Hi Rahul,

You have secured a good percentile in CAT examination. As you have secured 8204 percentile in SC category, you have chance to get a call from good IIMs. Also ,After every CAT exam every IIM prepares a merit list to call candidates for next round of interview based on your aggregate score which comprises of many parameters such as CAT marks, 10th, 12th and graduation percentage, work experience, whose weight varies for all different IIMs. As per your percentile you will get call from all the old IIMs, as well as new IIMs. You will get call from:

1. IIM Lucknow
2. IIM Indore
3. IIM Nagpur
4. IIM Calcutta
5. IIM Rohtak
6. IIM trichy
7. IIM Shillong
8. IIM Ranchi
9. IIM Vishakapatnam
10. IIM Jammu and many more.

Once you get call from IIM, you have to go through the WAT exam and interview process. On clearing both an another merit list will be prepared, which will select you to get enter into IIM.

Hello,

They provide dual degree program to some selected students. For IIM calcutta:- the process is selection through CAT/GMAT score. Then going through other screening tests. If you qualify then  you will get an admission. The process will be same for all the IIMs but may be the cutoff mark will vary with respect to campus location.

New IIMs are worth joining as said by the students who joined and they had a good experience there and they adventured many new things. Fee structure and hostel facilities are also good.

For more details you can check the dual degree program in IIM webpage. For IIM calcutta :- https://www.iimcal.ac.in/programs/pgp/double-degree-program/double-degree-program

Hope it helps!

Hii,

Academic marks are Important and will play a crucial role in getting the Admission to pursue MBA/PGDM in IIM. But the main prerequisite is you should get more than 95 percentile in CAT exam to get Interview call from IIM's. After getting the Interview call from IIM, one should perform well in GD and Personal Interview inorder to get the admission. Your Academics are good, Try to get a good CAT Score.

Hello,

Yes it is mandatory to stay in hostel in first year. After that you can choose not to stay in hostel or you can stay in hostel. You are provided with the choice to stay off campus with the condition that you make your arrangements at your own cost.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Arin.

Hi...

The score of 190 in CAT is very good.

But you have to mention the section wise marks.

For Quants:

64+ - 99.5+ percentile

52-55- 99+ percentile

41-45-95+ percentile

33-35-90+ percentile

For DILR:

50+    -99.5+ percentile

41-45 - 99+ percentile

32-36 -95+ percentile

22-27 -90+ percentile

For VARC:

80+ -99.5+ percentile

72-76 - 99+ percentile

60-66-  -95+ percentile

48-54 -90+ percentile

The colleges accepting the CAT between 98-99 percentile:

IIM Ahmedabad

IIM Bangalore

IIM Calcuta

IIM Lucknow

IIM Indore

DMS IIT, Delhi

SJMSOM

FMS University Delhi

Colleges accepting the CAT  between 95-98 percentile:

IIM Kozhikode

IIM Shilong

IIM Ranchi

IIM Rohtak

IIM Raipur

IIM Trichy

IIM kashipur

IIM Udaipur

IIM Bodh Gaya

NITIE, Mumbai

MDI, Gurgon

DOMs,IIT  Madras

IMT, Ghaziabad

t’s wonderful if you want to study at IIM ABCKL, but there are other brilliant institutes at well.  SP Jain is great for marketing.

XLRI has a good BM course and a best-of-the-bunch HR course.

IIFT Delhi and FMS are premier b-schools as well.

NITIE has the best operations course in India.

So you have wide range of options to select the colleges and there will be GDPI sessions which will also play a key role in getting into premium institutes.

Best luck...

There are 20 IIMs. Each IIM might have its own fee structure. But the average fee structure for each IIM might range from 9-22 lakhs. And IIMs do offer financial assistance in the form of scholarships and assistance in bank loans. You can check the no.of seats available in each IIM and their fees structure at our page: https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-fee-structure-and-seats

Hello Ninad,

During the interview, the members of panel wants to know about you, and how much passionately you are doing things in your life. They go through your academic profile as well. If you have some extra and interesting things to show it will definitely attract the panel. And they are bound to ask questions related to that course. If you are able to give answers, you will surely get benefitted. But stating a certificate doesn't means marks always. Your marks may get deduce also, so be careful.

Hope this will be helpful.

Good luck

Hi Ninad,

CAT scores are used for admission by 20 IIMs and various other management institutes across the country. Approximately about two lakh students or more appear for this exam every year.

CAT started in 1950 as a paper-based exam and transformed to become an online-entrance test in 2009. The question paper consists of 100 questions (MCQs) and the students are required to solve the same in 180 minutes. The number of questions might differ every year and are pre-informed to the students. Registration for CAT starts in the month of August or September and the exam is held in November or December.

The exam consists of four segments: Verbal, Quantitative, Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning. These segments are accordingly grouped into sections. CAT has three sections:

• Quantitative Aptitude (QA)
• Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR)
• Verbal and Reading Comprehension (VRC)

The selection process of IIMs involves a public declaration of expected cut-offs and reveal the final cut-offs only to the students involved in the process.

The top IIMs have declared their cut-off criteria as shown below,

• IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow have declared their qualifying CAT 2019 cut offs for admission to their PGP batch of 2020
• IIM Calcutta and IIM Bangalore have fixed 85 percentile in General category as minimum qualifying percentile for CAT
• IIM Lucknow has fixed 90 percentile in General category as minimum percentile for CAT for the upcoming academic year
• The lowest qualifying cut off is of IIM Ahmedabad at 80 percentile

There are various factors that determine the percentile kept for CAT cut-off. They are listed below,

1. Difficulty level of the exam
2. Number of aspirants appeared for the exam
3. Number of aspirants passed in the exam
4. Number of seats in a particular institute
5. Ranking of the institute

Further there are two types of cut-offs in the selection process,

1. Qualifying CAT cut-off (IIM eligibility cut off) ,
2. Final CAT cut-off (IIM call cut off)

Let me give a snapshot of the previous year’s cut-off of some top IIMs,

As we can see, there is not drastic change in the percentile for cut-off, we can take them safely for next year as well as for a student’s target. But the IIMs declared cut-off is the final cut-off required to clear.

After the candidate has cleared the required cut-off to be eligible for further selection, they will be subjected to Group Discussions and Personal Interviews. Candidate must take this round very seriously as this round can be interpreted as selection round unlike the CAT round, which is a pure eliminator round. IIMs like IIM Shillong, IIM Kozhikode also conduct GD round based on the WAT.

After the final selection round, a weightage is awarded to entrance scores, academic profile & diversity, work experience and gender diversity, and a final merit list is generated. Based on this merit list, admission offers are made by the respective B-schools to the deserving candidates. Also, a waiting list is prepared which contains the names of the students whose admission offers will be made automatically if few students in the original list offer to back out.

All the very best!!