I got 77 percentile in CAT. Where can I get admission? I am looking for IIMs. Is it possible?

It is not necessary to conduct CAT, MAT, or XAT tests for MBA in Hospitality and Tourism admission in Lovely Professional University (LPU). The only basic eligibility criterion is graduation with at least 55% marks, and admission is substantially through the LPUNEST entrance exam or, in some instances, a valid CAT score. MAT and XAT, though, are not specified as compulsory or standard entrance exams for this course at LPU. Students can get admission by either appearing in LPUNEST or by scoring in CAT, but the selection of CAT, MAT, or XAT is not obligatory if you choose LPUNEST instead.

Yes, students looking to get admissions into Preseidency College MBA course can apply for their facorite course-specialization without appearing for the CAT exam. However, in order to be eligible, applicants must have passed graduation degree with 10+2+3/4/5 under any discipline with 50% (5% relaxation to students belonging to SC/ST/Cat-1) score from any recognised board.

Furthermore, interested candidates must also appear for a government-recognized state-level entrance test like Karnataka PGCET, KMAT, among others.

AIMS Institutes admissions are conducted primarily on the basis of various prescribed entrance tests. These include CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, and CMAT. However, students may feel free to visit the official website and check for any category or course-wise ezceptions, if any. Candidates seeking admission to the MBA programme must be graduated with the bachelor's degree with at least 50% aggregate (45% aggregate for SC/ ST/ CAT-1).

CAT Institute of Management Ranchi accepts CAT scores, followed by the Personal Interview round for admission to the MBA course. As per the IIM CAP criteria, the expected qualifying CAT cut off for the batch of 2023-25 is 93 percentile for the General category students. Candidates can refer to the table given below to check out the category-wise estimated CAT 2023 qualifying cutoff for IIM Ranchi: 

Note: The above-mentioned data is not the actual CAT 2023 Qualifying Cutoff and is the estimated data based on the previous year's qualifying cutoff. The actual data might be on the higher side for 2023.

For admission to MBA (or PGP) 2024 batch at IIM Ranchi, the CAT test was conducted on November 26, 2023. Aspirants of IIM Ranchi are required to appear for the exam in Computer Based Testing mode at the allotted test centres. CAT exam 2023 will be held in three slots:

Morning slot: 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM

Afternoon slot: 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM

Evening slot: 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Earlier, the CAT exam used to be of 180 minutes with 100 questions but in 2020, both exam duration and number of questions were reduced due to COVID-19 pandemic. Now, starting CAT 2022, the total number of questions stands at 66 as part of CAT pattern.