CAT 2015 Cutoff will most probably be declared in second week of January. CAT 2015 Exam was held on November 29, 2015 and this time the paper was easy and its expected cutoff would increase this time. CAT Cut off percentile for top B-Schools is generally in the range from 80 to 100 for general category candidates. There are chances that 2015 CAT cut off may vary due to new changes in the exam pattern of CAT 2015.

Candidates have their fingers crossed about the scores this year and they will be shortlisted on the basis of their scores in CAT, and later have to appear in the selection process of PI-WAT/GD rounds of IIMs and other B-schools. To know about CAT cut off for various top B- schools we have made a tentative cut off analyzing the score pattern of last 4 years.

While the top B-schools will have higher range of CAT 2015 cutoffs, 90+ percentile, the mid rung B-schools’ cutoffs range from 75 to 80 percentile and that of the lower rung B-schools is around 50 percentiles. Also to check whether you had given the right answer on CAT 2015 Exam , kindly check the CAT 2015 Exam Answer Key.

CAT 2015 Cutoff of the 19 IIMs

Note: The above mentioned CAT 2015 cutoffs for the 19 IIMs are tentative. We will update the cutoffs as and when they are declared.

CAT Exam 2015 Cutoff List Category Wise

Correct Questions	Total Marks in 300	%	Percentile	Call from Colleges
64	192	64	100	IIMs
61	183	61	99.5	Minimum 3 IIMs
57	171	57	99	At least 1 IIM + FMS
56	168	56	98	At least 1 IIM + FMS
54	162	54	97	ISB + FMS + SJMSOM
51	153	51	95.5	MDI GR+ IMT GZB
49	147	49	95	NITIE + TA PAI
48	144	48	94	FORE + NIRMA + Manipal
46	138	46	93	UBS Chandigarh
44	132	44	92	IIFM, NIT Thiruchirapalli
41	123	41	91	Wellingkar + Great Lakes Chennai
39	117	39	90	IMI New Delhi
37	111	37	89	IMFR Chennai
33	99	33	85	Amity Noida

Minimum Cut-offs of CAT-2015 Percentile Ranks

Category	Verbal and Reading Comprehension percentile rank (PVRC)	Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning percentile rank (PDILR)	Quantitative Aptitude percentile rank (PQA)	Overall percentile rank (PT)
General	80	80	80	90
NC-OBC-cum-transgender	75	75	75	85
SC	70	70	70	80
ST	60	60	60	70
DA	70	70	70	80

CAT 2015 Expected Cutoff for Non-IIMs B-Schools:

There are given below table expected CAT percentile for some non-IIMs B-school who accepting CAT score. In this table, it is not a direct measure of college rankings, but just lists the approximate sectional cut-offs for individual business schools. The expected CAT cut-offs for this year may vary for previous year.

CAT Percentile (Approximate)	Name of CAT participating Non-IIMs B-School
Around 98 Percentile with sectional cut-off	Faculty of Management Studies (FMS): (Sectional – 50 percentile)
Around 97 Percentile with sectional cut off	National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE): (Sectional – 75 percentile) S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR): around 85 percentile for profile based calls; around 96 percentile for non-profile based calls. Management Development Institute (MDI) – PGPM: (Sectional – 70 percentile) Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJSOM), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB): (Sectional – moderate)
Around 96 Percentile with sectional cut off	Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD): (Sectional – moderate)
Around 95 Percentile Range with sectional cut off	Management Development Institute (MDI) – PGPHRM: (Sectional – around 70) Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur: (Sectional – moderate) Department of Management Studies (DoMS), Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM): (Sectional – moderate) Department of Industrial and Management Engineering (IME), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur:(Sectional – moderate)
Around 90-95 Percentile Range	Department of Management Studies (DOMS), Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee: (Sectional – moderate) K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (SIMSR) Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar (XIMB): (Sectional – moderate) International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi Mudra Institute of COMMUNICATIONS Ahmedabad (MICA) National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT) Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), School of Excellence of Bharthidasan University, Trichy
Around 85-90 Percentile	FORE School of Management, New Delhi University Business School (UBS), Chandigarh T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management (LBSIM), New Delhi Amity Business School (ABS), Noida Institute for FINANCIAL Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai
Around 80-85 Percentile	Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad: (80 Percentile with sectional cut-off of 50 percentile or 95 percentile without sectional cutoff) Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research (WE School), Mumbai Department of Business Management, Osmania University, Hyderabad Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal
Around 75-80 Percentile	Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai SDM Institute For Management Development (SDMIMD), Mysore Christ University Institute of Management (CUIM), Bengaluru Balaji Institute of Modern Management (BIMM), Pune
Around 70-75 Percentile	Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies (KIAMS), Harihar Institute of Management Development and Research (IMDR), Pune Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Kolkata Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research (WE School), Bengaluru Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Nagpur Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Noida Institute for Technology and Management (ITM), Navi Mumbai
Around 60-70 Percentile	Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore NIILM Center for Management Studies, Noida Indus Business Academy (IBA), Bangalore School of COMMUNICATION & Management Studies (SCMS), Cochin
Around 50-60 Percentile	ITM Business School, Chennai Vignana Jyothi Institute of Management, Hyderabad Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad Fortune Institute of International Business, New Delhi International School of Management Excellence (ISME), Bengaluru New Delhi Institute of Management (NDIM) Army Institute of Management, Kolkata Jaipuria Institute of Management Noida Institute for Integrated Learning in Management (IILM), Noida
Around 40-50 Percentile	GITAM School of International Business (GSIB), Visakhapatnam Badruka Institute of Foreign TRADE (BIFT), Hyderabad Indian Institute of Tourism & Travel Management, Gwalior Siva Sivani Institute of Management (SSIM), Secunderabad Institute of Business Management & Research (IBMR), Bangalore

