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B - Schools
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A BIT OF A GOOD NEWS
 NITIE Mumbai has finally got the IIM status and become the 21st IIM of India after the passing of IIM Act Amendment bill
2023 by Parliament on August 8, 2023.
 NITIE will now declare its revised admission criteria, CAT cut off, weightages for key components in shortlisting and final
selection process.
 CAT 2023 aspirants will be required to express their interest for IIM Mumbai admission 2024, till the name of IIM Mumbai
is included in the CAT 2023 application form. NITIE should update this fact on its website.
 Courses will now be renamed

EXAM PATTERN
CAT 2023 NMAT 2023 XAT 2024
Registration Open 2nd August 1st August 15th July
Registration closes 13th September 10th October 30th November
Exam Date 26th November 10th October to 19th December 7th January, 2024
Duration 3 slots of 2 hours each 2 hours 3 hour 30 minutes
Exam chance Single score Three chances Single score
Questions ??? 108 100
Centre Only centre Either Centre or home Only centre
Cost 2400 Test fee = 2,800 + taxes 2100 + 200 Rs. Per
Retake exam fee = 2,800 + taxes programme

Reschedule fee = 1,200 + taxes
Additional 300 per B-schools other

than first five
HOW TO CHOOSE? Rigour of
The
Selection
Process
Image of
Quality Of
The
Take placement Students
Institute
reports with a pinch
of salt
B School
Location of
Return on
The B-
Investment
School
Where to stop?
Programmes
Offered
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SPECIALISATION
Finance Marketing/Sales Operations HR Systems
Investments Brand Supply chain

Not just rangolis E-commerce
banking Promotion management
Capacity Intellectual
Capital Financing Advertisement Benefits
planning Property
Offers,
Retail banking Six sigma Compensation Big Data
Discounts
Corporate New product Quick Response Machine

Recruitment
Finance development Manufacturing Learning
Mergers and Artificial
Brand image TQM – 5 S Appraisal
Acquisitions Intelligence
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* Highly Subjective; NIRF rankings
HOW TO RANK IIMS*
IIM Ahmedabad IIM Bangalore IIM Calcutta IIM Lucknow IIM Kozhikode
IIM Ranchi IIM Raipur IIM Udaipur IIM Tiruchirappalli IIM Indore
IIM Rohtak IIM Shillong IIM Kashipur IIM Nagpur IIM Visakhapatnam
IIM Jammu IIM Sambalpur IIM Sirmaur IIM Bodh Gaya IIM Amritsar
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* Highly Subjective; NIRF rankings
HOW TO RANK B SCHOOLS*
IIM IIM IIT IIM

IIM Calcutta IIM Lucknow IIM Indore
Ahmedabad Bangalore Kharagpur Kozhikode
MDI,
IIT Madras NITIE IIT Roorkee IIT Bombay XLRI IIT Delhi
Gurgaon
IIM Trichy IIT Kanpur IIM Udaipur S. P. Jain IIM Raipur IIM Ranchi IIM Rohtak
Great Lakes
IIFT NMIMS Institute of SIBM, Pune
Management
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KEY NON IIMS THROUGH CAT
Shailesh J.
Department
Mehta School
of
MDI of IMT
FMS SP Jain NITIE Management IIFT
Gurgaon Management, Ghaziabad
Studies, IIT
SOM, IIT
Delhi
Bombay
Excellent CAT Cutoff
Close to
placement Good Option around 93
Gurgaon –
records esp for Percentile and Old School
Corporate
Finance XAT around
Hub Engineers 90 Percentile
High ROI
Institute Offers MBA
In the to both
Good Good brand At par with
financial Hub Engineers and Engineers
Placement value an IIM
of Mumbai Non –
Difficult to Engineers
crack
Very Good
for
High Offers Profile Operations Excellent
Demand percentile based Specialization High Intake
requirement shortlists Placement
Supply gap
OTHER ENTRANCE EXAMS
Colleges under XAT Colleges under SNAP Colleges under
NMAT
Xavier Institute of Management and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management [SIBM] - NMIMS Mumbai
Entrepreneurship Pune
Xavier Institute of Management & Research Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication XUB, Bhubaneswar
XLRI Xavier School of Management Symbiosis Institute of International Business [SIIB] IBS Hyderabad
Xavier Business School (XBS) Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human UPES Dehradun
Resource Development
Xavier Institute of Social Service Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
Colleges under CMAT Colleges under MAT

BIMTECH Greater Noida (Specialized Programmes) Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies
Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship Great Lakes Institute of Management
Xavier Business School (XBS) Kolkata Institute For Financial Management & Research, Chennai
Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, Noida New Delhi Institute of Management

KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar ITM Group of Institutions
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What is percentile?
BASICS
IIM L is making paper. How can I score 100
What should I expect? percentile?
Scaled Number of
Section Good attempt in 2023
Scores Questions
VARC 39.10 13 13 – 15 I need to

DILR 29.10 9 9 – 12
know –
QA 33 11 11 – 33
OA 104 34 27 – 33
How much should I How many 100 %ilers
score to get 99%ile in are there in an year?

