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To be eligible for admission to Iims, you need to meet the minimum academic eligibility criteria, which typically requires candidates to have at least 50% marks or an equivalent CGPA in their undergraduate degree from a recognised university. Since you haven't mentioned your undergraduate degree percentage, I am assuming that you have not completed your undergraduate degree yet. Assuming that you meet the minimum academic eligibility criteria, if you score 99% in the CAT exam, you will have a good chance of getting a call from one of the Iims for the next stage of the admission process, which typically includes a written ability test, group discussion, and Personal Interview . To prepare for the CAT exam, here are some tips:
Understand the exam pattern and syllabus: Familiarize yourself with the CAT exam pattern and syllabus, which includes three sections - Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension VARC Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning DILR and Quantitative Aptitude (QA). Practice regularly: Practice is essential to improve your speed and accuracy. Solve previous years' question papers, mock tests, and sectional tests to get a good understanding of the type of questions asked in the exam. Focus on your weak areas: Identify your weak areas and work on improving them. Give more time to topics that you find difficult. Learn time management: Time management is crucial in the CAT exam. Learn to manage your time effectively and efficiently during the exam. Improve your communication skills: The CAT exam also tests your communication skills, so work on your language proficiency, vocabulary, and grammar. Seek guidance: Consider joining a coaching institute or seeking guidance from experienced mentors to help you stay on track and provide expert guidance. Remember, scoring well in the CAT exam is just one aspect of getting into Iims. You also need to perform well in the subsequent stages of the admission process, such as the written ability test, group discussion, and Personal Interview . So, prepare well and stay focused on your goal.

The materiality concept is the principle in accounting that trivial matters are to be disregarded, and all important matters are to be disclosed. Items that are large enough to matter are material items. Materiality refers especially to:
• The level of detail appropriate for different financial reports.
• The importance of errors such as:
– Reporting expenses, revenues, liabilities, equities, or assets in inappropriate accounts, or reporting them for incorrect reporting periods.
– Omitting or failing to report important financial data.
The materiality concept is an established, recognized accounting convention. Another such convention is the historical cost convention, by which transactions are recorded at the price prevailing when the transaction is made, and assets are valued at original cost. Comparing the two conventions, however, historical costs are usually ascertained and agreed rather objectively, with little uncertainty, whereas applying the materiality concept may call for more subjective judgment. Moreover, the subjective judgments of senior management, accountants, auditors, boards of directors, stockholders, and potential business partners, can differ, especially when competing interests are involved.

For IAS preparation it would be good if you pursue your BA in the subjects like History, Public Adminstration , Economics , Constitution & Geography. And among these I think Geography & Public Administration are most popular optional subjects for the mains and account for the 50% shares in the final mains result. Infact UPES university of Dehradun has come up with an special IAS oriented BA program for students to study BA in Public administration along with IAS coaching & test preparation. This clearly signals that most of IAS aspirants are preferring this subject in their BA. You can check out this university for your BA as recently I've been hearing a lot about this. Good luck :)

Hello Pranav, I think you should make your career in unconventional field as they are less saturated and have better job opportunities. Like You can go for a degree course in Travel & Tourism. Many universities offer BBA in Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, under this you will acquire a thorough knowledge and understanding of Marketing, Sales, Tour Planning, Tour Operation, Holiday Consulting and foreign exchange management for tourists. I would advise you to look for UTM, Shillong a university which is famous for its BBA Hospitality, Travel & Tourism program. Being a tourist destination(Shillong) itself, Students in UTM gets ample of experience in this industry and gets to know and in and outs too.