The Most Accurate Call Predictor tool for CAT 2026.

The InsideIIM CAT 2026 Call Predictor is a free tool that estimates your chance of an interview shortlist (WAT, GD or PI call) from 48 MBA programmes at 32 institutes for the 2027-29 batch. It applies each institute's own published shortlisting formula to your CAT score, Class 10, Class 12 and graduation marks, work experience, category and gender.

Four reasons. It scores every programme with that institute's own shortlisting formula instead of a generic percentile band. Its cut-offs are the category-wise figures institutes disclosed under the Right to Information Act or published themselves. Its score-to-percentile conversion is validated on 1,300+ real CAT 2025 scorecards. And every prediction carries a High, Medium or Low confidence tag, so estimates are never presented as facts.

It covers 48 programmes at 32 institutes: all 21 IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore, Mumbai, Shillong, Ranchi, Raipur, Tiruchirappalli, Udaipur, Rohtak, Bodh Gaya, Sirmaur, Sambalpur, Visakhapatnam, Amritsar, Nagpur, Kashipur and Jammu), eight IIT management schools (SJMSOM IIT Bombay, DMS IIT Delhi, VGSoM IIT Kharagpur, DoMS IIT Madras, DoMS IIT Kanpur, DoMS IIT Roorkee, SME IIT Jodhpur and the School of Business at IIT Guwahati), FMS Delhi, IIFT and TISS Mumbai (HRM and LR). Specialised programmes such as IIMA PGP-FABM, IIMB PGPBA, IIMK Finance and LSM, and IIM Indore HRM are scored separately.

Cut-offs come from three sources: RTI-based admission statistics compiled by The Career Consultants (rgcareerconsultants.com, Ronit Gaikwad), used with attribution; cut-offs the institutes publish themselves, such as the JAP and CAP notices and the IIT Delhi, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee shortlisting notices; and the official admission policy documents of each institute for the formulas.

No. It predicts only the interview shortlist, which is the call for the Written Ability Test, Group Discussion or Personal Interview. Final admission depends on interview performance, which no tool can know in advance. Institutes also use different weights at the final stage than at the shortlisting stage.

A percentile predictor converts your marks into an expected percentile. A call predictor goes further: it combines that percentile with your academics, work experience, category and gender using each institute's formula, then compares the result with that institute's last shortlist cut-off. Two candidates with the same percentile can get different calls.

Yes. The InsideIIM Call Predictor is free, and you can re-run it as many times as you like while your mock scores improve.

Twelve fields: category, disability status, gender, paper difficulty, expected raw marks in VARC, DILR and QA, Class 10 percentage, Class 12 percentage, graduation percentage, graduation discipline, and your job start and end dates. If you already have your CAT scorecard, upload it and the score fields are filled automatically.

Yes. Enter the raw marks you typically score in full-length mocks for each section and choose how difficult that paper was. The tool converts them into an expected percentile and expected scaled scores, and labels them as expected values. Re-run it every couple of weeks as your mock scores change.

Difficulty tells the tool how hard the paper behind your scores was compared with a typical CAT. The same raw marks earn a higher percentile on a hard paper than on an easy one. Moderate matches CAT 2025. Easy and Hard shift the marks needed for a given percentile by about 12 percent, which is the spread seen between CAT 2023, CAT 2024 and CAT 2025.

Yes. After the CAT result, upload your scorecard as a PDF or image. The tool reads your overall and sectional percentiles and scaled scores, plus your category, gender and disability status, so nothing needs to be typed and the prediction uses your exact scores.

Institutes count work experience up to different dates. For CAT 2025 the dates ranged from 31 July (the CAT form date used by IIM Lucknow) and 30 September (IIFT) to 31 December (IIM Kozhikode and the JAP institutes), 31 January (IIM Calcutta, Udaipur and Nagpur) and 5 February (IIT Kharagpur). From your dates the tool calculates the correct number of completed months for each institute.

