SIES College of Management Studies

No, it is not necessary but it will act as an added advantage in GD-PI as well as in placement process.

The GD process can have topics ranging from current affairs to abstract topics. You can refer to websites like career ride and IndiaBix for the same. The PI can have questions based on your resume, work experience(if you have any), or on your graduation too.

Welingkar provides the best placements for marketing. It gives a lot of opportunities to students and also provides a global exposure. There are a lot of foreign companies which provide placements which gives students a chance to prove themselves on a global level. They have the top marketing companies coming for placements as well. It is the best B-School one can be a part of.

The GD/PI is pretty basic and one can crack it if one is up to date with all the things happening around in technology, business and politics space. Coming to your score, you should have an above average GD/PI with respect to others if you want to get through. Also, please consider giving other entrance exams as well to be safe.
Good luck.

The notification about the acceptance of various exam scores will be made available when the process begins. The process has not begun as such. The same will be notified via our website.
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The admission process has not begun as such. The same will be notified on our website.
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Please call the desk to find out whether you are eligible for PGDM degree since you have less than 50% in 10th and 12th. If you are eligible, there are companies which have no criteria as such w.r.t. to the percentage. It will matter as to how your interview with the panelist goes and how you can explain the low percentage scenario to the interviewer.

For PGDM, MMS, and AIMA, the total students are around 300, not 396. PGDM pharma and biotech have separate summer placements than others. Now coming to the final placements, marketing specialization has almost 90 - 95% placements, while the remaining specializations have a placement of around 80%.

There was no such cutoff, it was 60-40 based,40 for academics and other extra-curricular stuff and job experience and 60 for your GD-PI process.

It's not required that institute's names must be present in December MAT 2017. People can apply through the forms which will become available in the last week of December (most probably).