Scoring 99 Percentile in CAT 2013 - How much attempts are required

We have reached in the final phases of CAT 2013 preparation and almost the exam in on our door. So at this time many of you would be thinking that how many questions you need to attempt in order to score 99 + percentile in CAT 2013. Well we all know this depends on the difficulty level of the paper that we are going to encounter but still going by my experience of appearing in CAT from the last three years I can give you some idea about how much attempts will help you let score in excess of 99 percentile.

Going by the papers that the candidates appearing in CAT have encountered we can sum a general break up of the the difficulty level of different slots paper. The paper that have been seen are one of the different types.

1. Easy
2. Medium or Moderately Difficult
3. Difficult

There was no such slot in the CAT window in which the paper was said to be extremely difficult. However as no one knows about how this normalization process is done so I can not tell you the exact attempts and the respective accuracy for different levels of paper.

Below I am writing some specific examples of percentiles scored by various students at different attempts.

1. My Personal experience with CAT - 

In CAT 2012 I made 24 attempts out of 30 in first section of Quantitative Aptitude and Data Interpretation and I was sure that all of them would be correct. If any of them would have been wrong than obviously I can not know about it as we have no option to review the paper in which we appear. So the percentile that I scored in Section 1 of CAT 2012 was 99.62 with a score of 168 out of 225.

My second section of CAT 2012 went horrible as I was not even able to score 75 percentile in it. My score in this section was 95 out of 225.

My Overall Percentile in CAT 2012 was 96.14

2. A guy who made it to IIM Ahmedabad - 

One guy in the coaching Institute in which I teach, scored overall 99.61 percentile and he finally made it to IIM Ahmedabad.

His first section attempts were 25 and percentile scored was 99.58
His second section attempts were 23 and percentile scored was 97.45

3. A guy who made it to IIM Bangalore - 

This guy scored overall 99.68 percentile in CAT 2012 and finally made it to IIM Bangalore.

His first section attempts were 22 and scored 99.41 percentile in it.
His second section attempts were 23 and scored 98.59 percentile in it.

General Percentile with respect to Attempts and Marks - 

If you can attempt 20 - 22 questions in each section of CAT 2013 and all are correct then you will score in more than 99.50 percentile in that section of CAT and overall your percentile will reach in the range of 99.75 +

If you have one section of your's very strong. Suppose your English Section is very strong and you can correct 25 questions in second section than you will score more than 99.80 percentile in that section. With this much percentile in second section you need to do only 15 - 17 questions correct in the first section. Doing 15 to 17 questions correct will give you percentile around 98 which will increase your overall percentile to about 99.70

So here is the break up - 

1. If you have attempted 45 questions out of 60 in CAT 2013 and around 5 are wrong then you will score around 99.55 percentile in CAT.

2. If you have attempted 50 questions out of 60 in CAT 2013 and around 5 are wrong then you will score around 99.80 percentile in CAT.

3. If you have attempted 55 questions out of 60 in CAT 2013 and around 5 are wrong then you will score around 99.95 percentile in CAT.

4. If you have attempted 40 questions out of 60 in CAT 2013 and around 5 are wrong then you will score around 99.20 percentile in CAT.

5. If you have attempted 35 questions out of 60 in CAT 2013 and around 5 are wrong then you will score around 98 percentile in CAT.\

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