Will last academic's scores matter if I have got 100 %ile in CAT exam including good marks in GD and PI?

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    Rohit Mishra | Contributor-Level 7

    7 years ago
    Scoring a very high percentile above 98 or 99 is considered the basic requirement to get shortlisted by IIMs. In the race we forget that the primary requirement to qualify for getting shortlisted by the IIMs is scoring high and balanced sectional percentile in CAT and not the over-all percentile. IIMs after applying their equated normalization system would prefer a candidate with fairly high balanced percentile of 90+ and 94+ in each section with overall percentile of 95-97 to a candidate with overall high percentile of 98-99 having greater deviation in sectional percentile. If you have a good academic record with 90 percent marks in c
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