Dear Dipendra, we shall not sugarcoat things for you. But unless you score 99 percentile in CAT, IIMs can be little difficult for you. We shall explain this with the help of data and selection criteria of couple of IIMs.



IIM AHMEDABAD:



10th Rating:



Percent score      Rating Score



<= 55                              1



> 55 and <= 60             2



> 60 and <= 70            3



> 70 and <= 80             5



> 80 and <= 90             8



> 90                               10



The same rating score is used for 12th Science /Commerce Streams. For Arts/Humanities:



Percent score      Rating Score



<= 45                               1

> 45 and <= 50              2

> 50 and <= 60              3

> 60 and <= 70               5

> 70 and <= 85               8

> 85                                  10





Work Exp. in Months as on July 2019        Rating Score



< 12 months                                                                  0



> 36 months                                                                   5





Minimum cut offs for Average percent of marks scores:





Stream in 12th   UR   NC- OBC/Trans  SC   ST  PWD  PWD -ST



Science                80               75                70   65     70       65



Commerce           77              72                67   62     67       62



Arts & Humanities 75            70               64   59      64       59



From each Academic sectors top 5% from each stream and each Category will be short listed. After shortlisting the Candidates, the selected Candidates will have to go through WAT and PI rounds. Selection at this stage will strictly be based on the shortlisting of the candidates done separately for each Category on the basis of their Final Composite Score. The numbers selected in different reservation categories will be in proportions mandated by the law. After the AWT & PI round, admission offers are made by IIMA to successful candidates. The final selection is based on a diverse set of attributes which includes performance in CAT, performance in AWT & PI, academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements, work experience, etc.





IIM BANGALORE:



For all the Candidates shortlisted, the 10th and 12th board results are initially adjusted by dividing each such score by 90th percentile score of that board. And then an adjusted score is calculated for the Bachelor's degree for each of the candidates based on the final scores obtained by the candidate are used for the Bachelor's degree and professional degrees. For example,

CAT = 40

10th board = 20

12th board = 10

Bachelors = 20

Gender Diversity = 2

Work Experience = 8

The 40 points for CAT are derived from the performance in each of the three sections as follows:

Verbal & Reading Comprehension - 14 points

Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning - 16 points Quantitative Aptitude - 10 points.





IIM CALCUTTA:

The final selection is based on:



CAT 2019 Score 30

Personal Interview 48

Written Ability Test 10

Academic Diversity 04

Work Experience 08

Total 100





FMS DELHI:



QA: 30%

DILR: 30%

VARC: 40%



An additional 3 marks are added to the Composite score in case of women for shortlisting. This score is used only for shortlisting Candidates for Personal Interview. The weightage for Final selection is as follows:



Personal Interview: 15%

CAT score: 60%

Group Discussion: 10%

Extempore: 5%

10th marks: 5%

12th marks: 5%





An additional 3 marks of the maximum aggregate will be added to the women candidates who have attended the Interview. Now with all this process, the cut offs is an important issue to be discussed. Previously FMS used to consider overall CAT score for shortlisting. However since the past 2 years, FMS has been giving sectional preference and weightage. VARC occupies the top position with 40% weightage. A Candidate with at least 97 sectional weightage will be shortlisted at FMS.



So how should your score board look like???





FMS, Delhi needs 97 percentile.







IIM Shillong: 92 percentile







NITIE Mumbai: 91 percentile







IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode, IIM Tiruchirapalli, MDI Gurgaon, IIM Udaipur, IIM Rohtak, IIM Ranchi, IIM Kashipur, IIM Raipur, IMT Ghaziabad, IMI New Delhi, XIM Bhubaneshwar and New IIMS need 90 percentile





Now few IIMS have sectional weightage in CAT score and this is how it should like for you for a call from any IIM:



QA        DLR      VARC       Overall

General               80            80           80             90

NC-OBC               70             70         70              80

SC                          55            55        55               60

ST                         45            45         45               50

PwD                    45             45          45               50

Hello aspirant,



As per the information provided by you, your marks just are average in 10th, 12th and Graduation, therefore your chances of getting a call based on profile is quite low.. But in case  if you manage to score a percentile above 99 in CAT, then your chances of getting calls from top b-shool goes up.. Also since you do not have any work experience and now most of the colleges are considering work ex also, that'll act as a negative factor for you.. But still i can say that you can get calls from most of the top-bschool except old IIMs. And the point of converting the calls totally depends on the student how well he / she is able to tackle the gdpi and wat rounds..



All the best

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