IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

Practice is the only key to success in CAT. Questions are very easy and given sufficient time, everyone will be able to solve all the questions. The trick is to solve the questions when time is a constraints. Hence speed and accuracy matters a lot.I would suggest you improve on these two factors and practice is the only way to do that.

MBA is usually hectic, at least the first year. Hence I would advise you to relax now and meet your friends. Still if you want to do something, talk to people and try to network. Know more about the college you are going to and try to develop a understanding of different fields that you can choose eventually.

It depends and changes year to year. IIMA calculates composite score for all candidates. CAT percentile is the major component of the composite score. However it also depends on your marks of class 10th, 12th and graduations. It also takes into account your masters score and work experience if any. Hence if you have really good 10th, 12th, and graduation score, you can expect call from IIMA even with slightly lower CAT percentile. To give you a representative figure, if you have an average academic record, you will need to score 99.7 percentile. With really good record, you can expect a call with 99.2 -99.5 percentile as well.

Although you will clear all the cutoffs, but without a really good CAT score probably you will not receive interview call from IIMs. Given these score I would suggest that you should do really well in CAT and try to achieve at least 99.5 percentile. If you get more than 99.5 percentile with more than 95 percentile in all subsections, you will definitely get few interview calls from high ranked IIMs.

Yes, you can most certainly try again for CAT. There is no limit to number of attempts you can take for CAT. However they keep a count of number of attempts. You have decent academic record and a fair chance of getting into IIMs if you do good in CAT. I would suggest you prepare well and give it your best shot this year.

Yes, everyone is eligible to do an MBA. IIMs or any other business school doesn't discriminate students based on educational background. On the contrary, they promote diversity and in the process provide some relaxation to students with non traditional backgrounds. In my personal experience, I have seen a lot of doctors, CA, science graduates doing an MBA.