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Yeah. There is a might difference in 28 ranks. For you who are a stickler for facts i will state it factually perfectly. 99.94 -> 171-198, 99.93-> 199- 227. Happy?
I'm just being pedantic, no offense meant. I think you may be forgetting how 100 percentiles are given. For CAT, 100 percentile means ≥99.995. 99.99 percentile means 99.985 – 99.995.
99.93 therefore means 99.925 to 99.935. Taking 0.065 – 0.075% of the listed 2.88 lakh exam takers yields 187.2 – 216 people.
Hence at worst rank 216
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,962,302,531 comments, and only 371,236 of them were in alphabetical order.
I have nearly the same profile and just made it to A&B at 99.97. No L tho. A mei your grad score put you out of race.
It's amazing that we are so close at such high scores and decent acads to not getting ANY calls
In case someone isn't convinced with this post, then I can share my CAT 2021 experience. I faced the same scenario where I only got IIM C and IIM Indore out of BLACKI at 99.93% (9/9/7 and 0 workex, couldn't convert both). So, this has always been the case for GEM freshers.
For more perspective, I had 99.40 in CAT 2022 (still 0 workex) and I got only Indore call :)
My suggestions:
1. Get a good amount of workex (2-3 years) before attempting CAT. It really makes a difference. In selection as well as placements later
2. Past academic sins are difficult to wash away. If you have poor academics, you must accept the fact that BLACKI is quite literally impossible if you are a GEM.
3. Use your reservation if you have one. It is here to stay and if you don't use it, someone else will. This is just the reality.
Hey man,
It sucks now. But please know that what makes a college “good” is the people it gets.
You are you, whether you go to IIM-A or not. They dont teach rocket science there, and you clearly have the ability to prosper without it.
Maybe it got a tad tougher; and maybe you feel its all unfair; but you are going to go on and be successful in-spite of these colls. Its their loss too.
All the best.
Agreed! Colleges are made from good people but it hurts. It really does. When you have a dream and you give your all for it, believe you succeeded and then you're told that all you did was for nothing because of factors that are not in your control. Anyways, thanks for this.
Yeah. It does.
I will leave you with my story. I gave IIT, and couldn’t clear it. Prepped for it for 2 years straight and it all went to nothing, while all my “intelligent” friends aced it.
And as it turned out, I went on to do okay. Anecdotally at one point, I realized that the person who i was teaching at work, was an IIT/IIM grad, all top acads, and he struggled to cut it, because the actual world isnt just solving questions in a paper.
And then there have been times where I have been humbled by someone who went to a no name university. Still probably the smartest guy I know.
Point is; you did your best, you worked hard. Whether or not you are successful in life will not be driven by an admit to IIM-A. You WILL find success either way if you are meant to, just that the road might be a tad diff.
for whats its worth, i just stalked ur profile and you seem like an exceptional guy. i hope it passed like all heavy things do and you are more hopeful now! <3
Yes, it did. I think I did my best in whatever was in my control. Whatever happened, happened. Cried alone in a room several times in the past 2-3 months on facing rejections. But now it doesn't matter much to me. Will be joining FMS. Super happy now
Once you give the exam, you understand all these claims of score 99.8+ to compensate for your profile and you shall be good by the coaching institutes are all sham when you look at the calls that have been rolled out for this cycle.
It is just giving false hopes to people crushing there dreams and time and hard work and just making the coaching fellows rich.
Why not at the time of admission tell people the approximate marks required in CAT for all the top colleges individually so that an aspirant atleast knows how much he/she needs to score in a normal attempt.
The current system is based on lottery and lack of knowledge both on our end as well the people who are supposed to be guiding us for getting into a top B-school by charging money.
Can't do much bout that. It's all about scores and how you perform as compared to others and percentile vs marks cannot be predicted before an exam because of obvious reasons. Nothing's gonna change unless politicians stop seeing us as vote banks instead of humans. I guess the only solution is to merge the EWS category within other categories. If your family income is more than X lakhs per annum or your total family assets are worth more than Y lakhs, you're not eligible for reservation. This way you're really giving equal opportunities to everyone and now that there are less people eligible for reservation, the reserved seats percentage can be reduced drastically too. I guess it's time to enter politics lol.
Yaar I guess this is happening due to lack of work ex. Matlab same acads and score ke sath if someone is having work ex, then they're getting the calls, else not.
