IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

Your academic performance is definitely above the minimum cutoff specified by IIMs. Hence you are definitely eligible for admission in IIMs. However you will have to write CAT and do really really well in CAT. With this score you would not get an advantage of being in top 10 percentile based on prior academic performance. Hence you will have to be in top 0.5% of all CAT applicants. If you manage to achieve that, you stand a decent chance to get into IIMs.

Criteria of admission changes every year and one can not be certain about the criteria in the future. However one thing that has been consistent is that if you have less than 80% in graduation, you are severely disadvantaged, but with good CAT score you can still make it. I would suggest you should try to push your graduation percentage to over 80 in the final year. Admission in IIMA will be easier then.

It depends. There are a lot of factors considered. However looking at your academic record, it seems that you might be severely disadvantaged because of low GPA. To compensate for that you will need to score a little more in CAT. Typically 99.5 percentile is enough to get anyone a call from IIM (with similar academic background). However to be safe I would suggest that you target 99.7 percentile.

In MBA one gets exposure to general management techniques & tools required to run a business effectively .Thus one who intents to pursue a job & grow up the organisational hierarchy pursue MBA post the UG course. having said this an MBA is not a substitute to work Experience & there are a lot of professional & successful managers who have not done MBA but still run & manage their business & teams in an excellent manner.

Different B-Schools have different percentile cutoffs. To get into an IIM, you will need to score at least 99 percentile. Also you will need to clear the individual subject cutoff which typically is around 95 percentile. For others like FMS you will need 98.5 percentile. For new IIMs these could be 95-96 percentile. I would suggest you contact alums/students of the school you are targeting to get an accurate answer.