashipur, Ranchi and Tiruchirappalli - have exited the Common Admission Process (CAP) and announced that they will conduct Joint Admission Process (JAP) to reduce the time taken to conduct interview and second-stage selection process.
Also read CAT 2025: Four IIMs exit Common Admission Process to join JAP 2026, leave MBA aspirants confused
Additionally, IIM Udaipur has also announced its exit from CAP and has decided to conduct its own independent MBA selection process.
|
IIMs |
NIRF management rankings 2025 |
General |
OBC |
SC |
ST |
Overall CAT percentile |
|
1 |
85 |
80 |
75 |
65 |
General - 95 OBC - 90 SC - 85 ST - 75 |
|
|
IIM Bangalore cut-off |
2 |
80 |
70 |
60 |
55 |
Gen - 85 OBC/EWS - 75 SC - 70 ST - 65 |
|
IIM Kozhikode MBA Admission 2026 |
3 |
75 |
65 |
55 |
45 |
Gen - 85 OBC - 75 SC - 65 ST -55 |
|
5 |
85 |
77 |
55 |
50 |
Gen - 90 OBC - 82 SC - 65 ST - 60 |
|
|
6 |
≥80 QA - ≥75 |
≥65 |
≥60 |
≥55 |
Gen - ≥85 OBC - ≥75 SC ≥70 ST - ≥65 |
|
|
7 |
VARC ≥80 DILR ≥75 QA - 70 |
VARC ≥70 DILR/ QA - ≥65 |
VARC ≥65 DILR/ QA ≥60 |
VARC ≥55 DILR/ QA ≥55 |
Gen ≥85 OBC ≥75 SC ≥70 ST ≥65 |
|
|
IIM Indore |
8 |
80 |
70 |
55 |
40 |
Gen - 90 OBC - 80 SC - 60 ST - 45 |
|
IIM Raipur |
15 |
75 |
65 |
60 |
55 |
Gen - 90 OBC - 80 SC - 65 ST - 55 |
|
IIM Tiruchirappalli |
16 |
75 |
52 |
45 |
30 |
Gen - 95 OBC - 81 SC - 66 ST - 42 |
|
IIM Ranchi |
18 |
75 |
52 |
45 |
30 |
Gen - 95 OBC - 81 SC -99 ST - 42 |
|
19 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Gen - 97 EWS - 93 OBC -83 SC -60 ST - 50 |
|
|
IIM Udaipur |
21 |
|
||||
|
IIM Kashipur |
23 |
75 |
52 |
45 |
25 |
Gen - 95 OBC - 81 SC - 66 ST - 42 |
|
IIM Nagpur CAT 2025 cut-off |
25 |
70 |
60 |
45 |
25 |
Gen - -95 OBC - 85 SC -65 ST - 40 |
|
IIM Visakhapatnam CAT cut-off |
29 |
70 |
63 |
40 |
30 |
Gen - 82 OBC - 72 SC - 50 ST - 40 |
|
31 |
73 |
50 |
44 |
30 |
Gen - 94 OBC - 77 SC - 60 ST- 40 |
|
|
IIM Sambalpur |
34 |
|
|
|
|
Gen - 90 EWS - 80 NC-OBC -75 SC- 55 ST - 40 |
|
35 |
72 |
48 |
42 |
29 |
Gen - 91 EWS - 74 OBC - 74 SC - 54 ST - 32 |
|
|
IIM Shillong |
38 |
– |
– |
– |
– |
– |
|
IIM Sirmaur |
51 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
94 to 92 percentile |
|
64 |
QA - 80 DILR - 75 VARC 80 |
QA -65 DILR -60 VARC - 65 |
QA -55 DILR -50 VARC - 52 |
QA -40 DILR -35 VARC - 37 |
Gen - 90 EWS -90 OBC -80 SC - 55 ST - 40 |
|
|
Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management |
93 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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