Does your MBA score/marks help in campus placements?

When you are talking of Indian Education System, marks are something that plays a vital role in determining our future and MBA is not an exception. At an initial stage, when companies visit the campus, they have some criteria for selection of candidates. They set a cutoff percentage to appear in the interview. But, only having good marks in your grade card won't help you in getting a job. After all it's the knowledge and the concept of the field that would be giving you the job. So, you need to focus on gaining knowledge, rather than just marks. I believe that gaining knowledge is enough to give you a better marks and hence also a job. But, after all MBA is a strategic course. You must plan your every step before you execute them. Set up a plan that how would you move forward for the upcoming term/semester and then move. I guess, that would be giving you knowledge as well as marks in your grade card.

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Yes, it does help in the final placement but 50% depends on your performance and academic score does give you some heads up in placement section process but your GK and attitude towards each and everything and your point of view for solving problem is what they look forward in placement section and your scores reflect that the amount of knowledge you are having as per your academic score. That's all. So, yes if you are asking, does it help? Yes, it definitely helps the selection committee to think and assume that you are capable for that particular interview but all comes to end how you perform in your final interview. Just don't get nervous and be aware of your these points.

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Let me tell you the factors which influence the placements in order of importance - 1. Your CGPA. 2. Work Experience (If any) 3. Relevant internships in reputed companies 4. Honors and Awards 5. Academic Background 6. Position of responsibilities 7. Other Extra-Curricular So, as you can see CGPA/ MBA score is of utmost importance of placements. Let's take example of IIMs. Generally the top firms first shortlist candidates based on their CV and then call them for interviews, This short listing is highly affected by CGPA. One of the incident narrated by a student in IIM Ahmedabad, when a particular big (I mean BIG) firm short listed the candidates they were literally the top 10 students from the batch. Most of the investment banks shortlist the top5-10% of batch for interviews. So CGPA is the major factor considered by companies followed by relevant internships in reputed companies. They will focus on your work experience if you have had any otherwise it is not a big deal. So, keep your grades good and try to get internships at good companies. All the best.

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Yes, MBA score/marks play a major role in campus placements. Most of the companies look for your marks and grades to screen students and shortlist from those. The most important factor is that a student sometimes may be good in practical work rather than theoretical knowledge. But majority of companies put marks as the criteria of selection. For attending interview most of the well-known companies will ask for minimum 60%.and some companies put this criteria as 70% and above. Some of the companies which look for marks are: 1. TCS 2. L&T 3. Infosys 4. Tech Mahindra 5. KOTAK Mahindra Bank 6. ICICI Prudential, etc. The major reason for this mark as a criteria is to shortlist from bulk of students. Some companies won’t look for marks only the caliber and ability to do work is taken into consideration. Such companies are majority startups.

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Yes, no doubt that you need to score at least the CGPA which is required to be eligible to appear in Placement drive of the Institute. So there are different discretion of the company that what are they demanding from the candidate. Some of the companies are demanding thoroughly 70% for candidates to appear in the placement drive. Many candidates are not adhering to the condition hence they are not eligible to appear in the drive, but that depends on from company to company so it is true that it will affect your placement also if you will be having low marks then interviewer will definitely ask you the reason and at that time you will wonder how to answer. So it is good that you work to get good marks from the starting only to help you get better option of placement.

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I strongly believe that whether MBA marks or grade matters in job placements it vary from company to company. Some companies don't give priority to your academic record while some companies set minimum benchmark percentage which every candidate must have so as to apply for the job. What matters is every candidate must have deep knowledge about the field or the area for which he has applied. Interviewer also checks level of confidence of the candidate. Some companies demand good academic record both in your graduation and MBA degree. Sometimes, preference is given to the candidates having deep knowledge, good academic record along with having some years of experience in concerned field. Most critical thing is candidate must not have any backlog in his MBA course as it will restrain the candidate to sit for interview. However, a selection criterion is different in public sector undertakings. PSUS specified minimum level of percentage which every candidate must have to apply for the job. Thus PSUS specifies minimum eligibility criteria. Along with it, every candidate has to qualify common entrance exam to get selected.

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