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Aurka there is no eligibility criteria for minimum years of work experience in any of the IIMs. Work experience is one of the parameters involved in making your aggregate score with some weightage generally around 5-10% in every IIM. Only eligibility criteria to appear in CAT exam is to have more than 50 percent of marks in 10th, 12th and graduation all the three exams. After that in order to get a call for the second round of GD and interview from IIM Calcutta, you need to atleast have 99.7+ percentile in CAT exam.

But getting percentile only is not sufficient as the merit list is based on the aggregate score which is based on different parameters such as CAT marks, 10th, 12th and graduation percentage, work experience, engineer or non-engineer, gender etc. whose weightage vary according to different colleges. So, you need to have an overall strong profile along with high percentile to get a call for the second round. After that, a new merit list is made including the marks obtained in WAT and interview. In this final merit list generally, Interview marks, CAT marks and WAT marks have the highest weightage and is used to offer admission to the college.

Feel free to ask if you have any more queries. All the best!!

Ofvourse it is CAT, Its conducted and prepared by IIM which is the top managment school in our country.Apart from it most of the managment institutions will accept CAT.

However,If you are planning to study abroad GMAT is essential. GMAT is also widely accepted throughout the country but when its compared to CAT . CAT is importrant.

Hi Priya,

Well the colleges that accept GMAT are

• All the IIMs
• ISB, Hyderabad
• Top IITs that offer MBA
• SPJAIN
• IMT Ghaziabad
• MDI Gurgaon
• XIMB etc

These were some top colleges that accept GMAT in India and there are many more colleges who do.

Hope it helps.

Good Luck!

Hello Chinthalapudi,

CAT and GMAT are basically entrance exams for admission in MBA in top institutes in India and abroad as well. CAT score is accepted by the institues that are based in India and GMAT score is accepted both by institutes based in India and as well as in abroad like London Business School, Stanford Universitey and so on.

Hello Amol,

If you wanna study abroad the steps to be followed must be in a sequence,such as;

1.First search for the business schools abroad where you would like to study

2.Check the deadlines for the business courses. Usually they have more than one round of deadlines. The US usually recommend international students to apply in the first or second round itself so that they have enough time for VISA application.

3. Eligibility sould be checked. Most of the universities in USA require the applicant to have a minimum 16 years of education before applying for MBA. 

4. GMAT or GRE should be undertaken. GMAT score is very essential for admission abroad,it is valid for 5 years. A person cannot appear for more than 5 GMAT exams within a 12 month period.

5. Most US univerities seek for work experience for entry into their MBA programmes.

6. Interview is one of the most important rounds for admission. These are conducted by invitation only. The Universities invites the students after evaluation of their GMAT or GRE scores. 

7. After all this the offer letter if sent to the deserving candidate.

GMAT is administered throughout the year so there are no specific GMAT test dates . The test takers can choose any GMAT test date according to their preference.

I hope i have cleared all your doubts and hope it was helpful:)

All the best for your future.

Thank you.

Dear Bhargav,

There is no specific eligibility criteria for GRE or GMAT. However, you are required to have a UG degree from a recognised university.

Hope it helps.

Good Luck.