How to Use the CAT Score Calculator after CAT 2025?

How to Use the CAT Score Calculator after CAT 2025?  

CAT is considered the most important management exam across the country. Hundreds of thousands of candidates appear in this exam (2.95L appeared for CAT 2025) and its results are the most awaited ones as they decide the future of these candidates further.  

In this article, the method of how to use a CAT score calculator is provided to predict the estimated CAT score before the official result. CAT score calculators are very popular among aspirants as it helps them get their scaled percentiles as well as is useful for further planning for their shortlisting and interview procedures.  

CAT Score Calculator 2025 

A CAT Score Calculator is a tool that is designed to estimate the candidates CAT percentile and sectional score online on the basis of the expected performance in the exam. It uses different parameters to somewhat accurately predict the candidates score and percentile range. The parameters are the marking scheme, difficulty level of the paper, and the previous years percentile trends, etc.  

While predicting the accuracy or evaluation, it takes following things into consideration: 

• The number of correct questions, incorrect questions and the unattempted questions  
• The marking scheme usually goes as 3 marks for each correct answer and -1 for each incorrect one in the MCQ sections.  

Step-by-Step Process to Use CAT Score Calculator 2025?   

CAT score calculator is one of the fastest methods for the aspirants to get the realistic idea of their raw score, scaled score and percentile. It is the practical method to move forward with the interviewing process or to plan a back up plan.  

Here is the step by step process to use CAT score calculator: 

1. Copy the link of the official response key, whenever the response sheet and the provisional answer key are released by the authorities, download them from the official CAT portal as soon as possible.  
2. Enter the link in the Cracku’s CAT score calculator to know the raw score and estimated percentile based on the no. of students putting their response sheet in the calculator.  
3. Know about normalization or scaling-score handling. CAT has multiple slots and it uses normalization procedures to maintain fairness across the slots. A good calculator will have two step normalization to convert raw scores into scaled scores. First, its slot-level adjustments, and second, section wise scaling. Scaled score is used by the IIMs to calculate percentile and rank.  
4. Use sectional percentiles and cutoffs with proper planning. Apart from overall percentile, also calculate sectional percentile as many institutes especially IIMs look for good sectional cut offs as well. A high overall percentile with low sectional score may not look good for shortlisting.  
5. If there is any objection in the current provisional keys, then chances are that it may get revised. In cases like this, it is possible that your raw score may change as well. So, you have to rerun the results and calculator with updated keys. 

What to Do after Checking Your CAT 2025 Estimated Percentile?  

Before diving into what to do afterwards, let's understand why it is important to actually use a CAT Score Calculator. One of the reasons as to why one would need a CAT score calculator is to reduce the chances of sudden uncertainty. The CAT score calculator gives a good idea of how the candidate would score even before the official results. Another would be that it helps in planning the next steps of selecting or shortlisting B-schools on the basis of the predicted score. In addition to this, it also is a good comparison tool for analysing the performance with previous years and of the current time. Moreover, it can help with the interviewing process as well, such as if the candidate's score is strong, they can start their preparation for the interview early on, especially WAT (Written Ability Test) and PI (Personal Interview).   

Looking above at the advantages of the CAT score calculator, one can easily understand and identify the next steps that the candidates should after getting their predicted CAT score, that is:  

• They should plan the next steps of selecting and shortlisting their desired B-school on the basis of their predicted score.  
• They should start their preparation for the interview process for WAT and PI.  

CAT 2025 Percentiles (Expected) for Top B-Schools  

The chart given below compares the expected percentile with years cutoffs. 

Start GD-PI-WAT Preparation Based on Your Prediction  

Here is how to use predicted percentile to plan further:  

• If the percentile is 98+ : it is likely that you would get top B-schools so it would be better to focus intensively on PI and WAT immediately. Enhance your communication skills, stay updated on current affairs. 
• If the percentile is between 90-97 : you can get admission in newer IIMs, and IITs and other reputed private schools. Start preparing for GD-PI-WAT with a mock interview.  
• If the percentile is below 90: prepare for WAT-PI to target non IIM institutes that considers overall candidate profile. Also, start preparing for other upcoming exams. 

CAT Score Calculator - FAQs 

1.How reliable is the CAT 2025 percentile predictor?  

It is considered as reliable for the most part. However, if there are any changes in the final results and answer key, it is possible that not all calculators are designed to keep with that.  

2.Does it consider normalization across slots?  

Some CAT calculators do consider normalization across slots while others may not do so. It really depends on which calculator you use.  

3.Can the CAT 2025 score calculator predict my chances of getting into IIMs?  

For the most part, yes it can predict that. However, remember that IIMs not only see the overall percentage with it also looks at that section score.