Quant?
Focus only on that which you
How much should I
can control – Which in this score to get 99%ile
case is your Regular Practice overall?
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https://collegedunia.com/exams/cat/cutoff
PERCENTILE REQUIREMENTS – CAT BASED EXAMS
VA/RC DI/LR QA Overall
IIM Ahmedabad 70 70 70 80
IIM Bangalore 75 75 80 85
IIM Calcutta 75 80 80 85
IIM Kozhikode 75 75 75 85
IIM Shillong 75 75 75 --
IIM Lucknow 85 85 85 90
IIM Indore 80 80 80 90
IIM Rohtak -- -- -- 95
Like last year, CAT 2023 will be conducted in three slots of 2 hours each - Slot 1- 8:30 AM to 10:30 PM, slot 2 - 12:30
PM to 2:30 PM, slot 3 - 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Question paper had three sections – VARC, DILR and QA. Each section of 40 minutes time limit
VARC – 26 questions DILR – 24 questions QA – 26 questions
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CAT form
Each Non – IIM institution taking admission through CAT will release their forms separately. If you
want to apply for them, you would have to fill up their form, pay the required fees individually.
LANDING PAGE Whenever a form is released, it will be notified on B school group!

Not
for
you!
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LANDING PAGE
No Affidavit
An excellent this time. Get
resource. your
Read certificates
through. right!
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PERSONAL DETAILS – 1
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PHOTO AND SIGNATURE
 Please upload your recent passport size photograph.
 The photograph should not be more than 6 months old.
 The photo-print should be clear and with a continuous-tone quality. It should have a white/offwhite background, full face,
neck and shoulders, front view, eyes open.
 The dimension of the photograph should be 30 mm x 45 mm.
 Maximum file size: 1 MB
 File Formats Supported: Only JPEG, JPG
 Please upload the same photograph, that you will affix on the Admit Card on the day of the test (November 26, 2023).
 Ensure that the photograph is scanned properly using a scanner only. Please do not use mobile phone or other mobile
applications to scan your photograph.
 Please upload your signature : maximum 80KB.(Only JPEG,JPG formats).

 Upload the scanned image of your signature within the dimensions of 80mm X 35mm
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EWS/NC-OBC/SC/ST/PWD
 EWS/NC-OBC/SC/ST Certificate:
 OBC certificate is considered valid for one year from the date it has been made.
 SC/SC/ certificate is considered valid for three year from the date it has been made.
 EWS certificate is considered valid for one year from the date it has been made.
No Affidavit
 There is no such distinction between state and central EWS certificate.
this time. Get
your
certificates
 PwD Certificate:
right!
 PwD certificate is considered valid for Life
 The NC-OBC/SC/ST/PwD/EWS certificate should be in the prescribed format issued by the competent authority in Hindi/
English language. (Refer to the CAT 2023 website for sample format)
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 For all caste based reservations, the castes included in the Central Govt. list as on the last date of registration shall be used.
For an updated central list of state - wise OBCs eligible for availing the benefit of reservation and information in respect of
the creamy layer, visit the website http://www.ncbc.nic.in
 In case of NC - OBC category, the castes included in Central List (available at http://www.ncbc.nic.in) of NC - OBC by the
National Commission of Backward Classes, Government of India as on last day of registration will be used.
 If you belong to SC or ST categories, your caste/tribe must be listed in the Government of India schedule. The caste
certificate that you submit to IIM should be in the Government approved format and should clearly state: (a) Name of your
caste/tribe; (b) Whether you belong to Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe; (c) District and the State or Union Territory of
your ordinary residence; and (d) the appropriate Government of India schedule under which your caste/tribe is approved
by it as Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe.
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Candidates must ensure that the caste certificate has been issued - Chief Presidency Magistrate
and signed by the competent authorities.
- Additional Chief Presidency Magistrate
- President Magistrate
The authorities competent to issue the certificate are:-
- Revenue Officers not below the rank of Tahsildar
- District Magistrate
- Sub Divisional Officer of the area where the person and his
- Additional District Magistrate family normally resides
- Collector - Development Officer
- Deputy Commissioner
- Additional Deputy Commissioner Certifying authority should be one concerned with the locality
in which the person applying for a certificate has his permanent
- Deputy Collector
place of abode.
- I Class Stipendiary Magistrate
- City Magistrate
Revenue Authorities have been empowered to issue certificates
- Taluka Magistrate on the basis of a certificate issued by an MP, MLA, Gazetted
Officer etc. But they should do so only after having made
- Executive Magistrate proper verification and after having satisfied themselves of the
- Extra Assistant Commissioner corrections of that certificate.
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View to confirm
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ENTERING MARKS
SSC/ 10th/ Equivalent examination Inputting marks
 Total marks of all subjects that appear in the mark  Maximum marks (inclusive of all subjects) indicate the
sheet/grade sheet would be considered irrespective of the summation of maximum marks of all subjects (including
Board’s regulation electives, if any)
 In Total Marks Obtained, You can specify your converted  Ex: If there are five subjects with 100 marks assigned
CGPA obtained marks up to 2 decimals. to each subject, candidate should populate the
‘Maximum Marks (inclusive of all subjects)’
placeholder as 500.
HSC/ 12th/ Diploma
 Total marks obtained (inclusive of all subjects) indicate the

