IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management

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.

You can always take educational loan. Since after placements from IIM's your financial condition will be good, you will always manage to pay your loan without any issue.

Both are good. Global exposure is an added element in PGDM.

It depends on what you learn during your work experience and how you are able to convince the interview panel during your interview. Hence, worrying about it now would be counterproductive. Hope I have answered your question. All the best!!

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.

It is always better to do a productive work rather than sitting idle. Hence it is advised to take up the clerical job and leave it later to continue with your MBA education when the time arrives.

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

Hi there,
It depends on your CAT score and the personal interview.
All the best!