IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

Although you will clear all the cutoffs, but without a really good CAT score probably you will not receive interview call from IIMs. Given these score I would suggest that you should do really well in CAT and try to achieve at least 99.5 percentile. If you get more than 99.5 percentile with more than 95 percentile in all subsections, you will definitely get few interview calls from high ranked IIMs.

MBA is usually hectic, at least the first year. Hence I would advise you to relax now and meet your friends. Still if you want to do something, talk to people and try to network. Know more about the college you are going to and try to develop a understanding of different fields that you can choose eventually.

Practice is the only key to success in CAT. Questions are very easy and given sufficient time, everyone will be able to solve all the questions. The trick is to solve the questions when time is a constraints. Hence speed and accuracy matters a lot.I would suggest you improve on these two factors and practice is the only way to do that.

Yes, you can most certainly try again for CAT. There is no limit to number of attempts you can take for CAT. However they keep a count of number of attempts. You have decent academic record and a fair chance of getting into IIMs if you do good in CAT. I would suggest you prepare well and give it your best shot this year.

Yes, everyone is eligible to do an MBA. IIMs or any other business school doesn't discriminate students based on educational background. On the contrary, they promote diversity and in the process provide some relaxation to students with non traditional backgrounds. In my personal experience, I have seen a lot of doctors, CA, science graduates doing an MBA.

If you have just completed class 10th then it is too early to think of an MBA. I would suggest that you focus on your academics now and get good grades in both class 12th and graduation. Most MBA colleges give a lot of weightage to past academic performance. Hence for now focus on that.

For pgdm/mba courses u need to appear exams like cat/mat/xat/cmat followed by institute's own procedure. For reputed college list, go through shiksha bschool lists and choose as per your choice. Specifically for IIMs CAT exam is mandatory. All the best. Thank you.