Should I focus on studying CAT or can I do job as well? Will it hamper my career doing CAT without any work experience?

I am totally confused whether I should spend my entire year in studying CAT, CMAT, SNAP or I should gain some work experience before appearing for CAT exam. I have a good academic score but not the best.

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2016-01-02 10:44:58

I'll give two cases for a analysis: 1)A person having good overall academic profile say above 90% in all 10th,12th and graduation and overall work experience of 4 years but he scored only 80% in CAT due to lack of preparation. He is never going to make into any of the top 5 IIM's. 2)A person who g

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