What is the difference between CAT score and CAT percentile?

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a year ago

"What is the difference between CAT score and CAT percentile?" is the most often asked question among MBA candidates.The overall marks an applicant received on the entrance exam are known as their CAT score, and the number of candidates who passed the test is known as their CAT percentile. The major

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Ayush Sindal | Contributor-Level 10

2 years ago

The most common question of MBA aspirants is, "what is he difference between CAT score and CAT percentile? "CAT score is the total marks obtained by a candidate in the entrance exam and CAT percentile is a relative score viz, the total number of candidates who qualify the exam. CAT result is declar

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Vipra Shrivastava | Contributor-Level 10

8 months ago

CAT score is the total marks a candidate gets out of the maximum marks, calculated by subtracting the marks of incorrect answers from the marks of correct answers. For every correct answer, +3 is given to the candidates, for every incorrect -1 is deducted from the overall score. Apart from this, a c

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