Hello,

Yes, there are integrated BBA-MBA programs offered by IIM Indiore. These programs are designed for students who want to pursue a management education right after completing their 12th grade. The entrance exam for this is IPMAT. As for IIFT, they have their own entrance exam called IIFT Entrance Exam.

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The duration of time between the completion of your graduation and your admission to the business school will be considered as a gap year. Therefore, considering the fact that you have completed your graduation in 2023, will appear for the CAT in 2024, and get admission to an MBA college in 2025 after completion of your entire selection process, this will be considered a two-year gap.

However, there is no need to worry about this gap year as you can easily justify it during the Personal Interview process. You can justify this gap by doing Internships, Certificate courses, pursuing something related to your area of interest, or by making the interviewer realize the need to invest substantial amount of time in exam preparation. This gap year will not impact your selection chances in the business school.

You might need nothing less than 95-97 percentile. This is because FMS Delhi usually has the highest cut offs for its 200 seat intake. The selection process includes 3 stage method. They are:

Eligibility Criteria
Group Discussion and Personal Interview
Final Selection

The basic eligibility criteria remains 50% aggregate for General Category in Graduation and 45% for Reserved Categories or equivalent CGPA from any recognised University. The percentiles in CAT are considered for the further rounds. In 2018, the weightage given for various sections of CAT have been as follows:

QA: 30%
DILR: 30%
VARC: 40%
An additional 3 marks are added to the Composite score in case of women for shortlisting. This score is used only for shortlisting Candidates for Personal Interview. The weightage for Final selection is as follows:
Personal Interview: 15%
CAT score: 60%
Group Discussion: 10%
Extempore: 5%
10th marks: 5%
12th marks: 5%
An additional 3 marks of the maximum aggregate will be added to the women candidates who have attended the Interview. Now with all this process, the cut offs is an important issue to be discussed. Previously FMS used to consider overall CAT score for shortlisting. However since the past 2 years, FMS has been giving sectional preference and weightage. VARC occupies the top position with 40% weightage. A Candidate with at least 97 sectional weightage will be shortlisted at FMS. So it is important to focus more on VARC section while not leaving other sections.

Hey B schools are colleges, Universities and Institutions that offer courses and degrees in business studies. All business related colleges, universities and institutions in India apart from IIMs can therefore here be stated as the aforementioned B schools.

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Hello,

In Canada the eligibility criteria for MBA is passed bachelor's degree in any discipline from a recognized university, GMAT scores of above 550, IELTS score of above 6.5, some universities may ask about two to three years of work experience, however there is exception also such as University of Windsor/ Dalhousie University/Thompson Rivers University/Cape Breton University/Brock University don't ask for work experience, in many colleges even scores of GRE and TOEFL are accepted respectively, when it comes to Germany the admission process takes place in January and September session, candidates who have passed graduation in any discipline with 60% aggregate or above are eligible to apply, the required aggregate vary among colleges, candidates need to pass IELTS/TOEFL for language proficiency test, GRE/GMAT scores are accepted for admission, the duration can range from 12 months to 24 months, some universities may emphasize on having two years or above work experience, in many cases candidates with three years bachelor's degree followed by one year of MBA too are eligible to study master in business administration in Germany, candidates opting for courses in Germany  need to pass TestDAF/DSH respectively, if you want to aim for universities asking about work experience then it's best you gain the same in your country, simultaneously do some certification courses, and thereby build your profile, further you can explore options of higher studies in Canada or Germany as per your wish.

Hello aspirant,

YES, you can definitely crack CAT exam, if you have the ability and determination to do so. Your class 10th and 12th marks don't matter. Only matters is your determination and hard work in giving the CAT Examination.

To be eligible in CAT Exam : the candidate has to pass at least their Bachelor's degree with at least 50% (for General Category and for candidates from the NC-OBC caste) . For SC/ST and Differently Abled (DA) candidates, the percentage required is 45%.

Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Differently Abled (DA) category candidates need 45% marks in graduation . Candidates in final year of Graduation are also eligible to apply for CAT 2021. Candidates who have completed professional degree (CA/CS/ICWA) with 45% marks.

Further, if you wish to know more about the Eligibility criteria of CAT exam, then you can follow the below mentioned link : https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-eligibility-criteria

Further, if you wish to crack CAT and want to get admission in top B schools or IIM, then you can follow the below mentioned steps to know more :

• Focus on enhancing your basics of mathematics.

• Learn topics like profit and loss, number system, geometry as they will form key questions in CAT 2022.

• Practice as much as you can and go for mock tests.

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• Reading as much as possible is the best way to crack this section and score good marks.

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• Go through newspapers, journals, blogs, articles, etc to enhance your reading skills.

  • Try solving questions based on comprehension, inferences, and para jumbles. Candidates can join any private tuition or take CAT coaching and prepare from the foundational booklets provided to them.

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  • Considered to be one of the toughest section in CAT exam, needs a lot of hard work to be done from the candidate’s side.

  • Check the previous year's question papers of CAT and try to re-attempt those questions.

  • Try to study basic topics like seating arrangements, blood relations, syllogisms, etc to grip hands on this section. Do no use a calculator while solving questions.

Further, to know more about the preparation tips and strategies to crack CAT Exam you can follow the below mentioned link : https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat

I hope that this will help.

Hello Aspirant,

See with such academic record and OBC quota you need at least 98+ CAT percentile to get call from top IIMs such as IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and so on.

So now let us discuss about admission criteria of some of the top IIMs like IIM A,B&C :-

IIM Ahmedabad

Admission process for IIM A is a two step process. First step is for preliminary screening on the basis of Sectional cut-offs and overall cut-offs along with different rating points for IIM A which are described in the tables below and you need to clear sectional cut-off as well as Overall cut-off :-

Ratings on the basis of class 10th score :-

Rating on the basis of class 12th score :-

Rating scores on the basis of field of graduation and percentage :-

Rating scores on the basis of work experience (if any) :-

After considering all the ratings on the basis of above discussed factors candidates are shortlisted for Step 2 which is Analytical Writing Test and Personal Interview round.

You can check out complete admission process for IIM A from the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-ahmedabad-admission-criteria

IIM Bangalore

In IIM B also there is a two stage selection process and the cut-offs are given below :-

For shortlisting of candidates for PI and AWT following weightage is considered by IIM B :-

Note that weightage mentioned is in points and the 40 points of CAT weightage can be bifurcated as follows  :-

• Verbal & Reading Comprehension (VARC) - 14 points
• Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR) - 16 points
• Quantitative Aptitude (QA) - 10 points

You can check out complete admission process for IIM B from the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-bangalore-admission-criteria

IIM Calcutta

In IIM C also there is a two stage selection process and the cut-offs are given below :-

For IIM C also you need to clear the above cut-offs and your points as mentioned in the above table should be decent enough to get shortlisted for Stage 2 which is of AWT and PI.

Final selection will be made on the basis of following weightage :-

You can check out the link given below for complete admission Process of IIM C :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-calcutta-admission-criteria

You can also use CAT Pathfinder to predict your chances to get call from different IIMs :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/pathfinder/cat

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!