CAT Exam Date 2025: Expected on November 30; Get Past Trends

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Somdatta Roy

Senior Content Writer | Updated on - May 29, 2025

The official IIMCAT website: iimcat.ac.in is the go-to source for confirmed dates and the detailed notification, expected in July 2025. Typically, registration begins in the first week of August and ends by the third week of September.

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Aspiring MBA candidates are eagerly awaiting the official notification of Common Admission Test (CAT) 2025, but multiple sources indicate that the exam is highly to be conducted on Sunday, November 30, 2025.

While the official announcement from the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is expected in late July 2025, this date aligns with the consistent pattern of the exam being held on the last Sunday of November each year. IIM Kozhikode is widely anticipated to be the organizing institute for CAT 2025.

Year-wise Trends (Last 10 Years) of CAT Exam Dates

CAT exam has consistently been held in the last week of November, in Sundays. This pattern has provided stability for aspirants in planning their preparation:

Year	Exam Date(s)	Conducting IIM (if specified)
2024	November 24, 2024	IIM Calcutta (expected)
2023	November 26, 2023	IIM Lucknow
2022	November 27, 2022	IIM Bangalore
2021	November 28, 2021	IIM Ahmedabad
2020	November 29, 2020	IIM Indore
2019	November 24, 2019	IIM Kozhikode
2018	November 25, 2018	IIM Calcutta
2017	November 26, 2017	IIM Lucknow
2016	December 4, 2016	IIM Bangalore
2015	November 29, 2015	IIM Ahmedabad

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Frequently Asked Questions

Ans: CAT is a CBT conducted in three shifts. You'll have two hours to solve 68 questions across three sections. CAT Exam Sections and Question Distribution are given below:

Section	Number of Questions
Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC)	24
Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR)	20
Quantitative Aptitude (QA)	24

Ans: Correct answers fetch 3 marks, incorrect ones deduct 1; no penalty for unattempted questions. Each section has a 40-minute time limit (53.20 for PwD candidates), with an automatic progression to the next section. You cannot revisit prior sections and must follow the VARC, DILR, then QA sequence.

Ans: MBA admission to both IIMs and non-IIMs relies on CAT cut-offs, which are the minimum required scores. IIMs release qualifying cut-offs before the exam and final cut-offs after the results. Here are the previous years' qualifying CAT cut-offs for various IIMs for reference:

IIM	Qualifying CAT Cut-off (Percentile)
IIM Ahmedabad	85
IIM Bangalore	85
IIM Calcutta	85
IIM Lucknow	90
IIM Indore	90
IIM Kozhikode	85
IIM Amritsar	90
IIM Nagpur	94
IIM Sambalpur	94
IIM Trichy	94
IIM Raipur	94
IIM Ranchi	94
IIM Kashipur	94
IIM Vizag	80
IIM Udaipur	94
IIM Bodhgaya	94
IIM Shillong	75
IIM Sirmaur	94
IIM Rohtak	95
IIM Jammu	94
IIM Mumbai (NITIE)	85

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