Management?Really?

Well i have over the last few days received lots of queries from people who will appear for CAT this year about whether their grad and board marks are good enough to get them calls from the IIMs....so this post is completely dedicated to that.....lets take it from the top then......

1)IIM Calcutta-Starting with the fairest of them all......this will give one the best chance of making it to a top notch IIM even if u dont have those 90% + scores in your boards.....but you will have to perform in the CAT to get a call....the cutoffs this time were 38 in maths and DI respectively........and 51 out of 160 in VA and RC.....approx 96 in each section......

for the final convert the weightages for different parameters are as under-

CAT score-40,GD-10,PI-44,work ex-6......so a good CAT score and a good interview can take you through......

2)IIM Ahmedabad-the process here has changed a lot this year......they will punish you for mistakes that you might have committed like 7,8 years ago........they gave so much importance to ones 10th and 12th board scores its not funny........lemme take an example.....lets say someone had 79 in 10th class and 89% in 12th class.........by the marks allotted to the respective percentages he would get a 4 as his score from 10th class and 6 in 12th......now even if this poor soul gets a 100 %ile in CAT the total CAT score he will get is 3(100-98)=6......98 being the min u need for a call......i.e. the total cumulative score is 16..........and the cutoff for IIMA this year was 17.61........so all you people who have a percentage below 80 in any of the boards please hope that for your sake IIMA changes its criteria this year....

3)IIM Bangalore-lets not even begin........

4)IIM Lucknow-they have this whole criteria thing written down well in their site..........lemme copy paste it here......for calls-

a)agg CAT score-30

b)class 10 makrs-5

c)class 12 marks-5

d)work ex-5

e)grad marks-5

for converting calls-

a)essay-10

b)PI-20

c)GD-10

d)quality of acad qualification-5

e)quality of work ex-5

it straight off means that u are at a huge disadvantage if you are a fresher.......infact the IIML batch for 2010 has 88% wrk ex guys in it........and with them setting that rider of quality of acads the IIT guys will have a huge advantage over normal people........

5)IIM Indore-for calls Indore had a straight criteria......aggregate CAT score was given 90% weightage with min requirement of 80 in each section.........and work ex was given 10% importance.....for converting if you are a fresher and get a 99.9+ percentile you are surely in no matter what your profile looks like..........for around 140 seats IIMI gives like 400 calls so........

6)IIM Kozhikode-IIMK was the second fairest while giving calls.........it had strict CAT scores for each section that it wanted which eventually came to around 93 %ile in each......for conversion the weightages were 55% CAT score and 45% GD/PI........

The thing i have realized is that at some places like IIM I,C and K anyone and i mean anyone can make it given that you get a good CAT score and do a good interview......for the others you would need to have a 'good' profile as well......and at the end of the day you can't prepare for interviews..........yes try and acquaire as much knowledge as possible coz you never know what you might need...... as far as graduation percentage goes i have 62 till now and i converted 3......so people with percentages around or greater than this dont need to worry at all......

I tried to keep it as impartial as possible but i just couldnt control myself when it came to what the IIMA director said........anyway for me IIMC was the dream from the beginning and it has come true........i hope that this article is helpful for future aspirants.........more later.....ciao!!