IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur Answered Questions

Yes, it is necessary to speak fluent English for Personal interview. The medium of instruction in all IIMs is English and all the classes are designed to interactive. Also there are a lot of foreign faculty who expect you to communicate effectively in English. To account for these factors, there was a dedicated section in CAT to test your verbal skills. However you should not worry about it too much, as you have already qualified CAT and hence possess certain level of knowledge of English language.

I would recommend that you focus on grammar first. There are a lot of books available in the market. Also there is no substitute for practice. Practice as much as possible. There are books available to target specific areas within verbal section, i would recommend that you go through those as well. Usually reading comprehension is the easiest to target, start with that.

If you have secured an admission in one of IIMs, you should not worry about the minimum salary. Actually salary is the last thing you should worry about. Most people who join IIMs usually re-decide their career choices once they are exposed to the options. Hence for now, just focus on getting into the IIMs. Everything will fall in place later.

IIM Ahmedabad does not have a CAT percentile cutoff score. They have started a system of composite score where all the inputs like 10th marks, 12th marks, UG percentage, etc are used. Then an overall score cutoff is calculated. This method has certain advantages like, if you have not done really well in 10th or 12th, you can compensate that by doing really good in CAT. Here are two links that will give you detailed information about cutoffs and selection criteria. http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/programmes/admission-details/admission-procedure-for-pgp-2016-18-batch.html http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/users/admission/files/Shortlisting Criteria for PGP 2016-18 batch_110116.pdf Let me know if you have further questions.

To apply for IIM Ahmedabad, you need to clear a minimum cutoff for 10th and 12th marks, which depends on your class 12th stream. Please look at the IIM. Ahmedabad website to find out the exact cutoff.
2 years gap should not be a problem, If you can reason it in the interview.