CAT Exam 2025: Date, Eligibility, Pattern, Syllabus, Colleges

CAT  (Common Admission Test) is the entrance exam that is conducted every year. This exam will conducted by IIM Kozhikode. CAT 2025 exam has been set to conducts on 30 November 2025. According to the information, it is expected that the exam notification will released on 30 July 2025, which will give the complete information to students about the exam

The last to apply for the CAT 2025 Exam is 21 September 2025. There are more than 3 lakh candidates are expected to sit in this exam to secure their admission to top IIT, IIM and B schools in India. If you also want to get admission in management courses in reputed institutes, then you should clear this exam. For this, you should know about the CAT exam eligibility, CAT 2025 exam date, pattern, syllabus, colleges, etc

CAT exam

CAT is the Common admission test conducted every year. Every year, this exam has been conducts in computer mode. There are more than 500 centres in India that conduct this exam every year. It is conducts in 3 slots.

CAT entrance exams has been conducts in 3 sections include  VARC (Verbal Ability Reading Comprehension, DILR ( Data Interpretation Logical Reasoning) &  QA (Quantitative Ability). The official exam notification will released in July 2025 and give the complete information about the exam to students. Check CAT 2025 details to know CAT 2025 registration date , exam date, exam pattern, admit card, cut off marks, etc. The application forms for CAT 2025 Exam will starts in august 2025, and allow candidates to become eligible for this entrance exam. Here are the CAT exam details you should know

Category

Details         

Exam Name

Common Admission Test (CAT)

Conducting Body

Indian Institutes of Management, Kozhikode (Expected)

Official Website

https://www.iimcat.ac.in/  

Medium of exam

English

Exam Level

National

Frequency

Annual

Exam Mode

Computer-Based Test (CBT)

Selection Process

CAT scores, Written Ability Test (WAT), Group Discussion (GD), and Personal Interview (PI) for some IIMs

 

CAT Exam Pattern

The candidates who are preparing for exam should know about latest CAT exam pattern pattern. It helps the students to cover every subject and save their time and effort. According to the exam pattern, there are total 66 MCQ questions are asked in this exam. The exam duration is 120 minutes. There are the 3 sections in this exam. Candidates can get 40 minutes to finish every section. If the candidate are unable to finish the first section within 40 minutes, then the next section starts automatically

Here are the section-wise exam pattern given below will help you in CAT preparation

Section

Marks

Time Limit

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC)

24 questions x 3 Marks for the right answer

40 minutes (fixed)

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR)

20 questions x 3 Marks for the right answer

40 minutes (fixed)

Quantitative Ability (QA)

22 questions x 3 Marks for the right answer

40 minutes (fixed)

 

 

CAT Exam Eligibility

The students who want to appear in this exam should meet the CAT exam eligibility criteria.

  • A candidate must have the bachelor degree from the any stream with 50 % passing marks for general and NC-OBC categories.
  • The candidates of SC, ST and PWD category need to achieve 45% marks in bachelor to become eligible for management courses in top CAT Colleges.
  • Candidate who are in final year of graduation are also eligible to appear in CAT.
  • If the candidate has a professional degree in CS/CA/ICWA/FIAI, then they are also eligible for this paper.
  • There is no age limit set for CAT, so you do not need to meet your age requirements

CAT 2025 Exam Dates

According to the CAT notification 2025, it is expected that the exam will conducts on 30 November, 2025. Moreover, here are the important CAT 2025 dates you should know for better CAT preparation 

Events

Dates (Expected)

Release of CAT 2025 notification

30 July 2025

CAT 2025 registration start date

2 August, 2025

CAT 2025 registration last date

21 September, 2025

CAT 2025 application correction date

September 25-28, 2025

CAT 2025 admit card release date

7 November, 2025

CAT 2025 exam date

30 November, 2025

CAT 2025 answer key release date

5 December, 2025

CAT 2025 results date

21 December, 2025

 

Top CAT Colleges

There are many Top MBA colleges in India that accept CAT scores. Check CAT 2025 details on the list of colleges with the CAT 2024 Cut-offs for IIMs that give admission to students in management courses.

Name of the College

CAT Cutoffs(Tentative) percentile

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad

99-100

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore

99-100

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata

99

Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow

97-98

Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi

98-99

Indian Institute of Management, (IIM) Kozhikode

97-98

National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai

86-97

Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai

81-90

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi

—

Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai

96

Atal Bihari Vajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology And Management (ABV-IIITM), Gwalior

70-80

Indian Institute of Management, Indore

97-98

Vinod Gupta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

80-90

Dept. of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi

90

Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai

86-88

Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur

92-94

Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli

94-95

Indian Institute of Management, Raipur

94-95

Indian Institute of Management, Ranchi

94-95

MHRM Department of Humanities and Social Science, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

85-87

 

CAT Exam Fee

The candidates who wants to sit in CAT exam should pay the CAT Exam fee. This fees are vary according to the category of candidates. For example, the general category candidates need to pay Rs 2400 fees. The category of SC/ST/PwD candidates need to pay Rs 1200 fees, through online payment modes. They can pay this fees by credit card, debit card, net banking payment modes. It is non-refundable exam fees

Mode of Payment

Credit card, Debit card, Net banking

General/ EWS/ NC-OBC

Rs. 2400/-

SC/ ST PwD

Rs. 1200/-

 

CAT Exam Syllabus

The exam authority has set the CAT Exam syllabus. The syllabus is breakdown in three sections , data interpretation and logical reasoning, verbal ability and reading comprehension, and quantitative analysis. Here are the comprehensive CAT syllabus that prepares the students according to the CAT exam pattern  

Section

Topics

Quantitative Ability (QA)

  • Arithmetic
  • Modern Maths
  • Number System
  • Algebra
  • Mensuration
  • Trigonometry
  • Geometry

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR)

  • Data Charts
  • Data Tables
  • Bar Graphs
  • Venn Diagrams
  • Seating Arrangement
  • Team Formation
  • Clocks & Calendars

Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC)

  • Long & Short Passages
  • Jumbled Paragraphs
  • Para-summary
  • Picking the Out Sentence 

 

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