India's Best B-Schools - A Ranking
- http://commonadmissiontest.blogspot.com | December 04, 2006

1. Indian Institute of Management(IIM) - Ahmedabad
   
2. Indian School of Business(ISB) - Hyderabad
   
3. IIM - Bangalore
   
4. IIM - Calcutta
   
5. IIM - Lucknow
6. Xavier's Labour Relations Instiute(XLRI) - Jamshedpur
   
7. National Institute of Industrial Engineering(NITIE) - Mumbai
   
8. Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) - Delhi
   
9. S.P.Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR) - Mumbai
   
10. .Shailesh J.Mehta Institute of Management, IIT Mumbai

The Common Admission Test, populary known as the CAT is not without reason India's best known MBA Entrance Exam. Out of the above 10 b-schools, as many as 6 use the CAT as the written test. A good percentile in the CAT can earn you an interview call from one or more IIMs, NITIE and S.P. Jain. If you have appeared in the CAT that just went by, on 19th December 2006, you will probably need a score in excess of 110 to get a call from the IIMs. Of course, one also has to ensure that the score is distributed fairly well across the 3 sections to meet the sectional cut-off norms.

If your target is the b-school located in the Steel City of Jharkhand, your entrance examination is called the XAT(Xavier Admission Test). XLRI's entrance test has a higher level of mathematics and includes a General Knowledge section, unlike the CAT. It also has a 20 minutes essay writing part.

The IITs hold the Joint Management Entrance Test(JMET) for entry into the various management programmes offered by the various IITs and the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. As these programmes are meant for engineers only, you can expect a definitely tougher mathematics section. The JMET also includes a separate Logical Reasoning question. The coming Sunday (10th December 2006) will see the country's brightest engineers fighting it out for these premier techno-management seats.

FMS Delhi has its own separate test, whereas ISB Hyderabad uses the GMAT scores for screening candidates. The latter is open to students with a minimum of 2 yrs of work experience only.