CAT 2018 Review: More Women take CAT this year; IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta to Improve Diversity

Moving ahead with the agenda to improve diversity in IIM classrooms, the IIMs are giving leverage to women to increase diversity in classrooms. Out of 2.41 lakh total registered candidates for CAT 2018, the number of women candidates has gone up to 84,350 as compared to 78009 last year. With the increase in number of candidates for CAT 2018, IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta have devised the strategy to improve academic and gender diversity in class rooms for 2019-21 batch.

Post CAT Exam Review of CAT 2018, which was held on November 25, 2018 in Slot 1 and Slot 2 has revealed that IIM Calcutta who conducted Common Admission Test (CAT) 2018 kept up it reputation with offering a higher difficulty level exam especially the Quantitative Ability section.

CAT 2018 Analysis by TIME, CL, IMS: Likely Scores, Cut offs for 99 percentile
CAT test takers review post exam has revealed that most of them found the DILR and Quant section beyond their normal reach and could not go beyond a certain level in the exam. On the other hand, CAT preparation experts and mentors while sharing the CAT 2018 exam review have expressed the opinion that for MBA admission 2019 in top IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow or FMS Delhi, the cut off percentile can be achieved at a lower raw score.

CAT 2018 Exam Review by Test Takers
MBAUniverse.com while speaking to the CAT 2018 test takers found that the exam put many off track. Glimpses of CAT 2018 Review and Analysis with key changes in the CAT exam are:

Quant was found most difficult in CAT 2018 as compared to past 3 years of CAT exam
Candidates coming from Arts, Humanities, Commerce and such bank grounds were not able to make a good break through in Quant section
Candidates from Engineering background found Quant doable to a large extent
DILR was a bit trickier and some of the DI questions were calculation intensive also

CAT 2018 Review by Experts
Experts CAT exam review reveals the following changes in difficulty level of the exam:

CAT 2018 was more difficult as compared to CAT 2017
The higher difficulty level in Quant will bring down the cut offs paving the way for admission in top IIMs at lower score than last year
IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta can have cut offs at a moderate score of 140 to 150 marks in CAT 2018

We share below the CAT 2018 comprehensive Review by top CAT preparation Centres T.I.M.E, CL, IMS. The CAT Review consists of following details:

CAT 2018 Slot-1 Review
CAT 2018 Slot-2 Review
CAT 2018 Overall Review with expected cut off percentile and score range
The Detailed CAT exam Review 2018 contains Overall and Section wise difficulty level, expected percentile viz-a-viz Raw Score in CAT 2018

CAT 2018 Slot 1 & Slot 2: Exam Composition
Both the slots in CAT 2018 had similar number of questions divided into MCQs with 1/3 negative marking and Non-MCQs without Negative marking:

Section
No. Questions
No. of non-MCQ questions

Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension
34
7

Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning
32
8

Quantitative Ability
34
12

Total
100
27

CAT 2018 Slot 1 Review
The Slot 1 Review of CAT 2018 by T.I.M.E, CL and IMS is presented below:
Slot 1 Review by T.I.M.E.
Slot 1 of CAT 2018 didnt throw surprises but there were some changes, across sections.

Number of lengthy questions in QA have gone up
Order of the questions and the order of the options for various questions were different for different students
QA proved to be much tougher than expected compared to CAT 2017 due to the lengthy and involved nature of the questions.
VARC remained more or less at the same level and DILR a bit easier as compared to CAT 2017.
The cutoffs this year are expected to move marginally upwards, compared to CAT 2017.

Section -1: Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC)

VARC Sections
Topics
Questions
Difficulty Level

Reading Comprehension
5 passages
24
Moderate

Verbal Ability
Para-Formation
4
Easy-Moderate

Para Odd Man Out
3
Moderate
Summary
3
Moderate-Difficult

Section-2: Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR)

DILR difficulty level has gone down in CAT 2018 slightly.
Some of the DI sets were not difficult in terms of interpretation and the questions too in these sets were not tricky in nature.

