The Common Admission Test (CAT) is the most important component to get admission in any of the elite MBA college. In order to get admission, you must obtain a good percentile in the CAT. However, even scoring a high percentile in the CAT will not give you a guarantee to get an interview call subject to the condition that you belong to the reserved category or diversified academic background.

MBA colleges give consideration to a number of factors while giving an interview call. These factors include CAT score, Class 10, Class 12, and Bachelor's degree marks, work experience, academic, and gender diversity, etc. Your first priority should be to clear both the overall and sectional percentile.

If you obtain more than 85 percentile in the CAT (assuming you are a general category candidate), there is a good chance that you will get a GDPI shortlist from some of the good colleges. However, even if you score 99 percentile in the CAT , this will not mean that you will get a confirm Interview call. Therefore, the CAT score is not the only criteria but is one of the major criteria for admission.

The marks obtained by you in Class 10, Class 12, and Graduation, your work experience, academic, and gender diversity will play a major role in getting a shortlist for the WATPI process and during your final selection.

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I am hoping that you are doing well. As per your mentioned query, CAT exam is the only MBA entrance exam that have the vast syllabus comparatively to other entrance exams of MBA course. Syllabus of CAT has three sections that are Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC), Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning (DILR), and Quantitative Aptitude (QA).

I am providing you a link where you can find each section contains how many topics and you can also download the pdf of syllabus.

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When you fill out the CAT application form, it clearly states that whether you want to enter the Master's degree details or not. When you click on the 'Yes' tab, then it asks for your Master's degree completion status that whether you have completed you Master's degree or you are still pursuing it. There is no option to enter details of incomplete Post Graduate degree in the CAT application form. Therefore, if you are no longer pursuing the Masters in Science programme, and have left it incomplete, then you should not enter that Master's degree details in the CAT application form.

There is an option in the application form of CAT for candidates to enter the Master's degree details. Once you reach to the Master's degree details section, you have an option to mark the completion status of your Master's degree. As you have not completed your Master's degree and are still pursuing it, you can mark the completion status as 'In Progress' and fill the further required details to complete the application process for admission.

The duration of time between the completion of your graduation and your admission to the business school will be considered as a gap year. Therefore, considering the fact that you will complete your graduation in May, 2024 and get admission to an MBA college in May, 2025 after completion of your entire selection process, this will be considered a one-year gap. However, technically it will be a 6 to 7 months gap only between the completion of your graduation and appearance in the entrance examination.

However, there is no need to worry about this one-year gap as you can easily justify it during the Personal Interview process. You can justify this gap by doing Internships, Certificate courses, pursuing something related to your area of interest, making the interviewer realize the need to invest substantial amount of time in entrance exam preparation or by any other legit means. This gap year will not impact your selection chances in the business school.