Hi Rahul,

Definitely you can get into any top - bschool for mba in india if you score good in cat. Also since you haven't mentioned your graduation score therefore i cannot say whether you'll be able to get profile based call or not. But your 10th marks are good. Also of you manage to get 95+ percentile in Cat then you can easily get into any top bschool of India. Whereas if we talk about IIM A B and C, then you might face some difficulties. Although you can get into new IIMs.

Hope this helps.. All the best..

Dear Prakash, all this while IIMs had been considering overall CAT score for further rounds of shortlisting. But for the past 2 years, they have been considering sectional weightage for CAT composite score. And that's not it. Because each IIM is independent of other IIMs admission and selection criteria, the weightage being given for each Academic section like weightage given to 10th, 12th and Graduation marks differ. And these are added to the Written Ability Test and Personal Interviews. While FMS gives importance to VARC section, most IIMs give importance to QA section. For example, IIM Indore follows this formula to shortlist candidates:

10th Standard: 36*[Z Candidate-Z min/Z max- Z min]

12th Standard: 40*[Z Candidate-Z min/Z max- Z min]

CAT 2019 score: 20*[Candidate's overall score /Highest CAT score]

Gender Diversity Factor: = 4 for female applicants

                                                 =0 for other applicants


Composite score= sum of the above scores

While other IIMs directly give 60-75% weightage to CAT score, the remaining is weighed upon your Academics, Work Experience if applicable, Diversity factor, etc. Just not that, Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes. Over all, the required percentages might be:

General Category: 95+

OBC-NCL: 85+

SC: 65+

ST: 55+

Hello,


Your eligibility depends on how you will perform in CAT examination.If you want to go to IIMs then you will have to score more then 99 percentile.Though your marks in 10th in good but your 12th marks is average though you will also have to be graduated to appear for CAT and your marks in graduation should also be good.

I hope this helps.

Hey Rahul !
Although having a Work Experience isn't necessary to be elligible to procure a seat in IIM, but if you do have any Work Experience then your chances of getting a seat is improved because, for an overall selection in an IIM, there's a slight weightage given to work experience supplemented by CAT Percentile, Graduation records and Class10, Class 12 scores.
Even a survey of IIM Students showed that nearly 2/3rd of the students had a work experience before joining one.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck !

Dear Rahul, there are 20 IIMs in India. And all the 20 IIMs have their own Selection Criteria.Now your 10th, 12th and Graduation marks carry a weightage of 5-7.5% depending on the IIM you are interested in. Few IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Lucknow, etc conduct Written Ability Test, Personal Interview and then the Final Selection Process follows. The basic eligibility criteria remains the same but off late IIMs have been giving Sectional weightage to CAT composite score. For example;


IIM Ahmedabad:
                                    QA            DLR         VARC        Overall
General:                     70              70             70               80
NC-OBC/Trans:        65              65             65               75
SC:                              60              60             60               70
ST:                              50              50             50               60
PwD-UR,OBC,SC:    60              60             60                70
PwD: ST:                   50             50              50               60


IIM Bangalore:
                                  QA              DLR         VARC          Overall
General:                   80                80               85                90
NC-OBC:                  70                70               75                80
SC:                            65                65              70                 75
ST:                            60                60              60                 70
PwD:                        50                50              50                 50


IIM Calcutta:
                                  QA          DLR          VRC         Over All
OPEN:                      75             80             80                85
NC-OBC:                  65             65             70                75
EWS:                        65             65             70                75
SC:                           60             60             65                 70
ST:                           55             55             55                 65
PWD:                      55              55             55                 65


IIM Indore:
                                  QA             DLR        VARC         Overall
General                    80                80            80                90
NC-OBC                   70                70            70                80
SC                             55                55            55                60
ST                             45                45            45                50
PwD                         45                45            45                 50


IIM Lucknow:
                                       QA          DLR        VARC        Overall
General                         85             85            85               90
NC-OBC                        77             77            77                82
SC                                  55             55            55                70
ST                                  50             50            50                 65
PwD                              50             50            50                 65

Method of scoring can be found on the official website of the IIMs you are interested in. Those candidates who are eligible after these 2 roumds are called for Written Ability and Personal Interview Test. The final score is calculated based on this scale for IIM Lucknow:

Common Admission Test: 30

Academic Performance (12th + Graduation): 5+5

Diversity Factor (DF academics +DF gender): 5

Work Experience: 5

Writing Ability Test: 10

Personal Interview: 40

Final Score: 100


Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes. So more or less to get a call from an IIM, your CAT percentile should be nothing less than 95%.

Dear Rahul, there are 20 IIMS and every IIM has its own Selection Criteria. Now your 10th, 12th and Graduation marks carry a weightage of 5-7.5% depending on the IIM you are interested in. Few IIMs like IIM Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Indore, Lucknow, etc conduct Written Ability Test, Personal Interview and then the Final Selection Process follows. The basic eligibility criteria remains the same but off late IIMs have been giving Sectional weightage to CAT composite score. For example;
IIM Ahmedabad:
                             QA              DLR         VARC         Overall
General:              70                70              70                80
NC-OBC/Trans: 65                65              65                75
SC:                       60                60              60                70
ST:                       50                50              50                 60
PwD-UR,OBC,SC: 60            60              60                 70
PwD: ST:            50                50              50                 60
IIM Bangalore:
                                QA          DLR         VARC          Overall
General:                  80           80              85                 90
NC-OBC:                 70            70             75                 80
SC:                           65            65             70                 75
ST:                           60           60              60                 70
PwD:                       50           50              50                  50
IIM Calcutta:
                                  QA          DLR          VRC         Over All
OPEN:                       75            80             80               85
NC-OBC:                   65            65             70               75
EWS:                         65            65             70               75
SC:                             60            60            65                70
ST:                             55            55            55                65
PWD:                        55             55            55                65
IIM Indore:
                                     QA        DLR       VARC        Overall
General                        80         80             80              90
NC-OBC                       70         70             70              80
SC                                 55         55             55              60
ST                                 45         45             45              50
PwD                             45         45             45              50
IIM Lucknow:
                                       QA        DLR       VARC        Overall
General                          85          85            85               90
NC-OBC                         77          77            77                82
SC                                   55          55            55                70
ST                                   50          50            50                65
PwD                               50           50            50                65

Method of scoring can be found on the official website of the IIMs you are interested in. Those candidates who are eligible after these 2 roumds are called for Written Ability and Personal Interview Test. The final score is calculated based on this scale for IIM Lucknow:

Common Admission Test: 30

Academic Performance (12th + Graduation): 5+5

Diversity Factor (DF academics +DF gender): 5

Work Experience: 5

Writing Ability Test: 10

Personal Interview: 40

Final Score: 100


Because CAT exam will be held at different slots, CAT scores will be normalised to ensure equivalence in the difficulty levels of the exams for both slots. IIM Kozikhode will normalise the CAT scores using percentile equivalence. Adjustment of location and scale differences of score distributions across different norms and then scores will be normalised. These scores will be then converted into percentiles for shortlisting and selection purposes.  So more or less to get a call from an IIM, your CAT percentile should be nothing less than 95%.