 Total marks of all subjects that appear in the mark summation of actual marks obtained by the candidate in
sheet/grade sheet would be considered irrespective of all subjects (including electives, if any)
the Board’s regulation.
 Ex: If the candidate has obtained 457 marks by adding
 In Total Marks Obtained, You can specify your converted individual marks obtained in the five subjects,
CGPA obtained marks up to 2 decimals. candidate should populate the ‘Total marks obtained
(inclusive of all subjects)’ placeholder as 457.
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ACADEMICS – 1
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ACADEMICS – 11
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ENTERING MARKS
Bachelors degree Converting CGPA to percentage Grade Grade Point Marks
A1 10.0 95
 Enter the aggregate percentage of marks obtained for the  CBSE A2 9.0 85.5
years/semesters of the degree course completed to date. B1 8.0 76
 Multiply your CGPA by 9.5
B2 7.0 66.5
C1 6.0 57
 If you hold a Bachelor’s Degree, compute the aggregate
 IP C2 5.0 47.5
percentage of marks obtained as per the norms of the
University/Board. If no norms exist, enter the  Multiply your CGPA by 10 D 4.0 38
aggregate percentage of marks obtained for all E1 Fail
years/semesters of the degree course.
 DU E2 Fail
 For graduates before 2022, multiply grand CGPA by 9.5

 For graduates after 2022, multiply grand CGPA by 10
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ACADEMICS – 111
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ACADEMICS – 1V
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WORK EXPERIENCE (ONLY TILL 31ST JULY)/ GAP
 Part-time/ Project/ Internship/ Articleship/ Pre-graduation work experience should not be entered and will not be counted
as work experience.
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FPM Post Graduate
Programme in
Management (PGP)
Post Graduate Post Graduate
Programme in Programme in Human
IIM L Resource Management IIM
Sustainable Management
(PGP-SM) (PGDHRM) Ranchi,
Amritsar
Courses
offered Post Graduate
Post Graduate
Programme in Enterprise
at IIMs Programme in Agri-
IIMB business Management
Management (PGPEM)
(PGP – F/ABM)
IIM A / L
Post Graduate
Post Graduate Post Graduate
IIM Trichy Programme in Public
Programme in Business Programme in IIMB
Policy and Management
Management (PGPBM) Business Analytics (PGPPM)
IIM B, Amritsar
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First Generation IIM
1 Calcutta 462 MBA, PGD BA, and PGPEX VLM
2 Ahmadabad 385 MBA, PGP FABM, and PGP ABM
3 Bangalore 565 MBA, PG PPM and BA
4 Lucknow 419 PGP, PGP ABM, and SM
5 Khozikode 525 MBA
6 Indore 450 + 150 PGP and IPM
Second generation IIM
7 Shillong 180 PGPM
8 Rohtak 210 + 150 PGPM and IPM
9 Ranchi 240 + 60 PGPM and PGPHRM
10 Raipur 210 PGP
11 Tiruchirapalli 210 PGPM, PGP HR, and PGPBM
12 Kashipur 210 MBA, and MBA BA
13 Udaipur 150 PGPM
Third generation IIM
14 Nagpur 240 PGP

