IIM SEAT: CLASS 10TH AND 12TH SCORES MORE MATTER THAN CAT

By all the means, you need to work hard to do well in your combined admission test (CAT) to get into an IIM's. But how well you do in CAT after you have been shortlisted which means you have made it to at least  the top 10% of all applicants, makes up only a fifth of your final score when it comes to securing an IIM admission.

In fact it's your class 10th and 12th result that accounts for more 25% of the final score , your bachelor's degree 15%. The factor with the maximum weightage is your performance in group discussion(GD) GD summary and personal interview 35%. the balance 5% depends on work experience and whether you taken a "professional course".
And if you thought a B.Tech from IIT gives you an extra advantage,sorry. Only a CA qualifies as a "professional course" .
when it comes to work experience, three years will get u the maximum score depending on the quality and relevance of your job, anything more than three years.
Such details have been revealed for the first time by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore which conducted the CAT last year after it was forced by the Central Information Comdardised scores in each category for IIM (B) in 2007 class 10th and 12th exam ; Bachelor's ; Group discussion and interview and work experience has now been posted on www.iimb.ernet.in Other IIMs are expected to follow a similar method.
IIM applicants in the general category have long known that they need to be in the top ten percent in CAT scores but it's now been revealed that to be even considered for the interview call, they must be in the top 15% in each section of the test verbal,logic and data,quantitative. SC/ST and disabled applicants need to be in the  top 50% in the logic and quantitative, top 45% in verbal.In overall score,however,SC applicants need to be in the  top 25% while ST in the top 35%.