What should be my CAT 17 percentile and how can I get a call from IIM (A,B,C,L,I,K), FMS, and XLRI?

I am assuming you are from general category. Based on your overall academic profile, you will need to score atleast 99.4 percentile in CAT to get a call for the next round.

All the best!

Your academics are very good although the focus shall be on your CAT score ro receive call for GDPI.
I personally recommend you to target 99.5 percentile to definitely receive call.


For self study I recommend you to be dedicated and devote ample of time alongwith atleast 20 mock exams before final CAT exam to score decent marks. Analysis of mock exams and correcting your wrong answers is critical. If you have already started off with Quants preparation and you need higher difficulty level to crack, I suggest go with sarvesh Varma. If you're at just intermediate level, go with Arun Sharma, questions are clear concise and Lucid explanation is given for better understanding of fundamentals and Steps for approach. You can also refer books by nishit Sinha for Quants and Data Interpretation as there are quality numereical problems in this book. For Verbal ability and Logical Reasoning, Just refer TIME Coaching Material. Make sure you give ample of mock exams every month. All the Best.

Required CAT percentile depends upon profile. These days institutes not only consider CAT but also various other aspects in ones profiles. Good profiles may also get shortlist at 93 percentiles!

Profile would not only mean 10th,12th and Graduation score, but also past work experience, extracurricular activities and other interests!

To get a call from IIM A, B, C aim for a percentile above 99.7 seeing the last few years trend.



To get a call from IIM L and K aim to get atleast above 99 percentile.



But seeing  that your academic record you might still fail to get a call because each of the college has different weightage for each academic degree. And including marks for work experience, non engineer, gender they have set a min score which you need to clear in order to be eligible for getting shortlisted for 2nd round of interview.



I is the one who gives way more weightage to 10th 12th marks than CAT marks so you have negligible chance of getting a call from IIM I.



See if u can get a call for interview from any IIM then you with your extraordinary performance in interview can compensate the loss of marks in academic degrees. In the final aggregate list which decides your selection has higher weightage for interview and essay writing.



For getting a call for FMS interview aim above 99 percentile But as you know in the final list of FMS 85% weightage is given to CAT marks, 10% to interview, 5% to extempore and they have started giving 3% extra to girl for diversity promotion. So in order to get selected in FMS aims for above 99.7 percentile.



For XLRI you need to give XAT exam and score way above 99.5 percentile to get a call and fix admission in college.



All the best for your preparations and exams!!