The Common Admission Test (CAT) is one of the most important components to get admission in old and new IIMs. In order to get admission in IIMs, you must obtain a good percentile in the CAT. There is no specific percentile stated by the IIMs which will give you a 100% WATPI shortlist. Even scoring a high percentile in the CAT will not give you a guarantee to get an interview call as it depends upon various factors.

IIMs give consideration to a number of factors while giving an interview call. These factors include CAT score, Class 10, Class 12, and Bachelor's degree marks, work experience, academic, and gender diversity, etc. Your first priority should be to clear both the overall and sectional percentile in the CAT.

The CAT score is not the only criteria but is one of the major criteria for admission. The cutoffs will depend upon the category from which you belong to. The cutoffs might be lower for candidates who belong to the reserved category.

The marks obtained by you in Class 10, Class 12, and Graduation, work experience, academic, and gender diversity will play a major role to get a shortlist for the WATPI process and your performance in the WATPI round will play a major role during your final selection.

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The Common Admission Test (CAT) is one of the most important components to get admission in IIM Bangalore or any other IIMs. In order to get admission in IIMs, you must obtain a good percentile in the CAT. There is no specific percentile stated by the IIMs which will give you a 100% WATPI shortlist. Even scoring a high percentile in the CAT will not give you a guarantee to get an interview call as it depends upon various factors.

IIM Bangalore or any other IIM give consideration to a number of factors while giving a WATPI call. These factors include CAT score, Class 10, Class 12, and Bachelor's degree marks, work experience, academic, and gender diversity, etc. Your first priority should be to clear both the overall percentile of 75 and sectional percentile of 70 in all three sections in case of IIM Bangalore and the overall and sectional percentile as stated by the different IIMs for EWS category candidates. If you have no work experience, it will not be a disadvantage as a number of candidates who get admission in the IIMs are freshers with no work experience. You will not get the marks allotted for work experience.

However, even if you score 95 percentile in the CAT , this will not mean that you will get a confirm WATPI call. Therefore, the CAT score is not the only criteria but is one of the major criteria for admission.

The marks obtained by you in Class 10, Class 12, Graduation, academic, and gender diversity will play a major role to get a shortlist for the WATPI process along with the CAT score and your performance in the WATPI round will play a major role during your final selection.

Also Check : CAT 2024 College Predictor

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Manipal University admits MBA students solely through entrance exams. To be admitted to an MBA program, candidates need to clear any of the all-India management entrance exams, such as CAT, XAT, NMAT, or GMAT.

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Yes, you might face an issue even if you get admission to any of the business school in 2024 after appearing for the CAT in 2023. Assuming, that the duration of the MCom programme is two-years. It means that when you get admission to the business school, you will be in the second year of your Master's degree programme (MCom). As of now you cannot pursue two degree courses simultaneously at the same time in regular mode. Therefore, you will be required to leave your MCom degree after the completion of the first year. Secondly, MBA programmes in most of the business schools are the residential programmes. Therefore, it is not possible to pursue two degree programmes at the same time together.

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The basic structure of almost all the management entrance examinations conducted for admission to the PGDM/ MBA programme is same. The broad topics include Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension, Logical Reasoning, Data Interpretation, and Quantitative Ability. However, some entrance examinations such as XAT has an additional Decision-Making section and some exams have General Knowledge section. The difficulty level of CAT or XAT depends upon ones level of preparation. Therefore, it is difficult to say that which entrance examination is difficult.