Hello Eshita,

It is a very common phenomenon to take a year gap between your masters and graduation as you need ample time to prepare for entrance exams. As such there will be no problem during your final placements but at the time of the interview, you should be able to justify why you took a gap. if you say I was only preparing for CAT Exam the answer might not impress them, but if you say I was preparing for CAT and side by side "I was pursuing my hobbies" like worked with an NGO or did a short-term course from some university in my area of  interest  or did an internship that always give an extra credit during the interview ,again I would say this, not a compulsion that you should pursue something like this because placements vary from person to person, but you should be able to convince the interviewer that you have utilized that one year fully for your own growth.

Thank you

Hello Eshota,

Not at all.

Taking one year gap for preparations of entrance for Masters has become very common and it will not affect your placements if you have good adademic scores track record.

Today, many top-notch B-Schools like IIMs, FMS, Xavier in India offer specialisation in different disciplines of business management. These B-Schools either affiliate themselves to a common national level MBA entrance exams like CAT, XAT, IIFT, SNAP, CMAT, ATMA, NMAT by GMAC or take their own exams (IBSAT, MICAT). Following are some good books that will help you to qualifiy MBA entrance:

1. Barron's
2. 501 word analogy questions
3. Kaplan
4. Master the MAT
5. MAT secrets
6. Princeton review
7. MAT entrance exam by Mittal
8. MAT entrance exam guide by Rph editorial board
9. MAT solved paper by Rph editorial board
10.MAT solved paper by Disha publications

In order to get placed in any good company as a fresher you must focus on aptitude questions too as the first round for freshers in any good company is based on aptitude questions. Some good books for aptitude are:

• R.S. Aggarwal - Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations.
• Arun Sharma - Quantitative Aptitude for CAT.
• Arihant Publications - Fast Track Objective Arithmetic.

As well as understand all the technical details in accordance with your B Tech branch.

All the Best

No, According to me taking a gap of 1 year after graduation does not create as such difficulty in final placement process. its all about how you apper during the placement process, 1 year of time gap is not a  big concern. Most of the people generally take one year of gap.

No taking  gap for entrance exam can never be a problem for placements you will be treated as like any other students and most of the companies does not care about the gap you can really find any company which won't allow you to appear for placements but now for 99% companies there is no problem.

Dear Esita, when you have such an impeccable academic record, it is understood that there is a deep and calculated thought process and hard work that has been put in. And a gap year is not something that people look into when hiring candidates like you who have such track record of excellence. So. don't worry about the gap year. Continue with your plans and give your best in the placement interviews. You needn't even consider it an issue. Good luck!