CAT: How IIMs Calculate Result Percentile For Common Admission Test

​To compute a candidate's CAT 2023 overall and sectional percentile scores, the following steps are adhered to. The percentile score calculation process is exemplified using the Quantitative Ability (QA) section. Analogously, a comparable procedure is applied for determining overall percentile scores and for the remaining two sections, namely Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR) and Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC) in CAT 2023.

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​Calculate the total number of candidates (N) who appeared for CAT (i.e. including morning, afternoon, and evening sessions).

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​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.


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For example, if precisely two candidates achieve the highest scaled score in the Quantitative Ability (QA) section, both of these candidates receive a rank of 1. Furthermore, the candidate(s) securing the second-highest scaled score in the QA section is assigned a rank of 3, and this pattern continues accordingly.

​Calculate the percentile score (P) of a candidate with rank (r) in the QA section as:
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​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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​A methodology similar to the one described above is used for the computation of the overall CAT percentile scores and for the percentile scores of other sections.

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