Section
Topic
No. of Questions
Difficulty Level

Data Interpretation
N*N Matrix
4
Moderate

ATM Machine
4
Moderate+
Pie-Chart
4
Easy

Satellites
4
Difficult
Logical Reasoning

Committee
4
Moderate+
Pipes
4

Moderate
Institutes
4
Difficult

Exam ( diff sections )
4
Difficult

Section 3: Quantitative Ability (QA) Review

The number of questions on Geometry was on the higher side and some of them can be considered to be moderately difficult.
The difficulty level of this section can be classified as being slightly higher than moderate level

Topics
Sub topics
No. of Questions
Difficulty level

Geometry & Mensuration
7
Moderate
Numbers





2


Moderate+




Arithmetic


AMA, TW, CI, TD, P&L, Ratio, Equations


15


Moderate




Algebra


QE, Logs, Inequalities, Progressions, Coord. Geometry, Surds


7


Moderate+




P&C/venn diagrams





3


Moderate




Expected Cut off Percentile
85 is the minimum required sectional percentile in IIMs. T.I.M.E has shared following good attempts to score 85 percentile in each section in CAT 2018 slot 1 exam:




Section


Good Attempts


Expected Percentile




VARC


24


85




DILR


15


85




Quant


15


85




CAT Slot 1 Review by Career Launcher (CL)
IIM-C kept its reputation intact, with its emphasis on the QA section. So, the break-up of the paper was as follows:




Section


No. of Questions


No. of non-MCQ questions


Difficulty Level


Good Attempts




Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension


34


7


Easy


28+




Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning


32


8


Moderate


16+




Quantitative Ability


34


12


Difficult


15+




Total


100


27





60+




CAT Review of VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION




Area


Topic


No. of Questions


Description




Reading Comprehension(24 Questions)


Reading Comprehension


24


There were 5 passages All of them had similar word limit (around 500-550 words each). The passage on Genetics had four questions and it was slightly tedious to read. The other four passages came from familiar areas like Indias view on its legacy of Second World War, Plastic Pollution, Elephant society, and Consumer behaviour studies. Each of these had five questions. On an average, every passage had 1-2 inference based questions. The passage on 2ndWorld War would have been the easiest to attempt closely followed by the passage on plastic pollution. Options were not very tricky. A student could have attempted 20-21 questions easily with more than 85% accuracy.




Verbal Ability(10 Questions)


Para-jumble


4


All had four sentences each and the sentences were pretty easy and concise. As these had no negative marking, one should have attempted all without wasting a lot of time. However, two of these would be tricky to answer without options. The trick was to identify the opening sentence and go ahead with the mandatory pair. There were quite a few clue words. Prior practice and awareness of deductive paragraphs were the key.




Summary


3


The paragraphs were short (within 80 words each). However, these were really difficult to read, and the options became confusing because of the genres of the paragraphs. So, only one of these should have been attempted. These questions carried negative marks.




Para-jumble (Odd sentence out)


3


The question (the one on bumblebee) had an incomplete sentence. This coupled with the PJ on erosion would have been difficult. The other question was a sitter.




CAT Review of DATA INTERPRETATION AND LOGICAL REASONING




Section


Topic


No. of Questions


Doable




Data Interpretation


Pie Chart-Annual/half yearly/Quarter Sales-Moderate


4


4




ATM -Denominations of 100,200 and 500-Moderate


4


2-Jan




Set Theory-1600 rockets were launched-Moderate


4


2-Jan




Logical Reasoning


Matrix-Adjacent cells-Easy


4


3-Feb




10 friends -scores in DI/WE/GK- Difficult


4


2-Jan




4 Females ,4 Males-Minor and major-Easy


4


4




3 Committees-research/teaching/economist moderate


4


3-Feb







1-20 petrol pumps-Moderate


4


3-Feb






Overall,15-17 attempts, with accuracy of 90% would be considered good.
CAT Review of QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE:



Section
Topic
No. of Questions
Doable


Quantitative Ability
Number System
2
2


Algebra
8
5-Apr


Arithmetic
14
7-Jun


Modern Math
3
2


Geometry and Mensuration
7
4-Mar



An overall attempt of 18-20 with 85% accuracy would be very good.
Overall Percentile in Slot-1

Overall, a 99 percentile score could reduce by about 15-18 marks as compared to last year.
Thus, a score of 150-155 should fetch a 99 percentile.

