XAT

Hi santhosh,A minimum of 50 percentile is needed to get into SSIM.In case if you want to get a scholarship from college,you need to get more score

You can join with any of the score i.e.,XAT,CAT,MAT,ATMA
A minimum of 50 percentile is needed,To get a scholarship you need to get more percentile.Work experience is not mandatory to get seat in SSIM

Hi,
Novels do have levels when related with CAT/XAT preparation. Talking about Indian issues, these are the novels you can prefer -
India after Gandhi
Getting India Back on Track
Day-to-Day Economics
The Argumentative Indian
The Last Mughal
India Unbound
Referring History, economics:
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The World is flat
Freakonomics
The Undercover Economist
These are intended to help in your vocabulary as well as reading skills.
I hope this will help you.

If fresher decent CAT/ XAT score >86 percentile.
if work exp/ excellent past academic record >84%

HR -70,RM- 50,FINANCE -60,MARKETING-60 and IT-35

The cutoff percentile for diff exams is different every year and changes every time according to the exam. There is no fixed cutoff. Last year cutoff for CAT- 86 percentile , XAT - 78percentile and CMAT - 96 percentile.
For more information
https://www.somaiya.edu/media/pdf/PGDM_Admissions_Brochure_2017-19.pdf
For application form
http://simsr.somaiya.edu/simsr/adm/pgdm17/onlineform/login.aspx

For MBA-HRM you need 80 percentile above in CAT and 70 percentile in XAT.
For MBA-BM you need above 85 in both CAT and XAT

You can go for CAT exam.

Yes, you can, apart from those exams SNAP, IRMA, ATMA, KMAT, MH-CET are there. You can get good college by appearing in these exams.

Hi clain39378,
The application deadline for registration is 3rd Jan 2017.
CAT is on Dec 4 2016,
XAT is on Jan 8 2017,
CMAT is on 28th Jan 2017.