The cutoff marks of CAT are the minimum eligibility criteria for students to be eligible for the GD or WAT-PI rounds. The scores may differ from one college to another as per different criteria. Some of the factors for the determination of the CAT 2023 Cutoff are given below.

• The total number of candidates that have appeared in the exam.
• A total number of students who are qualified.
• The difficulty level of the exam.
• The intake capacity of an institute.

Selection Process

Most of the top management schools that accept CAT test scores will publish the shortlist for the WAT or GD-PI rounds starting from the second week of January 2023. Each of the institutes has to send a call letter by email to the shortlisted candidates. The cutoff list is usually determined by the CAT percentile of the candidates.

After the CAT exam, the qualified candidates have to appear for the second stage of the admission process. The second stage usually includes Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD), and Personal Interviews (PI). To get a rank in the final merit list, candidates have to pass the GD/WAT – PI stage whose process and weightage vary across different IIMs.

Colleges also use some of the other factors like work experience, academic performance, gender, and academic diversity of candidates to prepare the final merit list of the candidates.

Documents needed for verification

Shortlisted applicants must bring some of the documents required on the Interview Day for verification.

• Marksheet for Matriculation, Intermediate, and Bachelor’s Degree.
• Professional certification (if any)
• Documents to prove work experience (Joining letter, payslips, etc.)
• Caste certification ( if applied for reservations)
• Valid Identification cards like Aadhar, Voter ID, Pan card, etc.
• Scorecard for CAT
• Other documents are required by the colleges.