MICAT Cut Off 2026: Expected Cutoff and Previous Year Trends, Selection Process

MICAT 2026 Cutoff: MICA Ahmedabad will release the MICAT cutoff on its official website. After the declaration of MICAT results, the institute will release the merit list for General Exercise (GE) and Personal Interview (PI) rounds. Candidates must secure minimum marks in the MICAT Exam 2026 to attend the further rounds of the MICA admission criteria to get PGDM and PGDM(C) course admission. MICAT I result will be declared in December 2025. Read this article to know the expected sectional-wise MICAT cutoff marks required in each round of the MICAT selection procedure as per the previous year's trends.

MICAT Cutoff 2026: Expected

Candidates who appeared for the MICAT exam do not receive any sectional-wise or overall MICA cutoff from the institute. Based on the difficulty level and MICAT 2026 Exam Pattern, the MICAT cutoff marks mentioned in the table below can vary. MICAT scorecard will help the candidates gauge the cutoff. Candidates can check out the expected MICAT cutoff marks required to apply for the MICA Ahmedabad admission.

MICAT Cutoff 2026: Sectional-Wise

Candidates can check the section-wise MICAT cutoff marks required to apply for MICA Ahmedabad admission.

Check: MICAT 2026 Application Process

Factors Determining MICAT Cutoff 2026

MICAT cutoff marks are determined by the following parameters mentioned below:

• The total number of candidates who appeared for the MICAT exam
• Difficulty level of MICAT 2026
• Previous year's MICAT cutoff trends
• Total number of seats available at MICA Ahmedabad.

MICAT Merit List Cutoff 2026

Candidates need to secure 3.5 out of 5 in the general exercise and 4 out of 5 in the interview round to get into the MICAT merit list. The MICA Ahmedabad shortlist is prepared based on the composite score by taking 20% CAT/XAT/GMAT and 30% MICAT scores. Check out the table below to know the MICAT cutoff demanded for general exercise and interviewer rounds to get into the MICAT merit list 2026.

MICAT Result 2026

MICAT result is announced separately for phases 1 and 2. MICAT result 2026 for phase 1 will be released in December 2025, and for phase 2 it will be in February 2026. Candidates who appear in the MICAT exam can check the MICAT Result 2026 by visiting the official website, mica.ac.in. The candidates who pass the entrance test as per the MICAT 2026 result will have to participate in the Group Exercise (GE) and Personal Interview (PI). Know more details about MICAT result 2026 below.

How to check MICAT Result 2026?

Follow the steps below to check the MICAT result 2026:

• Go to the official website of MICA Ahmedabad – mica.ac.in.
• Click on the ‘MICAT result’ tab.
• Enter the login ID and password.
• Now, the MICAT 2026 result will be displayed on the screen.
• Download and take a printout of the MICAT result/scorecard for future reference.

MICAT Selection Procedure 2026

Candidates who qualify for the entrance test will have to appear for the General Exercise (GE) and Personal Interview (PI) rounds. During GE and PI, candidates need to demonstrate their ability to conceive and express ideas that can be translated into workable action plans and help a given business in a concrete and meaningful way. The GE and PI is a test conducted to know how candidates will solve a real-world problem with real-life consequences. The MICAT selection process is divided into 3 stages:

• Qualifying CAT/XAT/GMAT
• MICA Admission Test (MICAT)
• GE and PI

MICAT Admission Procedure 2026

Step 1. CAT/XAT/GMAT: Candidates have to pass and secure at least a minimum score in one of these three exams to be considered eligible for admission at MICA. While filling the MICAT application form, candidates will have to enter either their CAT or GMAT score or their XAT registration number in the form.

Step 2. MICA Admission Test (MICAT): Here, candidates have to appear for the MICAT exam held by MICA Ahmedabad. The MICA admission test will be divided into the following sections:

• Section A: Psychometric Test
• Section B: (has 4 sub-sections) - Verbal Ability, Quantitative Ability and Data Interpretation, General awareness; Divergent and Convergent Thinking
• Section C: Descriptive Test

Step 3. Group Exercise (GE) and Personal Interview (PI): After passing the entrance exam, candidates will be invited to take part in the Group Exercise and Personal Interview.

Shortlisting of Candidates for GE and PI

• Section A of MICAT (Psychometric test) is a qualifier.
• The institute will only consider the performance of those candidates on CAT/XAT/GMAT who have qualified for the psychometric test. For CAT/XAT, the minimum cutoff will be taken into consideration, whereas for GMAT, the institute will take the scores into account.
• Section B of MICAT exam will be assessed based on the candidate’s performance in the CAT/XAT/GMAT.
• Those candidates who pass based on the relative performance are subject to securing a minimum cutoff (normalized scores). Those who pass Section B of the MICAT entrance exam 2026 shall have their Section C of MICAT assessed. The institute will release the cutoff for each section of the test.
• Those candidates who qualify based on points 1, 2, 3, and 4 above (based on relative performance, subject to a minimum cutoff (as per normalized scores) of section C of MICAT) will be shortlisted for GE and PI. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to GE and PI at the different campuses - Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata & Mumbai. (The GE & PI candidate list is prepared based on the composite score formula of 20% weightage of CAT/XAT/GMAT and 30% weightage of MICAT scores).

MICAT 2026 Final Merit List Preparation

The institute will release the MICAT final merit list 2026 in online mode. Shortlisted candidates (who participate in GE and PI) who are mentioned in the final merit list have to be recommended by the majority of the PI panellists. Further, MICA will prepare the final composite score on the basis of the following weightage scheme:

MICAT 2026 Cutoff FAQs