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If IPMAT does not work out

IPMAT is one way to reach a destination. Here are the others we have recorded — 2 routes that do not pass through it at any point.

Every one of them links to the body that runs it, so you can check it rather than take our word for it. None of them is easy, and none of them is guaranteed — they are simply open, and separate from the one that closed.

One path stopped, others continuing to the same destinationThree paths run left to right towards one destination. The middle path stops at a bar partway along. The other two curve around it and reach the destination.

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Run, govern or start a business

Management, company law and governance, marketing, operations — and the rules a company has to keep to. Includes the route people mean by "I want to start something".

  1. After Class 12Open entry, or admission on Class 10 or 12 marks

    A BBA or B.Com, then work — and an MBA later if it is worth it

    1. Step 1. Take a BBA or B.Com, admitted on Class 12 marks or through a university test.
    2. Step 2. Work for a few years.
    3. Step 3. Apply for an MBA later, with something to say about why.

    The ordinary route, and it is on this page because students are routinely told it is the route for people who did not get one of the others. Most people in management arrived this way, and an MBA applied for after some work is a better application than one applied for out of a degree.

    Where to check this

  2. After Class 12Selective, with more places than the best-known routes

    Company Secretary, entered after Class 12

    1. Step 1. Sit CSEET after Class 12 and register with ICSI.
    2. Step 2. Pass the Executive stage, then the Professional stage, with training alongside.

    The least-known of the three professional routes and the most legal: company law, board process and the compliance a company is answerable for. It is the qualification that puts somebody in the room where a company’s decisions are formally recorded.

    Where to check this

Everything that leads to run, govern or start a business

One more thing worth saying plainly

A rank is a measurement of one paper on one morning against one cohort. It is a real constraint on which door opens next, and it is not a measurement of what you are capable of. The routes above exist because the education system has more doors than the ones people talk about — not as consolation for missing this one.

If you are struggling, talk to someone you trust. This page can list routes; it cannot do that part.