Dear aspirant,

As you have mentioned that you have secured 87.6% in 10th board and 89.33% in 12th board so let me tell you that it's very difficult to get iim Bangalore in this cat percentile because in 90 percentile considering you from gem category.

Although various factors are considered while deciding the cut offs like number of candidates appearing in the examination number of vacant seats in college previous years cut offs.

For more information you can check out the link given below-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-cutoff/amp

Eligibility criteria for IIM

Bachelor's degree (minimum 50%) in any discipline as per the 10+2+3 norms.

Minimum 4 years work experience in any industry after the Bachelor’s degree.

Selection process

Submission of application with one of the following tests: CAT / GRE / GMAT/ IIMB Test

Followed by personal interview and written ability test for shortlisted candidates.

Short listing for interview based on performance in CAT / GMAT / GRE / IIMB Test, prior academic performance, and duration of work experience

Final selection is based on prior academic performance, duration of work experience, quality of work experience, and performance in the interview and the Writing Ability Test

Hello,

There are only few selective IIMs which offer integrated MBA that is BBA+MBA, such as admission to IIM Indore, IIM Rohtak, IIM Ranchi is done through IPMAT and on the other hand from this year IIM Jammu/Bodh Gaya offers the program through JIPMAT for which the entrance test is already concluded, you can visit the following pages to know more details regarding this:-

• IPMAT ~ https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/ipmat
• JIPMAT ~ https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/jipmat

A large number of top universities which conduct entrance test for admission of BBA has already concluded it, application forms are already closed hereby, however

Admission for BBA in various specializations is open at Sharda University, you can visit at https://admissions.sharda.ac.in/bba/ to know more details regarding this,

GD Goenka University offers BBA for admission you can check out at https://www.gdgoenkauniversity.com/course/bba/

NMIMS distance education BBA admission is open which you can check out at https://online.nmims.edu/program-search/?program_type=424&specialization=&duration=

Hello Ramakant,

Yes, certainly you can do an MBA in any niche after your B.Voc. The Eligibility criteria for pursuing an MBA is Graduate Degree. And BVoc is a proper Graduation Degree. So further if you are planning to do MBA you can do go for it.

However, you should be at least in your final year and have a valid CAT score clearing all the cutoffs. To know about the admission process of IIMs, you can visit the following link:

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-admission-criteria

Hope this information proves to be helpful and all the best.

I wouldnt say you will never be able to secure a seat in IIM, but honestly speaking, it would be tough, irrespective of your Category. However, you may still have fair chances in securing Interview Calls from some of the IIMs especially newer IIMs (CAP), with a strong performance in Class 12, Good Grades in Graduation and an Excellent 99+ Percentile CAT Score. Secondly, apart from IIMs and CAT, there are many Other Top Management Entrance Exams like MAT, XAT, SNAP, NMAT, IIFT and many others which too are entrance gateways to some of the Good Business Schools in India. Considering the rising demand of Managers, you must target not only the IIMs but parallely the Top 50 NIRF Management Institutes. Secondly even in future after a strong work experience, you may opt for a Executive Program in Management from some of the IIMs.

For more information about IIM Admission Criteria do follow the link below https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-admission-criteria/amp

Hi

CAT is not a course rather an entrance examination through which you can get into IIMs and many other B-schools.

Here's the complete detail about CAT

CAT i. e Common Admission Test is a national level entrance examination for admission in MBA/PGDM in B- Schools, including IIMs and several other prestigious B- Schools. It is conducted by IIMs themselves every year in rotation in online mode/computer based examination in English medium and it is accepted by  1100+ B-Schools.

>>>>>>>> Eligibility criteria

CAT eligibility criteria says that:

To be eligible for CAT ,

• you need a  Bachelor's/graduation degree in any discipline

• you must have got  at least 50 per cent marks or equivalent CGPA in your graduation . SC/ST/PH students need only at least 45 percentage in Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline to be eligible .

• Candidates who are in the final year of their graduation are also eligible for CAT examination.