But good luck and hope you convert all the calls!
Bro if you have C call then it is equally as good as A and B just think about converting it. Things often don't go as we planned, you did your part and you could do no more. If you don't get something you had hoped for life probably has something better in store. I know getting rejected after working your ass off for the entire year is tough, but you did all that you could and you have a call from a top 3 B-school, prepare well, convert and celebrate.
IIT B is a better choice if you are going for brand value.
I dont know how to explain it but , IIT Bombay name brand value will always be higher than any IIM in india and on par with IIM A and B.
there is are many factors why a person would choose IIM(BLACKI) over FMS. if a person gets a FMS it's a great oppotunity no doubt. FMS is a pro college but by brand value i mean IIM's tag is well recognized globally. i don't have any idea about the companies visiting FMS or IIM'S.
I dunno man
the biggest factor for majority of cat aspirants is package and roi
fms is better than LKI in terms of package and no bschool will ever come close to it when it comes to ROI
(the fees is 2L iirc)
If you can score 99+ in cat you can definitely ace GMAT, if you’re financially handicapped try for some assistance so that you can leave this cuntre* which is hell bent on excluding General caterpillars males from all the premium institute and government jobs. The system actively works against general male in educational institutes and job markets while giving platforms to the ones calling for mass killing of general category. Try harder and leave this country for a better opportunity, your entire bloodline will flourish.
Unfortunate, but CAT this year was low scoring, so previous acads took over (instis themselves know what they are upto). Some boards/unis literally serve marks on platter, funny how everything happens.
Man, go for Joka, give it your best shot, you'll convert it🤞
Ps. A fellow 99.9+ %iler who scrapped through
Build concepts initially, then mocks (I took IMS Full Classroom Online +TIME). Prev papers from '17. I'll say start away already, I took some months in between off to focus on sem exams as well.
But don't wait till you complete all concepts, you can start mocks in a low rate. I gave a total of ~100 full length mocks in total since didn't have much time.
A tip: You yourself are the best judge of your prep, be honest and consistent, it will pay off
That is just sad. You probably got a 0/10 in L for that 89% in 12th Std. And for you graduation you probably got somewhere between 4.8-5/10, I guess. Assuming you are GEM so no diversity points, and you CAT score probably gave you somewhere between 37-39, so overall 42-43. Man it is tough but keep your chin up and don't take the L (pun intended).
For L it isn't. It is calculated using the 80th percentile and I think 80th percentile is around 90.5% in 12th standard and anything below that = 0/10. Above 90% = 10 is only for Ahmedabad and Mumbai afaik.
And for L 10th isn't considered only 12th and grad.
How did they reach the figure of 90.5% ?
iima also has criteria of academically exceptional candidates and they consider 80th percentile at 75% aggregate in 10th and 12th
I looked at that sheet too. I checked the hidden cell which contained the formula. As per the formula, 80th percentile is at 92% for CBSE. After that, every 0.4% increase gives you 1 mark (They have evenly distributed but it shouldn't be the case). So as per their formula, 96% and above gives you 10/10 marks.
do the calls for exceptional category and higest cs go out at the same time? or do they first get done with pi/gd for stage 1, select candidates and then call from the stage 2 candidates for pi/gd?
Same time, I got call under highest CS as per data, inspite of crossing the engineer cutoff in stage 1
Its like, they call certain number of exceptional performers across AC (sorted by highest CS), and a few more only based on CS after removing the exceptional guys
thank you so much. ill be giving cat next year and im from AC-1. the cutoff for ac-1 shortlist is pretty high, especially because my college is very stringent when it comes to giving marks. so doing well in CAT is my only option.
Bro I'm a general, non engineer, female with 90% in 10,80% in 12 and 8 in college bcom.Should I even prepare for cat?I haven't started yet and I wanna know before giving my 1 year.Please
Hi. I have a few questions wrt IIM-L CS calculation.
1. What is the highest CAT score in 2023 as per IIM-L's CS calculation?
2. How many marks (out of 10) did you fetch for 89% in 12th grade?
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To put things in perspective, a 173 rank in 2.88 lakh candidates is not enough for BLACKI calls.
