CAT Eligibility Criteria 2025/ 2026: Know Age & Qualifying Criteria

CAT Eligibility Criteria 2025/ 2026 must be fulfilled by candidates to apply for CAT examination. CAT 2025 Exam is being managed by IIM Kozhikode this year.

Common Admission Test (CAT) is a national level management test organised by IIMs every year on a rotational basis.

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Through this examination, students get admission in various management programmes offered by IIMs, IITs, NITs, and other reputed institutions. Here in this article, we are providing details regarding CAT Eligibility 2025/ 2026.

CAT 2025/ 2026 Eligibility Criteria

Candidates should check their eligibility before filling out the CAT 2025 application form. Here, we are providing complete details about CAT 2025/ 2026 eligibility criteria:

General Eligibility:

• Students should have passed a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree from any recognised university or college.
• On graduation, candidates should have obtained a minimum of 50% marks for general candidates and 45% marks for SC, ST & PwD/ DA candidates.
• The percentage of marks secured by students will be calculated on the basis of practice followed by the college/university from which candidates have obtained the bachelor’s degree.
• Students appearing in the final year of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification are also eligible to apply.
• Students appearing in the qualifying exam are required to produce a certificate from the principal/registrar of their college stating that the candidate has completed all the requirements for obtaining the bachelor’s degree/ equivalent qualification.

Qualifying Examinations:

Students have to qualify/appear in any one of the following examinations to be eligible for CAT 2025/2026:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/ Technology or B.E./B.Tech equivalent examinations of Professional Societies, recognised by MHRD/ UPSC/AICTE.
• Any qualification recognised by AIU, New Delhi, which is equivalent to a bachelor’s degree awarded by colleges/ universities recognised by UGC.
• Students must be in the final year of a bachelor’s degree with required percentage.

Age Restriction:

• There will be no age limit for taking the CAT examination.

Reservation Percentage:

• Students must fill correct category in application form to avail the reservation.
• The reservation percentage is 7.5%, 15%, 27% & 5% for ST/ SC/ PBC/ PWD, respectively.

CAT 2025 Registration

Candidates can check following details regarding CAT 2025 application form:

• The registration process will start on 1st August 2025.
• The candidate will be able to fill out the application till 13th September 2025.
• Candidates can fill out the application form through online mode.
• No candidate receives any application form via post or courier in an offline mode.
• While filling application form, candidates have to upload passport size photograph & signature in the form.
• Candidates must also check their eligibility criteria before filling out the application form.
• Candidates also have to fill out five test city preferences.
• During registration, candidates must provide a valid phone number & email ID in their application form.
• After the submission of application form, candidates must also take a printout of it for further use.

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CAT 2025 Exam Dates

CAT Correction Facility

Application Fee:

• Candidates have to pay application fee through online mode.
• The modes of payment are credit card, debit card, or net-banking.
• The registration fee according to different categories is mentioned below:

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