IIM Bangalore - Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

In order to get admission to any school, one needs a lot of determination and consistency. IIM Bangalore is a highly reputed B school and every year thousands of students try to get into the college making the competition even more difficult. Moreover, you compete with some of the most intellectual individuals so you cannot let your guard down. 

The primary requisites to get a call from IIM Bangalore are mentioned below:

• Maintain good grades throughout your academic career if your goal is IIM Bangalore from the very beginning. Try to score at least 85–90%+ in your 10th, 12th, and 75–80% in graduation.
• Gain good work experience as this will boost your profile a lot.
• Target a high CAT score above 99.

If you have fulfilled all the above points, you are likely to get a call from IIM Bangalore. After shortlisting another major challenge is clearing the interview round. For this, you need to prepare well in advance. Be aware of your strengths and weaknesses. You will be interviewed about your academics, work experience, and goals. No matter how good your profile is, your performance in the interview can break or make your career. 

Keep pushing yourself to perform better and make it to IIM Bangalore! 

The books followed by IIMs depend upon the faculty and the specific courses being taught. 

Here are the commonly recommended books for these subjects-

• Finance-

•  Principles of Corporate Finance by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen
• Financial Management: Theory and Practice by Prasanna Chandra
• Security Analysis and Portfolio Management by Donald E. Fischer and Ronald J. Jordan
• Investments by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus
• Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach by Michael C. Ehrhardt and Eugene F. Brigham

• Marketing-

• Marketing Management by Philip Kotler
• Consumer Behavior: Buying, Having, and Being by Michael R. Solomon
• Strategic Brand Management by Kevin Lane Keller
• Marketing Metrics: The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance by Paul W. Farris, Neil T. Bendle, Phillip E. Pfeifer, and David J. Reibstein
• The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Content Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, AI, Live Video, and Newsjacking to Reach Buyers Directly by David Meerman Scott

• Strategy-

• Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors by Michael E. Porter
• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
• Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail by Clayton M. Christensen
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

• Operations Management-

• Operations Management by Jay Heizer and Barry Render
• Production and Operations Management by R. B. Khanna
• Operations Strategy by Nigel Slack and Michael Lewis
• The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
• The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer by Jeffrey K. Liker

This list is not fixed for IIM A, B, C, or any other IIM. The professors at each IIM have their own preference list of the books and resources for their respective course.