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Updated on Jan 14 2025, 04:41 PM IST by Team Careers360

About Cutoff at IIM Calcutta

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta cutoff is released for admission to MBA programmes. IIM Calcutta cutoff 2024 is determined on the basis of various factors such as availability of a number of seats, last year's cutoff trends, number of applicants, and so forth. 

IIM Calcutta cutoff mentions the minimum marks required by the candidates both sectional as well as overall CAT score. Candidates who meet the IIM Calcutta cutoff 2024 are shortlisted for the next selection round. IIM Calcutta admission to the MBA programme is on the basis of the performance in the CAT, the next selection round and other parameters. 

IIM Calcutta Cutoff 2024

IIM Calcutta cutoff this year is somewhat the same as that of the last year. IIM Calcutta has released the cutoff for batch 2024-26. Candidates fulfilling the minimum requirements on both section-wise and overall percentiles in CAT 2023 as given below in the table will be shortlisted for the selection rounds. 

IIM Calcutta CAT Cutoff 2023

Category

VARC

DILR

QA

Overall Percentile

OPEN

≥80

≥80

≥75

≥85

EWS

≥70

≥65

≥65

≥75

NC-OBC

≥70

≥65

≥65

≥75

SC

≥65

≥60

≥60

≥70

ST

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

PwD

≥45

≥45

≥45

≥55

Also See: IIM Calcutta Admissions

Check the Previous year’s cutoff trends of IIM Calcutta for MBA programmes below:

IIM Calcutta CAT Cutoff 2022

Category

VARC

DILR

QA

Aggregate

General

≥75

≥80

≥80

≥80

NC-OBC

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

EWS

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

SC

≥60

≥60

≥65

≥70

ST

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

PwD

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

IIM Calcutta CAT Cutoff 2020

Category

VARC

DILR

QA

Overall Percentile

General

≥75

≥80

≥80

≥85

NC-OBC

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

EWS

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

SC

≥60

≥60

≥65

≥70

ST

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

PwD

≥45

≥45

≥45

≥45

IIM Calcutta CAT 2019 Cutoff

Category

Quantitative Aptitude

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning

Verbal Ability

Total Percentile

General

≥75

≥80

≥80

≥85

NC-OBC

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

EWS

≥65

≥65

≥70

≥75

SC

≥60

≥60

≥65

≥70

ST

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

PWD

≥55

≥55

≥55

≥65

IIM Calcutta CAT Cutoff 2018

The section-wise cutoff of CAT 2018 of IIM Calcutta is listed in the table below:

IIM Calcutta Cutoff

Category

VARC

DI & LR

QA

Overall Percentile

General

80

80

80

90

NC-OBC

75

75

75

85

SC

65

65

65

70

ST

60

60

60

70

PWD/DA

60

60

60

70

IIM Calcutta CAT Cutoff 2017

The section-wise cutoff of CAT 2017 of IIM Calcutta is listed in the table below:

IIM Calcutta Cutoff

Category

VARC

DI & LR

QA

Overall Percentile

General

80

80

80

90

NC-OBC

75

75

75

85

SC

65

65

65

70

ST

60

60

60

70

PWD/DA

60

60

60

70

IIM Calcutta admission criteria

IIM Calcutta conducts a two-stage process for shortlisting candidates for final admission. In the first step of IIM Calcutta admission, candidates are shortlisted based on their CAT score and in the second stage, shortlisted candidates have to appear for the Personal Interview and Written Ability Test.

Also See: IIM Calcutta Courses

Factors Affecting IIM Calcutta CAT Cutoff

Common Aptitude Test or CAT cutoff is released by various B-schools and IIMs on the basis of CAT score. The cutoff of CAT may vary from institute to institute. B-schools shortlist candidates on the basis of sectionals and overall cutoffs. Factors affecting CAT cutoff are:

  • The difficulty level of the exam

  • Reservation policy of IIM institutes

  • Previous year's cutoff trends

  • Marking schemes of the CAT 

  • Lowest and Average marks scored by the candidates in the exam

  • Total number of applicants and seats offered by the IIMs institutes

The candidate's cumulative score is calculated considering factors like a personal profile, academic qualifications, CAT score, and so forth. Previous year IIM Calcutta gave more weightage to Personal Interview with 48 points.

Student Reviews for IIM Calcutta

College Infrastructure: 4.1/5
Academics: 4.1/5
Placements: 4.3/5
Value for Money: 3.6/5
Campus Life: 4.2/5

IIT Calcutta having a beautiful campus.

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College Infrastructure

IIM Calcutta, provide facilities for a digital library and good internet connectivity with a good internet speed. The food provided is decent for the students. Provided a good infrastructure and course is good overall, equipped with industry-demand course are present in the curriculum.

College has good greenary and beutiful infrastructure

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College Infrastructure

Excellent infrastructure for the college is provided to the students. Library is one of the best when compared to other colleges. Adequate outdoor sessions and lab work. Quality of food can improve. Wi-Fi can be rated average and needs to be improvement. The Wi-Fi speed is also fluctuates some times.

I had wonderful and joyful experience in college

Verified Review

College Infrastructure

According to me college has very good infrastructure is quite very good. Hostels are far better than the other colleges. There is a well-maintained library and a separate reading hall for students. Wi-Fi connection is good but some of the you have to use your own mobile data. Labs are well maintained.

Have a question related to IIM Calcutta ?

See getting into Indian Institute of Management is the dream for almost all the people who want to pursue a masters degree in management. The ways and steps which you'll have to follows are:

  • Select a good coaching for CAT preparation as this is very important.
  • Give CAT with full confidence and score well in it
  • Get an interview call from IIM Calcutta
  • Give the interview nicely!

If you follow these steps, then you'll definitely land up at IIMC. Hope I have answered your question. All the best!

Hi there

Among the best Asian business schools, IIM Calcutta stands out due to its emphasis on balancing academic rigour and relevance and retaining plurality and variety in form, substance, and technique. Some of the best academics India has produced in recent years have called it home. IIM C, however, does not provide a Bcom programme.

Dear aspirant,

As you have secured 94 percentile in cat 2021 and considering you are from sc category so let me tell you that the cut offs depends on various factors like number of candidates appearing in the examination, number of vacant seats in college, previous years cut offs and difficulty level of the paper.

So accordingly the dynamics gets changed every year so you have the chances to get into this college as per the previous year trends.

For more information you can check out the link given below-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/fms-delhi-cutoff

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