CAT 2025 Answer Key, Response Sheet Date: How to calculate scores, predict percentile?

As per the previous year’s trends, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode is expected to publish the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2025 answer key and response sheet in the first week of December. IIM Kozhikode conducted the CAT 2025 exam for 2.58 lakh MBA aspirants at 339 centres across 170 cities. CAT 2025 live updates

The CAT 2025 was held in three shifts, and candidates were given 120 minutes to complete the exam. This year's CAT 2025 attendance was recorded at about 86%. Last year, a total of 2.93 lakh candidates appeared for the exam, with an overall attendance of 89%.

Once the answer key is issued, candidates will be able to challenge the raise their objection against the provisional answer through the official website, iimcat.ac.in. If objections are valid, then the objection fee will be refunded to the candidates. Based on the final answer key, IIM Kozhikode will prepare the CAT results 2025.

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CAT 2025: How to calculate scores using response sheet?

To calculate the expected CAT scores, candidates can use the CAT answer key 2025, which will be issued along with the response sheet. The steps to calculate the CAT scores 2025 using the response sheet are as follows.

Step 1: Download the CAT response sheet and answer key on the official website.
Step 2: Review the answers by using the CAT response sheet
Step 3: Make sure that the marks are added and deducted per the CAT marking scheme.

CAT marking scheme 2025

Step 4: The cumulative score is calculated by using the following formula:

Step 5- After applying the above-mentioned formula, candidates can get their estimated CAT score 2025.

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How to calculate CAT 2025 percentile?

The steps to calculate the expected CAT 2025 percentile are as follows.

Step 1: Total number of candidates who appeared.

Note down the total number of candidates (say, N) who appeared for the exam both in the morning and afternoon sessions.

Step 2: Assign rank based on the scaled score

After the normalisation process, each section — as well as the overall performance — is given a scaled score. Your rank (r) is then determined based on this scaled score. If two or more candidates receive the same score in any section, they will be awarded the same rank for that section.

Step 3: Formula to calculate the IIM percentile predictor for CAT is given below.

where,

P = Percentile of a candidate
N = Total number of candidates
r = Rank assigned to a candidate