IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

There are certain courses that take admission on profile, but that is limited for people who have some work experience. In my experience that is harder to crack. However you can look at that. One such institute is S.P. Jain. You can inquire more about that from admission office.

There are several areas that offer courses for all the students. However in first year, everyone has to complete same courses and there are no choices offered. However in second year you can pick which area you want to specialize in. There are several areas including and not limited to Marketing, Finance, HR, Public Policy, Strategy, Organization Behavior, Quantitative etc.

It would totally depend on your preference and your strengths. For example, if you are good in quant I would suggest finance or general MBA. Or you like marketing or operations, you can choose that specialization. Job prospect wise, its all same with minor difference. I would recommend that you pick courses/specialization that you like or are good at.

It would violate the privacy of the candidates and it would not be representative of the situation. As CAT is held in different slots and with different difficulty level. Unless normalized, stand alone scores would mean very little. Hence they publish only normalized rank and percentile (which is rank of candidates).

I don't think you would get good college with this percentile. I would suggest that you prepare well and write it once more. But to answer your question, IIT Madras, TA Pai, XIME Bangalore, etc. accept MAT score. Also if you are writing MAT, i would suggest that you write CAT as well. There are better colleges enrolled with CAT.

It would totally depend on your preference and your strengths. Please understand that almost in 90% of the cases, most people have completely unrelated graduation background. For example, if you are good in quant I would suggest finance or general MBA. Or you like marketing or operations, you can choose that specialization. Job prospect wise, its all same with minor difference. I would recommend that you pick courses/specialization that you like or are good at.

There are a lot of good colleges in Delhi. Several magazines and independent institutions publish MBA school rankings. You can look at some of these and believe the ones that you personally trust. However, as far as I am concerned, I think FMS Delhi, MDI Gurgaon, IIT Delhi are few really good choices.

With less than 60% in graduation, many colleges would not consider you for admission. However there are special cases that you can look for. A few b-schools accept students based on their profile (mostly work-experience). You can look at that. Also IIMs offer interview call to everyone who secures a rank of less than 100 in CAT (irrespective of previous performance). You can look at these options.

The only solution for this is practice. I would encourage you to practice more and more. If you can, form a group of three to four friends and make it a point to converse in English always. At the same time listen to audio books of novels or whatever you are interested in. You should also try to write one essay daily, it will help you in restructuring your thoughts in English. And lastly, get a subscription of good English daily newspaper or magazine and read it loud daily for at least 30 minutes. In short, more you practice, better you will be.