Hi

List of the top entrance examination for MBA is provided below:-

National level entrance

• CAT

• CMAT

• XAT

• IIFT

• SNAP

• NMAT by GMAC

• IBSAT

State level

• TS ICET

• AP ICET

• JEMAT

• MAH MBA CET

UNIVERSITY level entrance exams

• B-MAT

• NIPER JEE MBA

• CUSAT CAT

For detailed information about them you can visit our page for which link is provided below

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/top-mba-entrance-exams-you-must-take

To give you gist complete information about CAT,i s provided below

WHAT IS CAT

CAT i. e Common Admission Test is a national level entrance examination for admission in MBA/PGDM in B- Schools, including IIMs and several other prestigious B- Schools. It is conducted by IIMs themselves every year in rotation in online mode/computer based examination in English medium and it is accepted by  1100+ B-Schools.

CAT eligibility criteria says that:

To be eligible for CAT ,

• you need a  Bachelor's/graduation degree in any discipline

• you must have got  at least 50 per cent marks or equivalent CGPA in your graduation . SC/ST/PH students need only at least 45 percentage in Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline to be eligible .

• Candidates who are in the final year of their graduation are also eligible for CAT examination.

• There is no age restriction to be  eligible

• It is not mandatory to have work experience to be eligible

For detailed information go through

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

PAPER PATTERN

IIMs officially don't release cat examination pattern, expected CAT 2021 pattern is provided below:-

-)CAT 2021 will be of 2 hour duration

-)it is conducted in computer-based mode.

-)In cat 2021 , there will be a total of 76 questions - 54 mcqs and 22 non - mcqs

-)The complete paper will be divided into three major sections, which are listed below along with number of questions they have:-

• QA i. e quantitative Ability :- it will have 26 questions in total (18 mcqs and 8 non - mcqs)

• DILR i. e data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning :- it will have 24 questions (18 mcqs and 6 non - mcqs)

• VARC i. e Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension :- it will have 26 questions( 18 mcqs and 8 non - mcqs)

-)There's 40 minutes for each section .

Marking scheme:-

• 3 marks is awarded for every correct answer

• -1 marks for every wrong answer in case of mcqs

• no marks deduction is there for wrong answers in case of wrong non -mcqs .

HOW TO PREPARE

To start your cat preparation, first of all go through its syllabus at

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-syllabus

Top books which you can follow for CAT are listed below section wise  :-

QUANTITATIVE ABILITY

-)How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by  Arun Sharma:-

• it is the best  book  for your Aptitude for your cat examination .

• it covers all the topics according to your cat syllabus.

• it has elaborative examples so that it's easy for you to understand them .

• questions are divided into 3 levels of difficulty

DATA INTERPRETATION AND LOGICAL REASONING (DILR) :-

-)Logical reasoning and data interpretation for cat by K. Sinha Nishit:-

• the best thing about this book is it starts with your fundamental and basics and then goes to advanced level too, you get each topics with explained examples.

• it has questions divided into three difficulty  levels, so that you can start from basic and move ahead step by step

-) how to prepare for data Interpretation for cat by arun sharma :-

• it has  strategies and concepts which you need  to solve questions  accurately and quickly.

• it has exercises which are designed in a manner to help you boost your logical thinking etc.

VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION

-) word power made easy by norman lewis:-

• it is one of the best books that you can get for improving your vocabulary .

• it helps you in learning correct usage of words etc.

• at the end of each chapter you get review exercises

-) mastering the verbal ability for cat by ajay singh:-

• it has more than around 200 passages for your practice .

• it also contains test papers of other B-School as well, etc.

-) How to prepare for verbal ability and reading comprehension for the cat by arun sharma and meenakshi upadhyay:-

• it is written in a very lucid manner.

• it has past year question papers analysis .

• you get topicwise segregation  in this book along with mock papers for your practice.

For detailed information go through our page the link for the same is provided below

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/best-books-for-cat-preparation

*Make a routine and religiously follow it as it will help you to utilise the time in the best possible way and  avoid procrastination and laziness .

*Keep short breaks of 20 to 25 minutes after every 1.5 to 2 hours between your studies in your routine .Half of the time of your studies must be for practicing questions

* Plan your studies, and set daily, weekly and monthly goals and meet them without any fail.

