Through CAT you get admission in top notch business schools in India. There are 20 IIM's in India and around 2 lakh candidates appear for this entrance. IIM's consider your past academic records like performance in 10th, 12th and even in graduation. Some consider it strictly while others gives it a less weight age. Then your CAT percentile is judged along with your profile. You are being interviewed and also there is a written aptitude test in most.

These are few factors on which you get finalised for the admission. So keeping these factors in consideration, your past academic scores are average and it will be tough for you if you lacked in your CAT exam and interview rounds. So you have to prepare efficiently and systematically.

Aim at getting a percentile above 98 to get into IIM's if any but good rated private institutes taking through CAT.

You can check what all colleges you can expect with your expected/predicted percentile through CAT pathfinder

Also you can check the list of top management institutes here .

MAT considers past academic records but not as strictly as IIMs. Aim scoring above 85-90 above percentile to get into decent management colleges in India.

Top management colleges which take through MAT

The selection criteria many vary college to college so you will have to check individually for the colleges you are interested in.

Good Luck.

Hi Hafeez! Now that there are approximately 25-30 days left for CAT and MAT December, hope you have completed your preparation and taken ample mock tests and analysed your preparation level. Coming to the B-schools you should choose, there are few factors to look for: Cutoff, admission criteria or parameters considered by B-schools. Tier 1 B-schools like IIMs or FMS consider past academic background, work experience along with high CAT percentile (95+ percentile). Hence, based on your profile, the you can apply to the following B-schools with your CATand MAT scores:

1. BIMTECH Greater Noida
2. TAPMI Manipal
3. Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management New Delhi
4. FORE School of Management
5. LIBA Chennai
6. WeSchool Mumbai
7. ABV - IITTM Gwalior
8. IMNU Ahmedabad
9. IFIM Bangalore
10. XIME Bangalore

Apart from these institutes, you can also look for the top B-schools accepting CAT and MAT scores along with their cutoffs:

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

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

https://bschool.careers360.com/colleges/ranking/2017

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