Only full-time, paid employment after graduation counts. Internships, articleship, part-time work, project work, unpaid work and any job held before completing your degree are excluded by almost every institute. Several institutes also exclude salary received in cash.

Use the percentage conversion certified by your university. If your university has no conversion formula, the IIMs compute it as CGPA divided by the maximum possible CGPA, multiplied by 100. IIT Kharagpur is an exception and applies its own conversion formula.

All subjects that appear on the marksheet count, even if your board excludes some of them when calculating its own percentage. This is the rule stated in the admission policies of IIM Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore and most other IIMs.

They are chance bands. Very likely means an estimated chance of 85 percent or more, Likely 70 to 85 percent, Fair 55 to 70 percent and Borderline below 55 percent. Not eligible means you either miss a published minimum, such as a sectional cut-off or a minimum graduation percentage, or your score is below the institute's last shortlist cut-off.

Three common reasons. You may miss a sectional cut-off even with a strong overall score. You may miss an academic minimum, such as IIM Kozhikode's 60 percent in graduation. Or the institute uses a composite score in which academics, gender and academic diversity carry weight, so a high percentile alone does not clear the cut-off.

High confidence means the formula and the cut-off are both published and on the same scale. Medium means the formula is published but depends on statistics of the applicant pool that must be estimated. Low means the institute has never disclosed a shortlist cut-off for its current formula, so the threshold is an estimate.

Most IIMs release shortlists in January, within two to three weeks of the CAT result. IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Kozhikode usually publish in the second week of January. IIT management schools shortlist in February and March, and FMS Delhi announced its 2026 shortlist in mid March.

In CAT 2025 a scaled score of about 85 out of 204 gave the 99th percentile. The figure changes every year with difficulty: it was about 95 in CAT 2024 and about 76 in CAT 2023.

In CAT 2025 the approximate overall scaled scores were 110 for the 99.9th percentile, 93 for 99.5, 85 for 99, 62 for 95, 51 for 90, 44 for 85 and 38 for 80. The highest total on the scorecards of hundred-percentilers was about 141. Twelve candidates scored 100 percentile.

In CAT 2025 the 99th percentile needed a scaled score of about 43 in VARC, 30 in DILR and 27 in QA. DILR was the toughest section: its 99th percentile score fell from about 38 in CAT 2024 to about 30.

The raw score is your marks from the answer key: three for each correct answer and minus one for each wrong multiple-choice answer. The scaled score is the raw score after normalisation across the three slots, done separately for each section. Percentiles and every IIM formula use scaled scores. The total scaled score is the sum of the three sectional scaled scores.

For the General category IIM Ahmedabad requires at least 95 overall and 85 in every section. Clearing these minimums is not enough: candidates are then ranked on a composite score of 65 percent CAT percentile and 35 percent application rating, which is built from Class 10, Class 12 and graduation marks, work experience and gender.

Yes. For the 2027-29 batch the CAT component of IIM Ahmedabad's composite score is the overall percentile, where earlier cycles used a normalised scaled score. Because percentiles of eligible candidates lie in a narrow band between 95 and 100, academics and work experience now decide most of the shortlist.

IIM Bangalore first applies minimum percentiles, which for the General category are 85 overall, 80 in VARC, 75 in DILR and 75 in QA. It then computes a score out of 100: CAT 55, Class 10 marks 10, Class 12 marks 10, graduation marks 10, work experience 10 and gender diversity 5.

IIM Calcutta requires 85 overall, 80 in VARC, 80 in DILR and 75 in QA for the General category. Its shortlist score is out of 85: CAT 56, Class 12 marks 15, Class 10 marks 10 and gender diversity 4. Graduation marks and work experience are not used for the shortlist. The last disclosed General cut-off was 56.1.

For the General category in the 2026-28 policies: IIM Lucknow requires 90 overall and 85 in each section; IIM Kozhikode requires 85 overall and 75 in each section, plus 60 percent in Class 10, Class 12 and graduation; IIM Indore requires 90 overall and 80 in each section. All three then rank candidates on a composite score.