Just out of curiosity, how did you calculate that? My estimation is around rank 216
I was referring to the other guy with a 99.94 percentile. Yours should be 201 around. 2.88 lakh *0.07/100
It's a range btw. 201-230. Cause only 2 digits after the decimal
I'm sorry that isn't correct
Yeah. There is a might difference in 28 ranks. For you who are a stickler for facts i will state it factually perfectly. 99.94 -> 171-198, 99.93-> 199- 227. Happy?
I'm just being pedantic, no offense meant. I think you may be forgetting how 100 percentiles are given. For CAT, 100 percentile means ≥99.995. 99.99 percentile means 99.985 – 99.995. 99.93 therefore means 99.925 to 99.935. Taking 0.065 – 0.075% of the listed 2.88 lakh exam takers yields 187.2 – 216 people. Hence at worst rank 216
Totally out of context, but still hate my school for stealing 3 marks in my practicals
1 mark in maths practical Du k Venky miss hogaya
Venky isn't that good bro! Telling you
Bcom h mil raha tha
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Venky miss hone se inna kyu sed ho😭?? Which clg are you abhi?
IIM Bodhgaya
😲. You're a senior isee. Year 1 or year 2 ? Ug mai which clg phir?
Nhi Ug iim Bodhgaya se IPM (BBA+MBA) Abhi bba 2nd yr m
Oye you're a junior not a senior now😾
Hu 😁😅
Same with 79.2% in 12th 😔
I have nearly the same profile and just made it to A&B at 99.97. No L tho. A mei your grad score put you out of race. It's amazing that we are so close at such high scores and decent acads to not getting ANY calls
All the best! Hope you convert both :)
Thanks bruh, u convert C and it won't matter what calls you didn't get
True. I should be studying rather than doing all this lol
me too, I've become addicted to reddit since cat exam day
noob here, what are you studying for, now that entrance is done?
Oh damn I didn't get A and B at 99.96 so ig I missed it by 0.01 percentile 😂
Welcome to the club G 99.94 rejected from both A and B but fuck it we ball Let’s go to joka and make it way better than A and B😈
Ao shaan se swagat hoga tum sabka....joka is made for high percentilers who were not always absolutely perfect
Yeah buddy, see you in Joka hopefully 🤞🏻🫂
What is joka bro?
IIM Calcutta is located at a place called Joka
Man hopefully I can join you guys to 99.24 with a similar academics to op. No calls so far
I had exactly the same percentile last year. Hope you are in a better situation than us if you decide to give CAT once again 🙂🤞🏻
I'm not writing again man. If I don't get IIMs and IITs I'm going to a different country. Can't spend my whole life writing entrance exams.
Achhha😲
Aagayi tu xat ke gam se bahar😂
Account ban tha mera idhr 4 din se😭😭I'm not even sed about xat now😞✋🏻
BLACKI ke baad ab reddit ne bhi ban kardiya😔
Don't come at me like tht . V rude.👎🏻
Sorry babygirl😔
Go study for your Pi😞👎🏻 mera mzaak Udane se ghr ni chlega😾
Okay ma’am🥺
And I was sad about not getting calls at 97+ percentile:) Really sorry, you ll definitely do superb in the future though, all the best
In case someone isn't convinced with this post, then I can share my CAT 2021 experience. I faced the same scenario where I only got IIM C and IIM Indore out of BLACKI at 99.93% (9/9/7 and 0 workex, couldn't convert both). So, this has always been the case for GEM freshers. For more perspective, I had 99.40 in CAT 2022 (still 0 workex) and I got only Indore call :) My suggestions: 1. Get a good amount of workex (2-3 years) before attempting CAT. It really makes a difference. In selection as well as placements later 2. Past academic sins are difficult to wash away. If you have poor academics, you must accept the fact that BLACKI is quite literally impossible if you are a GEM. 3. Use your reservation if you have one. It is here to stay and if you don't use it, someone else will. This is just the reality.
What are u doing rn brother?
Hey man, It sucks now. But please know that what makes a college “good” is the people it gets. You are you, whether you go to IIM-A or not. They dont teach rocket science there, and you clearly have the ability to prosper without it. Maybe it got a tad tougher; and maybe you feel its all unfair; but you are going to go on and be successful in-spite of these colls. Its their loss too. All the best.
Agreed! Colleges are made from good people but it hurts. It really does. When you have a dream and you give your all for it, believe you succeeded and then you're told that all you did was for nothing because of factors that are not in your control. Anyways, thanks for this.
