IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

As per the eligibility criteria of CAT Candidate should Hold a Bachelor's Degree and have secured a minimum of 50% marks or equivalent CGPA. The students belonging to any of the reserved categories like Scheduled Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), and Persons with Disability (PWD) or Differently Able (DA) category must have at least 45% marks. So your overall degree percentage should not be below the 50% of marks.

Academic performance is an important component for Iims and contributed about 25% in selection. While CAT score, What, PI and work experience are the other important components. Leading Iims like IIM-A, B and C required the CAT percentile above 99. while IIM Lucknow, Indore and Kozhikode needs CAT percentile between 97-98. The CAT percentile between 94-95 can be safe for Iims like Trichi, Raipur, Ranchi and Kashipur. So keeping your CAT and Academic performance in consideration, your chances for Iims Trichi, Raipur, Ranchi and Kashipur are high.

The eligibility criteria for One Year Post Graduate Programme in Management for Executives (MBA-PGPX) of IIM-A is given below. Eligibility criteria : 1. Educational qualifications : Bachelor Degree or equivalent 2. Entrance scores acceptable : A valid GMAT/GRE score (GMAT/GRE scores are valid for five years from the date to the application deadline date of the round in which candidate is applying. 3. Work experience : Minimum 4 years of full time work experience after completion of graduation . 4. Age : 25 years

As per the IIM-A selection criteria, Your 10th marks will give you 5 rating score out of 10, 12th marks will give you 8 rating score while 10 is for Bachelor degree. So you are getting 23 rating scores for your academic performance out of 30. The CAT percentile is very important and you need to score above 99 percentile in order to filling the gap created in Academic rating. The AWT and PI are the another factors plays important role in selection of a candidate. So only academic performance is not guaranteed for selection in IIMs.

It depend on few question like
1) online or class coaching
2) what is your present level and time left for test.
You might be appearing g for upcoming CAT 2020.
Firstly , be clear with specilization and college you want to target IIFT or XLRI, General MBA or specialized.
There are few coaching well know for CAT preperation like T.I.M.E and CL with pan India presence.
There are few books which are complete package for self study.
Best wishes.

You are eligible.Some IIMs like IIM A have made some changes in their admission policy.Earlier even 95% could not assure you admission in IIM A .Now their is less priority to academic and more on overall but one need to get minimum cut of score .You can read the new admission policy by IIM A .There are other b school with decent fees and value.
Best wishes.