IIM Ahmedabad (IIMA) All Questions

To get into IIM Ahmedabad's MBA Program, you are required to score between 98-100 percentile in the CAT examination. Even if your CAT score is 99, it can not be guranteed that you will be admitted. Your school marks are decent and should be beneficial in the admission process. Make sure your college grades are also great and your extra curricular activities are good enough. After this, all you have to do is ace the interview and GD. 

IPM is definitely is a good course if you want to pursue it. And it's definitely not very easy to get a percentile above 98. The colleges you have mentioned need a minimum percentile of 98 in CAT. But if you prepare well and your orientation is correct then you can definitely get a good college. And try to get some test series because that really helps. 

Hello Nagendra,

There are many fields in MBA most of the people go for

• HR
• Marketing
• Finance
• IT
• Operations
• International Business
• Supply chain management

As per your engineering background in mechanical field you should opt for Operations as many of the engineers go for Operation field or Marketing.

You can give the entrance exams by giving

• State level exam
• CAT
• MAT

All the best!

Hi Aspirant,

Here is a list of various good books to prepare for CAT:

• How to Prepare for Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension for CAT’- by Arun Sharma & Meenakshi Upadhyay
•  ‘How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for CAT’ - by Arun Sharma (Published by McGraw Hill)
• ‘How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for the CAT’ - by Arun Sharma (Published by McGraw Hill)
•  ‘How to prepare for Quantitative for the CAT’ - by Arun Sharma, published by MGH Education
• Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations by Abhijit Guha (Tata McGraw-Hill)
•  Quantitative Aptitude for CAT and Other MBA Entrance Exams by Trishna Knowledge Systems (Pearson) 
• Nishit Sinha’s The Pearson Guide to Verbal Ability and Logical Reasoning (Pearson) 
• Trishna's Verbal Ability And Logical Reasoning For The CAT And Other MBA Examinations by T.I.M.E. Publisher: Pearson

Best of luck!

You can look out for any of the reputed coaching institutes like TIME or Career Launcher. They've got their branch everywhere. But it's not only the coaching institute that will guarantee you IIMs B, L, A, C and K but it's about how much you perform in test series. Study materials and test series you can get from any online platform. 

All the IIMs usually follow a two-step selection process. First, short-listing on the basis of CAT score and then WAT and PI rounds for the short-listed students.

1. Common Admission Test (CAT)

2. Written Ability Test (WAT) and Personal Interview (PI)

Candidates who fulfil the first stage of the admission criteria (CAT) are called for WAT and PI rounds. Different IIMs as per their admission criteria offer admissions to the selected students. Let’s have a look at the admission criteria of different IIMs for the batch 2019-21.

Most of the IIMs give maximum weightage to Personal Interview and CAT score for admissions

Hello jinay,

Most of the IIMs have some scholarship programs where they waive off some fees for economically weak students. If you meet those criteria you would certainly get the scholarship.  There are also many merit based scholarships from state and central government and some private organizations.If lack of money is stopping you to join an IIM. 

Hello Nilesh

How much percentile is good enough to secure a seat in one of the Indian Institute of Management campuses is one of those questions which often comes in an MBA aspirant’s mind.

While the popular perception is that 90+ percentile is enough, the reality is that it will help you cross only the first hurdle. Admissions in IIMs are not based only on CAT percentile but also on the candidates overall academic performance and on his/her performance in the interview and WAT/GD rounds.

Some IIMs also give additional weights to Work experience and UG Stream. Cut offs vary according to the case category as well.

Let me give you some idea for a general category engineering male who has a 80+ academic background through out. [This will vary + - depending on the other parameters I mentioned above].

IIM A-B-C: 99.6 + overall with sectionals 96 around.

IIM L-I-K: 98.5+ with sectionals 90+

New IIMs: 96.5+ with sectionals 85+

Baby IIMs: 93+ with sectionals 80+