IIM CAT 2021 Result: How to calculate percentile score

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) is expected to declare the Common Admission Test (CAT) result 2021 in the first or second week of January. The exact date and time of the CAT 2021 result have not been announced yet. Candidates will be able to check their results, score card and percentile on the official website - iim.cat.ac.in by entering their login credentials.

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CAT 2021 result: How to calculate percentile score

These steps will be followed to calculate the CAT 2021 overall and sectional percentile scores. While illustrating the percentile score calculation process, the QA section is chosen as an example. Similar process is followed for the overall percentile score calculation and for the other two sections, that is, DILR and VARC in CAT 2021.

• Step 1: Calculate the total number of candidates (N) who appeared for CAT ( including morning, afternoon and evening sessions).
• Step 2: Assign a rank (r), based on the scaled scores obtained in the QA section, to all candidates who appeared for CAT. In the case of two or more candidates obtaining identical scaled scores in the QA section, assign identical ranks to all those candidates.
• As an illustration suppose exactly two candidates obtain the highest scaled score in the QA section, then both of those candidates are assigned a rank of 1. Moreover, the candidate(s) obtaining the second highest scaled score in the QA section are assigned a rank of 3 and so on.
• Step 3: Calculate the percentile score (P) of a candidate with rank (r) in the QA section
• Step 4: Round off the calculated percentile score (P) of a candidate up to two decimal points.
• For example, all percentile scores greater than or equal to 99.995 are rounded off to 100, all percentile scores greater than or equal to 99.985 but strictly less than 99.995 are rounded off to 99.99 and so on.

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CAT 2021 was conducted on November 28, 2021, in 159 cities across the country. A total of 1,91,660 students appeared for the CAT 2021 entrance exam. The exam authority will release the official CAT final answer key tentatively in the third week of December 2021.