AI-Driven CAT Percentile Predictor

The CAT Exam is something which becomes an immense part of the life of every CAT aspirant as it draws closer. A natural consequence of this is that it takes a huge mind space of the aspirant till the day of the exam.

A natural question that comes to the mind of every serious aspirant after they attempt the CAT Exam is, "How have I done?" & "What percentile will I get? Will it be enough to get a call from my dream college?"

CL has been answering these questions and predicting the percentiles based on CAT score estimates provided by students since 2007. Every year our percentile predictor has been benefiting from the vast amounts of historical data at our disposal.

How Accurate was CL Prediction for the past years?

Based on validated score cards of 4000+ students.

CAT 2022 Predictions

Actual CAT 2022 %Iles

CL Prediction (Median)

Average Absolute Error

>99.5

99.570

0.120

99.0

98.770

0.190

98.0

97.770

0.320

97.0

96.515

0.360

96.0

95.560

0.410

95.0

94.470

0.475

90.0

88.820

1.490

85.0

84.240

0.890

70.0

68.100

1.580

65.0

63.590

1.640

CAT 2021 Predictions

Actual CAT 2022 %Iles

CL Prediction (Median)

Average Absolute Error

>99.5

99.735

0.030

99.0

99.200

0.150

98.0

98.365

0.290

97.0

97.430

0.400

96.0

96.400

0.470

95.0

95.370

0.490

90.0

89.360

0.460

85.0

85.550

0.740

80.0

80.880

0.980

75.0

76.420

1.175

70.0

70.840

0.910

65.0

66.580

1.830

What is the next step?

Career Launcher has always believed in helping the students as much as possible and this remains true for the AI-Driven CAT percentile predictor. Based on your predicted percentile, you can take a call on how you want to proceed:

  • Fill the CAT Score Calculator available till CAT Answer key is released.
  • Upload your Actual Paper after the Answer key is released.

About the CAT Percentile Predictor

Our predictor has also been able been to make remarkably good predictions when patterns have changed dramatically (number of sections, number of questions etc etc) . Our students have often marvelled at the accuracy of the predictor. It is not unusual for us to hear terms like 'surreal' or even 'creepy' when get some predictions right to the second decimal!

Here are some points to be noted about the CL Percentile Predictor.

  • At present our predictor is able to do normalization across slots (using the CAT provided scaling formula)
  • The CL Predictor tends to be most accurate at the higher percentiles
  • At the lower percentiles errors tend to creep in since we tend of less data at those levels (e.g < 70%ile).
  • The more data we get , the better it performs.

 

How the CAT Percentile Predictor Works

The Career Launcher CAT Percentile Predictor has its backing in data and has been built on the foundation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Moreover, our Career Launcher gurus bring their expert knowledge into the model to create the most accurate CAT Percentile Prediction model.

  • The first step in this process is to collect the data. This is done with the help of our students as they key in their attempts and how they believe they have scored.
  • Based on this data, we build a rudimentary structure of how students have likely scored. This is the data which is worked on by our AI algorithm.
  • The next step is to accommodate the input of the experts in this model. Their inputs are taken into consideration to determine whether the model needs to be tweaked.

This is the basic structure with which the Career Launcher's AI-Driven CAT Percentile Predictor operates.

 

Performance of the CAT Percentile Predictor

Career Launcher's AI-Driven CAT Percentile Predictor has been widely used over the past few years. If we look at its performance based on past years, Possible deviations from the predicted percentiles as observed in the previous CAT results are given below:

  • Deviation of around 0.5%ile - Prediction accuracy of 97.7% for candidates scoring above 98%ile and 95.6% accuracy for candidates scoring above 95%ile
  • Deviation of around 1%ile - Prediction accuracy of 97.7%ile for candidates scoring above 98%ile, 97.5% accuracy for candidates scoring above 95%ile and 92.3% accuracy for candidates scoring above 90%ile

CAT 2022 IIM Calls Achievers

Calls from IIM Ahmedabad
404

IIM-A Calls

Calls from IIM Bangalore
524

IIM-B Calls

Calls from IIM Calcutta
380

IIM-C Calls