Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
This is that time of the year when CAT aspirants need to start filling out all individual college forms. The process of filling the main CAT form is almost done, so now the focus lies on the colleges where the scores of CAT or the other nationalized or even international ones will count. The challenge lies in filling which all. The process of being a management professional starts here. As these college forms cost money, one has to choose where all to invest. Options are plenty, but one needs to prioritize looking at one’s performances and past records. And of course, few parameters help gauge this as well as the Mock Scores.
As we are not conducting any formal rankings process here, so we would not be naming colleges under any bracket per se. Instead, let us start by looking at aspects that really matter when filling college forms:
Now we see how all this fits into the bigger picture with the mock scores. By now, those who had started preparations much earlier, would probably be done with covering the broad syllabus, so to speak. However, that is not true for those who started preparing later, or those not taking tests at all and studying fully on their own. So, one needs to take a margin here. All the IIMs in the country are covered by the CAT form alone so one need not fill separately for them but for others who accept the score. Students also need to understand that among the above categories mentioned, A and B are of particular importance at this stage. C and D matter for individual candidates considering the situation. E and F matter more at the time of final selection itself after the soft skills rounds are concluded. Let us broadly see how the scores fit at each category and what kind of colleges can be realistically looked at:
For anyone right now getting less than 80 percentile, nothing to despair. But, one has to get it to the minimum 90 in the mocks to stand a realistic chance in the real paper. Of course, a number of individual college forms are not out yet, and many that are, have a generous last date. Many get extended anyway. So, no need to panic in filling those forms, but one has to keep an eye on this score to plan ahead. This report is a broad indicator. Individual positions will vary vastly. Students can look up to some of the best-known B-School Surveys, to understand which all colleges in each geographical region could be worth applying at their score levels.
This article was contributed by Aritro.
Aritro is an accomplished teacher and trainer with more than 8 years of experience in this field. He has worked with colleges, corporates and coaching institutes. He is also an established blogger having written extensively in the fields of education, environment, business, football, cinema, travel and food. In 2018 he was the Mentor to All India Rank 1 in the DUJAT exam.
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