IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

It depends on your short term future goal. If you are planning to get a degree for the learning you will gain from it then go ahead with e-PGP degree. Knowledge gained is top-notch in any program offered at IIM-A. But if your primary focus is to get a head start in career progression in terms of placements, then no, e-PGP won't offer your placements. According to your short-term goals, it might or might not be a good investment for you.

Do understand that each institute have separate selection criteria to shortlist students and finally offer them admission to their MBA courses. Having said that, with decent academic credentials and average WAT-PI with any percentile around 99 you should get admission to top B-Schools. This is again my personal view & cannot be validated with data.

Yes, you can apply for CAT 2017 while working in a bank. Coming to points for work experience, individual IIM's have their rating criteria to rate quality and quantity of your work experience. As a thumb rule, people with work experience between 2-3 year get the highest points and points awarded anything more or less than that reduces linearly. A work experience of 6 months or so will not have any significant effect on your composite score but might sway the interview towards work experience rather than academics.

Cut-off marks for 10th, 12th & graduation is around 50% for admission into IIM A. Having said that, clearing the cut-off score doesn't guarantee an interview call from IIM A. Refer the selection criteria of IIM A to get more clarity in the matter:
https://web.iima.ac.in/programmes/admission-details/admission-procedure-for-pgp-2017-19-batch.html