15 Amritsar 240 MBA, MBA BA, and HR
16 Bodh Gaya 120 PGPM
17 Sirmaur 170 MBA, MBA T and HM
18 Vishakapatnam 120 PGPM
19 Sambalpur 120 PGPM
20 Jammu 120 MBA
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COURSES
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TEST CITY PREFERENCE
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ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION
 Mark Sheets and Degree Certificate  Candidates in the Final Year of Graduation
 Candidate must show all the mark sheets and  Candidates appearing for the final bachelor's
submit attested copies to prove his/her eligibility degree or equivalent qualification examination must
at the time of interview show an original certificate from the
Principal/Registrar/Director of the
 Original degree certificate and mark sheets of all
University/Institution certifying that the candidate
semesters/years along with their attested copies
has obtained 50% marks or equivalent (45% in case of
must be submitted for verification at the time of
candidates belonging to the SC, ST and PwD
joining the programme
category) based on the latest available grades/marks
 He/she must submit an attested copy of the original
 Reservation Category Requirements certificate at the time of the interview
 SC, ST, NC-OBC, EWS and PwD candidates must
show the original caste/class and/or disability

certificate and submit a photocopy at the time of
the interview along with the submission
requirements as specified in the “Marksheets and
*Provisional Admission only
Degree Certificate” section.
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SOME THOUGHTS!
Q: Which are the top public or Government B-schools Q: Is securing the CAT cutoff enough to get an
with a CAT cutoff of 85 percentile? admission offer?
A: The top public MBA institutes with 85 percentile CAT cutoff A: No, securing a high CAT percentile is not enough for
are IIMs (Amritsar, Bodh Gaya, Nagpur), Institute of getting the final admission offer. Candidates have to fulfil
Management – BHU, VGSoM IIT Kharagpur, DMS – IIT Madras other selection criteria such as performance in WAT/GD
and IIT Roorkee, DSM-DTU, DMS Pune University, and Delhi and PI and overall academic and professional profile.
School of Economics.
Q: Does it matter which slot I have in the exam?

Q: What are some of the top private B-schools
A: No, it does not because of normalization of scores.
accepting CAT 85 percentile?
A: The top private B-schools with CAT cutoff of 85 percentile
are Goa Institute of Management, LIBA Chennai, Great Lakes

Institute of Management Chennai, TAPMI Manipal, KJ Somaiya
Institute of Management Studies & Research Mumbai, BITS
Pilani Department of Management Studies, IMI Delhi to name a
few.
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PERCENTILE / SCORE REQUIREMENTS – NON - CAT BASED EXAMS
IIFT
RC / VA (35*3) QA (25*3) DI / LR (30*3) GA (20*1.5)
D – 19 / Kol – 16 / Kak - 13 D – 17 / Kol – 14 / Kak – 11 D – 19 / Kol – 16 / Kak – 13 D – 9 / Kol – 6 / Kak - 4
XAT
XLRI BM XIM Bhubaneswar XLRI HRM Goa Institute of Management (GIM)
94 (male), 92 (female) 90+ 90-93 (male), 87-90 (female) 80+
Great Lakes, Chennai IMT, Ghaziabad LIBA Chennai TA. Pai Management Institute, Manipal
80+ 90+ 75+ 85+
SNAP
SIBM, Pune SCMHRD SIBM, Bengaluru SIIB, Pune SIOM, Nashik SITM
96 – 99 95 – 96 88 – 90 92 – 93 85 – 87 81 – 83
NMAT
Language Skills (96) Quantitative Techniques (144) Logical Reasoning (120) Overall
62 68 67 212
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SHORTLISTING CRITERIA
 Marks in 10th
 Marks in 12th
 Marks in Graduation (May even differ from stream to stream)
 Work Experience (type of Work Experience doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere)
 Gender
 Diversity Factor
 Performance in GD / PI / WAT
 Last but certainly not the least – CAT / Exam SCORE
 Look for a detailed criterion at:

