IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management

Total expense is Rs 10-15 lakhs.

MBA in finance will give you a slight edge over others while grabbing initial concepts. While doing in marketing you will not get any such advantage. Choosing specialization should depend on your interest rather than expertise, because you can gain expertise with time, but your interest remains for

It depends, how do you define normal. It varies from Rs 20,000 for the whole program to Rs 20 lakhs in case of IIM-A. On an average, considering top 25 B-Schools, it would hover around Rs 10-15 lakhs.

You will get calls for WAT/PI depending on which all colleges you have applied for. With your mentioned percentile you might get calls from IMT, IMI, baby IIM's and likes. If you convert them, you get an admit to join these colleges.

It's all about justifying the gap. If you have any genuine reason and you are able to justify it, then no problem.

IIM A provides PGP & FABM program only. Referring to placements, you can secure a consulting role in PGP program, but consulting role are not that plausible in FABM program. In short, you are coming from food technology and joining PGP then the answer is yes or else FABM no.

Yes, you can. Refer the selection criteria for IIM A for further details.

Concepts will help you solve the questions, given an indefinite time-period to do so. In exams with very tight time constraints just getting acquainted with the concepts will not work that much. You need to practice and be well versed with the concepts so that you can relate & solve the question ver

I believe you are asking about logical reasoning. If it is so then the best way to score well is practice. There are some standard type of questions types that are asked with some amount of variations to the same. So I would suggest to get acquainted with these question types by going through basics