Hey

Few colleges not surely IIM- can take you if your percentile is somewhere near 85–90

SP Jain IMR, Mumbai

TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal- a highly ranked institute in the town Manipal, it has a cut off as high as 88 percentile.

IMT, Ghaziabad (HR)- This institute looks for a percentile score of 90 and is one of the most sought after B-school.

Institute of Mgmt., Nirma Univ. Ahmedabad- One of the good management institutes of the country and you should apply here if you have a score of well above 85 percentile

IIT Madras DoMS

IIT Roorkee, DMS

IMT Nagpur

Few colleges not surely IIM- can take you if your percentile is somewhere near 80–85

Institute for Financial Management and Research

K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai

FMS, BHU

XIME

Great Lakes, Chennai



You can check your best possibilities with XAT Pathfinder tool.

https://bschool.careers360.com/pathfinder/xat

Same you can do to find best colleges for cat score as well.

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

Hope this helps.

• TAPMI Manipal
• GIM Goa
• Great Lakes, Chennai and Gurgaon campuses
• LIBA Chennai
• KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research
• IFMR Chennai

• BIMTECH Noida
• XISS Ranchi
• XIME Bangalore
• JIMS Rohini

Hello Aspirant,

XAT is considered as the most toughest exam in MBA and you have got a nice percentile in the exam but however y our percentile is little bit on low side as in XAT if you get 75-80 percentile you have options like KJ SOMAIYA GIM We School etc.

On this percentile you can get colleges like -:

BIMTECH GREATER NOIDA

XISS RANCHI (GOOD FOR HR)

IMT NAGPUR AND HYDERABAD

SIES MUMBAI

NL DALMIA MUMBAI

SDMIMD MYSORE

IPE HYEDRAHYD

KJSIMR (Last year cutoff was 72 so you can apply for a chance)

I hope the above information is beneficial for you.

All the best.

Hi Tanya,

First of all, congratulations to you for securing such a decent percentile. The percentile that you secured is decent and you will definitely get a tier 2 B-School for sure. However, it will take a hit on the quality of the placements and you will definitely land up with a 6-8 Lakhs per annum job if your performance is college is good. If you have decided to get into one of the B-Schools, then I will be suggesting you the names of those B-Schools which are sure to give you a call alongwitht he average package that you can secure at the end of your 2 years of study.

However, you need to start preparing for the Group Discussion and Personal Interview rounds as you will have no time to prepare once the colleges start giving out the calls via email. You should read newspapers every day and jot down all the points about the college you are going to give the interview to.

Choose your college wisely and do your research well. Do write to us if you face any confusion and we will be glad to help you out. All the best!!!

Hi Lavanya,

First of all, I would like to congratulate you on securing such a decent percentile on one of the toughest exams in India. Your hard work and consistency has really paid off and you are sure to get some of the good B-Schools from Tier-2.

I am listing down some of those B-Schools from which you can expect a call, with their average package which you can expect after the end of your 2 year MBA/PGDM course.

However, this is not an exhaustive list. You will get other good B-Schools too.

Now, what you need to do is to prepare for Group Discussion and Personal Interviews since you will not be getting any time to prepare once these colleges will start rolling out their shortlist emails.

I hope I have been able to solve your query. Do write to us if you have any more questions and we will be glad to help you out. I hope you convert the B-School of your choice. All the best!!!

• Jaipuria Institute of Management Lucknow
• IFIM Business School Bangalore
• Alliance School of Business Bangalore
• Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies
• NDIM New Delhi
• SRM University and others

• XIME Bangalore
• BIMTECH Noida
• IFIM Business School Bangalore
• Alliance School of Business Bangalore
• Jaipuria Institute of Management Lucknow
• NDIM New Delhi
• Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies

• NDIM New Delhi
• NL Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research
• Institute of Public Enterprise Hyderabad
• IIRM Jaipur
• ITM Group of institutions
• Acharya Institute of Management Bangalore
• Alliance School of Business Bangalore and others.

Percentile refers to your relative performance with respect to the other candidates. X percentile means that you scored better than X% of the total candidates.

On the other hand, XAT percentage is like the normalised score which you got in the exam. So if in Decision Making section, your percentage is 16.524 and percentile is 49.407, it means that your normalised score is 16.524 and you did better than 49.407% of the appearing candidates.

A total of 98 percentile means that your total score was better than 98% of the students. Even with 49 percentile in DM, you got a very good overall percentile. The reason behind this would be because your percentile in the other two sections- Quantitative ability and Verbal and logical ability must be really high. This would be because of high percentages in those sections, resulting in a better total percentage and hence a better total percentile. Hope it helps.