The following table brings to you the CAT 2015 Cutoff of the 19 IIMs.

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Ahmedabad

Category	VRC Percentile Rank	DILR Percentile Rank	QA Percentile Rank	Overall
General	80	80	80	90
NC-OBC-cum transgender	75	75	75	85
SC	70	70	70	80
ST	60	60	60	70
DA	70	70	70	80

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Calcutta

Category	Quantitative Ability	Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning	Verbal and Reading Comp	Overall
Open	>80	>80	>80	>90
NC-OBC	>75	>75	>75	>85
SC	>65	>65	>65	>70
ST	>60	>60	>60	>70
DA	>65	>65	>65	>70

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Lucknow

Course	PGP				PGP-ABM				PGP-SM
Category	QA	DI & LR	VRC	Total	QA	DI & LR	VRC	Total	QA	DI & LR	VRC	Total
General	85	85	85	90	75	75	75	80	80	80	80	86
NC-OBC	77	77	77	82	68	68	68	72	72	72	72	77
SC	55	55	55	75	50	50	50	70	50	50	50	70
ST	50	50	50	70	45	45	45	65	45	45	45	65
PWD	55	55	55	75	50	50	50	70	50	50	50	70

Below we list out the CAT 2014 Cutoff released by 16 IIMs based on these a fair idea regarding the CAT Cutoff 2015 can be drawn.

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Bangalore

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	90	90
NC-OBC	70	80	80
SC	50	50	70
ST	50	50	70
DA	50	50	60

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Indore

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	85	85	90
OBC	75	75	80
SC	65	65	70
PWD	50	50	55
ST	55	55	60

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Kozhikode

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	80	90
OBC	70	70	80
SC	50	50	65
PWD	40	40	55
ST	40	40	55

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Shillong

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)
General & OBC	70	70
SC	60	60
ST	50	50
DA	50	50

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Ranchi

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	70.77	71.09	96.82
SC	50.53	67.53	67.53
ST	41.42	50.71	50.71
NC-OBC	63.95	81.35	81.35
PWD	41.72	50.71	50.71

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Rohtak

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	80	85
OBC	70	70	75
SC	45	45	60
ST	40	40	60
PWD	50	50	60

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Raipur

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	70.77	71.09	96.82
SC	50.52	67.53	67.53
ST	41.42	50.71	50.71
NC-OBC	81.35	63.95	81.35
PWD	41.42	50.71	50.71

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Trichy

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	70.77	71.09	96.82
SC	50.52	67.53	67.53
ST	41.42	50.71	50.71
NC-OBC	63.95	81.35	81.35
PWD	41.42	50.71	50.71

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Kashipur

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	70.77	71.09	96.82
SC	50.52	67.53	67.53
ST	41.42	50.71	50.71
NC-OBC	63.95	81.35	65
PWD	41.42	50.71	50.71

CAT 2015 cutoff for IIM Udaipur

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	70	70	90
SC	60	60	75
ST	50	50	65
NC-OBC	63	63	81
PWD	55	55	70

CAT 2015 cut off for IIM Nagpur

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	80	96.3
SC	50.4	50.4	63
ST	41.42	40.80	50.71
NC-OBC	61.43	61.43	78.98
DAP	41.42	42.21	50.71

CAT 2015 cut off for IIM Visakhapatnam

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	85	90
SC	60	60	75
ST	50	50	65
NC-OBC	70	75	80
DA	50	50	65

CAT 2015 cut off for IIM Bodh Gaya

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	80	96.3
SC	50.4	50.4	63
ST	41.42	40.80	50.71
NC-OBC	61.43	61.43	78.98
DAP	41.42	42.21	50.71

CAT 2015 cut off for IIM Sirmaur

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	80	96.3
SC	50.4	50.4	63
ST	41.42	40.80	50.71
NC-OBC	61.43	61.43	78.98
DAP	41.42	42.21	50.71

CAT 2015 cut off for IIM Sambalpur

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	80	96.3
SC	50.4	50.4	63
ST	41.42	40.80	50.71
NC-OBC	61.43	61.43	78.98
DAP	41.42	42.21	50.71

CAT 2015 cut off for IIM Amritsar

Category	Section 1 (QA & DI)	Section 2 (VA & LR)	Aggregate
General	80	80	96.3
SC	50.4	50.4	63
ST	41.42	40.80	50.71
NC-OBC	61.43	61.43	78.98
DA	41.42	42.21	50.71