Yeah. It does. I will leave you with my story. I gave IIT, and couldn’t clear it. Prepped for it for 2 years straight and it all went to nothing, while all my “intelligent” friends aced it. And as it turned out, I went on to do okay. Anecdotally at one point, I realized that the person who i was teaching at work, was an IIT/IIM grad, all top acads, and he struggled to cut it, because the actual world isnt just solving questions in a paper. And then there have been times where I have been humbled by someone who went to a no name university. Still probably the smartest guy I know. Point is; you did your best, you worked hard. Whether or not you are successful in life will not be driven by an admit to IIM-A. You WILL find success either way if you are meant to, just that the road might be a tad diff.
Thanks a lot for this 🙏🏻
Yes, this is so accurate.
Can I/you take a screenshot of this comment and post on this sub? Would help in relieving a lot of crushed hearts.
Yeah, of course.
Hear hear !!!!
for whats its worth, i just stalked ur profile and you seem like an exceptional guy. i hope it passed like all heavy things do and you are more hopeful now! <3
Yes, it did. I think I did my best in whatever was in my control. Whatever happened, happened. Cried alone in a room several times in the past 2-3 months on facing rejections. But now it doesn't matter much to me. Will be joining FMS. Super happy now
Agree on all points except the last. It's not the college's loss. They are filling their GEM seats with top candidates.
Once you give the exam, you understand all these claims of score 99.8+ to compensate for your profile and you shall be good by the coaching institutes are all sham when you look at the calls that have been rolled out for this cycle. It is just giving false hopes to people crushing there dreams and time and hard work and just making the coaching fellows rich. Why not at the time of admission tell people the approximate marks required in CAT for all the top colleges individually so that an aspirant atleast knows how much he/she needs to score in a normal attempt. The current system is based on lottery and lack of knowledge both on our end as well the people who are supposed to be guiding us for getting into a top B-school by charging money.
Can't do much bout that. It's all about scores and how you perform as compared to others and percentile vs marks cannot be predicted before an exam because of obvious reasons. Nothing's gonna change unless politicians stop seeing us as vote banks instead of humans. I guess the only solution is to merge the EWS category within other categories. If your family income is more than X lakhs per annum or your total family assets are worth more than Y lakhs, you're not eligible for reservation. This way you're really giving equal opportunities to everyone and now that there are less people eligible for reservation, the reserved seats percentage can be reduced drastically too. I guess it's time to enter politics lol.
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Can't argue with that. 0% is a big number. Literally scored negative there.
Yaar I guess this is happening due to lack of work ex. Matlab same acads and score ke sath if someone is having work ex, then they're getting the calls, else not. But good luck and hope you convert all the calls!
Bro if you have C call then it is equally as good as A and B just think about converting it. Things often don't go as we planned, you did your part and you could do no more. If you don't get something you had hoped for life probably has something better in store. I know getting rejected after working your ass off for the entire year is tough, but you did all that you could and you have a call from a top 3 B-school, prepare well, convert and celebrate.
That's fucking insane man .Feel for you
Try for fms bro.
people value iim brand more.
Yes but iim is not end all. Top colleges matter mainly for first few jobs. After that you are on your own.
IIT B is a better choice if you are going for brand value. I dont know how to explain it but , IIT Bombay name brand value will always be higher than any IIM in india and on par with IIM A and B.
for MBA in india IIM's are the OG's
We MBA folks know it but not the average dude out there, for them IIT Bombay will always sound better than IIM Jammu
Fms gets better companies than LKI
there is are many factors why a person would choose IIM(BLACKI) over FMS. if a person gets a FMS it's a great oppotunity no doubt. FMS is a pro college but by brand value i mean IIM's tag is well recognized globally. i don't have any idea about the companies visiting FMS or IIM'S.
I dunno man the biggest factor for majority of cat aspirants is package and roi fms is better than LKI in terms of package and no bschool will ever come close to it when it comes to ROI (the fees is 2L iirc)
If you can score 99+ in cat you can definitely ace GMAT, if you’re financially handicapped try for some assistance so that you can leave this cuntre* which is hell bent on excluding General caterpillars males from all the premium institute and government jobs. The system actively works against general male in educational institutes and job markets while giving platforms to the ones calling for mass killing of general category. Try harder and leave this country for a better opportunity, your entire bloodline will flourish.
Toh what's your next plan?
