Around 1.92 lakh postgraduate management aspirants are waiting for the Common Admission Test (CAT) results. CAT 2021 was held on November 28, 2021. Although there is no official update as to when CAT 2021 result will be declared, as per previous years' CAT result date pattern, the admission test results can be expected shortly. As soon as the CAT results get declared, aspirants can access and download CAT 2021 result at iimcat.ac.in.
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An official statement explaining the normalisation process said: “The Normalisation process shall adjust for location and scale differences of score distributions across different forms. After normalisation across different forms, the scores shall be further normalised across different sections. The Scaled Scores obtained by this process shall be converted into percentiles for purposes of shortlisting.”
CAT Percentile Score
To calculate CAT 2021 percentile score, follow these steps:
Step 1: Calculate the total number of candidates (N) who appeared for CAT
Step 2: Assign a rank (r), based on the scaled scores obtained in the QA section, to all candidates who appeared for CAT. In the case of two or more candidates obtaining identical scaled scores in the QA section, assign identical ranks to all those candidates.
Step 3: Calculate the percentile score (P) of a candidate with rank (r) in the QA section as:
P = [(N − r)/N] x 100
Step 4: Round off the calculated percentile score (P) of a candidate up to two decimal points
Analysing the paper as moderate to tough, a postgraduate management aspirant, Kunal Sharma from Patna, Bihar, has said that CAT 2021 cut-off percentile score are expected to be increased this year from CAT 2020.
Factors including the difficulty level of CAT 2021 exam, the number of candidates appearing in the admission test and the number of seats available will play a role in determining the CAT 2021 cut-off.