 https://www.iima.ac.in/sites/default/files/2023-01/Shortlisting%20Criteria%20for%20PGP%202023-25%20batch.pdf
 https://www.iimb.ac.in/sites/default/files/inline-files/PGP_admission_process_2019_Final_Aug7-2018_0.pdf
 https://tedu.iift.ac.in/iift/docs/LatestUpdates/MBAIB_2123_S.pdf
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EXAM PATTERN*
Exam Name Exam Pattern Online/PP Additional Points
CAT VA/RC DI/LR QA Online You do not need to apply separately to the IIMs. However,
40 mins time limit for any other institute using CAT scorecard, application will
non Multiple questions need to be submitted separately.
No negative marking. Written Ability test and Interview (GWPI)
Most of the new IIMs conduct a common WAT-PI process.
XAT VA/RC DI/LR QA Online The performance in paper-2 and General Awareness is not
Decision Making GK Essay used for shortlisting of candidates for the GDPI round.
SNAP 150 Questions – 40 each in VA Online A separate application needs to be submitted for each B-
and QA & DI,30 in current affairs, school accepting SNAP scorecard.
40 in LR.
NMAT LA – 32 Q in 22 min; QA – 48 Q Online A candidate can write the test up to three times within the
in 60 min; LR – 40 Q in 38 min test window.
108 ques in 120 mins First attempt would be used for shortlisting
candidates for GDPI by NMIMS.
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EXAM PATTERN*
Exam Name Exam Pattern Online/PP Additional Points
CMAT 100 Questions – 25 each in QA & Online It is conducted once in the month of JANUARY.
DI, LR,VA and GA.
TISSNET 100 questions –Maths and LR- 35 Online TISS has adopted a unified test for all its programmes since
Qs, Eng-30 Qs, GA-35 Qs in 100 2012. The performance in the GK section was a key
min. No negative marking determinant of the overall score.
MICAT Psychometric, VA, QA, GA, Online It is conducted twice and best of two is taken in case an
Descriptive Test (DT) applicant has taken it both the times.
Divergent-Convergent Reasoning
(DCR)
MAT 200 Questions – VA (40), QA (40), Both Although the paper has a section on "India and Global
LR (40), DI/DS (40), GA (40) Environment (GK)", the scorecard is based only on the first
4 sections of the paper.

IBSAT 100 Questions in QA, LR and VA Online All the candidates appearing for the written test are
– to be answered in 120 min shortlisted for GDPI. The final allocation of Institute is
based on the performance in both the written test and the
GDPI stage.
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MORE INSTITUTES
Institute/Group of Selection
Institutes Process Special Features
IITs CAT + Own 1.In general, IIT Bombay shortlists candidates above around 98 percentile followed closely by IIT Delhi, IIT
GDPI process Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur etc. Each of these institutes have a different selection criteria. IIT
Bombay for instance assigns 20% weightage to CAT score, 44% to WAT-PI and 36% to profile.
2.Most IITs only consider candidates who are engineering graduates/those in final year of graduation.
However, IIT Madras and IIT Delhi allow candidates from non-engineering background as well.
SP Jain Institute CAT / GMAT + 1.The Institute issues 2 separate call lists, first it releases profile based calls following which score +
of Management & Own Group profile based calls are issued – the profile based calls are sometimes issued even before CAT results are
Research Interview announced.
Process 2.The institute asks for your preference in specialisation at the time of applying itself.
Institutes for NITIE – CAT 1.All these institutes offer admission only to engineers. The cutoff for NITIE is 97+ overall percentile with
specific category based, SIOM – around 90 percentile sectionals for the general category students.
of students SNAP Based
(NITIE, SIOM)
Maharashtra state MHCET/CAT 1.85% seats in these B-schools is reserved for Maharashtrians,where as remaining 15% are open for
level B-schools everyone.
Institutes with LIBA-XAT + 1.These are minority institutes, they reserve 50% of the seats.
religion based GDPI Rizvi- 2.Rizvi: Admission for 50% seats is carried out by DTE Maharashtra and remaining are filled by the B-
reservation CMAT, CAT, school authorities
(Loyola, Rizvi etc) XAT
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Additional 300 per B-schools other

Finance Marketing/Sales Operations HR Systems

Investments Brand Supply chain

Corporate New product Quick Response Machine

HOW TO RANK IIMS*

HOW TO RANK B SCHOOLS*

IIM IIM IIT IIM

Colleges under CMAT Colleges under MAT

Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, Noida New Delhi Institute of Management

VARC 39.10 13 13 – 15 I need to

score to get 99%ile in are there in an year?

LANDING PAGE Whenever a form is released, it will be notified on B school group!

applications to scan your photograph.

 Please upload your signature : maximum 80KB.(Only JPEG,JPG formats).

 Total marks obtained (inclusive of all subjects) indicate the

 For graduates before 2022, multiply grand CGPA by 9.5

14 Nagpur 240 PGP

show the original caste/class and/or disability

Q: Does it matter which slot I have in the exam?

are Goa Institute of Management, LIBA Chennai, Great Lakes

 Look for a detailed criterion at:

4 sections of the paper.

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