IIM CAT 2025 Answer Key, Response Sheet Released for 2.58 Lakh Candidates Today; Slot 3 Quant Emerges Toughest

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Last Updated on : 04 Dec 2025 04:14PM

The window for filing objections against the CAT 2025 answer key will be available from December 8 at 12 noon to December 10, and it will be available at iimcat.ac.in.

Answer sheets for the Common Admission Test (CAT 2025) will be available for download by approximately 258,000 candidates.

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM Kozhikode) will upload each candidate's response sheet along with the tentative CAT 2025 answer key on the official website, iimcat.ac.in. This announcement is a live update of the CAT 2025 answer key.

The number of questions remained the same in this year's exam format, which consisted of 68 questions: 24 questions in verbal ability and reading comprehension (VARC) and 22 questions each in data interpretation and logical reasoning (DILR) and quantitative aptitude (QA) sections.

Based on the analysis, the quantitative aptitude (QA) section of CAT slot 3 was the hardest session out of the three sessions.

Out of 2.95 lakh candidates who had registered, nearly 2.58 lakh candidates appeared for the IIM CAT exam for MBA and management programs across 21 IIMs and more than a thousand B-schools, resulting in an 86% attendance rate.

IIM Kozhikode is expected to upload the CAT answer sheets and the answer keys for all candidates on its official website, iimcat.ac.in, within four days of the exam. The time to record objections against the CAT answer key will be from December 8, 12 noon onwards.

If a candidate wants to raise a query against the CAT 2025 answer key, he/she should do so before the last date along with a payment of Rs 1,200 by way of fee.

Slot-wise CAT 2025 exam analysis

CAT 2025 Slot

Overall Difficulty

Section-Wise Analysis

Slot 1

Easy to Moderate

Arithmetic had a few tricky problems; VARC leaned toward moderate difficulty; DILR and Quant were comparatively easier than VARC.

Slot 2

Moderately Difficult

Quant was tougher than in Slot 1; geometry-based questions appeared more frequently; arithmetic and number-based problems required more time to solve.

Slot 3

Moderate to Difficult

DILR was reasonably balanced; VARC stayed in the moderate range; Quant emerged as the most challenging section across all three slots.

 

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