CAT 2025 Exam Live Updates: The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM Kozhikode) will on November 30 conduct the Common Admission Test (CAT 2025). The results are tentatively expected in the first week of January 2026. This year, the examination will be conducted across approximately 170 cities, and candidates had the opportunity to choose up to five preferred cities while selecting their test centres.
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CAT 2025 serves as an entrance gateway for admission to postgraduate as well as fellow/doctoral programmes offered by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and other participating institutions.
For more updates on CAT 2025, check the IE Education portal.
TheCAT 2025 examwill be held in three sessions across designated centres nationwide. The two-hour test will be evaluating candidates across Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Ability (QA). About2.95 lakh candidates have registered for CAT 2025.

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Last year, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta conducted the exam, wherein 14 candidates had scored 100 percentile, of which only one was a woman. Moreover, 13 aspirants were from an engineering background, while only one was a non-engineer. Of the 2.93 lakh candidates who appeared for the exam in 2024, 1.07 lakh were female candidates, 1.86 lakh were male candidates, and 5 were transgender candidates.