This CAT 2018 Slot 1 Review is written by Mr Gautam Bawa (Group Product Head, Career Launcher). He holds a Masters Degree from IIM Calcutta with CAT percentile of 99.97 in 2011.
CAT Slot 1 Review by IMS
Section 1: VARC

The overall difficulty level of VA RC Section of CAT 2018 waseasier than CAT 2017.
A few questions were direct and very easy - about 6 questions. Inferential questions were first step inferences and were easy to medium.
There were about 5 questions in RC, which looked like Critical Reasoning (or Application) questions.
The passages were also longer. The length of the passages varied from 450 words to 800 words.
Another major deviation was in the Paragraph Jumbles Questions. 4 sentences to rearrange instead of 5 made the 4 Paragraph Jumbles questions refreshingly easy.
Of the 10 VA questions 7 were TITA and 3 were MCQs.
3 Out-of-context sentence TITA
4 Paragraph Jumbles TITA
3 Paragraph summary/Authors opinion questions MCQs. (With negative Marks)





Area / Questions


No of Qs.


Type


LOD




Reading Comprehension


24


MCQ


(Overall: Easy to Medium)




RC-1: Happiness and Economics. Approx. 500 words


5


MCQ


Easy Medium




RC- 2: Human elephant relationship Approx. 500 words


5


MCQ


Easy




RC-3: Absence of WWII memorials in India
Approx. 500 words


5


MCQ


Easy




RC-4: Problem of single use plastic. Approx. 800 words


5


MCQ


Easy




RC-5: Influence of parental gene in mice. Approx. 600 words


4


MCQ


Medium




Verbal Ability


10


MCQ & TITA


Overall: Easy to Medium




Parajumbles ( 4 sentences)


4


TITA


2 Medium 2 Easy




Out of Context sentence


3


TITA


1 Easy 2 Medium




Summary


3


MCQ


1 Easy 1 Medium 1 Difficult




Section-2: DILR

The DI-LR section had a total of 8 sets with 4 questions in each set.
There were 3 sets of Data Interpretation and 4 sets of Logical Reasoning while 1 set was a combination of DI and LR.
There were 4 easy sets, 2 easy to moderate and 2 difficult sets.
Some of the sets were time consuming as they had questions which had additional information to be taken into account while solving. So Selection of the right sets to solve was key to a good performance in this section.
Some of the sets that could have been definitely solved were the ones based on the multi layered pie chart ,committee selection, magic square and arrangement of 8 students (4 males and 4 females).
Just like last year, no Set was completely TITA - the TITA questions were dispersed across 4 individual sets with 2 TITA each. 4 sets were completely MCQ.
There were a total of 8 TITA questions





Set No.


Area


Set Description


Number of Questions


Level of Difficulty


Question Type




1


Data Interpretation - Calculation Based


Multi-layered pie chart based on LED sales of Electronics outlet for 2 years.


4


Easy


MCQ




2


Data Interpretation - Reasoning Based


Satellite - Venn Diagram


4


Difficult


MCQ




3


Logical Reasoning - Arrangement Based


Contamination Details of 20 pipelines


4


Easy-Moderate


MCQ




4


Logical Reasoning - ArrangementBased


8 Students (4 Males+4 Females) to be arranged across 4 parameters


4


Easy


MCQ




5


Logical Reasoning - Grouping & Conditionalities


Committee Selection(Research,Administration, Teaching)


4


Easy


MCQ+TITA




6


Data Interpretation -Reasoning Based


ATM Money disbursal


4


Difficult


MCQ+TITA




7


Data Interpretation -Reasoning Based


Written Test Marks in 3 subjects


4


Easy-Moderate


MCQ + TITA




8


Logical Reasoning - Puzzle Based


Magic Square (n*n matrix)


4


Easy


MCQ+TITA




Section-3: Quantitative Ability (QA)

QA section was moderate to difficult. As per student feedback it seems to be amongst the toughest QA section in recent years.
This section was dominated by Arithmetic with 14 questions followed by Modern Math with 10 questions, Geometry with 6, with a couple of questions from Algebra and Numbers each.
There were 12 TITA questions this year
There were only 8 to 10 sitters for the taking while 6-8 questions that made students sweat.





Area


Topic


No. of Questions


Total No. of Questions


Level of Difficulty




Numbers


Indices


1


2


Moderate




Reverse number


1


Moderate




Algebra


Quadratic Equations


1


2


Easy-Moderate




High Degree Equations


1


Moderate




Arithmetic


Ratios & Percentage


2


14


Easy




Averages


2


Moderate




Time-Speed-Distance


3


Easy-Moderate




Profit & Loss


1


Moderate-Difficult




Mixture & Alligation


2


Easy-Moderate




Work & Time


2


Easy-Moderate




Compound interest (Annual installment)


1


Moderate




Pipes & Cisterns


1


Easy-Moderate




Geometry


Circles


2


6


Easy-Moderate




Parallelogram


1


Moderate




Rectangle


1


Easy




Mensuration - Cone & Frustum


1


Easy




Square


1


Moderate-Difficult




Modern Math


Logarithm


3


10


Moderate




Sequence & Series (AP & GP)


2


Easy-Moderate




Functions


2


Easy-Moderate




Set theory


2


Easy




P & C


1


Moderate







TOTAL


34


34





Expected Cut off Percentile: Slot 1
Section Wise




Section


Good Attempts & Accuracy Level


Expected Percentile




VARC


28-30 (With 80% Accuracy)


95-99




DILR


18-20 (With 85% Accuracy)


95-99




Quant


19-21 (With 85% Accuracy)


95-99




Overall




Total Good Attempts in Slot 1


Accuracy Percent


Expected Overall Percentile in Slot 1




68-70


85%


95-99




CAT 2018 Slot 2 Review by T.I.M.E., CL, IMS
CAT Slot 2 Exam 2018 has been reported as bit more difficult than the morning slot of CAT 2018. The detailed analysis for Slot-2 with expected cut off percentile score is shared below:
CAT Slot 2 Review by T.I.M.E

No Surprise in the second slot of CAT 2018
Overall, it turned out to be slightly tougher than the morning slot
While the VARC section was more or less at the same difficulty level as that of the morning slot, the bump up in the difficulty level is largely on the back of relatively tougher DILR and Quant sections.

Section 1: VARC Review

VARC section in Slot 2 saw a marginal increase in the difficulty level of the RC section compared to CAT 2017. The RC passages were from topics on Biology, Environment, Sociology, Science.
In VA, the Para Formation Questions were simpler compared to those of CAT 2017.
Same Question pattern as that of Morning slot was repeated
The passages were not too straight forward to read
The VA questions, on Para Formation/Para Odd-One-out were quite simple to crack
The Odd-One-Out questions were relatively easy to crack and so were the Para Summary Questions.





Area


Topic


No. of Qs


Difficulty level




Reading Comprehension


5 passages


24


Moderate




Verbal Ability


Para-Formation Questions


4


Moderate




Para-Formation Odd Man Out


3


Moderate




Para Summary


3


Moderate




Section 2: DILR Review

The difficulty level of this section was slightly higher than the difficulty level in the morning slot.
There were relatively easier sets such as the one with room numbers and the one with profitability and market share which should have been solved comfortably.
Most of the sets were found to be lengthy and time-consuming.
Some of them were quite difficult to comprehend, owing to the depth of reasoning involved.





Area


Topic


No. of Qs


Difficulty level




Data Interpretation


Square chart


4


Difficult




Profitability and Market share


4


Moderate




Currency conversion


4


Difficult




B-School grading


4


Difficult




Logical Reasoning


Coding - Decoding


4


Difficult




Platinum gold tickets


4


Difficult




Room Numbers and timings


4


Easy




Venn Diagrams


4


Moderate-Difficult




Section 3: Quantitative Ability Review

The Quant section had 22 MCQs and largest number of 12 questions of non-MCQ type.
The low weightage trend for Numbers continued this year in the afternoon slot as well.
Arithmetic was heavily favoured. There were a good number of questions from Geometry and Mensuration.
The difficulty level of this section can be classified as being moderate to difficult level.





Topic


Description


No. of Qs


Difficulty level




Geometry& Mensuration





6


Moderate+




Numbers





4


Moderate




Arithmetic


AMA, TW, CI, TD,P&L, RPV, Equations


14


Moderate+




Algebra


QE, Logs, Inequalities,Functions


8


Difficult




Miscellaneous





2


Difficult




Expected Percentile Cut offs




Section


Good Attempts


Expected Percentile




VARC


23


85




DILR


12


85




Quant


12


85




CAT 2018 Slot 2 Review by Career Launcher (CL)
Students who went into the second slot expecting a similar paper as that of the first slot (or for that matter the CAT 2017 paper) were on the right track. It too started with an easy VARC section. The passages were on similar lines as those of the first slot. The DILR section continued to give a sigh of relief to the students. However, some are of the opinion that it was slightly tougher than the first slots DILR section. Overall, it was of a moderate level of difficulty. And the reign of QA continued. It remained the toughest section in the second slot too.
The break-up of the paper was as follows:




