CAT 2025 Exam Overview

Notice - Even this year, students have found Quantitative aptitude the toughest as usual. The other two sections such as VARC and DILR were comparatively easier. 

One key aspect that is being noticed this year is that the non-engineering candidates have performed exceedingly well. As many as 9 candidates who have scored 100 percentile are from a non-engineering background while 3 candidates belong to engineering.

CAT 2025 - Background-wise Percentile Comparison

This is in sharp contrast to last year. Thirteen of the fourteen candidates that received a perfect score in CAT 2024 were engineers while only one was not from the engineering background. Also last year 13 males and just one female achieved 100 percentile.

Gender-wise CAT 2025 Top Percentile Data

States with CAT 2025 Top Percentile Scorers

The state-wise data also reflects a good geographical representation as the toppers of CAT 2025 belonged to different states in India.

In his remarks regarding the CAT results Debashis Chatterjee who is the Director of IIM Kozhikode mentioned that CAT 2025 was one of the smoothest exams that have been conducted in recent years. He also expressed his sincere gratitude to all of the stakeholders and everyone at IIM Kozhikode that feels honoured for being associated with conducting CAT 2025 on behalf of all 22 IIMs.

Overall CAT 2025 observes a definite shift where non-engineers make a resounding comeback in the highest levels of percentiles thereby ending the reign of engineers for so many years.