*Solve previous  year question papers of CAT :-it will let you know the examination pattern, type and difficulty level of questions, also concepts behind the question often gets repeated, so you should definitely solve year papers . You can get cat previous year question papers at https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-question-papers

*Once you are done with complete CAT syllabus then go through CAT mock test papers , it will let you know your preparation level and and weak areas so that you can work on them and perform well in your examination

For detailed information go through

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat/amp

Thank you

Hi

Getting a call from a B- School depends upon a number of factors like  your percentile  score in CAT and academic profile i. e.percentage of marks obtained by you in  class 10th, 12th and graduation, work experience. Your marks in 10th and 12th are average but your graduation marks compensates for it so over all you have a decent academic profile

With your overall 99 percentile in CAT you have good chances in following top  B schools which are listed below :-

*IIM Bodh Gaya
*IMT Ghaziabad
*IIM Shillong
*IIM Rohtak
*IIM Trichy
*IIM Udaipur
*MDI Gurgaon
*NITIE Mumbai
*FMS, University of Delhi
*IIM Indore
*IIM Kozhikode
*IIM Ranchi
*Goa Institute of Management, Goa
*IIM Amritsar

And more

For details you can checkout our page, the link for the same is provided below.

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/which-b-schools-can-i-get-if-my-cat-percentile-between-90-and-100

After getting a call , one has to go through WAT/GD/PI , and then he/she is finally selected for admission on the basis of performance in these rounds  , percentile score in CAT, academic profile and work experience.

To get the list of colleges that you can get call from  for your MBA, you can use CAT call predictor, the link for the same is provided below

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

It will let you know the colleges from which you have chance to get a call  for  PGDM or MBA based on your category, your percentile score in CAT examination and your academic profile .

If you have any other doubt then feel free to ask them :) we are always here to help you out and guide you

Thank you

Hello,

If you can qualify all the rounds of selection and can give them a solid reason for your 3 year gap then you can surely get that job. They would otherwise state that the there should be no gap, unless stated then the gap wouldn't be a problem. You just need to impress them with your talent and knowledge and prove it to them that you have a passion for working there. These will be tested when they carry out the various tests at different stages of the recruitment process. So do well in those and when asked about the gap in the HR round you can explain your reason to them.

Good Luck

So did you get the admission?

And can you also tell  me more about movement in wait list.

Hello Dear,

You can login through your registered email id and password.If you have filled the application form online and submitted the application form and pay the application fee. Then there shouldn’t be any problem because you can get the confirmation once you submit the form and pay the fees.  And, if you are not able to access the website you should contact the exam authority by writing email or calling at the official contact numbers.

Hope that’s helpful.

Dear Aspirant,

depending on the previous years cutoff, there is a good chance you will be able to fetch yourself a seat at IIT Kharagpur based on your CAT percentile. Some of the other colleges you are eligible to secure a seat in are,

• IIT Delhi
• IIT Bombay
• IIT Kanpur
• IIM Amritsar
• IIM Nagpur

As you are well aware the cutoff for each year differs depending upon various criteria hence to get a more accurate prediction kindly visit the link given below.

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

Hello Aspirant,

Since you have not mentioned your category so considering it as general.

As per your category and expected percentile in CAT with other academic data which you have provided in the question you have very low chances for getting Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi.

Note that the above prediction is made on the basis of previous year's selection results and cut-offs are bound to change every year depending upon various factors such as the number of candidates appearing in an examination, the number of candidates qualifying an examination, difficulty level of the paper, and so on.

To check the cut-off of all IIMs and other B-schools, kindly check out the link given below :-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/top-b-schools-accepting-cat-scores-and-cutoffs

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!!

Greetings,

Based on factors like:

- National Reputation and ranking

- Academics and Faculty

- Placements and internships

- Infrastructure

- Student culture

Alliance and IFIM are the most sough after colleges our of the 4 you have named. They are also the best ranked ones in terms of being private colleges.

Alliance:

- Great ranking

- Avg. Placement package in 2020 = approx. 8 lacs per annum

- Course fees = approx. 14 lacs

- Infrastructure = 4/5

- College culture = pretty decent (university well established)

IFIM:

- Great ranking

- Avg. Placement package in 2020 = approx. 7 lacs per annum

- Course fees = approx. 12 lacs

- Infrastructure = 3/5

- College culture = 3/5

SIBM:

- Highly praised by alumni

- Avg. Placement package in 2020 = approx. 10-11 lacs per annum

- Course fees = approx. 15 lacs

- Infrastructure = 3.5/5

- College culture = Good-ish

XIME:

- Great ranking

- Avg. Placement package in 2020 = approx. 7 lacs per annum

- Course fees = approx. 10 lacs

- Infrastructure = 3/5

- College culture = decent

Hope it helps,

Best of luck for the future, Good day!