Section


No. of Questions


No. of non-MCQ questions


Difficulty Level


Good Attempts




Verbal Ability and Reading comprehension


34


7


Easy


28+




Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning


32


8


Moderate


16+




Quantitative Ability


34


12


Difficult


15+




Total


100


27





60+




Lets take a look at the three sections individually.
CAT Review of VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION



Area
Topic
No. of Questions
Description


Reading Comprehension
Reading Comprehension
24
There were 5 passages All of them had similar word limit (around 450-500 words each). The passage on Grover Snails had four questions. The other four passages came from familiar areas like Meritocracy and diversified teams, use of technology in essential services, rings of Saturn and their age, and a passage on human resource and learning. Each of these had five questions. On an average, every passage had 1-2 inference-based questions. The passage on white-lipped shelled snails would have been the easiest to attempt closely followed by the passage on essential services and technology. From the remaining passages, one was slightly tough to read. Options were not very tricky. A student could have attempted 20-21 questions easily with more than 85% accuracy.


(24 Questions)


Verbal Ability
Para-jumble
4
All had four sentences each and the sentences were pretty easy and concise. As these had no negative marking, one should have attempted all without wasting a lot of time. However, two of these would be tricky to answer without options. The trick was to identify the opening sentence and go ahead with the mandatory pair. There were quite a few clue words. Prior practice and awareness of deductive paragraphs were the key.


(10 Questions)
Summary
3
The summary paragraphs were easier as compared to those of the first slot. The paragraphs were short and slightly difficult to read. However, only one summary question can be called difficult.



Para-jumble (Odd sentence out)
3
The questions were tricky, especially the one with the bird songs. This coupled with the PJ on business elites would have been difficult. The other question was a sitter.



Review of DATA INTERPRETATION AND LOGICAL REASONING



Section
Topic
No. of Questions
Doable


Data Interpretation
Currency Exchange and rate changes
4
3-Feb


Smartphones and market share
4
4


Box Diagram of 3 companies/products
4
2-Jan


Logical Reasoning
Interview Arrivals (Arrangement)
4
4-Mar


Coding (Alphabet/digits)
4
3-Feb


Set theory (3 games, Ludo, Kho-kho, Gilli Danda)
4
2


Institute Accreditation
4
3-Feb



Tickets to a show, old, young and middle aged people
4
3-Feb



Overall,15-17 attempts, with accuracy of 90% would be considered good.
Review of QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE:



Section
Topic
No. of Questions
Doable


Quantitative Ability
Number System
2
1


Algebra
9-Aug
5-Apr


Arithmetic
13-14
9-Aug


Modern Math
3
2-Jan


Geometry and Mensuration
7
4-Mar



An overall attempt of 18-20 with 85% accuracy would be very good.
Overall Percentile

Overall, a 99 percentile score could reduce by about 15-18 marks as compared to last year.
Thus, a score of 150-155 should fetch a 99 percentile.

This CAT 2018 Slot 2 Review is written by Mr Arks Srinivas (National Head MBA Prep India and Abroad). He holds a Masters Degree from IIM Calcutta.
CAT 2018 Slot 2 Review by IMS

Level of difficulty in Slot 2 is on par with the level of difficulty of Slot 1 for the VARC and DILR sections
There is a marginal difference in the difficulty level of the QA section in both slots.
The QA Section was reported as difficult in comparison to that of the QA section of the CAT of recent years.

Section 1: VARC Review




Area / Questions


No of Qs.


Type


LOD




Reading Comprehension


24


MCQ


Overall Easy to Medium




RC-1: Evolution of white lipped snails Approx.- 550 words


4


MCQ


Easy




RC- 2: Saturns rings and several of its moons Approx. 600 words


5


MCQ


Easy to Medium




RC-3: Evaluation based on metric fixation- Approx. 500 words


5


MCQ


Easy




RC-4: Access of the poor to government Services Approx. 700 words


5


MCQ


Easy to Medium




RC-5: Fallacy of Meritocracy- Approx. 650 words.(The same passage was a part of SimCAT6)


5


MCQ


Easy to Medium




Verbal Ability


10


MCQ & TITA


Overall Easy to Medium




Parajumbles


4


TITA


4 Easy




Out of Context sentence


3


TITA


2 Easy
1 Medium




Summary


3


MCQ


1 Easy
2 Medium




Section 2: DILR Review




Set No.


