CAT 2020 Rank Predictor: Score vs Percentile, IIM Cut off, Check Process

How to use CAT 2020 Rank Predictor?

1. Visit the CAT 2020 Rank Predictor tool.
2. Fill all the asked details on the dashboard to carry forward with the process 
3. Next, mention aspirant's expected percentile as per the exam attempted
4. Click on, “Predicted Rank”
5. Candidate's predicted score will be displayed on the score

Details to be filled in CAT 2020 Rank Predictor

Following are the details candidate's needs to fill while predicting their rank:

• Name
• Registration Number
• Expected Percentile

How is CAT Score Equated?

CAT follows a psychometric process to adjust the difficulty level of the examination. The process is followed to keep a track on the metric calculation and justify the candidates who want to know their score. Three ways to calculate the score in CAT exam is:

• Scores are calculated as per the marking scheme which is three marks is awarded for each correct answer and one mark is deducted for every wrong answer
• Next, through the statistical process, candidates marks are calculated on the same questions asked in two or more different forms. According to this method, the raw marks are calculated
• Through the equating process, a common range of marks are prepared of the candidates which further helps to create a range of scores and to prepare percentile rank.

Factors depending for CAT 2020 Rank Prediction

These factors will affect candidates ranking on the rank predictor

CAT Normalization Process 2020

Following are the CAT Normalization process to calculate CAT percentile:

• Exam creation is a set of statistically profiled questions. These questions are of comparable difficulty. These different questions with the same difficulty levels are used in re-scaling candidate’s score to the metric of the item bank. 
• The questions are properly analysed and their difficulty levels are assessed according to a standard metric. The normalization carries a base assumption that “in all multi-session CAT papers, the distribution of abilities of candidates is the same across all of the sessions”.
• Then, the raw score of the candidate is scaled, and scores are established accordingly. This helps in awarding ranks to the candidates.
• The percentile rank is equated based on percentage score that falls below a certain specified score.
• With the total scale scores arranged in rank order from the lowest to highest in 100 equally sized groups, a table with the total scale scores to percentile ranks will be created.
• After the scores are identified and arranged, high scoring candidate’s name will be determined from the top among high scorers and subsequent list of low scorers.
• CAT percentile decides the rank of a management aspirant, relative to the rest of the aspirants who appeared for the same MBA entrance exam. The basic idea of the CAT percentile is to tell you what per cent of the students have scored less than you in the examination.

CAT 2019 Cut off

Check the minimum cut off required for session 2020-22 from the table below: