Hi Sulabh,

You have a decent profile with consistently average academics and extracurricular activities.

69% is not at all a bad overall score in engineering. I am not sure how it translates to a GPA of 1.9 considering your percentage, your GPA equivalent should be 7 on a scale of 10 and around 3.5 on a scale of 5 likewise. This is not bad for most of the B Schools. You are in the right stage of your career to be thinking about an MBA as 4-5 years of work experience is what most of the Business School look for.

The immediate step for you is to focus more on your GMAT score and then worry about scholarships and Universities to apply to. The overall criterion for scholarship in most B Schools depends up on lot of factors like your GMAT Score, application essays, academic and professional recommendations.

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Feel free to post any other query or concern that you might have.

Regards
Neha Singh
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Hi Sulabh,

It has been a question since long - How to convert absolute percentage to GPA/CGPA? If you are looking for exact conversion, the short answer is - it can not be converted.

Think of a scenario of a class. A particular student getting particular marks in one subject. Relative to his performance with respect to other students, professor grades him a 3.5 or 4.0 out of 5. The professor does similar grading (according to absolute marks obtained) for all the students. Now expand this to the whole batch and various subjects over the course (e.g. 4 years of engineering) - many courses and many professors and then their evaluation or grading criteria (which could be same or different). As you see by the logic there can be no universal formula.

Hence where we see so much of variance, and absolute aggregation or average and that too an exact one is impossible. To convert % to CGPA, one would need all the subjects' marks of all the students and then probably it can be done.

However, as indicated in my previous response, a ballpark value can be given which would be around 7 on scale of 10 or around 3.3-3.5 on scale of 5 for you. This is purely based on heuristics but empirically seen to have worked well in past.

Regards
Neha Singh
http://www.general-ed.com/
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An update - scored 670 QA 49 VA 33.. any suggestions? keeping in mind chances of scholarship