What if your CAT 2019 score is low?
After results of CAT exams, your focus must have now shifted on the admission options to different B-schools depending on your scores or percentile in CAT. Don’t Panic, if you have’t score good in your CAT 2019 exams. You can still get admission in top b schools in India.
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What if you do not fare well in CAT?Options that you have after low score in CAT?
How will you still can get into a top B-school?
Here now explore options for top B schools:
You might get disappointed with your CAT results, but you should not loose heart as you may still get calls from Top B-schools which give very low weightage to CAT exam scores like CAT or XAT.
Such B-schools select the candidates on other parameters which may include your past higher academics and with percentile range as low as 30- 70 you might get a chance to get selected.
Thus, you should explore your B-school on the basis of your past academics.
Besides CAT and XAT scores, such top B-school look for other components like academic profile, extra-curricular activity, soft skills, personal traits, attitude and social behavior along with many other personal characteristics while finalizing admission offers.
Many B-schools CAT or XAT scores carry only 20-30 per cent weightage in their selection process for example Taxila B School considers only 10% of your CAT score.
How will you still can get into a top B-school?
Your scores of exams like CAT should be one of the components during the admission process. There are other aspects like academic performance, personality traits, and other skills that carry major weightage for admission to PGDM/MBA.
Thus, despite your low percentile in CAT, many good Business schools may select you as the entrance exam scores are not the deciding factor for them. If you are still not satisfied with the Business school options that you are getting based on your CAT scores, you must now gear up for other MBA entrance examination which are scheduled to be conducted in next two months.
You can explore admission opportunities in top Business schools by taking two more MBA entrance examinations like CMAT & MAH-CET, which will be conducted in the month of February and March respectively. A good score in CMAT can also bring you admission opportunities.
Top Business schools accepting CMAT like:
- JBIMS- Mumbai,
- DMS -NIT Durgapur,
- SIMSREE-Mumbai amongst public institutions
- Taxila Business School- Jaipur
- Great Lakes Institute of Management- Chennai
- Prin. LN Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research- Mumbai
- KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research- Mumbai
- Institute of Public Enterprise-Hyderabad
- Balaji Institute of Modern Management (BIMM) –Pune
- Jaipuria Institute of Management – Lucknow
amongst many other private Business schools in India.
You can also read…
Top 50 Business Schools in India
Prepare for remaining MBA exams and GD-PI-WAT simultaneously.
So, what should be your next steps now? Since two important MBA exams are scheduled in next two months and many Business schools are planning their GD-PI in next few weeks also, your preparation for written test and GD-PI should go side by side.
List of Top 10 Business Schools as per IIRF 2020 rankings are as below:
| Cluster Rank | Business School | City | State |
| 1 | Indian Institute of Management | Ahmedabad | Gujarat |
| Indian Institute of Management | Calcutta | West Bengal | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Bangalore | Karnataka | |
| 2 | Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi | Delhi | Delhi |
| Indian School of Business (ISB) | Hyderabad | Telangana | |
| IIFT | New Delhi | Delhi | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Lucknow | Uttar Pradesh | |
| XLRI | Jamshedpur | Jharkhand | |
| 3 | Management Development Institute | Gurgaon | Haryana |
| S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) | Mumbai | Maharashtra | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Indore | Madhya Pradesh | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Kozhikode | Kerala | |
| Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies | Mumbai | Maharashtra | |
| 4 | Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay | Mumbai | Maharashtra |
| Department of Management Studies, IIT-Delhi | New Delhi | Delhi | |
| Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur | Kharagpur | West Bengal | |
| SCMHRD | Pune | Maharashtra | |
| MICA | Ahmedabad | Gujarat | |
| 5 | Indian Institute of Management | Rohtak | Haryana |
| Indian Institute of Management | Raipur | Chattishgarh | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Ranchi | Jharkhand | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Trichy | Tamil Nadu | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Udaipur | Rajasthan | |
| 6 | NMIMS School of Business Management | Mumbai | Maharashtra |
| Indian Institute of Management | Shillong | Meghalaya | |
| Institute of Management Technology (IMT) | Ghaziabad | Uttar Pradesh | |
| International Management Institute (IMI) | New Delhi | Delhi | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Visakhapatnam | Andhra Pradesh | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Kashipur | Uttarakhand | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Nagpur | Maharashtra | |
| 7 | University Business School, Punjab University (UBS) | Chandigarh | Chadigarh |
| Department of Business Economics, DU | Delhi | Delhi | |
| FORE School of Management | New Delhi | Delhi | |
| MHRM Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Kharagpur | Kharagpur | West Bengal | |
| SIMSREE | Mumbai | Maharashtra | |
| MHRM Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Kharagpur | Kharagpur | West Bengal | |
| 8 | Department of Management Studies, IIT-Roorkee | Roorkee | Uttarakhand |
| Indian Institute of Management | Sambalpur | Himachal Pradesh | |
| 9 | GOA Institute of Management (GIM) | Goa | Goa |
| Indian Institute of Management | Jammu | Jammu | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Sirmaur | Himachal Pradesh | |
| 10 | TAXILA BUSINESS SCHOOL | Jaipur | Rajasthan |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management | New Delhi | Delhi | |
| Great Lakes Institute of Management | Chennai | Tamil Nadu | |
| Indian Institute of Management | Bodh Gaya | Bihar |