IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

CAT exams are more about practice. It is more speed and accuracy than knowledge (unlike JEE). Questions are essentially very easy and if given sufficient time, you will be able to solve all the questions yourself. Hence you should focus more on practice under exam like situations. Post mock tests you should always evaluate what went right and what went wrong. Try to develop an understanding of your strong areas and the weak ones. Improve on weak areas and continue to do well on your strong areas.

Yes. Maths is very useful for CAT. One of the two papers in CAT checks your quantitative abilities. However majority of questions are from class 9th to 12th maths. Also you should not base your life decisions on requirements of one examination. If you think your time and energy are useful in other subjects than maths, I think you should take that up.

I don't think you will receive GDPI call from IIMs with 82 percentile in CAT. You will have to do really well and score atleast 99.5 percentile to get GDPI calls from atleast few older IIMs. Please understand that on an average 2 lakh students appear for CAT and 82 percentile means there are 36,000 students who have scored more marks than you. Seats in all IIMs combined is not more than 2000.

Fees of IIM is same irrespective of which major you choose. Also first year course curriculum is same for all and it is only in second year that you can choose HRM subjects. Having said that the fee of different IIMs are different. Fee of IIMA is around Rs.18 Lakhs for two years for IIMB it is close to Rs.20 Lakhs.

It would totally depend on your preferences. First year courses are compulsory courses and in second year you have option to pick electives and decide on which subjects you want to study. The options available to you include Human Resource, IT, Finance, Marketing, Organization Behavior, Strategy, Operations etc. Based on your preferences you can pick subjects in second year.

It would totally depend on you. First of all you should identify your strong areas and your weak areas. This would only be done if you have evaluated your mock tests properly. Remember that the key to crack CAT is SPEED and ACCURACY. Hence it is important that you solve as many questions as possible correctly. And this would only come with practice. Hence in short, practice as much as you can.