• There is no age restriction to be  eligible

• It is not mandatory to have work experience to be eligible

For detailed information about eligibility go through

https://bschool.careers360.com/exams/cat

>>>>>>>> CAT examination pattern:-

You can get the complete examination pattern:-

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-exam-pattern

>>>>>>>> How to prepare for CAT

Follow the below tips:-

********* First of all go through its syllabus and examination pattern so that you can prepare accordingly.

Syllabus :- https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-syllabus

Your CAT examination has 3 sections :-

----------) VERBAL ABILITY AND READING COMPREHENSION ( VARC) :- Reading  is the key to score good marks in VARC, you need to go through newspapers, articles, journals, etc so that you can improve your reading skills. While reading note down the new words and write their meanings to improve your vocabulary. You need to practice questions based on comprehension, para jumbles and inference.

>>>> Best books for VARC

• Word Power made easy by Norman Lewis ( to improve your vocabulary)

• How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for the CAT by Arun Sharma and Meenakshi Upadhyay

• Mastering the Verbal Ability for CAT by Ajay Singh

----------)DATA INTERPRETATION AND LOGICAL REASONING (DILR) :- You need to practice topics like blood relations ,seating arrangements, syllogisms,Propositions, etc to have a good hold on this section. Unlike maths, there's no formula in DILR so practice is the key, the more you practice, the better you get.

>>>> Best books for DILR :-

• How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT by Arun Sharma

• Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation for CAT by K. Sinha Nishit

----------)QUANTITATIVE ABILITY (QA) :- First clear your basics of maths,  you need to go through topics like profit and loss, geometry,  Arithmetic, number system, Time-Speed and Distance etc . Avoid the use of calculator so that you can do improve your calculation speed. For each topic, you can write down important fomulas and short tricks on a sheet of paper so that it's easy for you during revision.

>>>> Best best books you can follow for QA:-

• How to prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by Arun Sharma

• Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT by Nishit K. Sinha

• Quantitative Aptitude Quantum by Sarvesh K Verma

********* Make a time table, give more time to the subject you are weak at , for example if you are weak at Quantitive ability then give it more time.

********* Plan your studies, and set daily, weekly and monthly goals and meet them without any fail.

*********Solve previous  year question papers of CAT :-it will let you know the examination pattern, type and difficulty level of questions, also concepts behind the question often gets repeated, so you should definitely solve year papers . You can get cat previous year question papers at https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/cat-question-papers

*********Once you are done with complete CAT syllabus then go through CAT mock test papers , it will let you know your preparation level and and weak areas so that you can work on them and perform well in your examination

For detailed information about how to prepare go through

https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/how-prepare-for-cat/amp

Thank you

Hello,

Hope you are doing well.

IIM Ahmedabad doesn't provide course in BBA. There are six types of courses provided by IIM Ahmedabad- MBA. Executive MBA, ePGD in Advanced Business Analytics, ePGD in Management, PGP Food and Agribussiness Management, Ph.D Management.

For further information related to IIM Ahmedabad, please visit the link provided below:

https://www.careers360.com/university/indian-institute-of-management-ahmedabad

Hope this helps. All the best!

If you start preparing for CAT and do it sincerely everyday for a year you can easily crack CAT. Learn the concepts by heart and take mock tests on each of the three sections and 2-3 mock tests as a whole you are good to go. The cutoff percentile(Minimum criteria) for the top 10 IIMs as of 2020 are:

1. IIM Ahmedabad - 80
2. IIM Bangalore - 85
3. IIM Calcutta - 85
4. IIM Lucknow - 90
5. IIM Indore - 90
6. IIM Kozhikode - 90
7. IIM Tiruchirapalli - 95

Hope it hepled.

1. IIM Shillong - 90
2. IIM Udaipur - 95
3. IIM Rohtak - 95

Hello Chirag

You have moderate academics and you don't have any work experience , if you get 95% tile + in CAT then you may get seat in  IIMs like iim sambalpur, iim Nagpur etc.

You may try in some private colleges like M.J.mehta Bombay, MDI gutgaon, SP Jain.

If the candidate has excellent a academics , minimum two years work experience and 96% + then the candidate can get admission to top iim such as iim Ahmedabad.