hey there,

yes, you can take the admission in B- school

All the IIMs have a two stage admission process. The first stage is CAT. The second stage is WAT-GD-PI process. After the second stage process, a final merit list is made. Some or all of the following components are considered for calculating final composite score for admission —

1. 10th Score
2. 12th Score
3. Graduation Score
4. CAT Score
5. Written Ability Test (WAT) Score
6. Group Discussion (GD) Score
7. Personal Interview (PI) Score
8. Work Experience Score
9. Gender Diversity
10. Academic Diversity

As you can see, there are a lot of components where you can still score well. You'll get full marks for academic diversity. If you have some work experience, you’'ll get some points for that too.

WAT, GD, PI are the important components here, PI being the most important among these three. If you perform well in this round, you have a good chance of getting an admit from top B-Schools.

With regards to the required score in CAT, I would suggest you to not to set a predefined target. If at all you want to target something, target a 100 percentile. Prepare hard and ensure that you end up with a 99+. This score will ensure that you get interview calls from all IIMs.

Also, you can take other management entrance tests like XAT and IIFT too.