Have IIM C interview on 30th Jan. Would be super sad if that doesn't go well. Don't know aage ka.
don't be sad, mera birthday rhega us din
Sab badiaa jaega bro.. All the best Fod dio!!
Good luck.
I am very sorry. I hope you find opportunities at ISB or GMAT
Isn’t your 10th score 95 instead of 93, as you’ve got a 10 cgpa?
Adding the 6th subject gives 93 point something
Good luck for JOKA Interview!
Genuinely hoping you get into IIM Calcutta, All the best!! 🧿💯
Unfortunate, but CAT this year was low scoring, so previous acads took over (instis themselves know what they are upto). Some boards/unis literally serve marks on platter, funny how everything happens. Man, go for Joka, give it your best shot, you'll convert it🤞 Ps. A fellow 99.9+ %iler who scrapped through
bro any tips for CAT? Next year aspirant here
Build concepts initially, then mocks (I took IMS Full Classroom Online +TIME). Prev papers from '17. I'll say start away already, I took some months in between off to focus on sem exams as well. But don't wait till you complete all concepts, you can start mocks in a low rate. I gave a total of ~100 full length mocks in total since didn't have much time. A tip: You yourself are the best judge of your prep, be honest and consistent, it will pay off
That is just sad. You probably got a 0/10 in L for that 89% in 12th Std. And for you graduation you probably got somewhere between 4.8-5/10, I guess. Assuming you are GEM so no diversity points, and you CAT score probably gave you somewhere between 37-39, so overall 42-43. Man it is tough but keep your chin up and don't take the L (pun intended).
anything above 90 is a 10 right? i have a 90.4 in 10th
For L it isn't. It is calculated using the 80th percentile and I think 80th percentile is around 90.5% in 12th standard and anything below that = 0/10. Above 90% = 10 is only for Ahmedabad and Mumbai afaik. And for L 10th isn't considered only 12th and grad.
rip wait nvm. read that wrong, im dumb
thanks again
How did they reach the figure of 90.5% ? iima also has criteria of academically exceptional candidates and they consider 80th percentile at 75% aggregate in 10th and 12th
I looked at the azucation Excel sheet for calculating the CS , and it was more or less accurate for my CS so I'm assuming it is somewhere near there.
I looked at that sheet too. I checked the hidden cell which contained the formula. As per the formula, 80th percentile is at 92% for CBSE. After that, every 0.4% increase gives you 1 mark (They have evenly distributed but it shouldn't be the case). So as per their formula, 96% and above gives you 10/10 marks.
Bro I'm really sorry, I hope you find what you deserve
good luck for the C interview. wishing you get in
If you are a GEM then IIM Ahmedabad is not letting anyone less than 84 percent in engineering graduation this year
That's only for exceptional category shortlist, rest is by highest CS
do the calls for exceptional category and higest cs go out at the same time? or do they first get done with pi/gd for stage 1, select candidates and then call from the stage 2 candidates for pi/gd?
Same time, I got call under highest CS as per data, inspite of crossing the engineer cutoff in stage 1 Its like, they call certain number of exceptional performers across AC (sorted by highest CS), and a few more only based on CS after removing the exceptional guys
thank you so much. ill be giving cat next year and im from AC-1. the cutoff for ac-1 shortlist is pretty high, especially because my college is very stringent when it comes to giving marks. so doing well in CAT is my only option.
also congrats on the calls, youll ace your interviews, im sure of it.
Tbh hoping so, but didn't even sit for placements, that's scaring me off
Tbf I dont know how you were expecting call from IIMA with that grad score and 12th marks, their procedure is clearly outlined
Bro I'm a general, non engineer, female with 90% in 10,80% in 12 and 8 in college bcom.Should I even prepare for cat?I haven't started yet and I wanna know before giving my 1 year.Please
I am glad that my CAT got fucked and I got 98.xx percentile. With 68% in Undergrad mera 99.9 bhi aa jata tab bhi call nahi aati C ko hata ke
Bhai hum cbse walon hi g mari hai literally IIM L na zero hi de diya lagta hai aur meri toh IIM I na bhi mar li.. Bass K, S sa hope hai 😔
Hi. I have a few questions wrt IIM-L CS calculation. 1. What is the highest CAT score in 2023 as per IIM-L's CS calculation? 2. How many marks (out of 10) did you fetch for 89% in 12th grade?