Are all sections compulsory to clear in CAT exam? How much do I need to score in each section to clear it?

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Ankush Sable
7 years ago
Hello, In CAT exam, there is Sectional cutoff for all the three sections which is around 70 percentile for OPEN Category and around 60 for others along with a overall cut-off of 80 percentile. For top three Iims, you would get call for more than 99.5 percentile only, if you are general engineer ma

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According to IIM-Ahmedabad, the shortlistings criteria is 27% of the seats are reserved for NC-OBC. Note: Creamy OBC candidates are considered similar to general category. For Non-Creamy OBC, you can get a call from A, B and C at 98 percentile & all other top B-Schools after scoring 96 percentile

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7 years ago
CAT provide you with overall score with sectional scores too. Some colleges accept these scores while some does not. It depends upon college to college.

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