The Common Admission Test (CAT) is the first and the most important component to get admission to the IIM Ahmedabad. In order to get admission to IIM A, you must obtain a good percentile in the CAT. However, scoring a mere percentile in the CAT will not give you a guarantee to get an interview call as IIM Ahmedabad has a very complex admission process.

IIM Ahmedabad gives consideration to a lot of factors while giving an interview call. These factors include CAT score, Class 10, Class 12, and Bachelor's degree marks, work experience, academic, and gender diversity, etc. Having no work experience will not hamper your selection chances but you will not get points allotted for the work experience. Your first priority should be to clear both the overall percentile of 80 and sectional percentile of 70 in each section.

If you even score somewhere around 99 percentile in the CAT , this will not mean that you will get a confirm Interview call. Therefore, the CAT score is not the only criteria but is one of the major criteria for admission to the institute.

The marks obtained by you in Class 10, Class 12, and Graduation will play a major role to get a shortlist for the WATPI process and during your final selection. Therefore, you have good chances to get admission in IIM Ahmedabad subject to the condition that you must perform well in the CAT followed by the WATPI process.

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The marks obtained by you in Class 10, Class 12, and Graduation are quite good. However, whether you will get admission in IIM Ahmedabad , IIM Bangalore or IIM Calcutta will primarily depend upon the percentile obtained by you in the CAT followed by your performance in the WATPI/ GDPI round conducted by these institutes. Your participation in various extra-curricular activities might give you an edge during the Interview process but will not help you to get a shortlist for the Interview round or final admission. You will be required to score good percentile in the CAT and must perform very well during the Interview round. Apart from the CAT, you can appear for the other management entrance tests such as XAT , SNAP, NMAT , MICAT, etc. and must consider other top business schools apart from the IIMs to increase the chances of your admission.

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Scoring a mere percentile in the CAT does not give you a guarantee to get an interview call from IIM Ahmedabad as the institute has a very complex admission process. IIM Ahmedabad gives consideration to a lot of factors while giving an interview call to candidates. These factors include CAT score, Class 10, Class 12, and Bachelor's degree marks, work experience, academic, and gender diversity. If you even score somewhere around 99 percentile in the CAT , this will not mean that you will get a confirm call from IIM Ahmedabad. However, if you belong to the reserved category, then there are good chances of receiving an interview call at less percentile. Therefore, the CAT score is not the only criteria but is one of the criteria for admission to the IIM Ahmedabad . The cutoff will depend upon various factors which will change every year. However, candidates must meet the minimum overall percentile of 80 and sectional percentile of 70 in all three sections (less percentile for reserved category candidates) to become eligible to receive the WATPI shortlist.

You can predict your CAT percentile by using the CAT Percentile Predictor 2024 .

The academic scores that you have obtained in your Class 10, Class 12, and Graduation are good enough to help you during the selection process of IIM Ahmedabad. The minimum eligibility criteria to appear for the CAT is a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 50% marks or equivalent CGPA (45% marks for SC/ ST/ PwD category candidates). Your academic score will help you getting an Interview shortlist. But first, you need to obtain good percentile in the CAT . The percentile obtained by you in the CAT matters a lot along with other components such as Class 10, Class 12, Graduation marks, work experience, and academic diversity. If you will not be able to clear the minimum required overall and sectional percentile, then you will not be able to get WATPI shortlist from the IIM Ahmedabad . Therefore, now your first priority should be to score good percentile in the CAT.

Also Check: CAT Percentile Predictor 2024 .

Business Schools across the country especially the IIMs promotes the academic diversity so that students from different academic backgrounds can bring fresh and unique perspective on the table during the discussion in the classroom. Students from different academic background such as Engineering, Commerce, Arts, Management, etc. get admission in IIMs. As you are pursuing History Hons and if get admission to IIM Ahmedabad, you will have to study different management related subjects which you have not studied during your graduation. The difficulty level of the journey will depend that how well you will be able to understand the course curriculum.