IIM Ahmedabad - Indian Institute of Management

I would not be the right person to decide that. PGP admission office decides that. But just by my experience I would say that your 12th marks are not up to the mark for call. Still I would suggest you not to get demotivated and give your best in CAT and try for colleges like FMS.

Mainly sales and marketing has the hierarchy of Area sales manager, Regional Manager, Country Head, etc.
And in marketing, you can be a Brand Manager wherein you'll be responsible for P&L of a brand or a category.

Please refer the audited placement report of IIM, Ahmedabad. The average maximum earnings potential hover around 20-21 lakhs INR.

Good acads is a very subjective categorization of your academics. Your acads might be good enough for other colleges, but not be good enough for IIM A/B/C. I know people who got shortlisted for B/L at 93 percentile/97 percentile also. Because, either they have exceptional acads or have relevant work experience or both. Hence don't get disheartened by not getting shortlist this year. Work your level best and try to get even a higher percentile next year and go for A/B/C/L.

Please refer selection criteria for all three colleges in their respective websites. Usually, it changes every year and has components of your past acads, work experience, CAT score and What/PI score.

With your acads, it will be near impossible to get calls from IIM A/B as these colleges give heavy weightage to past acads. Having said that please prepare hard and get into FMS/XL/MDI and other good B-schools.

There is no upper limit on age for PGP. If you wish to gain knowledge, then IIM A is the best place to be. I know personally people who have 10+ years of experience with 2 kids, as well as students freshly out of college. IIM A provides you that diversity.

Yes, it is. Please refer EPGP program offered by IIM A for distance education.

Admission call depends on your graduation specialization also. Without that it would be near impossible to predict the call. Having said that, assuming you are GEM, you won't get a call from IIM A with such score at 98% marks.

FPM is primarily a doctoral degree in management. Please do not join FPM, if are in no mindset to do research in management as the course structure is pretty intensive and requires a lot of time and effort to succeed. Moreover placements for FPM is not guaranteed by IIM A, but you can always seek for placements off campus through the extensive alumni network of IIM A.