A 7 in 12th or UG won't hurt most placements at IIM Udaipur but blocks top consulting and some finance roles that apply strict 80%+ academic filters. The OP gave this nuanced view - "In most companies it won't. Consulting it might. Finance and marketing, not so much other than a select few companies" and on 7 in 12th - "For top companies, it might. Most BFSI that came here as far as I remember did not have such specific criteria." Companies with strict 80%+ academic filters at IIM Udaipur (Rs 23L fees, Rs 17 LPA avg): top-tier consulting (Accenture Strategy, KPMG strategy), select finance firms (Goldman Sachs, JPMC IB, select equity research), top FMCGs for marketing roles (HUL FLDP). Companies flexible on acads: mid-tier consulting (Deloitte, EY), retail/corporate banking (HDFC, ICICI, Axis MT), sales roles at FMCG (Asian Paints, Maruti, Amul), IT consulting (TCS Digital, Wipro), operations and supply chain. For Finance roles, most BFSI companies did not apply strict 9/9/9 filters despite the popular belief. Marketing sometimes cares less about numbers and more about case comp wins. Consulting is the tightest for acads filtering. Mitigation: