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X -90% XII -56% and an English hons. Graduate with 59% expecting around 90%tile in CAT. Which college i should prefer based on my academics.


SONAL SAURABH 6th Dec, 2017
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Akshay Kadam 6th Dec, 2017
You have an average academic records which might hinder your selection process a little as after CAT exam every college in which you have applied including IIMs will prepare a merit list to 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, gender, extra curriculars with different weightages for different colleges. Among which academic records have an overall 10-25% weightage.

So this a little weak profile can be an issue in the later stage but still you will definitely get a call from Goa institute of Management and TAPMI. For TAPMI there percentile cut off is fixed as 85 percentile further processing is done on the basis of profile and then with second round of interview, GD and WSAT.

Other than this with 90 percentile in CAT exam you can also apply in the below mentioned colleges which are good enough and you have a good chance:

1. Fore school of Management Delhi
2. Great lakes institute of Management, Chennai
3. SIMSR, Mumbai
4. MISB Bocconi, Mumbai
5. NIBM, Pune
6. Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA)
7. IMT Ghaziabad

All the best!!
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7th Dec, 2017
Thanks for your guidance sir.. Much appreciated..
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7th Dec, 2017
You are always welcome for all your queries!!
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7th Dec, 2017
Sir as iim has posted the answer key I've checked and I'm getting around 100-105 score.. what chances do i have now?? Also i belong to OBC category will that help??
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7th Dec, 2017
See again as you know we can never predict the percentile with any marks but with your score of 100-105 you will be getting around 75-80 percentile. This is my guess according to last year data but again I could be completely wrong. This way it will be more difficult for you to get good colleges even when you are a OBC student.
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7th Dec, 2017
Actually i was preparing for CAT 18 but gave CAT 17 to have an idea about the exam.. Predictors are showing around 90-95%tile thats why i thought if i could get any good college this year that will serve my purpose.. That's why I'm confused as to what should i do, take any college this year or continue preparing for CAT 18..
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7th Dec, 2017
First of all don't completely believe in predictors, they don't have data of all students but still.if they are saying 90-95 percentile then you will definitely get a better percentile than what I predicted in last comment.

Also I will say you can wait for the CAT results before you make a decision about CAT 18 or this year. Because with percentile close to 92-93 you will also get calls from New IIMs. So it will be very good to wait for results.

By the time the results are coming you can apply in some of the good colleges which I mentioned in the answer if their deadline is closing before CAT 17 result. If not then you can even do it later depending on results. Plus you can continue preparing for CAT 18 because there is no harm in preparation as we don't know anything about future.
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8th Dec, 2017
I've got the solution to my dilemma and now I'm pretty clear in my head what i should do.. Really thanks a lot for helping me out.. Kudos to your effort..
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Amod Tripathi 6th Dec, 2017
If you score around 90 percentile you can expect calls from the following institutes for interviews. However you need to perform during the interviews and group activities to get the final selection as toy have a disadvantage regarding your academics.

1) TAPMI Manipal
2) KJ Somaiya Mumbai
3) GIM Goa
4) IMT Ghaziabad (above 90 percentile)
5) IMI New Delhi
6) UBS CHANDIGARH
7) FMS BHU
8) LBSIM Delhi

You can also expect calls from other similar institutes as well.
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7th Dec, 2017
Thanks a lot for your concern sir..
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