IIM Mumbai, IIM Rohtak, the four JAP institutes (IIM Ranchi, Raipur, Tiruchirappalli and Kashipur) and the three CAP institutes (IIM Bodh Gaya, Jammu and Sirmaur) shortlist for interviews on CAT percentile with sectional minimums. Academics and work experience enter only in the final merit list. Among IITs, Kanpur and Roorkee also shortlist on CAT percentile alone.

JAP is the Joint Admission Process of IIM Ranchi, Raipur, Tiruchirappalli and Kashipur; its 2026 General interview cut-off was 95.25 overall with 75 in each section. CAP is the Common Admission Process of IIM Bodh Gaya, Jammu and Sirmaur; its 2026 General minimum was 90 overall, or 85 for women, with 65 in each section.

For the General category in the 2026 cycle: IIT Roorkee required 96 overall with 60 in each section, IIT Kharagpur 90 overall and IIT Jodhpur 80 overall with 55 in each section. IIT Delhi, IIT Madras and IIT Bombay use composite scores instead of a percentile cut-off, and IIT Guwahati requires 60 percentile in QA.

FMS Delhi uses a weighted CAT score with 40 percent weight to VARC, 30 percent to DILR and 30 percent to QA, and adds 5 marks for women. It sets no minimum percentile and calls seven candidates per seat in each category. Class 10 and Class 12 marks count only in final selection.

Yes. IIFT uses CAT for its MBA (International Business): its shortlist score is 90 percent CAT, 5 points for work experience and 5 for gender diversity. TISS Mumbai uses CAT for its MA in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations, with 97 percent weight to CAT and 3 marks for women and transgender candidates.

At most institutes, yes, up to a point. Scores usually peak between 24 and 36 months and then decline. For example, IIM Kozhikode gives maximum points at 35 to 36 months, IIT Madras at 24 to 36 months and IIM Tiruchirappalli at 24 to 29 months. IIM Calcutta does not count work experience for its shortlist.

Yes, at most institutes. Gender diversity points at the shortlist stage include 3 at IIM Ahmedabad, 5 at IIM Bangalore, 4 at IIM Calcutta, 5 at IIM Lucknow and 10 at IIM Kozhikode, and FMS Delhi adds 5 marks. The CAP institutes and IIM Jammu use lower percentile cut-offs for women.

At several institutes, yes. IIM Lucknow and IIM Kozhikode give 5 points for a non-engineering degree, IIM Kozhikode's Liberal Studies and Management programme gives 10, and IIT Madras gives 2. IIM Ahmedabad compares candidates within their own academic discipline.

Yes, from institutes that shortlist on CAT percentile alone, such as IIM Mumbai, IIM Rohtak and the JAP and CAP institutes. At IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Kozhikode and Indore, school marks carry 20 to 45 percent of the shortlist score, so low marks must be offset by a much higher CAT score.

For the General category, programmes whose published minimum is 90 or below include IIM Bodh Gaya and IIM Sirmaur (90), IIM Sambalpur (90, or 85 with a year of work experience), IIM Visakhapatnam (82), IIT Kharagpur (90) and IIT Jodhpur (80). Actual shortlists depend on the number of applicants each year.

At 95 percentile a General category candidate clears the published minimums of IIM Udaipur (94), IIM Nagpur (95), IIM Jammu (91) and all programmes open at 90. The JAP institutes needed 95.25 in 2026, IIM Rohtak requires 97 and IIM Mumbai's last shortlist began at 96.8.

Yes. Every institute publishes category-wise minimums and shortlists each category separately. For example, IIM Ahmedabad requires 95 overall for General and EWS, 90 for NC-OBC, 85 for SC and 75 for ST, and the JAP 2026 cut-offs were 95.25 General, 89 EWS, 88.5 NC-OBC, 75 SC and 44 ST.