CAT 2024 Live: IIM CAT slot 1, 2, 3 answer key, analysis; score vs percentile, result date
Vagisha Kaushik | November 25, 2024 | 09:36 PM IST | 10 mins read
CAT exam 2024 held in three slots. Updates on answer key, result date, marks vs percentile, expected cutoff, percentile predictor, top MBA colleges.
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NEW DELHI: The Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 was held on November 24 in three sessions. CAT answer key 2024 will be released soon on the official website, iimcat.ac.in. CAT 2024 results are expected in the second week of January 2025. Candidates who appeared in the CAT exam 2024 rated CAT slot 1 as overall easy. CAT slot 2 exam was lengthy but easy. As per CAT 2024 slot 3 analysis, the difficulty level of the exam is easy to moderate.
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The CAT exam pattern this year saw changes with an increase in the number of questions from 66 to 68 and absence of parajumbles in the VARC section. The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta held the exam in 170 cities for 3.29 lakh candidates.
CAT 2024 question paper consisted of three sections – Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Ability (QA). The CAT exam timings were 8:30 am to 10:30 am, 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, and 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Candidates were allotted 40 minutes to attempt each section.
As per the CAT 2024 marking scheme, candidates will be awarded three marks for each correct answer. There will be negative marking in the objective-type questions. Since the exam was held in multiple shifts, raw scores of candidates will be normalised and converted into scaled scores.
Through CAT 2024, IIMs and participating B-schools will admit students to their management programmes.
CAT 2024 expected score vs percentile
The slot-wise expected CAT 2024 marks vs percentile are given below.
| Percentile | Slot 1 | Slot 2 | Slot 3 | |||||||||
VARC | DILR | QA | Overall | VARC | DILR | QA | Overall | VARC | DILR | QA | Overall | |
99 | 39-40 | 31-32 | 30-31 | 90 | 41-42 | 27-28 | 28-29 | 87 | 42-43 | 28-29 | 30-32 | 93 |
95 | 31-32 | 24-25 | 23-24 | 66 | 33-34 | 22-23 | 22-23 | 63 | 34-35 | 23-24 | 24-25 | 68 |
90 | 25-26 | 19-21 | 17-18 | 56-57 | 26-27 | 18-19 | 16-17 | 55-56 | 27-28 | 19-20 | 17-18 | 58-60 |
85 | 22-23 | 16-18 | 14-15 | 45-46 | 23-24 | 15-17 | 13-14 | 44-45 | 24-25 | 16-17 | 14-15 | 46-48 |
80 | 20-21 | 13-14 | 12-13 | 40-41 | 21-22 | 12-14 | 11-12 | 39-40 | 22-23 | 13-14 | 12-13 | 42-44 |
70 | 16-17 | 11-12 | 10-11 | 35-36 | 17-18 | 11-12 | 10-11 | 35-36 | 18-19 | 12-13 | 11-12 | 37-38 |
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