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I check on CAT pathfinder,i have to gain atleast 70 prcntle in overall CAT for iim ahmdabd and 75 for iim bnglore. Is it true?


Anubhav Gautam 18th Dec, 2017
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Suraj Mallick 5th Jul, 2018

Based on your past academic records and considering you have no work experience and belong to general category, only a 100 percentile can fetch you a call from IIM A. Even a 100 percentile may not be enough for a IIM B call.

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Akshay Kadam 31st Jan, 2018
Anubhav the cut-off you have checked is only the min. cut-off that you need to have in order to make your application to be evaluated further.

You are a SC category student so to get call from IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and IIM Calcutta which are the top 3 b-schools of our country you need to score atleast 92+ percentile.

Even after getting 92+ percentile there is no surity of getting a call for the second round of interview and WSAT because after CAT exam every college including IIM in which you have applied makes up merit list to call students for next round of interview and WSAT which is based on your aggregate score which comprises of many factors such as CAT marks, 10th, 12th and graduation percentage, work experience, engineer or non engineer and gender whose weightage varies from college to college.

Making it way more difficult to get a call from IIM Bangalore either you need to have a qualitative high work experience or you need to have excellent academic records like 95+ percentage in 10th and 12th, 90+ percentage in graduation.

And even after getting a call you need to perform excellently in second round of WSAT and interview because after second round a final merit list is made based in new aggregate score which includes the marks of WSAT and interview which generally have highest weightage along with CAT marks.

So, in order to get a call and increase the probability of conversion aim to get 95+ percentile.

With 70 percentile as a SC category student also you won't even get a call from any of the new IIM or ultra new IIM.

So work very hard. It's no way easy to get admission in top b-school. Irrespective of categories only top students get enrolled in top b- schools.

All the best!!
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Ayush Jain 27th Jan, 2018

Hey Anubhav,

No, This is not true. The cutoff for IIM-A & IIM B is above 90+ percentile. With 70 & 75 percentile its not possible to get into IIMs of India for general category. You need to score atleast 95+ percentile for IIM A & IIM B. The other parameters for IIMs are your academic performance and your work experince which plays a major role in calculation of aggregate score before final merit list. 

For CAT cutoff check the link: https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/iim-cutoff

Hope this helps !!

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27th Jan, 2018
But i am from sc category.. 
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27th Jan, 2018
Okay, for SC Category the percentile is 70 for IIM A & 75 for IIM B. But there is again no sureity of selection of getting a call from IIM's because there might be other cadidates who might have scored 90+ belonging to the same category. So its better that you aim for higher percentile so that the chances of you being selected is more. 
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