Area


Set Description


Number of Questions


Level of Difficulty


Question Type




1


Data Interpretation


Venn diagram set on students playing 3 games


4


Moderate -Difficult


MCQ+TITA




2


Data Interpretation


Profitability of the products launched by three companies


4


Difficult


MCQ




3


Data Interpretation


Sales and profits on four smartphone handsets


4


Easy


MCQ




4


Data Interpretation


Exchange rate of three currencies and buying and selling of the three currencies


4


Moderate


MCQ+TITA




5


Logical Reasoning


Coding


4


Difficult


MCQ




6


Logical Reasoning


Arrangement set involving students facing interviews in three rooms


4


Easy-Moderate


MCQ




7


Logical Reasoning


Accreditation of 8 educational institutes


4


Moderate


MCQ + TITA




8


Logical Reasoning


Set on tickets of a monument


4


Easy-Moderate


MCQ+TIT




Section 3: Quantitative Ability Review

This section was on the difficult side and dominated by Arithmetic with 14 questions followed by Geometry and Modern Maths with 6 questions each, Algebra with 5 questions and Numbers with 3 questions.
There were 12 TITA questions this year - compared to last year when there were 11
The level of difficulty of this section was one notch higher than last year.
Many of the questions in this section tested multiple concepts.





Area


Topic


No. of questions


Total No. of questions


Level of Difficulty




Arithmetic


Mixtures & Alligations


4


14


2 Easy, 1 Medium, 1 Difficult







Time-Speed-Distance


3


1 Easy, 1 Medium, 1 Difficult







Work, Pipe & Cisterns


2


2 Medium







Averages


2


2 Medium







Ratio


1


1 Easy







Time & Work


1


1 Easy







Simple & Compound Interest


1


1 Difficult




Geometry


Quadrilaterals


2


6


1 Easy, 2 Medium, 3 Difficult







Circles


2







Triangle + Circle


1







Co-ordinate Geometry


1




Modern Maths


Logarithms


3


6


Medium to Difficult







P & C


1


Medium







AP-GP


1


Medium







Set Theory


1


Easy




Algebra


Maxima-Minima


2


5


1 Medium, 1 Difficult







Inequalities


2


2 Medium







Miscellaneous


1


1 Medium




Numbers


Surds & Indices


1


3


Easy







Miscellaneous


2


Easy - Medium




CAT Review on Expected Cut Offs




Section


Good Attempts


Expected Percentile




VARC


26-30 (With 80% Accuracy)


95-99




DILR


18-20 (With 85-90% Accuracy)


95-99




Quant


18-20 (With 85-90% Accuracy)


95-99




Overall CAT exam Review & Cut offs

CAT 2018 Slot-1 and Slot-2 had a marginal difference in their difficulty level
Quant in Slot 2 was rated slightly more difficult than Slot 1 exam
A few questions in DILR were rated a little more difficult.
VARC has remained easy in both the slots

Expected Cut Offs
Overall cut offs for CAT 2018 by T.I.M.E., CL, IMS are shared below:
CAT 2018 Percentile Cut offs by T.I.M.E.
Slot wise and Overall CAT 2018 percentile cut offs by T.I.M.E. are:
Slot 1 Sectional Cutoff Score




Percentile


VARC


DILR


QA




85


46 1


25 1


25 1




95


59 1


35 1


41 1




99


70 1


52 1


50 1




Slot 1 Overall Cutoff Score




Percentile


Overall




97.5


134 2




99


148 2




Slot 2 Sectional Cutoff Score




Percentile


VARC


DILR


QA




85


45 1


23 1


22 1




95


58 1


33 1


38 1




99


69 1


48 1


49 1




Slot 2 Overall Cutoff Score




Percentile


Overall




97.5


126 2




99


140 2




CAT 2018 Percentile Cut offs by Career Launcher (CL)



Overall Score in Slot 1
Slot 1: Expected Percentile
Overall Score in Slot 2
Slot 2: Expected Percentile


150-155
99
150-155
99



CAT 2018 Percentile Cut offs by IMS
IMS has predicted following CAT percentile cut offs at different range of scores:



Percentile
VA-RC Score
DI-LR Score
QA Score
Overall Score


85%
40 to 41
28 to 29
25 to 26
90 to 95


90%
45 to 46
32 to 33
29 to 30
95 to 100


95%
50 to 51
38 to 39
35 to 36
105 to 110


97 to 98%
54 to 55
46 to 47
44 to 45
120 to 125


99%
58 to 60
50 to 52
48 to 50
140 to 145



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