Which are the best colleges that i can target and convert at 79.85 percentile in CAT? Shall I wait for one more attempt as this was my 1st attempt with 3 months of preparation.

First of all, A Big Congratulations to you for securing a decent percentile. I hope you are satisfied with your percentile, I am proceeding forward with my answer.

This list contains a list of decent colleges which you will get with your percentile and by decent, I mean which will fetch you a job of 7-10 lpa job at the end of the 2 years.

Goa Institute of Management

11.22

Nirma University

7.2

Xavier School of Rural Management

7.67

K J Somaiya

9.4

IM BHU

7.2

LBSIM

9.20

Welingkar, Mumbai

7.07

XISS, Ranchi

5.87

The list is not exhaustive and there are several other colleges which can give you calls too.

Next, what you need to do is to get yourself gear up your preparation for Group Discussion, Case Discussions, Written Ability Test and Personal Interviews. The following four things won’t be followed all together. Some colleges may have only WAT & PI. Others may follow other ways of selection. For Group Discussions, you should be good at speaking in English. Beside your communication skills, you should be noted on your eye contacts and your ability to moderate a GD. For Case Analysis, try to get some idea on “SWOT & PESTEL” analysis which will add you some brownie points. For WAT & PI, read newspapers daily and having a quick writing habit.

Another thing that you need to keep in mind that if you are not going for a dedicated specialisation from the very first year, then try to do an initial reading on the basics of Marketing, Finance, Operations, Analytics and Human Resources. Though you will be going through each and every introductory courses in detail when you will join any program but if you need to get an upper hand, you need to prepare before hand. If you are an engineering graduate, try to learn the basics of accounting and economics before joining as that will be helpful for you to compete with your commerce peers who have joined the same curriculum.

Though you still have the option of giving CAT another shot and there has been multiple instances where the scores and percentiles have drastically improved. So if you are sure enough and determined to get into IIMs or any other Tier 1 B-School, then I would suggest you to go for CAT again. You have a clear base and building onto that would be much easier where you can just practice as many mocks mocks as possible.  However, you can also go for other exams like TISS-NET, SNAP, CMAT etc where you can also get very good colleges with a very high percentile.

I hope I have answered your query. All the best!!!

Hello Ishan

As you have mentioned,you just have 1 attempt that too with 3 months of preparation and you got 79.85 percentile  in CAT. So I would prefer you to give one more time so you can score better marks and get some top IIMs and some other top institutes.

But I will let you know some colleges that accept CAT scores with 70-80 percentile-

1. Xavier Insitute Of Social Service,Ranchi.
2. We School,Bangalore.
3. MS Ramaiah Institute Of Management,Bangalore.
4. Siva Sivani Insitute Of Management,Secundrabad.
5. VIT Business School,Vellore.
6. ITM Business School,Navi Mumbai.

There are some other college,you can check them here https://bschool.careers360.com/articles/what-are-my-mba-admission-chances-70-80-percentile-in-cat

Hope This Helps

BEST OF LUCK!!!