IIM College Predictor 2026
Check your call chances at all 21 IIMs plus FMS, MDI, SPJIMR and other top B-schools — built on official sectional cutoffs, category quotas, academic profile and work experience, not a guess.
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Provide verified credentials for composite score calculationHow Composite Scores are Calculated
Unlike conventional scorecards, premier IIMs filter candidates through composite formula stages.
Candidate quota category (OBC/SC/ST/EWS) and gender diversity weights are established.
10th, 12th, and UG graduation discipline (Engineering vs Non-Eng AC-1 to AC-6) ratings.
Full-time verified work experience evaluated across 3 distinct college cut-off dates.
Sectional percentile gates applied first; non-cleared candidates are marked Not Eligible.
How the IIM College Predictor Actually Works
A plain-language primer on cutoffs, composite scores and reservation rules, so the numbers in your results table above actually mean something.
Most IIMs check VARC, DILR and QA percentiles separately before they even look at your overall CAT percentile. Miss one section's minimum and that college goes into "Not Eligible" no matter how strong your overall score is — this trips up a surprising number of 95+ percentilers every year.
Once you clear the cutoffs, each IIM ranks shortlisted candidates on its own weighted formula: CAT percentile, 10th/12th/UG academics, work experience, gender diversity, and academic-discipline diversity all get different weights at different IIMs.
IIMs don't measure experience on the same day. IIM Bangalore and Calcutta cut off in July, IIM Ahmedabad and Lucknow in December, IIM Kozhikode a month after that — so the same candidate can carry three different "months of experience" numbers depending on which IIM is scoring them.
Category (SC/ST/OBC-NCL/EWS), PwD status, gender ratio targets and academic-background diversity (engineering vs non-engineering graduates) each move the cutoff or the composite formula in a different way at every IIM.
The "old six" — Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Kozhikode, Indore — set the toughest cutoffs and run their own separate admission process. The newer 15 — Shillong, Rohtak, Ranchi, Raipur, Tiruchirappalli, Kashipur, Udaipur, Nagpur, Visakhapatnam, Bodh Gaya, Sirmaur, Amritsar, Sambalpur, Jammu and Mumbai (the erstwhile NITIE) — mostly go through the Common Admission Process (CAP) with somewhat lower entry percentiles, which is exactly where a "Moderate" tag in your results table is worth acting on.
Central government norms reserve 27% seats for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and 10% for EWS, with a 5% horizontal reservation for PwD candidates layered on top of whichever category a candidate belongs to. Category cutoffs sit meaningfully lower than the general category line at almost every IIM — pick the right category above and the predictor applies this automatically.
Clearing the composite cutoff only earns an interview call, not a seat. Most IIMs run a Written Ability Test followed by a Personal Interview (WAT-PI), and several also read your CAT percentile again at the final-offer stage alongside your WAT-PI score — which is why the table above separates "Cutoff for Interviews" from "Cutoff for Final Offer".
CAT is percentile-based, so a 99%ile score is measured against everyone else who wrote that year's exam, not a fixed mark. Cutoffs drift a little every admission cycle depending on the applicant pool — that's why the year-wise "Minimum CAT %ile for Offered Students" columns above go back to 2021, so you can gauge the trend instead of trusting a single year's number.
Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers regarding call cutoffs and calculation rules.
