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CMAT Score vs Percentile 2026: Formula, How to Calculate Marks gives students a clearer idea of the score range needed for different percentile bands. Usually, those who aim for a perfect 100 percentile in CMAT 2026 need to score around 345 to 350. If you’re targeting the 90 to 99.99 percentile, the expected score range is roughly 281 to 340, and for the 81 to 89 percentile, a score between 201 and 280 may be enough. Additionally, a raw score of about 170 often lands somewhere near the 71 to 80 percentile. 

Even if the trends suggest the above figures, to be on the safe side, always better to set sights on higher scores. While your CMAT score indicates the marks earned as per the exam’s marking scheme, the percentile compares your performance with others. In this article, explore the complete CMAT 2026 score vs percentile breakdown.

CAT 2025 Answer Key Objection Window Starts Today: The Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, starts the CAT 2025 answer key objection process today, December 8, 2025. If the candidates want to object to the CAT answer key 2025, they should visit the official website- iimcat.ac.in on or before December 10, 2025 (till 11.55 PM). To submit grievances, the candidates should enter their login credentials, such as the CAT application login ID and password. 

The Decision Making section is one of the most crucial sections and distinctive features of the XAT exam. In this section, students have the chance of scoring higher and increasing their overall percentile if they have logical clarity. As compared with the standard quantitative or verbal parts, the decision making section asks you to put yourself in the shoes of a manager and understand business targets, people issues, ethics, and long-term impact of your choices. If you’re appearing for XAT for the first time, then you don’t need to worry as you can get familiar with this section and practice strategies to succeed.

In the XAT exam Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning section mainly comprises heavy calculation and reasoning based questions. Moreover along with calculations you need to focus on approximation, ratios and percentage based questions as well. You can expect question sets to be lengthy in nature but they are solvable. More often you will find XAT DI questions integrated with Logical Reasoning problems. Therefore, we recommend you to practice questions having integrated models for the XAT exam. Check out this article for XAT DILR practice sets. 

For the XAT 2025 DILR section has been consistently a high weightage topic comprising a mix type of questions. In order to clear the XAT 2025 exam, it is important for you to concentrate on the DILR important topics XAT. Some of the vital topics from this section are Blood Relations, Seating Arrangements, Bar Graphs, Line Graphs, Pie Charts, Complex DI Sets, Business Decision-Making Caselets, Analytical Decision Making to name a few. Usually in the XAT exam, 4 to 5 questions are asked from this particular topic. Check this article to get a detailed idea.