CAT 2016 Results, Score card, Percentile - Declared | Check your score here

The Common Admission Test (CAT) for MBA was conducted on December 4. The results for the same will be released in the second week of January. Over 2 lakh candidates took the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016, which was being conducted in two separate sessions. This year, IIM Bangalore was the convener of CAT 2016.

IIM Bangalore has released the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016 results. The candidates can check the CAT 2016 results on the official website – iimcat.ac.in. A lot of students are finding difficult to log and check their scores, we suggest them to wait for sometime and then try it.

It’s a result that all management aspirants were waiting for . Monday promises much excitement with the declaration of the Common Admission Test or CAT results. 

Result of CAT 2016 indicates section wise scaled scores and percentile. MBA admission in several B schools in India will be on the basis of Common Admission Test (CAT) 2016 Results. 

How to check CAT 2016 results

1. On the official website mentioned above
2. On the homepage, click on the CAT 2016 results
3. Enter the details like registration number etc
4. Check and download the result
5. Take a print out for future reference

This year, the registrations for the Common Admission Test (CAT) to Indian Institutes of Management and other leading B-schools have shot up to a seven-year high, with 2,32,434 applications received for CAT 2016 as against 2,18,664 registrations for the test last year.

However, almost half of the around 14,000 additional applications this year had come from women candidates.

CAT 2016 : Normalisation of scores

Normalisation was introduced in CAT when the exam started happening in multiple batches. As the exam was conducted in two slots this time, to ensure that aspirants who took the exam in two different batches are compared fairly while calculating percentiles, their scores are normalised to calculate what CAT score card referred to as ‘scaled score’.

The exact process of normalisation is clear to only concerned authorities but it should naturally factor in things like difficulty of questions, sequence (order) of questions, and might include locational fine tuning.

To elaborate — let’s say two students took the exam in two different slots but both of them scored 30 marks in a section. Based on the difference of difficulty of the section across two exams, their scores might be scaled to different numbers. The scaled scores, which are fairer for comparison, are then used to calculate percentiles.”

CAT is mandatory for entry to more than 100 management institutes across the country, including the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management and other top business schools such as SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Faculty of Management Studies, Management Development Institute, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and others.

Scores will be used by institutes with parameters like academic performance, work experience, written assessment, group discussion and interview performance,for final selections.

As parameters differ with each institute, candidates can check websites of each institute for its specific requirements.

CAT Aspirants can check the list of colleges accepting cat score here.