CAT 2023 Answer Key & Response Sheet Out; How is CAT Score, Percentile Calculated?

Indian Institute of Management Lucknow has published the Common Admission Test (CAT 2023) answer key and response sheet today. Candidates can match the response sheet and answer key to calculate the CAT score and percentile. The CAT answer key and response sheet download link is available at iimcat.ac.in.

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The CAT score 2023 is one of the components considered for granting admission to management programmes in IIMs. The institutes will calculate scores on the basis of several parameters - CAT score (scaled), Class 10 marks, Class 12 marks, graduation score, work experience, gender diversity, academic diversity.

The CAT question paper consist of Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Ability (QA).

 CAT scaled score

As per the marking scheme, there will be negative marking for multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and three marks will be awarded for every right answer. Since the exam was held in three sections, the overall scaled score is obtained by adding scaled scores of these three sections.

• MCQs: Number of correct answers x 3 - number of wrong answers.
• Descriptive questions - Number of correct answers x 3.
• Total marks - Number of correct answers in MCQs + Number of correct answers in other section.

CAT percentile calculator

The CAT percentile score is calculated using the method given below.

• Number of candidates who appeared in each session is calculated.
• Based on the scaled scores obtained in a section, a rank is assigned to candidates.
• In case two or more candidates obtain identical scaled scores in a section, identical rank is assigned.
• The percentile score is calculated for each candidate using the formula given below.

The percentile score (P) is rounded off up to two decimal points. For example, all percentile scores greater than or equal to 99.995 are rounded off to 100, all percentile scores greater than or equal to 99.985 but strictly less than 99.995 are rounded off to 99.99 and so on.